Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist rebels allow him, wanted no talk of military countermeasures. "The people must go on improving their way of life despite the war," he told Humphrey. "That is why we would prefer to see tractors arrive rather than weapons." Agreeing, Humphrey expounded eloquently on the TVA-style Mekong Valley development, one of Washington's pet pilot projects for an Asia at peace. "If we only had more time," sighed Humphrey at one point, "boy, I could have a ball." But the White House kept piling on new instructions and added assignments. And Jack Valenti, President Johnson's assistant...
Here, rather than in China, Buddha grew to his tallest: a 175-ft.-high statue hewn from a sandstone cliff in the Afghan valley of Bamian-a display of gigantism inherited more from the colossal marble Caesars of Rome than from the subtler Orient. It was also in this Eurasian melting pot that Buddha acquired his characteristic togalike robe, borrowed from Rome. Likewise Hercules (opposite) holds the hero's traditional club, but his head is crowned with Serapis' sacred basket of mysteries, symbolizing the Nile's fertility...
...newcomers elbow their way into lift lines, ignore ski-patrol warnings,, snowplow into middle-aged ladies. If their etiquette is lamentable on the slopes, their ethics at the bottom are worse. "Anything gets stolen around here that's not tied down," says Alex Gushing, developer of Squaw Valley...
...combat the new low mountain morality, ski areas are 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...
...skis, placing them hundreds of feet apart. Sometimes husbands and wives will leave a his-her pair on one side of the lodge, their mates mated off on the other, and stomp off to have a carefree lunch. But even that is not infallible. Recently a racer at Squaw Valley stashed his Head Competitor skis in widely separated locations, only to find when he returned that they had been replaced with a matching pair of gouged wooden ones...