Word: partenkirchen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tenley Albright, Radcliffe '57, the world figure skating champion, plans definitely to compete in the 1956 Winter Olympics at Cortina d'Ampezzo, next December. Soon afterward she will go to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to defend, in the World Championships, the title she won last February...
event: a year ago he had felt honor-bound to withdraw from the championships when his teammate, Felix Endrich, was killed at Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen (TIME...
High above the winter resort of Garmisch Partenkirchen, in the lee of Germany's towering Zugspitze, champion bobsledders of eight nations were in gleeful spirits last week. After two days of unseasonably mild weather, the icy 1936 Olympic bobsled course had frozen hard and fast over its tortuous, 1,800-yard length. Switzerland's Felix Endrich, clumping around the take-off point, had particular reason to be happy: he had won the world championship two-man bobsled title earlier in the week, and his bride of less than a month was sitting in the stands rooting...
...representations of saints (and, occasionally, sinner: These paintings, done in weatherproof fresco and retouched every 50 years so, still make scores of Bavarian streets look like open-air picture galleries. Today the art of housepainting is enjoying a boom, thanks largely to the efforts and skill of a Garmisch-Partenkirchen painter named Heinrich Bickel...
Andy's and Janette's performances were a good measure of how much U.S. skiing has improved since the 1936 Olympics at Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In those sorry days, the best that the U.S. top skier, Dartmouth's Dick Durrance, could do in the "Alpine" events was tenth in the downhill, tenth in the slalom. In the "Nordic" events, the best U.S. jumper was eleventh, the best 18-kilometer cross-country man was 34th...