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...will open for business for the first time this year with a 4800 foot double chair and a T-bar. Andree Mead Lawrence, one of America's finest Olympic skiers, will direct the ski school. Mt. Ascutney in Windsor is a new area on the North slope of an extinct volcano with 120 acres of meticulously groomed trails up to 13/4 miles in length. Its double chair lift carries 900 skiers an hour on a 4700' ride up a 1470' vertical rise, while three T-bar lifts serve the lower slopes for the novice and intermediate skier. The area...
...Journal noted that a local Republican office-seeker was blaming Lyndon Johnson for everything- from the mess in the Congo to De Gaulle's recognition of Red China: "Our candidate has not yet mentioned that it was during the Kennedy-Johnson years that the blue whale became commercially extinct." ∙The Wichita, Kans., Eagle affected dismay after Johnson kissed a baby: "Is it proper for the President to expose himself to the afflictions which beset the nursery crowd? Measles or whooping cough in the White House could have repercussions for the whole free world." ∙The Washington Star...
...Paleoparadoxia ("Ancient contradiction"), an amphibious mammal bigger than a rhinoceros that wallowed in the shallows 15 to 20 million years ago when California's Coast Ranges had not yet risen and the site of inland Palo Alto was still under the sea. Paleoparadoxia belongs to a long-extinct order, the desmostylians, which lived the lives of saltwater hippopotamuses around the shores of the North Pacific. It was first found in Japan, but the Palo Alto skeleton is the only one found in North America...
...answer is twofold. First, since the single wing is practically extinct, teams no longer construct defenses to cope with it. Princeton's opponents must hastily slap together new defensive formations, with no time for the players to learn them well...
...last of an almost extinct species," admits Author Foot, "a British Colonial Governor." Few members of the species have worked harder toward self-extinction than Sir Hugh, who spent 30 years in the colonial service and was Britain's last Governor General in Cyprus before independence. In this sprightly autobiography, which combines exploits worthy of James Bond with a scholar's critical look at current history, Foot draws some important lessons from Britain's race to haul down the flag...