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...Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., fell to chatting with a U.S. Army officer about skiing. -"Ever been to North Conway, New Hampshire?" the officer asked. Gibson said he had. The officer had lyric memories: "Wonderful skiing there on Cranmore Mountain. Grand hotel they have, too-the Eastern Slope Inn. And have you ever heard the Swiss orchestra at the inn? Wonderful orchestra...
...cable cars, skiers ride up the 2,052-foot mountain. Then Gibson developed 50 miles of downhill trails, hired famed skimeister Hannes Schneider (after he got him out of a Nazi concentration camp), built four new cottages and a "Swiss chalet" annex, converted an old inn into the Eastern Slope hotel. He lost $50,000 on the hotel for three years, until he hired Hotelman Lester Sprague to pull...
Fifteen years ago America's 75 ski clubs counted a mere 3,500 members-a cult of shoptalking zealots ("I schussed the slope, tried a stem christie, made a sitzmark"). After the 1932 winter Olympics at Lake Placid came the avalanche: in 1940-41, some 2,000,000 U.S. skiers spent about $200,000,000 to twist ankles and chap cheeks...
Made of magnesium (aluminum proved too costly), the new, non-splintering, un-warpable slat travels a hot 10% faster than hickory on a 20° slope, is just as flexible. In its strength lies the new ski's lone weakness: so easily does magnesium glide over snow that herringboning or side stepping is likely to be a backsliding proposition. Once on the market (next year perhaps), the magnesium ski promises new records for the expert, extra pratfalls for the novice...
...million surplus on roads, none on schools? They had some statistics to hurl at him: over 300 of Colorado's schools failed to open this fall because of a teacher shortage. There was a shortage of teachers because-as one marcher put it: "On the western slope of Colorado, they're paying sheepherders $140 a month, schoolteachers...