Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With almost a half-million skiers on New England slopes last winter, it is clear that skiing must now be classified as a mass sport. While the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley established America's ski terrain as equal to Europe's best, the 1964 games proved that American skiers were on a par with the crack Europeans. Olympic publicity in 1960 boomed interest in the sport the following winter, and there is every reason to expect the coming season to benefit in the same...
...Fletcher, 28 years old and the sole veterinarian in Windsor, Vermont, and Tom Davis, age 27, and the president of a lumber company are not typical of the young men living in the ski country around the Twin State Valley area of Vermont and New Hampshire. Both are young, married, college graduates, ambitious-and willing to take a financial risk...
...filial rage and attacks the poor soul in her very grave. That sort of thing makes a bad impression in Columbus, Texas. Soon Georgette and her daughter are alone again, smiling through their tears as the young deputy Mr. Slim (Don Murray) drives them out of town toward The Valley. Of course, evrabody knows where The Valley is. Lies somewhere between lofty Faulkner country and the Foote hills...
...guaranteed a $20 million bank loan to the developer of the new town of Reston, outside Washington, in exchange for gas-station sites, and made a similar deal with another builder near San Francisco. Union Oil owns a 45% interest in a firm planning a big community in Simi Valley near Los Angeles...
With Polish equipment and American technical assistance, Iran is setting up a sugar industry, plans to grow and process all its own sugar by 1968. Rhodesian farmers have cleared 75,000 acres in the humid Hippo Valley lowlands of elephants, lions, buffalo and the tsetse fly in order to plant sugar. They still have not solved one problem: at night, hippopotamuses clomp out of the nearby Zambesi River, bed down on tender sugar shoots and crush them. Even the world's longtime sugar producers are working to fatten yields. Brazil, where sugar has grown in the north...