Word: karle
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Solzhenitsyn spoke out only one week before he was to receive the medal and diploma of the Nobel Prize from Dr. Karl Ragnar Gierow, the secretary of the Swedish Academy. Gierow was to fly from Stockholm to hand them over to Solzhenitsyn in a modest ceremony in a private apartment in Moscow. It was a carefully arranged compromise: Solzhenitsyn had refused to go to Stockholm in 1970 to receive the award for fear the Soviets would not let him return, and Swedish Ambassador Gunnar Jarring later refused to allow a public presentation ceremony to take place in the Swedish embassy...
Skiing's super-schusser, Karl Schranz, 33, who was barred from skiing with the Austrian team in the Sapporo Olympics on the grounds that he had repeatedly broken the amateur regulations, has announced that he is going to give up Alpine racing, though he is not yet ready to become a full-fledged professional. "I should like to end my career in dignity, and not as an outlaw of international sports politics," said Schranz, who in 18 years of competition has won three world championships, two World Cups, eleven Austrian championships and eight firsts in the famed Arlberg-Kandahar...
...mile. Harvard's Jim Hughes and Mark Connolly, who were surprisingly strong in the Big Three's, will be going at it, along with teammate John Quirk. The mile includes a number of very strong competitors, including Penn's Karl Thornton and Dennis Fikes. Fikes has been clocked...
...Karl Deutsch, on "Peace Research: Needs and Prospects," Cambridge Forum, 3 Church St. 8, Feb. 23. Free...
Indeed it has. Today, Karl Schranz is said to make $60,000 a year from various promotional activities. As the roaring crowds that welcomed him last week illustrate, few of his countrymen mind. One possible reason is that Austria's skimakers will need all the help that they can get from the champions whom they sponsor in order to hold on to their market share against tightening foreign competition...