Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Utah's Wasatch Mountains, ho tel owners riffling through sheafs of canceled reservations look out on tawny brown slopes and frustratingly blue skies. President Ford, vacationing in Vail, Colo., spends a few hours a day slaloming between exposed patches of grass and rocks, then quits to sit by the fire, going over official documents. At Idaho's Sun Valley, only limited skiing is available, so more guests than usual while away their time trapshooting, riding horses and trading volleys on the tennis courts. In Northern California's Heavenly Valley, San Francisco secretary Lani Palmer practices parallel turns...
Never has a ski season in the West got off to a more dismal start. Skiing is a $475 million annual industry in the Western snow country of California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, and resort owners from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada count on taking in fully one-fourth of their profits during the holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Snow normally begins piling up by mid-November, and by Christmas it usually blankets the slopes in layers 40 to 50 in. thick...
...once operated in 25 states, has stopped servicing unprofitable areas. GEICO pulled out of New Jersey, which once accounted for 10% of its business, when the state refused to allow a premium increase; it has also stopped writing new policies in Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Utah...
...films are breaking box-office records in Utah and Idaho. They deal basically with pioneer-children stories, action adventures with strong moral kickers-all shamelessly calculated to make kids and adults laugh, cry and walk away feeling entertained, not emotionally drained. Dayton's first film, made in 1973, was Where the Red Fern Grows, a tale of a boy and his two hunting dogs. Financed with the help of Dayton's surgeon father-in-law, Dr. George Doty, Fern cost $500,000 but already has grossed $8 million. It starred Dayton's 16-year-old nephew, Stewart...
Learning Process. Dayton, a devout Mormon, studied radio and television at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, later wound up as a cab driver and part-time film technician in Los Angeles before deciding that the only way he could break into the business in a big way would be to become a film maker himself. He now drives a brown Cadillac Seville (license: GRATED) and is working on a deal to merge with a California book publisher. Why? Says he: "It looks to us like a synergistic merger. That's a word I just learned. It means...