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...Mary Ann, where do you change?" The easy informality lasted about as long as it took to get an answer. Once she found the locker room and laced on her skates, World Figure Skating Champion Carol Heiss, 16, became all business. She was about to compete for the U.S. title in the rubber match with Massachusetts' Tenley Albright, four times U.S. champion, and winner of the Olympic championship last month in Cortina, Italy...
...from acting like enemies who had been staring icicles at each other for weeks. Olympic Champion Albright and World Champion Heiss all but smothered each other in warm hugs for the benefit of photographers. All that talk of a feud between them, volunteered Carol's mother, Marie, was "started by a newspaperwoman." But when they skated onto the rink, all became cold precision...
Smooth Curves. Pony-tailed Carol stood aside, in the loquaciously doting care of her mother, while Tenley glided into the "school figures," the required set of tight patterns that each contestant had to trace and retrace with geometric certainty. Around the smooth curves of a figure eight pretty Pre-Med Student Albright floated through her intricate gyrations. She was careful to lean so that she rode on only one edge of her hollow-ground blades, careful to switch from edge to edge without "flatting," i.e., scraping the ice with both edges at once, careful always to give the appearance...
Tenley Albright skated to a delicate lead over Carol Heiss in the United States Figure Championships which began yesterday at Philadelphia...
...Later, Carol made her bid, her green costume and rhinestone choker glittering through a light snowfall. She, too, repeated her Olympic performance. As she whirled and leaped to the beat of Adolphe Adam's If I Were King, her near-flawless execution brought the chilled crowd to its feet. Even one of the judges broke into spontaneous applause. When the scores were announced, the 16-year-old trouper, after a long year of competition as an also-ran, was the world champion. "Mother," she cried...