Word: skiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Editor's note - This article was prepared by Matthias H. Klinke, last year's Harbus photographer and an expert" German skier and equipment dealer. It is being reprinted with slight modifications because of its practical point of view and expert insight...
...removed from that of most clerics. In Las Vegas, the Rev. Richard Mawson is a full-time desk clerk at the Sands Hotel, and works after hours with the people he meets in the hotels and casinos along The Strip. The Rev. Frank Evans, a topflight amateur skier, lives and works at California's famed Squaw Valley ski resort; his tactful counseling has helped save dozens of faltering marriages...
...engaged to marry pretty Olympic Skier Barbi Henneberger when she was killed in the April 12 Alpine avalanche that also took the life of U.S. Down hill Ace Bud Werner. And the memory of that tragic day is not growing any dimmer for Willy Bogner Jr., 22, son of the Bavarian stretch-pants manufacturer and a fledgling moviemaker. He has been indicted by a Swiss state prosecutor for homicidal negligence in Barbi's and Werner's deaths. Such cases usually receive light sentences, but, for the sake of assigning responsibility, the state expects to prove that...
...from racing, but last week he was back in the Alps-this time starring in a movie sponsored by German Clothing Manufacturer Willy Bogner. Disregarding the avalanche warnings, photographers set up their equipment on the slopes of the Selin Valley above St. Moritz. Cameras whirred; Werner and 14 other skiers started down the hill. Suddenly, there was a sharp crack, and tons of snow thundered toward the valley floor below. By scrambling and flailing, most of the 15 "swam" on top of the avalanche to safety. Not Werner. And not Barbi Henneberger, 23, a pretty German skier. Together, they tried...
Died. Wallace ("Bud") Werner, 28, ace U.S. skier; in an Alpine spring avalanche near St. Moritz, Switzerland, that also took the life of German Olympian Barbara Henneberger, 23 (see THE WORLD...