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Healthy Sign? What can the union do for the Soldaten? "We demand better pay," snaps Union Leader Willi Zimmermann, 48. He explains that a German sergeant with five years' service draws only $150 a month (v. $270 for his U.S. counterpart), and is seeking $40 a month more. Zimmermann also demands "easier" promotion, more recreational facilities, increased health coverage, and a pension plan equivalent to that of civil servants. Fair enough within the framework of current union de mands, but Zimmermann goes further. "It is ridiculous," he says, "for a highly trained soldier to perform menial tasks like guard...
Overall, most U.S. neurologists would agree with Dr. Rudolf Zimmermann, famous German throat specialist: "From a medical standpoint there is not the slightest shred of evidence that there could be such a link to the mind. Singers -often out of necessity and insecurity -may harbor a somewhat inflated ego. But few of them could be considered outright dumb...
...luck followed him last year to Chamonix where, whistling through the downhill at 70 m.p.h., he was suddenly waved off the course to avoid a collision with a fallen skier. He dodged the skier all right-and flew off the headwall "like an airplane." Recalls Zimmermann: "I said to myself, 'Egon, that's the end-you're going to break every bone in your body.' I was lucky. I got off with strained ligaments and twelve days on crutches...
Only Proper. On the Patscherkofel last week, Zimmermann made like an airplane again-a jet this time. By the time he reached the bottom of the first gentle schuss, he was already traveling at more than 40 m.p.h., and a force of several G's tore at his body as he hit the hollow where Australian Ross Milne lost control in practice and hurtled to his death. Next came a treacherous se ries of bumps: unlike more timid competitors, who hugged the surface, using their legs as shock absorbers, Zimmermann boldly catapulted over the bumps with great, bounding leaps...
...else came close. Nearly crashing into a tree, Colorado's Werner was lucky to finish 17th, and the fastest of all the U.S. skiers, as it turned out, was California's Ni Orsi, 19, who had barely qualified for the team, wound up 14th. Winner Zimmermann did his best to console the losers. "After all," he said, "it's only proper that an Austrian should win on an Austrian mountain...