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...cold up at Dartmouth. Cold enough to preserve the trucked-in snow on the cross country course. Cold enough to save the man-made snow-the first used in the 70 years of Dartmouth Carnivals-on the ski jump. But most of all it was desperately cold of Harvard skiers as the men fell to their second consecutive last place finish while the women slid to a disappointing ninth place...
...made Hamtramck. Thousands of Polish families, following a trail of promises, booked passage on the ship to Montreal and came on by boat or rail to Detroit to dominate the plant's work force. "There was a time when, if your name didn't end in 'ski,' you couldn't get in here," says one plant official. Old World bakeries and sausage shops sprang up. Bars and beer gardens huddled around the giant factory to wet a thousand throats at shift change...
...will send athletes to the Games: the downhill demons and slalom masters from Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and France; the hockey magicians from the Soviet Union, Canada, Czechoslovakia and Sweden; the spectacular speed skaters from East Germany and the U.S.S.R.; high-flying figure skaters from Britain and Russia; the ski jumpers from any country with athletes crazy and courageous enough to think they can hurtle off a 257-ft. tower and land without breaking every bone in their bodies. And in most of the major events, for the first time ever, there will be Americans with at least a well...
...athletes will be competing in a winter playground that has been groomed with the help of $178 million in federal, state and local funds. The money went to build better roads, dormitories, communication systems and, not just incidentally, ski slopes, bobsled runs and skating rinks. Because of the tragedy at Munich in 1972, where eleven Israeli competitors and coaches died in the wake of an attack by Palestinian terrorists, security has been a paramount consideration. That meant building an Olympic Village seven miles from Lake Placid, accessible to vehicles only via a narrow forest road and surrounded by double chain...
...Martin. But unlike Navin, Martin most likely will not be sued for marketing a faulty product (the "Optigrab" causes 10 million consumers to go cross-eyed) and will pocket a tidy sum from this film. Navin winds up in the gutter; Martin will probably purchase a new ski chalet in Aspen. Yet, in the end, Navin may end up the richer man--his adopted family and Marie find him on Skid Row and shower him with affirmation and love. As for Steve, if Martin the Writer continues to dominate Martin and Comedian, he may well find both his coffers...