Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mess hall, a young, rawboned roustabout drains his coffee cup, zips up his waterproof jacket and stands, listening briefly for the fickle north wind that whips cruelly across the gulf this time of year. Then he sighs: "Well, 1 guess it's time to feed my young'uns." Somehow his words sound like a motto for the offshore oilmen...
...good many of life's pleasures at his house on the Côte d'Azur-and all at the same time. He need only raise a trap door before his hearth to loll in a red-tiled tub-for-two before a blazing fire, sipping a cup of something, while chatting with guests sitting on fur-covered sofas, and watching his pretty wife Simone whip up a delicious meal. The Jurgens farmhouse is one enormous room, designed for sybaritic simplicity against what Jurgens calls "the inevitable day when there'll be no domestic servants-even...
When Jean-Claude Killy and Marielle Goitschel retired after their stunning victories in the 1968 Winter Olympics. French competitive skiing seemed to have been set back for years. Not so. In this season's World Cup competition, the French have already produced a dozen or more brilliant young skiers who are all but sweeping their rivals off the slopes. At Murren. Switzerland, last week, the French speedsters won three events, to give their team a record total of 20 victories in 31 races so far this season. Says one jubilant French fan: "It's not a case...
...consistently great. In a sport that measures superiority in hundredths of a second, the French have been winning by as much as three seconds-the equivalent of ten lengths in horse racing or 50 yds. in the mile run. In the first downhill race of the 14-week World Cup series, Henri Duvillard won by well over a second. At Berchtesgaden, Germany, Jean-Noel Augert swept the slalom by a margin of nearly 2½ sec. And in the giant slalom at Val-d'Isère France, Patrick Russel nipped Augert by six-tenths of a second while...
Ready is the word. Before the season began, Béranger allowed that his hope was "to have a Frenchman and a French girl win the World Cup." As of last week, with four French skiers in the top five places in both the women's and men's divisions, his hope seemed a certainty...