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Last week, in a brief ceremony at his summer palace in the mountain resort of Bogor, Sukarno calmly swore in one of his old leftist cronies, Suwito Kusumowidagdo, as Ambassador to the U.S. The appointment hardly pleased the military regime, which now claims most of the power in Indonesia, and it raised eyebrows in Washington. The Bung's only answer was a sentence of advice to his new ambassador: "Tell them that Sukarno is still President of Indonesia and that he is the man who sent you there...
...Honestly, I couldn't even find a room for my own mother." Said her weary counterpart at rival Vail, Colorado's other big ski resort: "We've had more than 1,000 calls this week asking about possible cancellations...
...Christmas-New Year's holiday is the big week for skiing, and right across the nation, resorts were strained to capacity - including those in Vermont, where a Christmas Eve storm dumped two feet of snow on slopes that had been brown. For New England skiers and resort owners, the last-minute reprieve was nothing short of miraculous...
More Passion than Poise. Celebrities abounded. To Aspen came Dr. Jonas Salk, Senator-elect Charles Percy, Adam ("Batman") West, and Defense Secretary McNamara, guest of William Janss, owner of Sun Valley and the power be hind the new Snowmass-at-Aspen ski resort being built eight miles away. Not that devotees of Vail were the slightest bit impressed. "Aspen? Oh, yes, that's a tree, isn't it?" they were saying. Be sides, they had a few names of their own: New York's Mayor John Lind say, Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter, IBM Chairman Tom Watson...
Resurgent Sun Valley, Idaho, the nation's oldest ski resort, has always been popular with the Hollywood set; on hand for the holidays were such showfolk as Art Linkletter, Director William Wyler, Crooner Andy Williams and Composer Henry Mancini. Most visible by virtue of sheer numbers: Bobby and Ethel and seven of their nine children, staying in a five-bedroom cottage across from the Lodge. Bobby, who skis with more passion than poise, latched onto a group of teen-age girl racers, delighted them by setting the pace on a fast down hill run. Son Joseph...