Word: skying
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Like thousands of other proprietors of motels, restaurants, travel agencies, airlines, resorts and ski areas from New Orleans to Nice, Fullmer is a casualty of the world fuel shortage. The traveling public, beset by uncertainty over flight cancellations, filling-station closings and gasoline-rationing schemes, is staying home in droves. As a result, the travel industry, which accounts for $60 billion a year in the U.S. alone, is hav ing one of its most chilling winters...
...Western U.S., where gasoline is still relatively plentiful, winter resorts are generally still busy. But in the Northeast, about two-thirds of the ski areas are reporting smaller crowds. Many operators have been able to attract the ski ers they do get only by buying gas stations or promising to fill the visitors' tanks once they arrive. In Vermont, where skiing is the largest industry, statewide unemployment has risen to 7%. Only 25 people were on the payroll two weeks ago at Glen Ellen-down from 125 a year earlier...
...Vermont ski executives blame their troubles as much on a fairly snowless winter as on the gasoline crunch. Yet in western Massachusetts, which was covered with snow last week, the slopes are still underpopulated. Said Ted Trombley as he surveyed the empty parking lot of his Yankee Motor Lodge near Pittsfield: "Up until now we could blame the weather. But with this gorgeous weekend we just had, we're still off 50%, so we know the problem...
Despite a driving rain, Dartmouth took a commanding lead after two events yesterday in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Championships, held at Hancock, N.H., in conjunction with Middlebury College's 43rd annual winter carnival. The Harvard skiers managed only 25 points, and settled for seventh place...
...Steele finished in the middle of an 80-man field in Thursday's U.S. Nationals Slalom at Pat's Peak, N.H. U.S. team member Cary Adgate continued his hot streak from the World Cup circuit with a narrow victory over fellow U.S. ski team members Geoff Bruce and Bobby Cochran. Bruce led at the end of the first run by .6 seconds, but both he and Cochran raced conservatively on the second run, leaving the way open for a go-for-broke attack by Adgate...