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...Lodz, Poland's second largest city, they were clearly not inclined to endanger those gains. Another congress in 1968 had vigorously protested the cultural repression of Gierek's predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, and brought down the wrath of the regime. Jewish writers were particular targets; Antoni Slonim-ski, a patriarch of contemporary Polish literature, was denounced by Gomulka as "not a proper Pole...
...meter ski jump, it was evident that the Japanese have also been building. Their jumpers, painfully aware that no Japanese athlete had ever won a single event in the Winter Olympics, had gone all out to prepare this time. Arcing forward like human airfoils. Yukio Kasaya. Akitsugu Konno and Seiji Aochi sailed majestically through the air to win the gold, silver and bronze medals...
...expected, the well-trained Russians dominated cross-country skiing and Italy's flashy Gustavo Thoeni captured the men's giant slalom. But totally unexpected was the performance of Wojciech Fortuna, a 19-year-old Pole who leaped out of nowhere to win the 90-meter ski jump. The young U.S. hockey team, sparked by the acrobatic saves of Goalie Mike Curran. upset the strong Czech team 5-1 and then moved into contention for a medal. In women's figure skating, buxom Beatrix Schuba of Austria built up such a commanding lead in the school figures...
...that point, the gold fever became contagious. Going into the women's slalom, the U.S.'s hopes hinged on Marilyn and Barbara Cochran, the two sisters who with brother Bob made the U.S. ski team something of a family affair. The sisters' chances were quickly halved, however, when Marilyn, 22, snagged a gate in her first run and tumbled out of the race. Then, out of the snow flurries came Barbara, 21. Cutting corners dangerously close, she whizzed home with the fastest time in the first of the two heats. Refusing to look at her competitors lest...
Unmoved. "It's absurd!" cried Austrian Ski Federation President Karl Heinz Klee. "Schranz is being sacrificed in a highly unethical manner." Sneered Vienna's Kronen Zeitung: "Amateurs of Brundage's Olympic imagination exist only in the childhood dreams of this bad old man." The old man was unmoved. Said Klee: "Under the circumstances, there is only one road open to us-the road home." After a night of consultations, however, the Austrians decided to compete, ostensibly at the urging of Schranz...