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...Europe, lodging, lifts, transportation and equipment are much cheaper. At Switzerland's Davos, ski lifts fan out into ten square miles of wide-open slopes. The Parsenn-Bahn offers a choice of skiing down to Jenaz, 18 miles away, or to the nearer villages of Saas, Serneus, Klosters or Wolfgang, each serviced by a whistle-stop railroad that hauls the skier right back to Davos. At Zermatt, in the shadow of the Matterhorn, a good skier can zip down to Italy for a spaghetti lunch and be back in Switzerland for dinner...
...Downs. When she was 14 she qualified for the 1947 Olympic tryouts at Sun Valley, and drove West with Dartmouth Dean Lloyd K. ("Pudge") Neid-linger, his daughter Sally Neidlinger (a member of this year's team) and North Conway's Paula Kann. Andy marveled at the wide-open Western slopes, a sharp contrast to New England's shut-in trail skiing. "I couldn't get over the idea I was going like crazy," she says. She did go like crazy: first place in the slalom, her favorite because "it's more of a problem...
...their fortunes on the sprawling, leisurely 4½hour broadcast of mountain and prairie specialties. Among those who found fame: Opry Alumni Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley and Roy Acuff, all of whom now boast six-figure annual incomes. Citified publishers and record companies-realizing that in the wide-open spaces of the U.S. a good barnyard ballad can outsell a bistro blues every time-have been making tracks to the source...
Grimy Cicero, Ill. (pop. 67,000), which huddles close to Chicago's west boundary, has never had a reputation for being exclusive. During the roaring '20s, the Torrio-Capone mob roared through Cicero's streets in armored cars, ruled its wide-open gambling joints, honky-tonks and whorehouses. Cicero is also an industrial town, with tree-lined neighborhoods of workingmen's homes, and friendly corner taverns where jukeboxes play lively polkas and the talk at the bar is in many languages. Though its history is pockmarked with crime and violence, Cicero makes one proud boast...
Enter the Communists. As Juin's proposed reforms failed to reduce Moroccan tension, a situation developed that was wide-open to the Communists. Although forbidden to join unions, 55,000 Moroccan workers signed up with the Confédération Générale du Travail, dominated by French Communists. The Communists had been against the Istiqlal in 1945, but by 1949 they were jumping on the nationalist bandwagon. More & more Arabs started taking part in Communist demonstrations...