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...down and dead. Even when he was a young man, a 25-year-old making something called Citizen Kane, the legendary actor-auteur enjoyed imagining himself as a corpse onscreen. It was his impudent prophecy: that he would soon be cast on Hollywood's funeral pyre like a discarded sled...
...uphill climbing, or cheap skating (since a pair of tacos at the top of the mountains would set him back $16). When striking taxi drivers blocked the area's only highway for 10 hours one day, visitors had even more time to ponder the fact that a bob-sled here could travel 40 times faster than...
...federation is making sure that everyone will be driving a Volkswagen when the competition opens at La Plagne. It will be a very hot model to be sure, but new, strict standards have been set for sled dimensions, materials and design. Only slight room is left for the fine-tuning of aerodynamics. The Americans, who have won no medals since 1956, hope to have a tiny advantage with sleds created for them by a sculptor who used to design autos. But success this time depends mostly on the person in the driver's seat. Among the best: Germany's Rudolf...
...WUNDERKIND ON THE WILD SLED...
...uncommon enough for a New York City youth, but after his mother brought home a flyer about tryouts for the junior national luge team, Pipkins decided to travel to Lake Placid and give it a try. He immediately loved the luge for the "exciting and risky" way the tiny sled carries one man at high speed. In January, after only three months of top-level training, Pipkins, 18, became a member of the U.S. Olympic luge team. Two weeks later, he slid to the junior world championship in Sapporo, Japan. An engineering major at Drexel University, Pipkins is the first...