Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever-increasing emphasis on consumer goods. In record numbers they jammed into department stores, shops and the barnlike discount houses called "market halls." Fifty new stores opened this month for the holiday season. In the huge but usually drab GUM department store, counters were piled high with everything from Winter Fantasy perfume ($4.44 an ounce) and 400 kinds of watches to luxury food baskets at only $57. To cope with a turnover of hall-a-million customers and $11.5 million in sales during the holiday week, GUM reported that it had sharply increased its sales staff from a few hundred...
...minded residents of Alabama and Mississippi no longer have to read about the glamorous life and peculiar excitement of skiing. Just a few miles across their northern border is the Gatlinburg Ski Resort in Tennessee, where snow machines produce a reliable twelve inches for two months of the winter season...
...their summer climate is the world's hottest and their ter rain the flattest, are turning into skiers-three new ski shops have opened in downtown Washington this year. Within 80 miles of the city are: Shawneeland near Winchester, Va., which had 78 skiing days even in a winter when the natural snowfall was only half an inch; Skyline Ski Area at Washington, Va., which has three slopes, a T-bar lift and two rope tows; Oregon Ridge at Cockeysville, Md., with four tows and a 1,900-ft. double-track slope; Strudel Run at Braddock Heights, Md., with...
...decision also frees some $2,000,000 in bond money posted by individuals and civil rights groups, dating back to the winter of 1960 when a band of determined Negro students first sat down at a variety-store lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and refused to move. That money is not likely to remain idle for long. Civil rights leaders plan to use it to push voting-registration drives and-despite general compliance with the new civil rights laws in metropolitan areas-to push into rural Southern hamlets where the law has never even been tested and WHITE ONLY signs...
...four-week delay of the attack on Russia that was caused by Yugoslav and Greek resistance in the spring of 1941, although that delay may well have been the most important single factor in the German failure (by 15 miles and some bad weather) to capture Moscow before winter...