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Polish-born Christine Skarbek was indeed a beauty, slim and dark-haired, with startlingly white skin. She also had daring and skill, shown in the way she galloped her father's blooded horses over the family estate near Piotrkow or skied down the steepest Carpathian slopes. But there was little in the Countess Christine Skarbek's past to prepare her for the services for which she was praised last week. The pampered daughter of one of Poland's oldest families, she was in Addis Ababa with her second husband when Poland was overrun. Christine Skarbek, then...
...Northwest, lumber prices had plummeted in one of the steepest drops in the industry's history. Some grades had dropped 50%. Sales of television sets (hit also by the color controversy), radios, washers and other big appliances were also on the skids. Said one Atlanta retailer: "Business is off 50% in television sets and almost as much in refrigerators and stoves...
...almost three years Colombia's silver-haired Mariano Ospina Pérez has walked some of the steepest political cliffs in Latin America. Not once have his judgment, his courage and his silken poise failed him. A Conservative who reached the presidency because of a split in the Liberal Party, he has had to govern with a Liberal majority in the Congress and with a coalition cabinet. Ospina brushed off diehard Conservative pressure to crush the opposition by high-handed use of his powers. Last year, when enraged followers of assassinated Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliécer Gaitan sacked...
...Harried by competition from brisk, unscheduled Trans Caribbean Airways, Pan Am last week made one of the industry's steepest cuts. To lure passengers on its Puerto Rican run it instituted a "coach" service. By ripping out the galley and some baggage racks, it now puts 63 (v. 52) passengers into its DC-4 planes, has cut the one-way fare from $133 to $75 (plus...
...college in which everyone skis, the club maintains a chain of 16 cabins and several shelters reaching out into the Vermont hills. On Mt. Moosilauke, known familiarly as "Dartmouth's Mountain," the club has set up 14 miles of ski trails with "Hell's Highway" one of the steepest runs in New England. Out on the golf course are 13 more miles of ski trails, a 1200 foot tramway, and two mammoth jumps. The Outing Club is probably one of the most active outdoor groups in the country...