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...with mastering that infuriating, six-sided, six-colored, 27-part boggler with 42.3 quintillion possible combinations known as Rubik's Cube. The latest entry: You Can Do the Cube (Penguin; $1.95) by Patrick Bossert, 13, a London schoolboy who discovered the cube only this spring during a family ski vacation in Switzerland. Within five days he had mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 45?. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving...
...many hotels, resorts, convention centers and travel agencies are equally unsettled for the short term. Commercial aviation has spurred the growth of American trade-show and convention business, and made possible a 20-year boom in domestic and foreign vacation resorts, ranging from dude ranches to health spas and ski slopes...
...traditional Indian fiesta in Santiago Atitlán, Father Rother died among "his people." Nuns found him in his rectory, lying in a pool of blood. Witnesses said he had been shot twice, once in the left temple and once in the left cheekbone, by three men wearing ski masks. His body was covered with welts and bruises, suggesting that he had put up a struggle. A strapping "Oklahoma farm boy," in the words of a friend, he had said that no would-be abductors would ever take him alive...
...invention an ice pond, and the way it works is astonishingly simple. Basically, the pond is nothing more than a 60-ft.-wide plastic-lined hole in the ground filled with ice. To make the ice, Taylor last winter used a snowmaking machine similar to those found at ski resorts. Instead of making actual snow, however, he adjusted the machine's nozzle to spray out a substance that was roughly the consistency of wet sherbet, which was squirted into the hole. The water part of the slush drained to the bottom, leaving ice granules above. A system of pipes...
...defensive maneuver. I figured if things got worse than they had ever been, I would grab a steamer to Kenya and go out fighting. I would either emerge from the interior grizzled and cured, or I just wouldn't come out at all. Others I knew would go ski jumping. Or sky diving. Some would try to bring Marxism to Somerville. But I've always put more faith in lions than Lenin. anyway. They've been around a lot longer...