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...offers a variety of trails for most beginning and intermediate skiers. A few miles past North Conway, in the increasingly popular Jackson area, are Balack and thorn Mountains. At Black Mountain there is a 2500-foot Alpine lift, and at Thorn a 4000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows which give access to a great number of trails for the novice and the expert...
...trails. Topping the list is Stowe (Mount Mansfield) which reports good to excellent skiing on 21 to 40 inches of base with five inches of backed power. Stowe has the longest chair lift in the East, in addition to a T-bar lift and a whole slew of rope tows, providing many excellent trails for novice to expert. Nearby, Mad River Glen, With its mile long lift, sports a mountain almost as big as Stowe's, but with waiting lines much shorter. Big Bromley and Pico Peak always have snow and good skiing...
...bottle. In Washington, the society of the cave-dwellers was sacrificed on the time clock of a U.S. Government that became too busy for measured elegance. But in Chicago, high society has survived almost intact from the days when Mrs. Potter Palmer led the elite around by her pearl rope necklace. Even in Chicago something has been lacking. Not in years-not, in fact, since the Palmer days of the '905-has Chicago had an acknowledged queen of society...
...also a year in which a white man and a brown man, held together by a light nylon rope, climbed the highest mountain. In this feat of the New Zealand beekeeper, Edmund Hillary, and the sinewy Sherpa tribesman, Tenzing, millions down in the mundane valleys felt a vicarious exhilaration-the reminder that by valor and dedication man may surmount his Everests...
...platitudes of Pa Kettle. At best, drama must be light-weight, with much false emotion and conflict of typed personalities. But the lines of patient people waiting to see Martin Luther prove that picture executives have at least as great a share of fallibility as Luther claimed for the Rope...