Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything like a vintage year for snowfall and skiers were able to hit the slopes on any given winter day and expect good powder conditions. And except for one short cold-snap, the weather thus far this fall has only been kind to a few of the northernmost ski areas in New England...
Participant, as opposed to spectator, sports have yet to feel any real squeeze. Sales of tennis rackets, balls and clothes are still booming, and ski lodges in Utah and Colorado are booked solid for the coming season...
...them, the environment is the overriding issue. A rather traditional booster who looked forward to Colorado's becoming the "energy capital of the world," Vanderhoof, 52, did not get the voters' message until fairly late in the campaign. Then he joined Lamm, 39, in opposing a ski-run development and further nuclear blasting on the Rockies' western slopes in an effort to extract natural gas. But Lamm, a leader of the successful drive to keep the Winter Olympics out of the state, had already made the environmental issue his own. "I have a compass in my head...
Following two snowless winters, which have spelled near disaster for the New England ski industry, business and tourist officials were merchandising the foliage as never before. Ski areas opened their chair lifts and gondolas for bird's-eye viewing of the foliage, and towns held foliage festivals, turkey shoots and lumberjack breakfasts. Travel agencies booked tree-watching tours on buses, sightseeing boats, antique steam engines and even World War I biplanes...
Pierre Tenegan is a wiry little man dressed in one permanent pair of bluejeans, a mangy checked lumber jacket, a 1950s ski hat and striped track shoes. He is the chief. His functions being primarily spontaneous, he preserves the peace by banishing drunken men to the hills behind the houses and stopping children from stampeding into the empty schoolroom or playing with the useless firehose that found its way in there along with four enormous pairs of fireman's boots. Gifts from the Great White Government. Out of the pouring rain, Pierre would bring in firewood for our stone-cold...