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...everyone was delighted for Armstrong, Johnson kicked up as much frosty disdain as admiration. It began a month ago, during the running of the Lauberhorn race at Wengen, Switzerland, over a shortened course and in conditions so poor that the grand old Austrian avalanche Franz Klammer tried unsuccessfully to get the race canceled. There Johnson became the first American to win a World Cup downhill. After the race, the popular and easygoing Klammer called Johnson "a little Nasenbohrer"-nose picker-who had sneaked into first place by a fluke. At Sarajevo, while Johnson skied superb training runs during the week...
...just an inconvenient storm. Forty people were killed in avalanches in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Throughout Alpine Europe, roads were closed, villages cut off, skiers stranded. Austrian Franz Klammer, American Bill Johnson and that whole body of men who like to race down mountains had to break two dates with Mount Bjelašnica, where the winds topped 120 m.p.h. and the safety nets blew away. Over at Jahorina, the women downhillers were also delayed...
...second portion of the movie, the plot assumes a sense of urgency when the crew saves a group of shipwrecked Serbians atempting to flee the Austrians presently ravishing their country. While at first the entourage resent the peasants' intrusion, they gradually develop a fascination and sympathetic affection for the newcomers. Disaster looms imminent, however, when an Austrian battleship accosts the liner demanding that it hand over the refugees. The closing scene where the passengers defiantly sing to the sounds of cannons fittingly foreshadows a century where man's destruction has often outdistanced his creativity...
...added attraction of playing for the Classics, however, is the annual spring break trip. Last year the club travelled to Europe, visiting Austria and Denmark and playing various teams from these countries. The Classics went 3-2, facing off against, among others, the Austrian National team...
Finding hot new competitors to serve as skiing billboards is a long-term job. The makers of France's Rossignol skis employ teams of scouts who follow the racing circuits looking for potential stars. Austrian manufacturers provide free gear to nearly 600 promising youths, some under the age of ten. Comments Christl Haas, a gold-medal winner in the 1964 Innsbruck Games: "These toddlers all have at least three pairs of skis and a company representative to wipe their noses...