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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International toboggan championship from the slopes of St. Moritz, Switzerland...
...Britisher invented the bobsled. In 1890, Wilson Smith nailed two toboggans together and invited three friends along for a hair-raising ride down a mountain at St. Moritz. Capital idea, 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...
...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...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The World Two-Man Bobsled Championships from St. Moritz and the International Surfing Championships from Makaha Beach, Hawaii...
Even so, a number of shipowners, including New York-based Marine Transport Lines, were interested enough to have begun serious negotiations. Niarchos bided his time at his St. Moritz chalet after a rousing hunting trip in the forests of Austria...