Word: alps
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...Teuton waving his hairy green hat appreciatively at an Alp might be any German tourist, but - you realize with a start - it is Martin Bormann. There are scraps of conversation, no more. Hitler scans a speech manuscript through a large magnifying glass on the breezy terrace with Speer looking over his shoulder. He looks up. "Very interesting," the Führer remarks, in a line straight out of Laugh-In. Hitler's doctor appears; he describes how he has come to suspect a link between smoking and lung cancer. "Disgusting," the patient snaps. Nobody is at ease with...
...full flight down an Alp's snowy flank, Austria's Annemarie Proell resembles nothing so much as a controlled crash about to happen. Feet well apart, arms locked to her thighs, in an awkward-looking squat that offends purists, she rockets out of the starting gate toward the first turn. Her motives for that all-out start are direct: "I try to risk as much as possible in the first few gates," she says. "It makes the competition nervous-I know they watch...