Word: skis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bruce Roberts' assignment included the Hound Ears Golf and Ski Club, a remote mountain resort in western North Carolina whose nearest commercial airport is 50 miles away at Hickory. Club Owner Grover Robbins meets his guests at the airport, shuttles them in his own plane to the club, lands them on the fairway. To prepare for shooting one such arrival (no one was sure just where the craft would put down), Roberts took a few practice turns on an electric golf cart, then waited for Robbins. As the plane dipped down, Roberts set off with cart steering gear...
...decade since The Netherlands' Crown Princess Beatrix, 27, attained nubility, Dutch reporters have trailed dozens of potential candidates for her hand. They traipsed along as usual when Beatrix flew off to ski at Gstaad in February. After all, a highly eligible bachelor, Rhenish Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 30, was going to be there too. With him was a minor German diplomat, Claus von Amsberg, 38. "I do not understand," one puzzled newsman soon wired Amsterdam. "This Richard always skis alone, while Beatrix goes out and drinks in nightclubs with this fellow Claus Watsisname." Cabled his impatient editor...
...opulence which approaches that of the best lodges in Switzerland and Scandinavia, the Broadmoor is not strictly a mountain resort but a vast complex designed to offer something for everybody, summer or winter. Besides such standard accouterments as a lake for waterskiing, swimming pools, a 36-hole golf course, ski slopes, riding and hiking trails, it has an ice palace, a stadium, a 2,400-seat theater where such stars as Helen Traubel and Maurice Chevalier entertain nightly, and even a zoo. It also has a variety of dining rooms and cocktail lounges, including an authentic 18th century English...
...entire mountain region of Colorado has a myriad of old and new resorts which draw thousands of visitors all year round. Aspen, where Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and her children skied last winter, in summer swarms with intellectuals and scholars attending the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, and this year will draw music lovers for a festival and a conference on contemporary music, featuring lectures by distinguished composers. Vail is a bustling new ski resort built to look like an Alpine village. Texas Financier John Murchison has built a home there, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson owns an apartment, and the resort...
...answer is, of course, lots of tourists: Austria drew 6,000,000 last year, almost outnumbering the 7,000,000 inhabitants and bringing in $523 million in foreign exchange. The visitors come for the Vienna Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival, and to ski at resorts like Obergurg, Kitzbuehel, and St. Anton, but above all for the easy informality of Austrian life and the mellow sentimentality of the neighborhood Heurigen (wine festivals). After all, says one Viennese student, "We like eating, drinking, dancing and loving. If that's not the good life, it'll do until something better comes...