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Blinding Snowstorm. As for team efforts, the Swiss skiers upset the Austrians and all but swept the French off the slopes. The first surprise came when a 17-year-old Swiss whiz named Ma-rie-Theres Nadig nipped favored Austrian Annemarie Proell in the women's downhill. After that, the chunky Swiss girl swiveled through a blinding snowstorm and once more bested Annemarie in the giant slalom. In the men's division, Bernhard Russi and Roland Collombin finished one. two in the downhill. In all. the Swiss men won four of the top six positions in the downhill...
Died. Llewellyn Thompson, 67, diplomat and Kremlinologist; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Thompson made deft use of two valuable assets: patience and a thorough knowledge of his opponent. The career Foreign Service officer successfully negotiated the Austrian State Treaty with the Russians, ending Austria's postwar occupation, and the Trieste settlement resolving the Italian-Yugoslav dispute over the Adriatic seaport. His two tours as Ambassador to Moscow (1957-62 and 1967-69) covered some explosive moments in U.S.-Soviet relations, including the U-2 incident and the 1961 Berlin crisis, but through it all Thompson maintained excellent rapport with...
...those resources is a reservoir of expertise in skimaking, which equips a leisure-time activity that is growing phenomenally all over the world. The number of skiers in all countries has jumped from an estimated 3,000,000 since World War II to the present 15 million. The Austrian ski industry now makes more than a quarter of all the world's skis. Last year 230 Austrian firms exported about $80 million in ski equipment and clothing, more than three times sales in 1965. This year Austria's (and the world's) largest skimaker, Josef Fischer, expects...
Inevitably, the ethics of amateur skiing have been altered by the strain of the sponsors' competition. In the 1950s, Austrian Ski Star Toni Sailer supposedly earned a modest $1,200 a year from advertising. Eventually he dropped out of competition after the International Ski Federation investigated his role in Sailer-Tex, an Italian textile firm to which he had lent his name. "I hoped that my leaving would be understood as a protest against the hypocrisy of the so-called amateur status," Sailer said recently. "But the situation has only become worse...
...recent years, several leading ski manufacturers in Italy, Germany and Switzerland have been acquired by British and American firms. The Austrian skimakers, who for the most part are the sons of the cartmakers and carpenters who started the business, have thus far resisted the temptation to sell out. "I am worth more every day," boasts "Toni" Arnsteiner, himself a former ski racer. "So why should I sell?" He foresees, however, that "in a few years, ten manufacturers will remain the world over. The problem is to be among them...