Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to give one word of warning, however. Never complain to anyone while sitting on a ski lift. A year ago while in As pen, I happened to be riding a lift with an automobile executive...
When they first appeared in the U.S. almost a decade ago, no-snow slopes covered with slippery plastic were hailed as a ski buffs salvation during the long, hot summer. But most schussers were quickly turned off. The stiff, molded bristles that were supposed to substitute for snow ruined their skis, and falling on the stuff felt something like falling on a rake...
Sporting a Snoopy sweatshirt emblazoned I HATE LOSING and a cast on her ski-fractured leg, Ethel Kennedy welcomed 3,000 guests (admission $3) to her annual pet show at Hickory Hill for the benefit of Washington's Northwest Settlement House. A formidable range of fauna was entered, and most won prizes-the late Robert F. Kennedy's daughter Rory, 3, got one for the best-behaved fish. But with so many Kennedys in one place-including non-Candidate Teddy-physical as well as pet competition had to be included. Bobby's son Michael...
...tawny good looks and shapely legs (she is 5 ft. 6 in., one inch shorter than George) carried her to the semifinals of a Miss Alabama contest before she became the star of the Cypress Gardens water ski show in Florida -and married John Snively III, a millionaire whose family at one time owned the Gardens. After seven years of marriage and two sons, Jim and Josh, the Snivelys were divorced...
...heart of California's magnificent sequoia forests, in a lonely valley called Mineral King, Walt Disney Enterprises wants to build a $35 million resort, complete with ski lifts, swimming pools and housing to handle crowds of 14,000 tourists per day. In 1969, the corporation got a permit from the U.S. Forest Service to start work on the resort...