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...curious cosmopolite could learn a lot from last week's ninth Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. American women have too many teeth, for instance. Russian women have too many muscles. American men are lousy street fighters. Russians ski uphill better than down. Austrians and Frenchmen ski downhill better than anyone. And, above all, for goodness' sake never argue with an Austrian...
...water polo match, has an Olympics produced so much brouhaha. Dutch speed-skating officials complained that a Swedish referee had the ice shaved at strategic moments-thereby helping Jonny Nilsson (a Swede) win the men's 10,000 meters. Americans spent $4 to file an official protest when Austrian skiers were allowed to study the men's giant slalom course in comfort, by walking it downhill. (Everybody else had to trudge uphill.) German fans screamed "Schiebung! Schiebung!" ("Fix! Fix!") when judges awarded France's Alain Calmat a spectacular score of 98 points for free-style figure skating...
...That should have done it," boomed an Austrian voice over the finish-line loudspeakers...
...fastest of all the U.S. skiers, as it turned out, was California's Ni Orsi, 19, who had barely qualified for the team, wound up 14th. Winner Zimmermann did his best to console the losers. "After all," he said, "it's only proper that an Austrian should win on an Austrian mountain...
...France, poled and skated their way through the ladies' slalom, finished first and second. In third place: Oregon's Jean Saubert, the pre-race favorite. Afterward, stocky Marielle Goitschel, 18, demonstrated that she can handle herself as well off the course as on. Angry at an Austrian policeman who was pushing French Coach Henri Bonnet around, Marielle uncorked a haymaker square on the point...