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...Winter Olympics in California's Squaw Valley next month? No, thundered Chief of Government Alexander Frick, worried lest Liechtenstein's honor be compromised by a last-place finish at the games. "Those who come in last have the real Olympic spirit," countered Baron Edward von Falz-Fein, Chief of Mission for the Liechtenstein Winter Olympic Team. "I wouldn't dream of winning." Added the baron darkly: "There will be a revolution if they...
...Gebhard Kindle, 21, no kin. The Kindle Kinder train hard. Liechtenstein has no ski lifts; the husky young Olympians must hike up the steep Alpine slopes on foot. All of them work in factories, ski only on weekends. "That's the Olympic idea," says Baron von Falz-Fein. "Do sports for your pleasure. Naturally, I would like to see my boys train longer, but if I took them out of their factories, they'd never get back in again." Liechtensteiner parents are aghast at the idea of their athletic offspring's losing a month's wages...
...Falz-Fein is determined to press on, with or without the government's blessing. "I have studied all the Olympic rules," says he, "and if there are any amateurs in America, they will be ours." One problem still vexes him. U.S. promoters, apparently expecting little from Liechtenstein's skiers, have asked that he bring Miss Liechtenstein to the United States to spruce up the scenery. "Where," asks the noble baron, "do we find a pretty girl here? We are a country of peasants. If I held a beauty contest, the Chief of Government would send me straight...
...Dubuque, Iowa. They were meeting in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, nestled in the Alps between Switzerland and Austria, to advance "the cause of peace by working for more tourism." This project, neatly combining idealism with the hope for profit, came from the teeming brain of Baron Edward von Falz-Fein, 47, a loyal Liechtensteiner of Ukrainian origin and the leading entrepreneur of Vaduz. He runs three tourist shops and the Quick Tourist agency, is the country's principal photographer, and, as founder of Liechtenstein's Olympic Committee, will personally lead three local skiers to the Winter Games...
...voluble baron was confident of amicable relations: "The Big Four can't even agree to meet together. We will show the way, and reach total agreement in one day." The number of delegates was left up to the individual countries. They eliminated the veto problem by eliminating votes. Falz-Fein was chosen president, without a vote, and he rang a cowbell to bring the first meeting to order in a hilltop motel, the only one in Liechtenstein...