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...decided the Italians, the Swiss and the Americans, who added steel runners, steering wheels, crash helmets, specially constructed bobsled runs, speeds up to 90 m.p.h.-and took turns dominating the sport. The U.S. won five championships in the 1930s and '40s, and Italy's great steersman, Eugenic Monti, led his team to eight world titles (both two-man and four-man) in seven years...
...Britannia rules again. In the 1964 Olympics, Britain's Antony J. D. Nash, 28, a frustrated sports-car racer (his dad said no to a Maserati, yes to a bobsled), shocked everybody by beating Monti for the two-man gold medal. Monti thereupon decided to retire, and last week Tony Nash was back at St. Moritz with his brakeman, Robin Dixon, to defend his title of best bobsledder in the world...
...Britain's two-man bobsled team of TONY NASH and ROBIN DIXON had all kinds of trouble: first, they broke an axle, had to borrow a replacement from Italy's eight-time world champion, Eugenio Monti. Then, zooming down Igls' hairy, ice-coated run at better than 60 m.p.h., the Britons suddenly lost control of their sled, narrowly missed shooting off the course. They still won-giving Britain its first Winter Olympics gold medal since 1952. The generous Monti finished third...
...told, 20 men were injured as the teams from eleven nations tried their skill -and luck-on the Igls run. Only the Italians seemed immune to the hex of the Hexenkessel. Led by Eugenio Monti, 35, six times world champion in two-man bobs, and Sergio Zardini, 31, a wiry hotel manager from Cortina, Italy's daredevils placed first and second in both the two-man and four-man events. Monti's best time for the two-man bob: 1 min. 6.4 sec., for 51 m.p.h. average...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Gianna d'Angelo, Renato Capecchi, Carlo Cava, Nicola Monti, Giorgio Tadeo; the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). As an effervescent Rosina, Soprano d'Angelo confirms the promise of her recent Metropolitan opera debut, but the honors here belong to Baritone Capecchi, whose Figaro is vibrant-voiced, flamboyant and believable...