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Other countries had long been trying to outdo one another with increasingly elaborate and expensive Olympic facilities, at Innsbruck, Grenoble, Sapporo. Six years ago, however, after Denver was named for the 1976 Olympics, environmentalists organized opposition, and Colorado voters finally rejected the Games. The Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee then decided to reverse the trend. "We could all see the writing on the wall, see that the Games were pricing themselves out of reach for many countries," explains LPOOC President Ronald M. MacKenzie, 75, a former skier and speed skater who was also a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic...
Most residents of Lake Placid are enthusiastic about the Olympics and pleased at the prospects the Games could provide. "People are really excited," says Sheila Young Ochowicz, 27, a now retired speed skater who won gold, silver and bronze medals at the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck. "The competitive facilities are all first-rate, and they're a lot closer together than things were at Innsbruck...
DIED. Kurt von Schuschnigg, 79, Austria's autocratic Chancellor before annexation by Hitler's Germany in 1938; of pneumonia; near Innsbruck. Taking power in 1934, he suppressed the Communist and Social Democratic parties but then came under growing pressure from the Nazis for Anschluss, or union. After spending the war years as a Nazi prisoner, he taught political science at St. Louis University for two decades and returned to Austria...
When Olympic Skater Dorothy Hamill leaped and spun to her gold medal on the ice at Innsbruck, many female television viewers were as fascinated by her head as by her legs. What captivated the women was Hamill's perky hairdo, which flowed gracefully with every jump and then miraculously fell back into place. Ever since, hairdressers across the nation have been besieged with requests for the "Hamill Look" or the "Dorothy...
Fluid, elegant body movements are a hallmark of his style. Moreover, he is a master at manipulating the politics of figure skating. When judges attended practice sessions in Innsbruck, Fassi ordered his skaters to work on their best moves: he told Hamill, for example, to trace her strongest figures near the judges and her weakest on the far side of the rink. It also does not hurt that Fassi coaches skaters from so many nations. In competition, judges from those countries sometimes give his pupils the benefit of the doubt: in Hamill's short program, the Italian judge gave...