Word: gastein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the crew-cut Coloradan and most other great skiers are training together on the slopes of Bad Gastein for the world championships. Tanned and trim, they are a friendly lot, bound together by the pleasures and perils of their craft. But when the competition starts, Bud Werner is ready to battle his buddies, is even willing to flout the maxim-especially fitted to skiing-that pride goeth before a fall. "If I say so-and I see no reason why I shouldn't-I expect to get some of the medals," he says. "In fact, I shall...
KITZBUEHEL, Austria, Jan. 16--The three-day International Hahnenkamm Ski Races, starting here tomorrow, are a star-studded dress rehearsal for the 1956 Alpine Ski World Championships at nearby Bad Gastein two weeks later...
...Gastein in the Austrian women's ski championships (and warming up for this month's world ski championships) the U.S.'s Jannette Burr of Seattle showed her heels to Europe's best, won both the slalom and the downhill competition, though, as a non-Austrian, she was ineligible for the titles...
...Forty-five thousand people in the Austrian provinces of Tyrol, Styria and Salzkammergut were cut off from the outside world. A rumbling avalanche tore down the slopes of Gross-Glockner mountain and swallowed up the resort village of Heiligenblut. Slides killed 14 near the famous health resort of Bad Gastein. To help in rescue work, French occupation commanders placed their entire 4,000-man military force at the disposal of Austrian authorities...