Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, pretty, petite Singer-Actress Claudine Longet, 34, fought back tears. Beside her, as in past moments of crisis, stood her former husband and still close friend, Singer Andy Williams, 45. Claudine had just been released on a $5,000 bond in the shooting death of her lover, Ski Champion Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich, 31, at his Aspen home, and District Attorney Frank Tucker was preparing to arraign her next week. Possible charges range from criminally negligent homicide (a misdemeanor carrying maximum penalties of two years in prison, a $5,000 fine, or both) to second-degree murder (with...
...episode that shook the high-altitude, high-living ski resort occurred shortly after 5 p.m. on a bright Sunday. After spending a couple of hours on the slopes and several more reportedly drinking with some male companions at a popular watering hole, Longet returned to Sabich's house. Soon afterward, she phoned the Aspen Valley Hospital to report that there had been a shooting. Sheriffs officers, police and ambulance attendants found Sabich lying in the master bathroom, next to a sunken tub, mortally wounded by a single .22-cal. bullet in the abdomen. As Aspen Valley...
When not politicking or tending to his Georgia-based family businesses, Howard ("Bo") Callaway is happiest schussing down the slopes of his Crested Butte ski resort in Colorado. Last week, his excursion from deep powder to deep trouble as President Ford's campaign manager was complete. White House officials said Callaway soon will be permanently replaced by former Commerce Secretary Rogers Morton, a longtime Ford friend and trusted adviser...
...final day as Army Secretary last July, he persuaded officials of the Agriculture Department to review a ruling by its subsidiary, the U.S. Forest Service. The original ruling had barred Crested Butte's promoters from leasing 2,000 acres of federal land on which to build new ski runs, which would have tripled the size of the resort. In succession, other charges swirled around the beleaguered former Republican Congressman. Among them...
...expression of Redford's truest?or at least oldest?self. Approaching 40, he may currently be the world's ranking movie star. He, his wife Lola and their three children jet back and forth between their Fifth Avenue apartment and their retreat outside Provo, Utah, near the ski resort he owns and where he revels in his role as conservationist and spokesman for various good causes...