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...highflying lifts that the Zaitsevs have added to their routine in an attempt to match the young Americans' grace. Ski jumpers, including America's Jim Denny, provide an exhibition in soaring madness. In the women's downhill, from 1-3:30 p.m., America's Cindy Nelson, 23, will ski her last Olympic race matched against such formidable opponents as Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel (sister of Andreas) and Austria's Annemarie Moser...
...CINDY NELSON. She is 23 now, and it has been nearly a decade since she burst on the skiing scene. At 15, a native of Lutsen, Minn., she was the top U.S. woman downhiller, tuning up for the Sapporo Olympics with startling performances on the World Cup circuit. Then, less than a month before the Games opened, she took a dreadful fall on Switzerland's treacherous Grindelwald course and was laid up for months with a dislocated hip. She won the bronze in the '76 Olympics in the downhill. This is her last Olympics, and to win a gold...
...Team has campaigned longer and harder than Cindy Nelson, and no one has experienced the disappointments of the American ski effort more keenly. During the early '70s, she recalls: "A skier was just told what to do, whether it was different from the training program that had been successful for you or not. Things are better today, or I wouldn't still be skiing. I think we can have great skiers hi this country now and really develop their potential to the fullest. Sometimes I look back and I wonder. If it had been like this when...
...Monday move was intended to cool speculation, as well as prevent what market analysts suspect might be an attempt by a small number of ultrarich investors, operating anonymously through foreign banks, to "corner" the world market for silver. One much mentioned speculator in this context is Dallas Megamillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, though he insists that he has no such intention. The corner would occur if the investors could buy so many silver future delivery contracts that they would wind up with enough of the metal this March to manipulate world prices...
...Abner Doubleday, who, legend has it, invented baseball about 140 years ago, would probably have been proud. Last week the mustachioed Union general's great-great-grandnephew Nelson Doubleday, president of one of the U.S.'s biggest book publishers, completed a family sporting circle by leading a syndicate that bid successfully to purchase the National League's last-place New York Mets for $21.1 million. Said Nelson in the new owners' first hot-stove-league pronouncement: "Running a baseball team is like selling a book. If you put a good team on the field, the fans...