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Alarmists are raising the specter of $25-to $35-a-day lift tickets. Ski operators, though, have spotted what looks like an easier fix: the passage of special state laws specifying responsibility for accidents. New Hampshire, New Mexico, Washington and Maine already have legislation making the skier responsible for any downhill (as opposed to ski-lift) accidents. This week the Vermont legislature will consider a bill requiring ski operators only to maintain lifts properly and mark all trails and such foreseeable hazards as snowmaking hydrants. If it passes, schussers who come to grief will be on their...
Carlos never showed, and the real specter hanging over the meeting was the growing worldwide glut of oil. During recent months the world has been awash with excess production of some 2 million bbl. per day, and Western oil stocks are currently 25% above pre-1973 embargo levels. Producers like Libya and Algeria, even while arguing for an official price hike, have been shaving their market prices by 40� or more per barrel...
...opposes the key conservation measure?a high tariff on industrial users of gas and oil. When the issue came up in the Senate last week, Long was in vintage form, giving that he might receive. A few days before the vote, Long's chief aide ?raising the specter of financial ruin for Louisiana industry?forecast the proposal's future with a Southern lilt: "The industrial user's tax is d-a-i-d, dead." Yet when the measure came to a vote, the wily Long did not thwart the drive to make it 1-i-v-e, live...
Chirac has carried on with his aggressive anti-left crusade, charging that the Communists and Socialists were indistinguishable "collectivists." For the moment, he seems to be the big loser in the leftist split. Concedes one of his deputies: "We've been brandishing the Socialist-Communist specter. Now that's not credible any more. We're revising our strategy." Chirac is also seeking to change his image as a hard-lining right-winger. He is barnstorming around France three days a week until the elections, trying to convince voters that he really favors progressive economic and social change...
...fact, one might almost expect Houdini's specter to pop up somewhere on Halloween, among the trick or treaters. For certainly, Houdini was not a man who could easily be forgotten. No jail cell could hold him, no locks or chains could confine him. Houdini released himself thousands of times from every known physical restraint, often purposely putting his life in danger to dramatize the escapes. He was certainly no slouch: why escapes from a strait jacket standing upright when you can do it hanging by your ankles from a flagpole, 100 feet above a New York street, with thousands...