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...athlete, exactly," says Austrian Toni Innauer, 5 ft. 8 in., 130 lbs. "I am tough." At 17 he is tough enough to rate as the favorite in the 70-meter jumping competition. Raised in his father's pub halfway up an alp, Toni's budding alpine career was nipped at age twelve by officials who considered him too puny. He enrolled at a state-run skiing school, becoming a protégé of Jumping Coach Baldur Preiml...
...Teuton waving his hairy green hat appreciatively at an Alp might be any German tourist, but - you realize with a start - it is Martin Bormann. There are scraps of conversation, no more. Hitler scans a speech manuscript through a large magnifying glass on the breezy terrace with Speer looking over his shoulder. He looks up. "Very interesting," the Führer remarks, in a line straight out of Laugh-In. Hitler's doctor appears; he describes how he has come to suspect a link between smoking and lung cancer. "Disgusting," the patient snaps. Nobody is at ease with...
...full flight down an Alp's snowy flank, Austria's Annemarie Proell resembles nothing so much as a controlled crash about to happen. Feet well apart, arms locked to her thighs, in an awkward-looking squat that offends purists, she rockets out of the starting gate toward the first turn. Her motives for that all-out start are direct: "I try to risk as much as possible in the first few gates," she says. "It makes the competition nervous-I know they watch...
...ALP by William Hjortsberg. 157 pages. Simon & Schuster. $4.95. A honeymooning American couple, a witch, a dwarf, assorted deaths, a mad seduction in a careening telepherique-adding up to zero...
Staid during the season and stultifying offseason, Montreux is a natural haven for a genius with billowing dreams and a narrowing future. It is a two-street town, one low and one high, dumped at the foot of one Alp and facing another across Lake Geneva. Beyond the town is Byron's Castle of Chillon, the big tourist attraction of the area...