Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tonic. The setting, however, was slightly incongruous. Vail is an elegant winter resort, the place where John Lindsay, Jackie Onassis, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford and numerous Kennedys come to play. Carved out of a wilderness twelve years ago, Vail is a high-priced retreat where the après-ski attractions include continental restaurants, 28 heated pools and smart boutiques for snow bunnies. Vail is sometimes called the "Dallas Alps," a reference to the Texas oilmen who have taken a liking to the place and helped push land values to more than $200,000 an acre. The resort...
...stretched to the ceiling, Ford unwrapped a pair of brass book ends from his wife, and a sweater, a heavy wool shirt, a basket of cheeses, and sausages from his children. The President gave Betty a yellow quilted bathrobe. As the family opened their presents, Ford could see the ski slopes through a picture window, and later he got in a run or two before turning to the work that had followed him to Colorado. As he put it, "Scrooge came with Santa Claus: Rumsfeld came...
...work out on a jog-a-dog machine (at $575) to keep him in shape, or have his portrait painted in oils. There are clip-on diapers for parakeets, hairpieces and false eyelashes for poodles, snoods to keep bassets' ears out of the sterling-silver feeding bowl, bikinis, ski suits and sunglasses for vacationing types, earrings, mascara and nail polish in a dozen colors. On his birthday a pet can expect to receive blue or pink cards and summon his pals-on his own phone-for a birthday cake of liver with powdered-milk icing...
Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine has been the luckiest of new England ski areas so far this year, logging over two-feet of natural snow. In addition, Sugarloaf has expanded its snow-making capacities and now boasts top to bottom skiing on artificial snow. Sugarloaf is a four and a half or five hour drive from Boston, but more and more die-hards each year are discovering just how worthwhile the trip can be. They say that the mountain never gets too crowded--a blessing for anyone who has tried Waterville, Stowe, Snow or Killington on a Saturday. And Sugarloaf...
...Pomalifts 1,100 30 Mount Ascutney Brownsville 2 chairs, 3 T-bars 1,525 31 Mount Snow Mount Snow 2 Gondolas, 10 chairs 1,900 32 Okemo Mountain Ludlow 3 chairs, 6 Pomalifts 2,150 33 Pico Peak Rutland 5 chairs, 2 T-bars 1,967 34 Pinnacle Ski-Ways Randolph 2 Pomalifts 550 35 Round Top Mountain Plymouth Union 2 chairs, T-bar 1,250 36 Smuggler's Notch Madonna 3 chairs 2,000 37 Stowe Stowe Gondola, 4 chairs, 3 T-bars 2,150 38 Stratton Mountain Stratton Mountain 6 chairs, 2 T-bars, Pomalift...