Word: garmisch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes loses in control. But Feierabend had no trouble keeping his sled on course; he bobbed his four final runs in a total time of five minutes, 10.55 seconds. U.S. Bobber Lloyd Johnson, 40, the 1953 champion, had less luck. Experimenting with rope guides earlier this month at Garmisch, he had been flipped on his head and suffered a broken collar bone. At St. Moritz, the broken bone held rigid in a splint, Johnson could not hold his sled on the chute. It climbed the wall of Sunny Corner, tossed him and his teammates out of the running...
event: a year ago he had felt honor-bound to withdraw from the championships when his teammate, Felix Endrich, was killed at Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen (TIME...
High above the winter resort of Garmisch Partenkirchen, in the lee of Germany's towering Zugspitze, champion bobsledders of eight nations were in gleeful spirits last week. After two days of unseasonably mild weather, the icy 1936 Olympic bobsled course had frozen hard and fast over its tortuous, 1,800-yard length. Switzerland's Felix Endrich, clumping around the take-off point, had particular reason to be happy: he had won the world championship two-man bobsled title earlier in the week, and his bride of less than a month was sitting in the stands rooting...
...ckli, thrown clear in midair, landed atop a parked U.S. jeep and escaped with minor injuries. Crewman Heiland suffered a broken leg and possible spinal injuries; Crewman Gartmann broke his right shoulder. Driver Endrich, a blond, 32-year-old Zurich salesman, his neck broken, was dead on .arrival at Garmisch hospital...
...short holiday in Garmisch, Germany, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway, with his wife Penny and four-year-old son Matt Jr., watched the world championship bobsled races. To get into the spirit of the occasion, the general borrowed a pair of skis, got a few pointers from the nearest experts, and took off. Result: a beginner's traditional pratfall picture by an alert photographer...