Word: squaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technique. He improved so quickly that he decided to risk his savings on an Alpine tour. Ferries still shudders at the recollection. "I fell in all the down hills. I was tense, and my reflexes always failed." By 1960 Ferries was still falling-at Kitzbühel, St.-Moritz, Squaw Valley. At Stowe, Vt., he streaked through the slalom in record time-only to be disqualified for straddling the final gate...
Bogner pants are not cheap (prices run from about $50 to $60), and there are many cheaper imitations. But for every snow bunny from Squaw Valley to Stowe, a pair of Bogners is the basic status symbol. And Willy Bogner finds U.S. girls the best advertisement his stretch pants could have. Says he: "They are trimmer, you know. American girls are built like pears. European girls are like apples...
...From Squaw Valley to Sugarloaf Mountain, the ski areas of the U.S. are studded with what look like oversized turkey coops. They are A-frame huts, which have become so popular as weekend ski lodges that manufacturers can scarcely keep up with the demand. All roof from the ground up, the A-frame's blizzardproof construction and snow-shedding silhouette make it ideal for ski country. Prefabricated A-frames can cost as little as $900 for a basic, small shell; another $900 equips them with heat and plumbing...
Children & Charts. Not far from the compound is the summer home of Stephen and Jean Kennedy Smith, who also maintain a rented home in Georgetown. Only a mile and a half away is Edward Kennedy's newly bought ten-room cottage on Squaw Island. The house is typically Kennedy Eclectic-Modern and Early American. For a better view of the ocean, Joan Kennedy and her decorator had one wall removed and replaced with sliding glass doors. Two rooms remain to be decorated, but Joan and Ted Kennedy are waiting until the birth of their second child in November before...
...Toynbee views history in terms of religion, or the Marxists in terms of class conflict, Manhattan Book Dealer Henry ("Chip") Chafetz views it in terms of Lady Chance. How did an Indian squaw pick her brave? By how good a gambler he was; otherwise she and the kids might find themselves the pawns of a sharper peach-stone roller. What did Thomas Jefferson meditate on while composing the Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap...