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John Harwood and Doug MacDonald, at numbers three and five, earned the Crimson's only easy wins, taking their opponents 3-0 and 3-1. Everybody else--Val Lewthwaite (4), Frank Amory (6), and Dick Rogers (7)--went the full five games...
...CHRISTINE and MARIELLE GOITSCHEL, sisters from Val d'Isére, France, poled and skated their way through the ladies' slalom, finished first and second. In third place: Oregon's Jean Saubert, the pre-race favorite. Afterward, stocky Marielle Goitschel, 18, demonstrated that she can handle herself as well off the course as on. Angry at an Austrian policeman who was pushing French Coach Henri Bonnet around, Marielle uncorked a haymaker square on the point...
...turned out to be the best woman slalomer in the world. In the "Criterium of the First Snow" at Val d'Isère, France, last month, Jean Saubert (rhymes with "Aw, Bert!") won the giant slalom and swept the women's combined Alpine championship. At Oberstaufen, Germany, two weeks ago, she split two slalom races, winning one and placing third in the second. Last week at Grindelwald, Switzerland, all of Europe's top skiers were on hand for the winter's biggest pre-Olympic competition. When lack of snow forced cancellation of the downhill race...
...want justice," screamed U.S. Olympic Coach Bob Beattie. At first Faure sniffed at the criticism. But at Val-d'Isère, France, in the season's first big international meet, Buddy Werner won the men's slalom and the combined championship, and Oregon's Jean Saubert, 21, took the women's giant slalom and combined. Faure acted uncomfortable. "I foresee difficult discussions at Innsbruck," he conceded...
...this seems ridiculous now, at least one potentate of the time saw things Levron's way. In 1757, Frederick II of Prussia secretly wrote offering her the "principality of Neuchatel and Val-angin" if she would see that peace was signed. Pompadour ignored...