Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater Boston area, probably the largest ski market in New England, there are some shops which over the years have acquired a reputation of being specialists in the ski equipment field. Most of them advertise in this supplement and it is well worth it for you to shop around and see what they have, even if you have to take a half hour ride or so. You will be pleased by the design of some of them; you will meet skiers from ski countries such as Germany, France, Switzerland or expert skiers and instructors from this country...
Because of the common occurrence of skiing injuries, The Ski Supplement attempts to explore how such injuries come about and to suggest standards of behavior and physical fitness that will minimize your chances of being hurt...
...main point about skiing accidents is that they are virtually always the skier's fault. The Supplement hopes that the comments above will permit you to test your skills and enjoy all the thrills of speed and swirling snow without tempting the Nemises of the slopes. The suggestions about safety are common sense and the physical fitness exercises are to improve your enjoyment of skiing without being a boring rigmarole...
...Frey is Detroit's most uncommon auto executive, a sort of thinking man's automaker. He speaks Russian and French, is an opera and archaeology buff, reads such publications as Red China's English-language Peking Review and the London Times's Literary Supplement along with his engineering journals. Though he has a doctorate in metallurgical engineering, his chief contributions to Ford have been as an idea...
...possible into gold. Some influential supporters egged him on, and he was likely influenced by the ideas of French Economist Jacques Rueff, who has long lobbied for a worldwide return to the gold standard, and of Foreign Minister Couve de Murville, who can always use another weapon to supplement France's increasingly independent foreign policy. But more moderate minds persuaded De Gaulle against such drastic action, and what started out as a reported $1 billion conversion, in rumors leaked to the press by the foreign ministry, wound up as a $300 million operation-with perhaps more to come...