Word: skis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pyrenean citadel town of Mont-Louis, where the sun shines as many as 200 days a year, he has since built five larger solar furnaces. Now, in masterly style, he has created his piéce de résistance on a hillside in the nearby ski resort of Odeillo. Compared with similar devices in several other countries, such as the U.S. Army's 30-kilowatt stove at Natick, Mass., Odeillo's 1,000-kilowatt structure is easily the Mount Palomar of solar furnaces...
...engineers or technicians, and the officers pride themselves on a high degree of competence. In Moscow the armed forces have their own theater, ice-hockey rink, officers' club and special park with basketball and tennis courts and boating facilities. Throughout the country, the military maintains special hunting lodges, ski resorts and summer vacation houses. The rigid strictures against drinking do not apply to officers. One marveling U.S. officer remembers a dinner in East Germany during which Marshal Grechko's first deputy, Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, drank 18 successive vodka toasts...
...regionalism, Quebec separatism. Some Canadians grew weary of the image of their Prime Minister as social pacesetter. "I have had it up to here," said a recent letter writer in a Toronto newspaper, "with pictures of our charismatic Prime Minister on vacation, smiling affably and benignly in his impeccable ski suit at some invariably exclusive and expensive resort, or dancing with some invariably rich chick after dining on squab...
...enormous shopping center. After nine years, the interior of the gondola that carries people to the top of the mountain is beginning to show signs of wear and tear. But that is only natural; La Plagne is proud of being the first of the bright new breed of French ski resorts...
...dining room and lobby are visible to one another and, wherever possible, the architects have avoided staircases in favor of tilted floors. Near by, Les Hauts-Forts contains apartments, hotels, a shopping center and two restaurants-one of which serves only fondue. For those who actually want to ski, there are 60 miles of slopes and 28 lifts that can accommodate as many as 16,700 skiers per hour...