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Said Jean Cresta, installed as the new driver. "He always seemed alone when he was with us. Alone with his steam roller...
Madame Quo Tai-chi of China, who (like all the U.N. delegates' wives in Manhattan) had been sent a basket of wine (four bottles) by a California vintner, responded with a womanly international gesture. To the pilot who had flown the wine from the Cresta Blanca vineyards she dictated her recipe for Chinese Burgundy: beaten whites two eggs, one pint Burgundy, dash vanilla extract, dash orange bitters; stir in the whites slowly...
There are in St. Moritz, Switzerland, two distinct and independent runs: 1) the Bobsleigh Run (St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club) and 2) the Cresta Run (St. Moritz Tobogganing Club, founded...
Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
...Cresta is ... for skeleton toboggans and nothing else. The idea that it is straight [TIME, Jan. 7] is erroneous. There are I think at least eleven quite serious corners called "banks." I have not been over all of them but I should have thought "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" had almost an international reputation for collecting casualties...