Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Airfreighted Oysters. Tourists are drawn to a land where ski resorts are only two hours from Mediterranean beaches, and by such antique monuments as Byblos and the massive stone platforms and columns of Roman Baalbek. Hotels are so jammed that the new Phoenicia Hotel, opened in 1962, is already building a 250-room annex. Restaurants serve airfreighted French oysters, Scotch salmon, Danish ham and English beef...
...Murder Your Wife, her first Hollywood film. Sylva (38-26-38) Koscina, 27, is another tall, cool one, a Yugoslav by birth, who came on strong in Joseph Levine's muscle opera, Hercules, and keeps the paparazzi popping by strolling around in skintight black leather ski pants...
Girl with Green Eyes. She looks, at a glance, like somebody's stenographer. Ski-jump nose, ratty hair, teeth a bit askew. But a fuller inspection finds something special in the face, a radiance. The eyes have it. They are large, the eyes of a night animal. They shine in a night of their own like stars in a dark pool...
...State's famed Catskill resort, who for 50 years quietly attended to the details while his wife Jennie established herself as one of the country's best-known hostesses, seeing their original seven-room guest cottage grow into a $15 million investment with so much of everything (ski tows, heated pools, 18-hole course, a staff of 900 employees) that the 660 rooms were generally full winter and summer; of an acute coronary thrombosis; in Liberty...
...Ski Lifts. U.S. big business in the past has operated much more closely to capacity in times of economic advance-thus enabling small business to meet much of the extra demand-than it is doing now. "This time," says William Butler, chief economist of the Chase Manhattan Bank, "small business is slower to catch up because of industry's extra capacity." But, adds Butler: "As the boom goes on, small business will feel it more and more." Even now, the expansive U.S. economy is generating new ski lifts, coffeehouses, dry-cleaning shops and motels at almost the same rate...