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...almost 1½ sec. better than the course record, American joy knew no bounds. But Germany's Ludwig Leitner clocked 2 min. 19.67 sec., and France's Leo Lacroix cut almost a second off that. Then, high above the tree line a grinning, brown-haired Austrian stabbed at the snow with his ski poles and began...
...family inn. Packed off to Paris' ritzy Ledoyen restaurant at 15 to learn the art of French cooking, Egon showed a fine flair for mousse-making-whenever he could be persuaded to come in out of the snow. At 18, he won all three Alpine events at the Austrian junior championships, and experts began calling him "the new Toni Sailer." But then he dislocated a shoulder on the eve of the 1960 Olympics...
Imported Snow. Ski resorts have learned to cope with such whims of nature. Off to the upper Alps trooped 3,000 Austrian soldiers, with orders to bring back snow or else. They brought back tons of the stuff-in trucks, in earth movers, in wicker baskets slung on their backs. Some 40,000 cubic meters were dumped on the ski courses; another 20,000 cubic meters were set aside for "emergency withdrawals." Six huge snowmaking machines, imported from the U.S., worked night and day, spraying ice crystals on the bobsled and sled runs. Finally, last week, Austria...
...good. But the sun still shone brightly, temperatures climbed into the upper 30s and each day more of the imported snow melted away. To protect what little was left, Austrian officials refused to allow Alpine skiers to train on the Olympic slopes. "They can have all the practice they want," said one, "but not on the official courses...
...kill can be innocent again," and Quentin muses, "No man lives who would not rather be the sole survivor of this place than all its finest victims. ... Who can be innocent again on this mountain of skulls? ... We are very dangerous!"). Holga represents Miller's present wife, the Austrian-born professional photographer Ingeborg Morath...