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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...
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...
Prospects for the 1973 harvest look almost as dismal. A virtually snowless winter has deprived huge areas in central and western Russia of the snow cover that ordinarily protects grain from killing frost. Massive planting this spring is scarcely expected to make up for the damage to winter wheat, which might force the Kremlin to turn to the West again for heavy imports of grain...
...compote of four documentaries. The network will open its evening with No. 5 in Jacques Yves Cousteau's series of hymns to the sea. To Love a Child, a study of adoption's triumphs and travails, will follow. Kitty Le Champion will show the skier involved in snowless pursuits. As it happens, the last of the evening's documentaries should be first...
...After snowless skiing, iceless skating. At least Vinyl Plastics Inc. thinks so and has developed a warm, dry, milky-white synthetic surface that has been a hit at New York's and Philadelphia's winter sports shows, and almost lives up to its trade name, Slick. It is smooth as ice but 20% slower. Its great advantage is cost?$38,000 for a standard rink v. $300,000 for artificial ice. Skates bite easily into the surface, which has a guaranteed life of three years. Says Professional Ice Skater Randolph McCulley: "You can't cheat on Slick...