Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to be sold in the open, now come wrapped by the manufacturer. Such unlikely products as peanut butter, meat tenderizer, cocktail mixes and blue cheese spread are now dispensed from aerosol cans, and the industry is working on squeeze tubes that will give forth coffee, fish bait and ski wax. "Shrink films" of plastic that mold themselves to a product's shape now protect everything from layettes to turkeys, and other films are being developed that can wrap around liquids and eliminate the need for bottles...
Early this month one of her favorite people, Vermont Ski Instructor Peter Estin, 35, was found dead in a New York hotel room of what was officially described as "visceral congestion." His funeral was in Boston last week. Charlene did not go, but Ghighi flew up in the private plane of George Skakel, brother-in-law of Bobby Kennedy. He returned in the evening, stopped at his Fifth Avenue apartment to dress for a dinner party. Charlene complained of a toothache, so Ghighi went by himself. Charlene and her stepdaughter Marina, 14-Ghighi's daughter by his second wife...
Michigan's new constitution provides for four-year terms (instead of two-year) for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and other high officials. It requires that the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor be members of the same party (the present Lieutenant Governor, T. John Lesin-ski, is a Democrat). It erases Michigan's strangling short-term-debt limit of $250,000 by authorizing short-term borrowing of up to about $70 million. And it provides for combining the state government's bewildering jumble of 120 administrative segments in a manageable pattern of 20 agencies...
...Association for a conspiracy of silence, and disgraced abroad, the Zermatt authorities at last closed down all the hotels and restaurants. To the villagers left stranded in dismal unemployment, it seemed a pity, for nearly a foot of new powder snow fell on the slopes that night. "Absolutely wonderful skiing conditions," mourned Gottlieb Perren, head of Zermatt's famed ski school...
Born. To Nancy Kwan. 25. Hong Kong-born actress, and Austrian Ski Instructor Peter Pock. 25: their first child, a son; in Innsbruck, Austria. Name: Peter Bernhard Pock...