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Tremendous movements of humanity through planes, trains, buses, and automobiles this week will herald the advent of another Christmas. As the holiday draws closer, local vacation crowds will swell till they hit their peak next Wednesday...
...Tahoe's seven skiable peaks, Mount Rose is the only one over to witness an appreciable turnout of parallel enthusiasts, because Rose alone can be reached from the road. There are a wealth of virgin mountain-sides in Tahoe's environs, the most notable of which is Freel's Peak, a two-mile bowl with a possible descent of 3000 feet...
Stowe has little to offer the novice, One trail, a converted toll road to the peak, is gentle and smooth, while two other trails, blazed this year especially for novices, still have tough spots. Mansfield is a steep mountain, home of the Nose Dive, which was once an Olympic downhill run but is new one of the most popular export trails in the East, and, as such, draws skiers with considerable experience...
...diminutive size compared to other major trail-entwined slopes in Pico Peak in Rutland, Vermont. There are an alpine lift and a rope tow hauling for two open slopes and one trail. The open slopes, though short, are sleep and difficult, and provide good proving grounds for slalom and schuss techniques...
...last election (TIME, June 10, 1946). Since then he had, in fact, been losing ground. Soviet failure to deliver promised goods, particularly bread grain, on promised schedule, increased the heat and frequency of criticism leveled at Gottwald and the Kremlin. The swing away from Gottwald reached a peak when the Social Democrats, by secret ballot, bounced their pro-Communist leader Zdenek Fierlinger out of his job and installed Bohumil Lausman in his place. No rabid antiCommunist, Lausman nevertheless believes that Czechoslovakia should come first. The seams of Gottwald's National Front began popping rivets...