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Never has a ski season in the West got off to a more dismal start. Skiing is a $475 million annual industry in the Western snow country of California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, and resort owners from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada count on taking in fully one-fourth of their profits during the holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Snow normally begins piling up by mid-November, and by Christmas it usually blankets the slopes in layers 40 to 50 in. thick...
Frozen Out. Not this year. With only the barest dusting of powder in the high country, lifts are closed, lodges vacant and resort attendance off as much as 90% in some areas. About 10,000 skiers a day customarily pack the slopes at Heavenly Valley, but this year there are fewer than 1,000. At nearby Squaw Valley, the management has cut its staff to a mere 20 employees, v. the normal 700. So many of California's lodges have closed that unemployment rolls in Mono County have reached 20%, and applications for food stamps are running so high...
...Atomic Energy Commission chairman, Schlesinger was an advocate of nuclear power. Carter maintains that Schlesinger shares his view that nuclear power should be used only as a last resort In any event, Carter said, "his No. 1 priority will be to conserve energy...
This $34 million-a-year operation is based at a onetime resort hotel in the mountains above San Bernardino, Calif. The hotel provides staff training, and several times a year it gives Executive Seminars to evangelize the wealthy. In an unusual event for the headquarters, ex-Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and his wife Kathleen were baptized in the pool last Oct. 10. Expanding in Washington, meanwhile, Bright got wealthy laymen to donate $500,000 for a French-style mansion that the Catholic archdiocese wanted to unload as unfittingly grandiose, and he turned it into the Christian Embassy...
...keeping unemployment high, says fellow Economist Arthur Okun. On the other hand, Schultze, no doctrinaire, fully appreciates the dangers of inflation. It was largely his testimony that brought about the drastic revision of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, which would attack unemployment by making the Government the employer of last resort and which he considered inflationary in its original form. He has also argued for some form of jawboning as well as wage and price guideposts to help control inflation. Whenever possible, however, he prefers to let the private sector work by itself, free of Government restraints. In fact, while Schultze...