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...amateur affair, the spectacle staged in Val Gardena, Italy, last month looked more like the world ski-trade fair. With their equipment splashily plastered with brand names, contestants paraded before the TV cameras like walking commercials. For a $400-a-month payoff, one entrant sported the badge of a resort he has never even seen. After winning the special slalom, France's Jean-Noel Augert shouted "Vive Le Courbier!"-a hard-sell pitch for a ski resort in which, as he put it, "I am investing all my savings...
...campaign began with a week at a beach resort, where the volunteers were given training in teaching. Lazara lived in what used to be the mansion of the DuPonts. She describes the campaign that followed...
...morning at dawn last week, the Eurydice slipped out of her port at the resort of St.-Tropez for a three-hour training exercise. Her skipper was Lieut. Bernard de Truchis de Lays, 34, who had served for two years as executive officer of the Minerve but had been transferred a few months before she was lost. At 7:13, the Eurydice sent her last message: she was diving in calm seas off Cape Camarat, 35 miles east of Toulon. A few minutes later, a geophysical laboratory picked up the shock waves of a violent underwater explosion...
...crust. As the magma presses into new regions, it raises the earth on top of it. At the same time, land some distance away may gradually subside to fill the area vacated by the molten rock. That could account for a six-inch drop in the level of the resort island of Ischia, only ten miles offshore...
...that may some day prevent such disasters. They are members of Switzerland's Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, the world's first and foremost scientific establishment dedicated to the study and forecasting of avalanches. Before the institute was established 26 years ago, high above the resort town of Davos in the eternal snows of the 8,000-ft. Weissfluhjoch, knowledge of avalanches consisted mostly of folklore. Now, thanks to the institute's physicists, crystallographers, engineers and foresters, science has come closer to understanding the mysterious mechanisms that tumble torrents of snow down the mountainsides...