Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe, lodging, lifts, transportation and equipment are much cheaper. At Switzerland's Davos, ski lifts fan out into ten square miles of wide-open slopes. The Parsenn-Bahn offers a choice of skiing down to Jenaz, 18 miles away, or to the nearer villages of Saas, Serneus, Klosters or Wolfgang, each serviced by a whistle-stop railroad that hauls the skier right back to Davos. At Zermatt, in the shadow of the Matterhorn, a good skier can zip down to Italy for a spaghetti lunch and be back in Switzerland for dinner...
Trains & Tows. A better bet is Andy Mead Lawrence. At the Swiss championships last week, Andy swooped down the mountainside with the rush and sparkle of a Vermont freshet, and was right up with the winners: second in the tricky slalom (behind Switzerland's Madeleine Berthod); third in the daredevil downhill (behind Austria's Trude Beiser, the U.S.'s Janette Burr), where sheer speed is the payoff; first in the giant slalom, where both speed and control count...
...Rutland, Bradford and Janet Mead were building up a resort named Pico Peak, and incidentally raising their two children, Andrea and Peter-who is now wasting his early ski training in the Air Force. Ski enthusiasts with an independent income, the Meads made an annual spring pilgrimage to Switzerland's Davos. They brought up their children on a principle which the children thoroughly approved: "If the weather's good, you ski; if it's bad, you go to school...
...only child, Ann Francis portrays all the scatter-brained qualities of a college graduate. Heading for a career in industrial design, she plans to go to Switzerland. Then within three minutes she falls in love ("like I was drowning") with one of her professors, elopes, and spends the rest of the film getting mad at him. Meanwhile, her parents and the professor's family chase after the couple to prevent marriage and, in the end, encourage it. Very confusing indeed, but never before have two people eloped twice in the same picture...
...week: the 30-room Southampton, N.Y. mansion of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles E. Merrill to his alma mater Amherst College. Amherst's plan for the mansion: to set up a Merrill School of Economics for advanced summer training of students who show "marked talent as promising economists." ¶ In Switzerland, Geneva police banned the sale of a Brooklyn-brand of bubble gum called Freedom's War. Reason: parents had been long dismayed by the pictures inside the wrappers of battle scenes in Korea (e.g., a news photographer getting shot while riding in a jeep, U.N. soldiers being...