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Soaking & Sipping. Winter skiers rise before dawn, bundle into long Johns, sweaters, parkas and mittens, stash away a high-calorie breakfast, and hit the slopes in a hurry to salvage every instant of scarce daylight, determined to get as much as they can out of the short day, the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The Snows of Spring | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

In New England last week, they were braving gale-force winds and 20°-below-zero temperatures in the big old places such as Stowe and Bromley, as well as in a host of small new ones that have been sprouting on the hills each year. In the West, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The Ski People | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

The 17,000 barges and 4,100 towboats that ply the inland waterways are less gaudy and singular but more practical than the old sternwheelers. Today's towboats (which actually push rather than pull their tows) have radar, depth recorders, six rudders and two propellers. Their diesel engines generate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: New Life on the River | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

Most of the time the dame is socked in with vodka or pot, and the no-talent hero tows her around like a whale on a flatcar.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Putting on the Cat | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

This week, as skiers head snowward for the Washington's Birthday weekend, traditionally the busiest of the year, resort operators are celebrating the biggest year skiing has known since man first set out on barrel staves. Deep valleys and isolated mountainsides that only a few years ago had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: White Gold on the Ski Belt | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

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