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Andy Mead (the nick-and maiden names she is best known by) is the best U.S. Olympic skier. Last winter she won almost every major ski race in Europe-including the Arlberg-Kandahar downhill race, the unofficial world championship. At 19, she is a veteran of the 1948 Olympics and captain of this year's U.S. women's Olympic ski team...
...yielded pottery of a hitherto unknown type. On the bottom of many of the pieces were mysterious little signs, some 30 different ones, that look as if they might be the beginnings of an alphabet. Some of the sites, Fairservis believes, go back as far as 5000 B.C. Near Kandahar the party discovered pottery goddesses with the outsized breasts that many primitive peoples worshiped as symbols of fertility...
...Alpine School, which came to blows more than once with the Norwegian school. At the turn of the century the dispute between the two schools was partially mitigated by a mutual acceptance of the telemark and the open christiania as the only proper turns. A photograph of the Kandahar race of 1930 shows innumerable different schools, all acceptable...
Bright is planning to show movies of last winter's Hochgebirge race on Cannon Mountain and also pictures of the Canadian Kandahar...
...rren, Switzerland, where Europe's best skiers were racing for the Arlberg-Kandahar trophy, Germany's Rudi Cranz and France's Emile Allais walked up the hill together. Said Cranz: ''You haven't enough paraffin on your skis." Replied Allais: "I haven't any paraffin." said Cranz: "Take this. I have plenty." Cranz had just won the first heat of the slalom-through a zigzag, flag-marked course-in which Allais had finished third...