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...remote area in the northern Sierras that boasts the record U.S. annual snowfall-73 ft. in the winter of 1906-07. At Alta, Utah, a 5,100-ft.-long lift has been added to open up the powder-rich Albion Basin, until now accessible only by climbing on skis. Vail, Colo., has developed a whole new mountain called Golden Peak...
Recent mayors, though honest and reasonably competent, have lacked the spunk to meet the city's mounting problems even part way. During Locher's regime, says Thomas Vail, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Some of the most powerful people in Cleveland were going to city hall and saying 'Let's get going. What can we do to help?' But nobody could get anywhere with Locher." In Vail's phrase, "that little extra spark" was missing...
...Stokes lives up to his potential, he will be in demand for higher office long before 1977. Cleveland, in the interim, will be his testing ground. "It hasn't been an exciting town," says Tom Vail, "but it's about to become one. There's an air of something about to happen...
...taking on more and more of his father's responsibilities, logged 150,000 air miles annually, checking on Federated stores from coast to coast. Last year he formally became chief executive. "Ten years ago," says Ralph, who became president in 1957, "if we disagreed, his decision would pre vail. Now I guess mine would...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Vail International Giant Slalom from Vail, Colo., and the N.C.A.A. Wrestling Championship from Kent, Ohio...