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...games began with the familiar splendid pageantry: athletes in the uniforms of 37 nations marched past the box occupied by Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschlager. Overhead, helicopters unfurled the Austrian, Olympic and Tyrolean flags. A three-gun howitzer salute preceded the lighting of the Olympic flame, symbol of the history and fellowship of the quadrennial games...
...event; and that's called the Soldier Section because they found a dead soldier there in 1945." As if that wasn't enough, when an Italian named Stricker crashed on the course, ABC reran the film with comments like "What a tremendous crash, Wow!" Two runs later, an Austrian, Grissman, wiped-out and bounced and slid and quivered over a couple hundred yards of the course. ABC then treated us, as five other skiers took their runs, to playbacks of the crash, plus interspersed shots of Grissman being dragged off the course by ski patrollers, Grissman being loaded onto...
...INSTEAD of recognizing international friendship, ABC pushes Cold War nationalism. To take up slack in boring moments, ABC tenders morbidity. In the place of penetrating commentary, ABC offers sexist inanity. If it weren't for the beautiful Austrian mountains, the Olympics wouldn't be worth watching...
...first round took place at a meeting of Socialists from 18 European countries at Helsingor (Hamlet's Elsinore) in Denmark. The Northern Socialists-including British Laborites, West German Social Democrats, Danish, Swedish and Austrian parties-vehemently reiterated what has come to be a cornerstone of the Socialist International's policy: no dealings with Communists. "We see no reason to engage in any kind of cooperation," thundered West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, warning that any alliances would endanger both NATO and the Common Market...
Preiml, 36, is the Austrian equivalent of football's total technician Tom Landry: both leave nothing to chance. All his jumpers are tested for heart and lung capacity in repose as well as under stress, and he has even sent them to the Schellbach Institute in West Germany for a dose of will-strengthening therapy. It must work, since Preiml has at least four medal threats, including 90-Meter Favorite Karl Schnabl. No secrets, Preiml says. Except for his wonder wax initially developed by a Viennese glazier to coat windows...