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...airport. But by Friday, commercial service resumed at the international Pudahuel terminal. Trains also began to run again, without the danger that they would be taken over and stalled by militants, as occasionally happened during Allende's regime. Skiers were even able to go up to the Andean resort of Portillo for a crack at the last corn snow of the season...
...Provo canyon, Utah, raw land near the Sundance ski resort fetched $3,750 an acre in 1966. Today it goes for as much as $13,000-even though zoning restrictions prevent some buyers from building anything...
...frontage) Island Pond, Vt. 16 miles from Canadian border $150 per acre Long Island's north shore, non-waterfront lots $12,000 per acre Disney World, Fla., on swampy southern fringe $900 per acre Disney World, north on Lake Hancock Road $4,000 per acre Sundance ski resort, 60 miles from Salt Lake City $10,000-$13,000 per acre Lakeway resort community, near Austin, Texas $25,000-$70,000 per ⅓-to ½ acre Palm Springs, Calif., vicinity of airport $100,000 per acre Lake Tahoe, Calif., waterfront lots $1,000 per front ft. Koko Kai, Oahu, Hawaii...
...equivalent to the land area of Connecticut. Next year another 3,000,000 acres will be built up, paved over or stripped. Most of the change is taking place on the relatively flat farm lands around the most populous cities, near shore lines, or in the most popular resort areas. In these locations particularly, the amount of land is limited -the all too many abuses of land are all too visible...
...credit, Hellman is neither a name dropper nor a restaurant and resort recorder. Those standbys of nostalgia, Gerald and Sara Murphy, crossed her path, but she merely remarks that they were perhaps "not as bonny or without troubles with each other" as they are usually depicted. Edmund Wilson appears, not as a mighty mind but as a comfortable pal who said sane things. Dorothy Parker was a close if infuriating friend. In 1937 she and Lillian traveled to Paris together. Parker was invited by the rich and famous to "tennis she didn't play and pools she didn...