Word: skis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aspen is assembled by Phyllis Johnson, who once taught at a mission school on a Navajo reservation and later was intimate-apparel editor of Women's Wear Daily. She got the idea for her project while ski-bumming one winter at Aspen; her fellow vacationers, she felt, were ready to enjoy "culture along with play." So in early 1966, she produced her first issue to meet their desires. Today, some 20,000 subscribers receive Aspen at $4 per box, and Mrs. Johnson just about breaks even...
...plot that seems straight out of 19th century melodrama. All but twirling his mustachios, Freddy agrees-in return for a night alone with Piet's wife Angela, the one woman in the tribe who has never entered the communal bed. Implausibly, Angela consents. One night in a ski lodge, after the Thornes and the Hanemas have had too much to drink, Angela suddenly says, "Well, is this the night?" Georgene Thorne, helpless, furious, goes to her room. Angela busses Piet fondly and prepares to go upstairs with Thorne...
Fooling the Experts. The astonishing string had to end some time. And last week, pressing extra hard before the home folks at Rossland, Nancy caught a ski tip on a gate and fell in the sla lom. Even so, she still held a commanding lead in the battle for the World Cup, with 176 points to 150 for Mir and 128 for Goitschel...
...ankle. The experts should have remembered what a gutsy competitor she is. In the 1966 World Championships at Portillo, Chile, she caught an edge in the downhill and somersaulted into a retaining wall at 60 m.p.h. "I've never seen any girl take a worse fall," said French Ski Coach Honoré Bonnet. "I didn't expect her to get up again." Nancy got up all right-with a badly bruised right elbow and a broken coccyx. Three days later, her right arm shot full of Novocain, ski pole taped to her glove, she raced in the giant...
...hilarious parts are also home-movie: the maid chewing an apple as she answers the phone makes you laugh from inside. And there is the enterprising bellboy who turns up as a waiter in a restaurant and finally as the owner of the ski lodge where Robert catches up with Catherine...