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...record was unspectacular until 1964, when she won a big slalom victory in Germany on her way to the Olympics. Almost from the start, Marielle was the star: in 1962, at 16, she astonished everyone by winning the women's combined title in the world championships at Chamonix...
...ability, Werner was a failure, because he never won any. He broke a leg training for the 1960 Winter Olympics, and by the time this year's Games rolled around, he was 28 and past his peak. But over the years, he won the big races at Chamonix and Wengen and Courchevel, and when he did not win, Bud mostly crashed-because he was a one-man U.S. team trying to defeat the Austrians, French, Germans, Swiss and Italians, who always dominated the sport. Nobody ever skied faster than Werner. Some kept their feet...
...luck followed him last year to Chamonix where, whistling through the downhill at 70 m.p.h., he was suddenly waved off the course to avoid a collision with a fallen skier. He dodged the skier all right-and flew off the headwall "like an airplane." Recalls Zimmermann: "I said to myself, 'Egon, that's the end-you're going to break every bone in your body.' I was lucky. I got off with strained ligaments and twelve days on crutches...
...slalom at the National Junior Championship in Reno. But it is a long way from the junior championships to the Olympics, and nobody paid much attention when she finished sixth in the giant slalom at the 1962 Fédération Internationale de Ski championships in Chamonix, France. When she returned this winter as a member of the U.S. Olympic team, many European fans actually were under the impression-from her name-that she was a man. "So-bare?" they said, giving it the French treatment...
...meet in grimy embrace and exchange flags, helmets and undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy, and Chamonix, France, the famed ski resort. A magnificent feat of engineering, the French and Italian sections of the horizontal hole, begun on opposite sides of Western Europe's tallest mountain, were only two inches out of line horizontally and three inches off vertically when they came together. After...