Word: skis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concept of a "church without walls" leads many a clergyman to set up a ministry in a supermarket, a slum or a ski lodge. The Rev. Reuben Gornitzka, 47, who applauds this impulse, believes that "the church has always tended to ignore the very rich and the very poor - especially the very rich." So his church without walls, run with the backing of his superiors in the American Lutheran Church, is a unique personal ministry to millionaires, film stars, professional men and corporation executives...
What do you do with ski resorts in midsummer? Most owners shut them up and join their friends at the seashore. But Alec Gushing, the imaginative impresario of Squaw Valley, hates to do things the conventional way. Three weeks ago he opened what he billed as "the world's highest nightclub"-at the top end of his wintertime ski lift...
...commission for Schine, an investigator for the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, were a factor in the acrimonious Army-McCarthy hearings of the early 1950s. Son David also created controversy in Schine Industries. He quarreled with managers at the Roney Plaza, lost money on several ventures, including an indoor ski slope that operated on a carpeted conveyor belt. He has not been company president since 1963, when his father took the job back himself...
...People-to-People Fiesta, that it had to close eleven of its 17 folk-art sales stalls and two-thirds of its open marketplace. Proprietors at the amusement section, which last year was a disaster area, have little more to smile about this year. Although the six free water-skiing exhibits at the Florida Pavilion have drawn many fairgoers to the area, most head back to industrial and foreign pavilions right after the last ski run, passing up the area's tame kiddie rides that lie along...
...Hound Ears owes much to the personality of its owners Grover and Harry Robbins, casual native sons who let their poodle eat from a dish on the dining-room table and invite any guest who doesn't like it to leave. In the winter, the resort is a favorite ski area and already millionaires are beating a path to its door. Operated both as a club and a hotel, Hound Ears was named for a nearby mountain formation. The Robbins brothers keep a close, even dictatorial, eye on its operation. Several permanent members of the club have been sold land...