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The first accident on the Winter Olympic Games bobsled run yesterday injured two Americans and brought demands that the course be rebuilt. The driver and No. 2 man on the U.S. four man sled were bruised when their sled rocketed off the third turn.
The French franc was on a bobsled run, and the French government seemed powerless to stop it. It had skidded down to a low of 460 to the dollar.
¶ In L'Alpe-d'Huez, France, the German four-man bobsled team over the U.S and Switzerland, setting a course record of 1 min. 11.65 sec. and making a clean sweep of sled titles in Germany's first postwar try at the world championships. ¶In...
The Germans got back into top-rung international competition, for the first time since World War II, in the two-man world bobsled championships. But not without a preliminary hassle.
L'Alpe-d'Huez, scene of the championships, has a fine bobsled course; it also has vivid memories of 1944, when German occupation troops tricked French resistance groups into the open and mowed them down. It took a French Foreign Office check of the records-and the discovery...