Word: skis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three members of the Harvard-Radcliffe ski team spent the summer skiing against international competition in Argentina and Chile--and barely caught one of the last planes from Chile before the military junta overthrew the government of the late Salvador Allende last month and prevented foreigners from entering or leaving the country...
Although Carter does not know the new military government's attitude toward international skiing in Chile, he said that Salvador Allende's government had been financing a program to get 8,500 young Chileans off the streets of the city and on to the ski slopes...
...even financially. Local officials commonly think that vacation-home developments will boost tax collections, but they are sometimes wrong. Many buyers of vacation homes turn them into year-round residences and require greatly expanded public services. The Vermont Public Interest Research Group once found that the state's ski industry was profitable mostly for outsiders who have come to exploit it. The Rev. Brendan Whitaker has denounced the industry from the pulpit of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Brandon, Vt. Says the pastor...
...work all day running ski tows and Mom has to work half the night as a cocktail waitress to pay the taxes on what was once an inexpensive piece of property...
...frontage) Island Pond, Vt. 16 miles from Canadian border $150 per acre Long Island's north shore, non-waterfront lots $12,000 per acre Disney World, Fla., on swampy southern fringe $900 per acre Disney World, north on Lake Hancock Road $4,000 per acre Sundance ski resort, 60 miles from Salt Lake City $10,000-$13,000 per acre Lakeway resort community, near Austin, Texas $25,000-$70,000 per ⅓-to ½ acre Palm Springs, Calif., vicinity of airport $100,000 per acre Lake Tahoe, Calif., waterfront lots $1,000 per front ft. Koko Kai, Oahu, Hawaii...