Word: skiers
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...intended for those athletes for whom sport is merely recreation for personal pleasure. It is an Olympic rule that they must have a vocation entirely separate from their particular sport." The rule is constantly flouted, to say nothing of being selectively and ineptly enforced. Austria's champion skier, Karl Schranz, was barred from last February's Winter Olympics at Sapporo on charges of professionalism, to which dozens of his competitors would -at least in private-plead guilty. The amateur status of most athletes from Communist countries is also in question. Potential champions get superior housing, superior food...
...crack, by the distant hum of the tires, zip past the palms and the houses at a standstill in the sun and float on the air on your shocks, free, rootless, just going-like the girl in Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays. You become a skier out here, your times off the freeway being mere chili stops at the bottom, breathless, charged, waiting for another move...
...since Sonja Henie first skid ded across the Hollywood ice has there been such a movie debut. Skier and Promoter Jean-Claude Killy is now an aspiring actor. Looking like a cross between Dick Cavett and Peter Fonda, he bounds down the slopes with agility. But he racks up whenever he has to say lines - which, as luck would have it, is often. Waxing romantic or working out plans for an elaborate robbery, Jean-Claude always manages to sound as if he were making a half hearted pitch for Chap Stick...
...also is interested in more emotional issues, notably the environment (he is an ardent camper and skier). It was Reuss who breathed life into the 1899 federal law regulating waste disposal in navigable rivers, and turned it into a modern-day antipollution measure. Still, Reuss is more at home discussing the fine points of currency-exchange rates with European bankers and statesmen or reading a book. When Nixon agreed in talks with French President Georges Pompidou to devalue the dollar, Reuss quoted the remark made by Henry IV after that cynical monarch converted to Catholicism in order to gain...
...When Skier Karl Schranz returned to Austria last week from Japan, where he had been barred from competition in the Winter Olympics, he got a hero's welcome from 100,000 Viennese -more than had turned out to see either John F. Kennedy or Queen Elizabeth II. The singing, cheering crowds demonstrated a sound instinct for commercial values. A disproportionate share of Austria's money and jobs comes from the skimaking industry, with a mighty boost from the prestige of ski champions like Schranz...