Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chill, grey mist hangs over the jungled hills around Khe Sanh and drifts down onto the base's metal run way. The morning mist often lasts into the afternoon, the bright sun of recent weeks is lost in monsoonal overcast, and the air is raw and wet with winter. The camp seems to have settled into a dull, lethargic pace to match the dull, damp weather that envelops it. In a mood of resignation, Marines go about their life-or-death work, digging into the red clay, filling sandbags, bolstering the bunkers they know are their one protection against...
Drunken Pretzel. As an analyst of affluence, Galbraith does not speak from the curious outside. He summers on the family's 247-acre farm near Newfane, Vt., spends part of each winter at a commodious rented chalet in Gstaad, an elegant ski resort in Switzerland. William Buckley, a sometime skiing companion, says that Galbraith looks like "a drunken pretzel" coming down the slopes, but another observer describes his form as "graceful, lordly, solemn even?like Charles de Gaulle going down an escalator...
...nasty winter for Paris' most celebrated couturiers. Even André Courrèges, 44, had buyers at his latest showing sitting on their hands. But Courrèges is finding a happier home in the U.S. Boutiques carrying Courreges frocks at prices ranging from $200 to $500 have opened to sensational applause at Sakowitz Bros, in Houston and Bonwit Teller in New York. Bonwit's peddled 150 outfits the first day, leading Andre to confirm that he will spend six months a year in the U.S. "The American way of thinking," he noted, "corresponds...
...Charles de Gaulle opened the 10th Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, last week, ABC-TV pulled off a display of space-age electronic wizardry that was right out of Star Trek. The dour visage of le grand Charles picked up by the color cameras was fed to a control unit at the Olympic stadium, beamed to ABC headquarters in Grenoble, relayed by cable to Paris, and then to the French satellite ground station at Plumeur-Bodou. There the video signal was converted into a radio signal, bounced off the Early Bird satellite hovering 22,300 miles over the Atlantic...
...biggest problems at the Winter Olympics is winter. At Grenoble last week, heavy snow and gale-force winds, followed by a quick thaw, forced postponement of the men's downhill ski races and two-man bobsledding, then threatened to wash out the tobogganing altogether. The slippery slopes played havoc with the U.S. ski team: two fractures, a sprained ankle, a dislocated shoulder and a gashed head. A television helicopter crashed into a snowbank, forcing a French skier to veer off course into a fence, and a runaway toboggan smacked headlong into a spectator...