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...years ago, he recalls, "it was like paradise." But perhaps not for much longer. Laid-back little Telluride, Colo., remote hideout for a smattering of the trendy rich and uncrowded preserve of ski connoisseurs, seems about to be discovered. The hills are alive with the sound of condo construction; resort developers are poised on their bulldozers. And a big part of the reason is that the hippies who crash-landed there in the '70s have changed. Says Durfee Day, who arrived in 1969: "Basically the whole town turned...
...says Actress Susan Saint James, who came for the film festival and decided to buy a house five years ago. "It's like a time warp." Ever since the first ski trails and lifts were built in 1972, developers have eyed the town's secret chic for a major resort. In 1979 Telluride Ski Corp. (Telco) announced upscale Mountain Village: 92 acres of residences, hotels, a golf course and new intermediate runs, necessary to attract family-oriented baby boomers. The whole operation was to be built six miles and a mountainside away from Telluride, linked to the town...
...would write anywhere," Jebsen said, adding that he often wrose on buses or trains. Some hotel rooms were poorly lit, so Jebsen had to resort to the light of the bathroom sink for light...
Lendt was forced into a first set tiebreaker before eliminating John Sadri, 7-6, 8-0. Navratilova ripped off the first nine games enroute to a 50 minute, 6-0, 6-3 victory over Robin White on the hardcourts at Laver's International Tennis Resort...
...rhetoric. Under Seaga, it has bounced back and is now worth an estimated $435 million. Most of the 12,000 tourists on the island were unaffected by the demonstrations, except for the postponement of a few homeward flights for 24 hours. Indeed, the protests barely reached the north coast resort area. And even though many flights from the U.S. into Kingston were canceled for two days, planes continued to land 85 miles to the northwest at Montego Bay, the island's main tourist airport...