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...last three cars off their narrow-gauge track and carried them over the lip of the precipice. One car went down 30 feet, the other two some 400 (see cut). But all 14 occupants miraculously came out alive. Another snow avalanche, in Difficult Creek Canyon, near Aspen, Colo., killed Skier Alexander McFadden, socialite Memphis cotton manufacturer...
...Bogert, the only Harvard skier not to spill on one of his two jumps. went the distance for an eighteenth place in the jumping competition...
...Henri. Upsets were frequent in the winter Olympics' final days. The highly touted U.S. two-man bobsledders got whipped. So did France's curvaceous Georgette Thiellière-Miller, regarded as the world's best woman skier. But a flashy countryman of hers-Henri Oreiller, a 21-year-old sunburnt peasant boy from Val d'Isère-was the only person to win two gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding...
...Sweden's husky Martin Lundstroem, who plowed his way to victory in the 11.2-mile cross-country ski race. Nineteen of the first 20 to finish were Scandinavians; the first U.S. skier came in 65th. ¶t]J Switzerland's Felix Endrich, 26, who zoomed down the perilous bobsled course (sometimes at close to 80 m.p.h.) to win the boblet (two-man sled) crown from his coach, Fritz Feierabend...
Rope tows flying faster than any in the States lead to practice slopes where John Fripp conducts a ski school along the same lines as Hannes Schneider's at Cranmore. Trails for every range of skier, expert, intermediate, and novice, if he can ride out the tows, are represented...