Word: slalomers
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...level, blue-grey eyes surveyed this prospect may or may not have been awed by the majesty of the view. What she said was reverent, appreciative, American: "Scenic as hell!" Last week her interest in the Grindel-wald view was more technical than esthetic. She was looking at a slalom course: a series of precipitous pitches and inclines, outlined by guide poles, designed to test the racing mettle of the world's best skiers...
Trains & Tows. A better bet is Andy Mead Lawrence. At the Swiss championships last week, Andy swooped down the mountainside with the rush and sparkle of a Vermont freshet, and was right up with the winners: second in the tricky slalom (behind Switzerland's Madeleine Berthod); third in the daredevil downhill (behind Austria's Trude Beiser, the U.S.'s Janette Burr), where sheer speed is the payoff; first in the giant slalom, where both speed and control count...
...three performance in the three events showed her remarkable versatility. But another U.S. skier, Seattle's Janette Burr, who stays in shape by water skiing in the summer, won the top title. Janette's second place in the downhill and her fifth in the slalom added up, on the basis of elapsed time, to a better performance than Andy's second and third places in the two events. Andy's victory in the giant slalom (Janette was tied for eleventh) did not count in the "combined" totals which decide the Swiss championship. For the combined title...
...good measure of how much U.S. skiing has improved since the 1936 Olympics at Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In those sorry days, the best that the U.S. top skier, Dartmouth's Dick Durrance, could do in the "Alpine" events was tenth in the downhill, tenth in the slalom. In the "Nordic" events, the best U.S. jumper was eleventh, the best 18-kilometer cross-country man was 34th...
...time Andy was a stringy eleven-year-old, she was competing with grownups. In the Women's Eastern Slalom championship, on her home course at Pico, she placed second. When she was 13, she knocked herself out for the whole season after the only bad accident of her skiing career: a leg broken* while she was dashing down the slopes to get a stretcher for an injured skier. She speaks of the accident now with the twangy taciturnity of a good Vermonter: "It wasn't much. A good skier's break...