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...longest jumps of the day. On his very first jump at Innsbruck's Berg Isel ski jump, site of next year's Olympic jumping, Engan broke the hill record with a 298-ft. jump. Fog and snow made a nightmare of Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen a few days later. But Engan still went 292 ft.-16 ft. past the "critical point." or safety limit of the hill. After the first three hills, he had the championship sewed up. "All he needs," said a competitor, "is to toss his shoes over the edge." Yet on the fourth hill...
...best of all, the coming seven days will mark Winter Sports Week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany...
Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Olympic ski-jumping trials from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and downhill racing trials from Vail, Colo...
Into the West German mails this week went 3,500,000 copies of a 400-page catalogue that will set off a long-distance shopping spree in homes from Bremerhaven to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The catalogue is the latest and fattest from Frankfurt's Neckermann Mail Order House, offers Germans 5,500 items at prices as much as 40% lower than those of competing retail stores. This year, for the first time, the orders (averaging nearly 40,000 a day) will pour into a massive new steel and concrete headquarters now being taken over by the expanding firm. Built...
...Garmisch-Partenkirchen had been touched up with snow to slow the sleds down to almost sane speeds. But World Champion Bobsledder Eugenio Monti, 30, was in no mood for safety. Only the fact that he had drawn a late starting number for the two-man trials helped him hold on to his hair-trigger temper. Earlier sleds swept the run clean, and Eugenio and his brakeman Renzo Alvera slicked down the one-mile groove in the record-breaking time...