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Sibling Rivalries. Along with Chrysler, both the other members of the Big Three were handing out pretty pictures last week. Ford's offering was the British-made CONSUL CORTINA, which is another version of the Cardinal, the compact compact that Ford spent two years developing. Unlike the German version, which has front-wheel drive and was shown fort night ago, the Cortina has conventional rear-wheel drive and will be sold in the U.S. for about...
...Alps, was noted mainly for a helter-skelter skiing style that neatly matched his nickname: "Cyc," for cyclone. But last week Cyc Ferries was the sensation of the 1962 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...
...ranked eighth in the slalom after a mediocre 77.2-sec. first pass at the course. On his second run, Ferries clocked a sizzling 69.7 sec.-fastest time of the day-to eke out a .7-sec. victory over France's Périllat. Last week at Cortina, he picked up 1.4 sec. on his second pass, beat France's Charles Bozon by .4 sec. Said Ferries: "At the very least, you have to be confident...
Married. Carol Heiss, 20, women's figure-skating champion in the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif.; and Hayes Alan Jenkins, 27, an Akron lawyer, and men's figure-skating champion in the 1956 Olympics at Cortina, Italy; in St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Manhattan...
Before a race he clumps up and down the course, a fireplug figure with eyes of icy blue looking for the crack or bump that could cost a precious hundredth of a second. On the Cortina run last month, Monti won his fourth straight two-man world title by teaming with Brakeman Renzo Alvera (who ekes out a living sweeping the local rink). In the four-man competition, Monti was back in third place on the final day when he laconically informed his crew that he was going for broke. Rocketing with controlled fury down the icy run, Monti gave...