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Only a week after he had come out of nowhere to win a bronze medal in the special slalom at the Winter Olympics, the young Californian won the Kandahar special slalom, placed second in the giant slalom, easily beat France's Leo Lacroix for the combined title. Another U.S. winner: Oregon's lean Saubert, 21, who won the Kandahar women's slalom, beating France's Olympic Champion Marielle Goitschel...
Died. Alan Ladd, 50, tough-guy movie hero, a slight and, in real life, amiable Californian who hit the marquees in 1942 as the suave, trench-coated hood in This Gun for Hire (with Veronica Lake), played much the same cool role some 200 times thereafter, winning brickbats from the critics (except in Shane) but such dogged admiration from the fans that, as he once said, "every time Paramount wants to meet the payroll, they start an Alan Ladd picture"; found dead in bed; at his Palm Springs, Calif., home...
...Gerdes, 59, a lean, shy lawyer whose voice sounds like Jimmy Stewart's. Gerdes joined P.G. & E. in 1929, worked mainly on legal and financial affairs before replacing Norman Sutherland as president last July (Sutherland died a few weeks later from cancer-TIME, Sept. 13). Though a native Californian, Gerdes has a utility man's notions about the profitability of bad weather. "We like it wet and dark," he says, "and the colder the better...
...Householder. Made in India by Director James Ivory, a Californian, this disarming little comedy of middle-class life in Delhi sees two young newlyweds through their period of adjustment, and calls up laughter as gentle as temple bells...
THREE years ago, when Correspondent Marshall Berges was packing up to leave his assignment as head of the Detroit Bureau to take charge in Los Angeles, he dropped around to see Robert S. McNamara, then president of the Ford Motor Co. Berges felt that McNamara, as a former Californian, might well provide some pretty good guidance. One of the questions he asked was, "Who are the brightest men in California?" McNamara's reply was instantaneous: "Way up at the top of your list you'd better put Tex Thornton." Berges was not in California long before he shared...