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...season was supposed to be a la France. At last year's world championships in Portillo, Chile, French women won eight out of twelve medals; and just this month, Coach Honore Bonnet told reporters that the only question was which of his two best girls-Marielle Goitschel or Annie Famose-would win this year's World Cup. That was before Nancy Greene spotted Annie almost a full second in the first run of the special slalom at Oberstaufen, Germany, two weeks ago, only to beat her by 2 sec. on the second trip down the course...
...Guatemala, Manuel Orellana Portillo, a former president of the Guatemalan Congress, was stopped in his auto near the town of La Fragua, 55 miles from the capital, and shot by Communist terrorists as "an enemy of the people." Such killings are the trademark of Luis Turcios Lima, 24, a former Guatemalan army officer who leads a daring band of 250 terrorists. Though President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro has offered the guerrillas an amnesty ever since he took over last May from the military regime of Colonel Enrique Peralta, they refused to lay down their arms...
Since skiers spend so much of their time upside down anyhow, it made a certain sort of sense to hold the World Alpine Ski Championships last week in Portillo, Chile - where it was the middle of winter, and temperatures dipped to -4°. It was hardly surprising, either, that the French turned up in force and swept practically everything in sight. Who stays in Paris in August, except tourists...
...Jean-Claude Killy, 23, and Marielle Goitschel, 21, the French were heavy favorites at Portillo. U.S. hopes ran high, too, for a team that Coach Bob Beattie said was in the "best condition ever." Vermont's Billy Kidd, 23, was back in form, recovered from an ankle injury that had forced him out of competition after a series of spectacular victories in Europe last winter. And the rest of the U.S. squad had been training steadily for a full year - at a cost of some...
Competition had not even begun at Portillo when disaster hit the U.S. team. Zipping down a slope at 60 m.p.h. in practice, Kidd lost his balance, skittered 200 yds., and snapped both bones in his right leg. Colorado's Jim Barrows injured a knee and an elbow, had to be scratched from the men's downhill; Idaho's Walter Falk fell during the race and suffered a concussion. The bright young star of the women's team, California's 16-year-old Penny McCoy, did give the U.S. one medal - its only one -when...