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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...
...Arlberg-Orient is one of the Continent's glamour trains, a storied track for international diplomats and international intrigue. Karpe had Compartment ll of the Bucharest sleeper. There were six other passengers in the car, including two friends, Secretary John Oliver Wright II, of the British legation in Bucharest, and Mrs. Wright. The Britons were accompanied by two countrymen-a king's messenger (or diplomatic courier) and his military guard...
...with friends who had come to say goodbye. He was happy to be going home, he said. A small, shifty-eyed stranger lolled in the background, staring at Karpe and listening to the talk, but no one paid much attention at the time. Shortly after 12:30 p.m. the Arlberg pulled out of Salzburg...
...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...