Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Skier Karl Schranz returned to Austria last week from Japan, where he had been barred from competition in the Winter Olympics, he got a hero's welcome from 100,000 Viennese -more than had turned out to see either John F. Kennedy or Queen Elizabeth II. The singing, cheering crowds demonstrated a sound instinct for commercial values. A disproportionate share of Austria's money and jobs comes from the skimaking industry, with a mighty boost from the prestige of ski champions like Schranz...
...International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.). In calling upon Emperor Hirohito officially to open the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, last week, Brundage said: "May the Olympic code of fair play and good sportsmanship prevail." At least one observer was unimpressed by Brundage's sentiment. Snapped Austrian Skier Karl Schranz: "That's ridiculous, coming from...
Unmoved. "It's absurd!" cried Austrian Ski Federation President Karl Heinz Klee. "Schranz is being sacrificed in a highly unethical manner." Sneered Vienna's Kronen Zeitung: "Amateurs of Brundage's Olympic imagination exist only in the childhood dreams of this bad old man." The old man was unmoved. Said Klee: "Under the circumstances, there is only one road open to us-the road home." After a night of consultations, however, the Austrians decided to compete, ostensibly at the urging of Schranz...
...Tigers have one of the top heavyweights in the country in sophomore Karl Chandler, so Harvard will need to build a substantial lead prior to the closing bout...
...Exception and the Rule is as concise and bitter as any of his sermons can be, Karl Langmann, investor-speculator-merchant, sets out across the Jahi desert with a load of unidentified but valuable goods, accompanied by a guide, a coolie, and a riding crop. His competitors are always right behind him; in trying to keep ahead he overworks both his men, eventually fires (unjustly) his guide, and shoots (intentionally) his coolie. Langmann's philosophy, we are told repeatedly, is "sick men die, but strong men fight." Langmann's world is one made for fighters, one where "who has good...