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...many men-from France's Baron Pierre de Coubertin to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to Adolf Hitler-have tried to make too much of the Olympic Games. The baron, father of the modern Games, once said: "The Olympic movement tends to bring together in a radiant union all the qualities which guide mankind to perfection." The general, as president of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1928, wrote: "Nothing is more characteristic of the genius of the American people than is their genius for athletics." The Führer envisaged the 1936 Games in Berlin -the last time...
...bite. The Place Vendôme, Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean parking gai ages. It all adds up, reports TIME Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, to Paris' biggest urban renewal since the 1850s, when Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann tore up much of the medieval town and started creating his city of symmetry, parks and long vistas...
...France," Baron Haussmann said confidently in 1859, "a good act well explained is always an act sanctioned." Alas, not all of the present planners' changes are "good acts." Nor do they all cohere. Where Haussmann had almost dictatorial control over his efforts, six separate government agencies share responsibility for the present rebuilding program. As a result of poor coordination, mistakes do happen, like the 35-acre Maine-Montparnasse project. It violates the intent of the Grand Design by adding to an already congested part of Paris 1,000 apartments and offices for 7,000 workers in a 62-story...
When he talks of future artistic empires, Papp sometimes sounds like Jay Gould, the robber baron, sometimes like Serge Diaghilev, the great impresario of ballet. When he discusses TV, however, he sounds more like the prophet Isaiah, with a vision of glory in his eye. "Eventually," he says, talking about his specials, "it will be essential to do 50 a year, 50 a month. Just by the sheer doing of it-and having it come directly out of live theater-we'll be setting up a whole cultural movement...
...growing U.S. sports but has had relatively little exposure on national television. This time, however, a nationwide audience tuned in to the NBC-TV network saw one of the most dramatic and well-played matches in tennis history. Searching for a comparison, one columnist reached back to Don Budge-Baron von Cramm at Wimbledon before World...