One final event as Lake Placid adjusts to obscurity
The torch was out, the crowd was gone.
Gaudy banners snapped with irrelevant verve in an emptied winter wonderland. To the casual eye, it appeared that the 13th Olympic Winter Games were over and done with. Yet one final, unlisted event was under way well before the last athletes had straggled out of Olympic Village. The happening: the great downhill plunge from celebrity to obscurity. The sole entrant: Lake Placid, N.Y. (pop. 2,700), U.S.A.
The course of the descent was so precipitous it would have scared...
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