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Eskimo Pie. France's Périllat was all but born to his crown. His mother used to ski back and forth between La Clusaz and her family's Alpine farmhouse; his father ran a La Clusaz ski lift. At four, Guy got his first pair of skis for Christmas. Even before he could fasten them on by himself, he could use them well enough to tackle the steepest and most treacherous slopes. From the start, he aimed at becoming a champion. Recalls one townsman: "Guy seemed to realize even before he could reason that he would have...
...Jersey carpenter, Art Tokle belongs to one of skiing's most remarkable families. His father was a Norwegian mining official, who raised every one of his 20 children in the sport, and skied himself until he was well past 70. Torger Tokle, Art's older brother, came to the U.S. in 1939 and gained sudden fame with a hellbent, arm-flailing style that looked atrocious but won him a flock of national meets before he was killed in Italy as a ski trooper in 1945. Kyrre Tokle, another older brother, was still jumping in informal meets...
...week Tokle once again tackled Bear Mountain, where he figures the maximum safe jump is 160 ft. Going all out against two crack Finnish entries, he soared an estimated 162 ft., then swerved sharply and tore a ligament in his right ankle. But even with the patriarch of U.S. ski jumping sidelined for a few weeks, the Tokles are still in the business. Arthur Jr., II, has been jumping since he flew 20 ft. at the age of two, is now competing in junior meets. Says Arthur Sr.: "All he needs is practice...
...Europe the most spectacular ski-jumping form now on view belongs to East Germany's handsome, boyish Helmut Recknagel, 23, a onetime machinist in a ball-bearing factory...
Getting ready at the top of a jump, Recknagel slides his plastic-coated skis back and forth to make sure they are not clogged, grasps the two supports at the opening of the starting pen and kicks against the back wall with his right ski. Then, tucked into a ball, he shoots down the slide and off into the freezing air, leaning forward over his skis until his nose seems about to touch their tip. With his arms thrust forward, he looks like a diver soaring endlessly through space. Back at the top of the jump, Recknagel's rivals...