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...them. He soon bossed a sales crew of his own, and bought, at the age of 20, a flashy diamond ring ("I wish I was half as smart now as I thought I was then"). He drank champagne in San Francisco, broke up a light opera performance in Butte, Mont., wore boots and spurs in hotel dining rooms, and fired his six-shooter on New Year...
Last week the Alps faced their final defeat. As soon as the snow clears this spring, a French-Italian-Swiss company announced, work will begin on the world's longest automobile tunnel, which will pass right through Mont Blanc, the highest of all the Alps...
Fifteen-Minute Toll. To dig the tunnel, contractors will use a mammoth U.S. cutter which fits the tube, rides along on rails, permits 24 electric drills to work at once. Most of Mont Blanc is solid granite, and (with electric drills) this is to the good: in 1880 workers digging the St. Gotthard tunnel in a less solid mountain were killed by rock lapses...
...Olympics brought her experience but no honors. And the next two years brought a series of adolescent ups & downs. At the 1949 tryouts for the F.I.S. team at Whitefish, Mont., she won both downhill and slalom. She hardly won another race all year. She fell in love; she had moods of depression; she almost decided to give up skiing...
...most thoughtfully: Austria's Trude Beiser Jochum, winner of the 1950 F.I.S. downhill; Austria's Erika ("Riki") Mahringer, Andy's best friend and, says Andy, "better than Dagmar Rom* ever was"; France's Andree Tournier Bermond, winner of last year's giant slalom at Mont Blanc; Italy's Celina ("The Tigress") Seghi, two-time Arlberg-Kandahar winner; and Germany's Hilde-Suse Gaertner, 1951 Davos-Parsenn Derby winner...