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Word: vt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent afternoon at Killington, Vt., 16 pairs of skis disappeared within two hours. At a resort in the Adirondacks, so many people complained about lost skis that two New York-bound buses were stopped and searched; ten pairs of stolen skis were recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Backsliding on the Slopes | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

Caught at the Pass. Innocent skiers have also developed some defensive ploys. On the lodge walls at Stowe, Vt., they crayon huge messages saying "New Yorkers, go home." Even more direct -and effective-is the practice of splitting up pairs of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Backsliding on the Slopes | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

East Dover, Vt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1966 | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...right. The rest provide employment for lawyers, archivists and private detectives-especially in France, where the search for several legacies has gone on for generations. None of them is more fabulous than that of Jean-Pierre Mallet, who, so the story goes, died childless in 1818 in Winooski, Vt., leaving behind properties that stretched from the shores of Lake Champlain all the way to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Mallet's Millions | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Married. Patrick Farrow, 23, commercial-artist son of Actress Maureen O'Sullivan (The Subject Was Roses) and elder brother of Mia; and Susan Erb, 22, a former student at Antioch College; in Cuttingsville, Vt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 21, 1966 | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

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