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Paul Nitze may know more about the world's periodic outbursts of devastation than any other person. He was seven, and climbing in the Tyrol with his parents, when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, triggering World War I. He was traveling in Germany in 1937 as Hitler was preparing for his conquests. As vice chairman of the World War II U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, he assessed the hellish aftermath of the raids on Dresden and Hamburg. He studied the fire bombing of Tokyo and was among the first Americans to stand in the scorched nuclear wasteland...
...that may change. As the Winter Olympics got under way in Inns bruck last week, competitors from these two obscure sports put America well up in the medal rankings with performances that were the talk of the Tyrol...
Even so, the Olympics can still be the best sport has to offer in entertainment, nervy verve, and old-fashioned inspiration. This year's Games promise to deliver all three in abundance. On the slopes of the Tyrol, a pack of European and Canadian men and women, plus a handful of Americans, will be hurtling down the fall line in a battle for alpine skiing supremacy. Through the neighboring valleys and forests, Scandinavians, East Germans, and Russians will be straining to win the cross-country marathons, while overhead Austrians, Finns and Swiss try to fight gravity for the longest...
...Peak Hanniker 2 chairs, 2 T-bars, J-bar 700 56 Ragged Mountain Denbury Chair, T-bar 1,100 57 Sunapee Newbury 5 chairs, T-bar, J-bar 1,500 58 Temple Mountain Peterborough 2 T-bars 500 59 Tenney Mountain Plymouth 2 chairs, Ponylift 1,500 60 Tyrol Jackson Chair, Pomalift, T-bar 1,000 61 Waterville Valley Waterville Valley 5 chairs, J-bar, 3 T-bars, Ponylift 2,020 62 Whittier West Ossipee Gondola, 3 T-bars 1,200 63 Wildcat Mountain Pinkham Notch Gondola, 2 chairs, 2 T-bars 2,050 64 Widerness Dixville Notch Chair...
...which has a splendid supporting cast (notably Tenor William McDonald, Bass Spiro Malas, Mezzo Muriel Costa-Greenspun) and is crisply conducted by Charles Wendelken-Wilson, Sills plays Maria, a lowly orphan girl who has been adopted and reared by a regiment of Napoleon's soldiers in the Austrian Tyrol. The love of her life, Tonio, a young peasant who wears short pants and sings a high C at any sign of affection, joins the troop to be near her-alas, just as Marie's mother, a marquise, shows up, claims her and takes her away to teach...