Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether or not De Gaulle originally wanted the terrible burden of settling the Algeria problem, 45 million Frenchmen have delegated it to him. Most Frenchmen, enjoying unprecedented prosperity, are on a delayed spree of buying everything from refrigerators to ski trips, and are simply not in the mood to worry about politics. Alone in his responsibility for Algeria, De Gaulle operates from...
Where does a bright boy or girl want to go to college? Something prestigious? A school near a ski-slope? One of those "good, small" places? East? West? A huge, rich state university? Last week the National Merit Scholarship Corp. told what it had learned when it asked 21,000 high school senior boys and 14.000 girls, all in the top 2% of their classes, to name their choices. Results, in order, for boys: Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, Cal Tech., Yale, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Rice. For girls: Stanford, Radcliffe, Cornell, Wellesley, California at Berkeley, University...
...years, skiing was a sport for sun burned huskies in low-slung plus fours and a handful of hardy girls willing to bundle up like a G.I. blanket roll. Now the whole shape of skiing has been changed by a trim, cozy and inordinately sexy import from Germany: stretch pants. Many a girl who did not know a slalom from a sitzmark has discovered that stretch pants round out her personality in a fetching manner and make a skiing weekend an opportunity rather than an ordeal; men linger on the trails to see rather than ski as the girls...
Schiaparelli of the stretch pants is snowy-haired Maria Bogner, 47, stunning wife of former German Olympic Ski Star Willy Bogner. In 1950, after Bogner's release as a prisoner of war (he had been an SS lieutenant), Willy and Maria bought a small factory just south of Munich, started making and selling sportswear. One day a salesman arrived with a bolt of a Swiss-patented kink-nylon and wool-yarn fabric called Helanca. It stretched up, down and sideways, then sprang miraculously back into shape. Maria ordered some and set about turning it into ski pants. Still svelte...
...trained at the University of Minnesota's department of surgery, where he got a Ph.D. for a thesis on ulcers in addition to his M.D. He moved to Twin Falls. Idaho, 14 years ago to get more room for raising a family and to be closer to ski slopes. As chief of staff at Magic Valley Memorial Hospital. Dr. Kolouch had plenty of chances to observe patients being prepared for operations, was struck that so many of them had irrational fears...