Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louis Zemel, a Connecticut ski-resort operator, wanted to go to Cuba in 1962 "to make me a better-informed citizen." The State Department refused to put the necessary endorsement on his passport. Last week, in a decision that surprised many libertarians, the Supreme Court sided with the State Department...
...joined the church without undergoing any radical change in their vision or way of life. "I even think that no growth could be a healthy sign," says Dr. Jud. The new approach to evangelism-visible in such "unstructured ministries" as coffeehouses, industrial missions, and missions to drag strips, ski resorts, and "night people"-is primarily interested not in selling Christianity but in sympathetically expressing a human concern for others...
...shape of a hollow rectangle and lined it with plastic to keep the water from draining away into the sand (TIME, Oct. 12, 1962). In the center is a 4½-acre park with a swimming pool, paddle-tennis courts, refreshment stands and palm trees. The 250-ft.-wide ski course runs beneath four towers that support an overhead steel cable, powered by a 74-h.p. diesel engine. At ten-second intervals it carries 77-ft. tow ropes past a carpeted dock, from which the skier launches himself to whoosh around the rectangular track at about 25 m.p.h. (for experts...
...Escorters-famed for their frequent breakdowns-have been eliminated altogether. Admission is up 50? to $2.50, but there are more free shows. Florida's trained porpoise, for instance, which cost $2 for adults and $1 for children last year, is now free, as will be an elaborate water ski show when it opens May 8. Admission to the 4,000-ft. monorail ride (80? for adults, 60? for children) now entitles one to unlimited rides. One of last year's most popular shows, Les Poupées de Paris, has cut its $2 admission price in half...
...this has nicely enriched life for Istanbul-born, Brooklyn-reared Bernie Cornfeld, a mild-mannered bachelor of 37 who does not look as if he would ever talk back to his boss. He drives a Lancia Flaminia convertible, sails a 42-ft. Corsair, owns a ski lodge and a castle in France and lives in a lavish villa in suburban Geneva with two Great Danes and a Chinese houseman. He decorates his penthouse office with red silk Empire furnishings and swarms of attractive, multilingual secretaries, trains and entertains his worldwide force of 2,000 salesmen with everything from art lectures...