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...joined the European racing circuit in 1974, when he was 17. The following year he blossomed. He was the World Cup leader in the slalom and giant slalom, and was in contention for the combined championship (slalom, giant slalom and downhill) until the final day of the season at Val Gardena, Italy, when he lost to Italian Gustavo Thoeni in a dramatic, head-to-head slalom. In 1976, he became the first Scandinavian to win the World Cup, and he was again champion...
Stenmark's preparations for the Olympics were derailed last September when he took a hair-raising spill at Val di Senales, Italy, while practicing the downhill, of all things. He suffered a brain concussion and was unable to resume snow training for several weeks. "I've never before started so late in the year," says he, "but I'm not worried." But after his disappointing performance at Innsbruck in 1976-he managed only a bronze in the giant slalom-Stenmark is wary of making medal predictions. "The margins of victory are so small and accidental occurrences...
...overwhelming comeback victory in parliamentary elections. First to arrive was British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, fresh from two days of talks with Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq. Next Mrs. Gandhi met with Bangladesh's President Ziaur Rahman, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing; this week Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and U.S. Special Envoy Clark Clifford are all to meet with Mrs. Gandhi. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is expected in February...
...falls in love with his married teacher-a closet Americophile amusingly played by Marie-France Pisier- only to become the butt of silly sex gags. Laura veers into a nervous breakdown that gratuitously breaks the movie's antic mood. Joel's romance with a snippy French girl (Val erie Quennessen) is a hotbed of cliches; it moves us only because Chapin's likable innocence contrasts so well with Quennessen's robust, Moreau-like sexuality...
...girl's best friend can be a politician's worst enemy. Last week the French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné charged that President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, while serving as Finance Minister six years ago, had accepted a 30-carat tray of diamonds worth $240,000 from Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was deposed as Emperor of the Central African Republic last month. There is no law prohibiting French politicians from accepting such largesse. The Elysée Palace, in fact, while trying to minimize what it called the "nature...