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...dreamed from the early 1920s of a "people's car" that would provide the kind of cheap transportation that Henry Ford's flivvers gave the U.S. Even after Adolf Hitler came to power and ordered automakers to produce a small car, Porsche's plans for his slope-nosed oddity got nowhere. Not until 1938, when Hitler made tt a state project did the Volkswagen become a reality-just in time to be modified into a Jeep-like military vehicle. At a meeting in Cologne in 1948, the VW plant, which had begun postwar production the year before...
...Vermont Supreme Court, and the unfortunate Sunday may never see a cent of his damages. But the case has thrown the nation's ski industry into a tizzy. With rising insurance costs pressing into profits, at least four Vermont ski areas considered shutdowns this year, and one small slope in Underbill Center has remained closed despite generally good snow conditions. At one point, the nation's largest ski insurer, American Home Assurance Co., threatened to cancel its ski-area coverage in Vermont, a move that might have led to wholesale closedowns...
Having a backyard ski slope gives Susan Blakely (The Towering Inferno) a lift. Installed in the driveway of her Los Angeles home, the fake flakes on her port-a-slope enable the model-turned-actress to prepare for her new movie role as a ballet skier. Susan, 28, is taking lessons in 360° turns and crossovers. The script of the film, Free Style, is "heavy and touching," she says. It is about a world champion ballet skier who feels she is past her prime...
Since the Denver cheerleaders are drawn from lithe, ski-slope-burnished Rocky Mountain womanhood, a substantial showdown will occur this Sunday on the Superdome sidelines as well as between the goal lines. It could be more exciting than the game, which?if this year's Super Bowl follows the soporific pattern of recent years?may be a dogged defensive struggle. Certainly Denver's strategy will center on its magnificent 3-4 Orange Crush. When asked whom the Cowboys feared most among that band, Landry replied: "All eleven guys. They play as if they were backed into a corner and fighting...
...bundled off to Europe on White House business, Amy Carter bundled up for her first ever ski lessons in Crested Butte, Colo. "She's pretty aggressive-and that's important-and brave too," said Instructor Mike Wells after Amy's first day on the slopes. "She tried to kiss a tree once, and she got up laughing." Amy, who is staying with Carter family friends in Colorado, will get a course in skiing fundamentals during her six-day visit, says Wells, and a chance to test her new skills on the resort's beginners' slope...