Word: arlberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Hannes Schneider, 64, Austrian-born, internationally famed skimeister regarded as "the father of modern skiing" for his development of the "Arlberg Method" of crouching and swinging instead of standing erect on the downhill run; of a heart ailment; in North Conway, N.H. Schneider taught kings, princes and American millionaires at his ski school at St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria, came to North Conway to found a school in 1939 after a brief imprisonment by the Nazis...
Andy Mead (the nick-and maiden names she is best known by) is the best U.S. Olympic skier. Last winter she won almost every major ski race in Europe-including the Arlberg-Kandahar downhill race, the unofficial world championship. At 19, she is a veteran of the 1948 Olympics and captain of this year's U.S. women's Olympic ski team...
...F.I.S. downhill; Austria's Erika ("Riki") Mahringer, Andy's best friend and, says Andy, "better than Dagmar Rom* ever was"; France's Andree Tournier Bermond, winner of last year's giant slalom at Mont Blanc; Italy's Celina ("The Tigress") Seghi, two-time Arlberg-Kandahar winner; and Germany's Hilde-Suse Gaertner, 1951 Davos-Parsenn Derby winner...
...Army occupation police said that they found no specific evidence of "foul play." On the other hand, U.S. Intelligence officers thought that it was murder. By coincidence, the Arlberg-Orient had made an unscheduled half-hour stop, to permit traffic to clear, at the village of Goiling, just three minutes from Lueg tunnel. Passengers had opened doors and stepped down to stroll and smoke on both sides of the train...
...When the Arlberg got under way again, trainmen had fastened the doors only on the station side; they forgot the loose doors on the other side. It was from this side that Karpe had fallen. Then, by coincidence, the train's lights had not gone on as usual in the tunnel. By coincidence, said train officials, it was possible that the Arlberg's lurch, as it rounded a curve toward the tunnel's end, had swung open an unfastened door and that Karpe had plunged through it in the dark...