Word: leukerbad
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Right. But don't count your money just yet. Big, cheerful Michael Mair of Italy, who won at Leukerbad last month, could get his bear-shaped 220 lbs. behind a thundering run. A slightly smaller Swiss bear, burly Daniel Mahrer, has won two downhills so far this season. No U.S. skier will place in the downhill without supernatural intervention, but any one of several Austrians could reverse that team's unaccountable recent blahs and win out of sheer embarrassment. And then, of course, there is Pirmin Zurbriggen, 25, the people's choice from Zurich to Zug, from Zell to Saas...
...into a swimming-bath. This reminds one of The Last Days of Pompeii, and excites in the mind a dazzling vision of sybaritic splendor. But we fear that a tincture of Freshmen in Fresh Pond H2 + (?) would cause the bath to be too much after the style of the Leukerbad, on the Gemmi, to be popular with many of the students...
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