Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Idaho's 26 ski resorts, only one-Sun Valley-has even begun to function; it has skiing on artificial snow on just 2½ of its 50 runs. And in Colorado, where losses have mounted to $30 million, Senator Floyd Haskell has asked President Ford to declare a natural-disaster area. While awaiting official action, Vail Developer Peter Seibert hired local Ute Indians to perform a ritual snow dance. The results were negligible. Says Seibert: "We're getting a little snow, but it's just enough to cover up the cigarette butts...
Large panes of glass from the roof of the northeast wing of the Science Center had collapsed under the weight of the snow piled on them, and fallen about 25 feet to the floor below...
...foot-long area of a corridor was covered with shattered glass and snow, and police on duty had cordoned off the area and the wing facing it in preparation for possible further damage...
However, Science Center architect Sert Jackson, various Buildings and Grounds officials and Francis A. Lawton, assistant dean of the Faculty for facilities, decided that erecting a snow fence above those wings would provide adequate protection...
...injured in the crash, and the broken panes were boarded up Friday night. Law said Friday "the snow fence will never be adequate with the wind conditions around that area of the building...