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Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Final events in the International Ski Federation's quadrennial world games, from Chamonix, France...
Most conspicuous monument to Europe's ski madness is Courchevel, a new resort built high (6,070 ft.) in the French Alps and already rivaling Chamonix...
...Jinx. To win at Chamonix, Ferries will need the speed of a sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have...
...season. He had scored successive slalom victories at Austria's Kitzbühel and Italy's Cortina d'Ampezzo, was a solid favorite to capture the slalom again this week at the Fédération Internationale de Ski (F.I.S.) world championships in Chamonix, France...
...heroes and heroines had names like Fulke Ravensworth, Marion Lady Vavasour and Vaux or Sir Fulke Erceldorme. Elinor Glyn and her tiger skin were nothing to Ouida's scented boudoirs. Yet, in an age before Cinerama, she was a great descriptive writer, able to evoke Venice, Vienna, Chamonix without ever having paid them so much as a courtesy call...