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Vermont--North Troy, Jay Peak, fair to good; Stowe, Mount Mansfield, four trails and slopes open and fair to good, Spruce Peak area closed; Wilmington, Mount Snow, no skiing upper, poor to fair lower, fair to good on lower Overbrook...
...Vermont, Stowe's Mt. Mansfield and Spruce Peak rate from good to excellent. The novice area on Wilmington's Mt. Snow is called "perfect for skiing...
...July 16, 1955, the day before the start of the Geneva Conference. Mindszenty was driven to Castle Puspokszentlaszlo in southern Hungary, summer residence of the bishop of Pecs. "There was a wide lawn lined with flowers, and beyond that a wood of spruce trees. After so many years in darkness, the sight [was] medicine...
...enjoyed. No Euripides, no Ernest Hemingway. We just couldn't appreciate this gross slyvan glade speckled with gray Victorian masonry that the prospectus so proudly called "the City of the Dead." But then it was raining pretty hard.Edwin Booth, legendary figure of the American stage, lies not far from Spruce...
...Spruce Ave., we suspected, was the "Main Street" for the community's 59,919 inhabitants. On it, or close by, slumbered some of Mount Auburn's most distinguished residents, including Phillips Brooks, President Eliot, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Sumner, Louis Agassiz, and Edwin Booth. Others, such as Amy Lowell, Francis Parkman, Josiah Royce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, were further removed to be sure, but there seemed to be no class distinction in non-sectarian Mount Auburn, and most definitely, there was no "wrong side of the tracks." Spruce Ave., while invigorating, seemed exhausting, and we felt our temples throb...