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Heroine & Haymaker. Sturdy (5 ft. 7 in., 141 Ibs.), freckled, blithely irreverent, Marielle has been called "La Zazie of the Snow"-after the irrepressible heroine of Zazie dans le Métro, a bestselling novel and movie. Frenchmen are still chuckling over the Austrian cop who got into an argument with her coach, Henri Bonnet, at Innsbruck last year; Marielle uncorked a haymaker square on the point of his chin. And then there was the unnerving experience of Premier Georges Pompidou, who lunched with Marielle after the Olympics. Mlle. Goitschel started things off by making the V for Victory sign...
Some of the best wooden skis are German and Austrian models. Wood skies carry no manufacturer's degree...
...poles to parkas--is now American made. No longer must the fashion-conscious snow bunny pay $75 for stretch pants that won't develop baggy knees after one day's wear. American metal skis that, will last for years now cost little more and will perform much better than Austrian woods which are liable to break or warp. In short, the initial investment in ski equipment has been reduced to a reasonable figure in recent years...
...political satire, the photo-montage in Cologne's Stadt-Anzeiger early last month was both toothless and tasteless. There sat the Shah of Iran hungrily eying a smiling former King Saud of Arabia. Into Saud's hand Austrian Freelance Cartoonist Harald Sattler had drawn a sheaf of banknotes with the Shah saying: "Okay then, make it 30,000 and you can have Farah Diba." Since Farah Diba is the proper Muslim wife of the Shah, and the Shah both a proud ruler and a properly possessive Arab husband, he found the pastiche not only unfunny but insulting...
Died. Victor Hess, 81, Austrian-born physicist who, after taking radiation measurements during ten balloon ascensions over Europe in the early 1900s, descended to announce that radiation in the atmosphere resulted from "cosmic rays," not from radioactivity in the earth as had previously been supposed, a theory that was eventually accepted and won him the 1936 Nobel Prize; in Mount Vernon...