Word: valleys
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...pizza bagels, a taste of Deli Day with (truly) kosher style-pickles and half-sour tomatoes, the requisite box of matzo and a bit of Israeli flavor with Elite vanilla-flavored wafers. Berry really did something right by getting hold of beef franks in bagel dough, produced in Spring Valley, NY, home of Hillel Chair Shai A. Held '94. How better to butter up a constituency...
...last time an American team shut out one of its opponents was in 1964. The last time the U.S. won its first two games, the team went on tocapture the gold medal. Athletic Director WilliamJ. Cleary Jr. '56 contributed to that U.S. triumphat Squaw Valley, California...
Snoozing at the mouth of a narrow valley, its air perfumed by nearby steel plants, its riverbank paved for a parking lot, its squat office buildings ringed by mounds of sooty snow, Albertville hardly seems destined for global fame. But raise your eyes above the small-town skyline: the Olympian glory of the French Alps explodes in a pastel sunset, sparkling through pine-serrated glaciers. After Sarajevo's Bosnian backwater and Calgary's urban stampede, the 16th Olympic Winter Games will be a soaring high-wire act: 57 events staged in 10 venues across seven valleys...
...what promises to be a dazzling, otherworldly spectacle could also become a logistical horror show. Over the Christmas holidays, 7,000 people were stranded in cars and trains when avalanches blocked valley roads. A similar disaster struck last February, cutting off several resorts from the outside world for two days. Olympic organizers say they are prepared. "The first flake won't even have time to hit the asphalt," says Killy. "It will land on a snowplow." But a few minor accidents on the two-lane mountain roads that lead up to the ski runs, bobsled course and hockey rink could...
Despite the American alarm and anti-Japanese sentiment, a strain of ambivalence and self-criticism runs through American opinion. For one thing, anti-Japanese gestures can be very complicated in the new world. In Valley Stream, N.Y., Steve Verga sells Hondas, about 450,000 of which are now made in the U.S. annually. "When customers ask us, 'Where was this car made?' " says Verga, "we say, 'In Ohio, by American workers...