Word: vail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Honestly, I couldn't even find a room for my own mother." Said her weary counterpart at rival Vail, Colorado's other big ski resort: "We've had more than 1,000 calls this week asking about possible cancellations...
...emboldened by a local libation called Aspen Crud, a vanilla milk shake laced with anything alcoholic. Latest place is Stromberg's, in the basement beneath a drugstore, where skiers dine on escargots, fondue and hot posh (cappuccino and rum), stay on for recorded flamenco, folk and jazz. In Vail, dancers head for the Golden Ski or the Casino Vail, where the latest fad is turtle racing. The leading turtles so far are Apollo and the Cuban Stallion, but they had better keep on winning. One sore loser got so mad at his turtle that he forthwith had him cooked...
...Poise. Celebrities abounded. To Aspen came Dr. Jonas Salk, Senator-elect Charles Percy, Adam ("Batman") West, and Defense Secretary McNamara, guest of William Janss, owner of Sun Valley and the power be hind the new Snowmass-at-Aspen ski resort being built eight miles away. Not that devotees of Vail were the slightest bit impressed. "Aspen? Oh, yes, that's a tree, isn't it?" they were saying. Be sides, they had a few names of their own: New York's Mayor John Lind say, Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter, IBM Chairman Tom Watson - and the whole...
...speculations about his mother's bed are beside the point. Her we have Sir Norman, fantastically wealthy, illegitimate, weak, gullible, and queer. He is victimized as a matter of course. His first tormentor, his mother aside, is a nightclub singer named Lily Vail who gets him to marry her so that she can divorce him, thereby gaining fame via scandal and fortune via alimony and blackmail. He is later a victim of a sculptress whom he commissions to create an enormous "Ritualistic Orgy of the Titans" in front of his desert home; her American Indian husband, who convinces Norman that...
...fighting back. Bogus Basin, Idaho, now hires off-duty deputy sheriffs to patrol the piste in "plain clothes," passes out notices to advertise the fact. Squaw Valley has put up posters offering $100 reward to those who can catch a thief. And resorts as chic and cher as Vail, Colo., have been forced to install racks that lock skis in place...