Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France would also want to capture national honors in the race for the growing ski-resort trade. That is precisely what it is doing. Splashy, audaciously conceived resorts are sprouting all along the French Alpine timberline and drawing thousands of snow worshipers away from the established ski enclaves of Switzerland and Austria. Despite fitful weather and the worst avalanche season since 1917, French winter tourism is currently schussing along at its healthiest pace ever...
Learning from Mistakes. The upsurge in French-resort skiing is part of a carefully designed plan. After World War II it became apparent that, as far as ski areas were concerned, Austria and Switzerland had been exploited to near capacity. Also, by the 1960s the French economy was in difficult straits and the country's tourist industry had tailed off sharply. Then someone in the French Ministry of Tourism finally noticed the Alps just sitting there, beautiful, capacious and unproductive. The rush for white gold...
...want to make Laos the Switzerland of Southeast Asia...
...have always dreamed of a Cambodia that is a kind of Switzerland...
Billy Kidd, 26, the top U.S. skier, went everyone one better. After winning the gold medal for the best overall performance in the downhill, slalom and giant slalom, he announced that he was turning professional. A week later at Verbier, Switzerland, Kidd competed against 39 other pros in a series of races and schussed off with total winnings of $6,500 in what was billed as the first World Professional Skiing Championships. This week the touring pros moved into Vail, Colo., to race for $50,000 in prize money...