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...Solar Temple cult whose 50 plus members were found dead in Switzerland and Canada last week. Jouret's whereabouts had so far been unknown and police even had a warrant out for his arrest for murdering some of his followers. Police did, however, nab another suspected cult member: Patrick Vuarnet, the son of the French skiing champion Jean Vuarnet, who won the 1960 Olympic downhill and now heads the upscale eyeglass company. He was taken into custody in connection with the deaths, Swiss authorities told the Associated Press...
Variations: Ray Ban and Vuarnet are the coolest...
Walking through the Yard last week on our way to registration, we saw them with their frisbees, their sandals, their Vuarnet sunglasses and their ugly tropical shorts. They had stopped whining about having to buy winter boots because they had traded them in for a month's supply of tanning lotion...
...thawing, and the U.S.S.R. athletes were popular with reporters and fellow competitors. The vaunted Austrian men skiers spent much of their time feuding among themselves over ski endorsements, and were dealt a double blow when Switzerland's Roger Staub captured the giant slalom and France's Jean Vuarnet placed first in the downhill...
...Rossignol, that produced wooden spools for the textile trade and wooden skis on the side. Boix-Vives borrowed $50,000, bought the firm and laid off everyone but 27 ski makers, creating a lean, one-product shop. Allais soon devised a metal ski that helped France's Jean Vuarnet win a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley, and Rossignol's reputation was made. Metal skis soared in popularity, but the firm was equipped to turn out only 7,500 pairs of metals, and the U.S.'s Head Skis cornered the market. Says Boix-Vives...