Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this go-round, the atmosphere was eminently more serene. A bright Bavarian sun shone down as the Greek team, in accordance with tradition, led the march around the red and green arena that will hold the track and field events. The West German crowd applauded handsomely (even for the East Germans) as each nation trooped its colors to dance-band music, which included When the Saints Go Marching In for the U.S. and Song for Natasha, in salute to the Soviet Union. The U.S. contingent was led by Discus Thrower Olga Connolly, 39, the mother of four, who defected from...
Beginning on the outskirts of the city, seemingly every knoll and grassy patch sprouts a grove of flagpoles with pale green, blue and white banners blazing a trail to the Munich Games. On the horizon, the bright blue Bavarian sky is pierced by the futuristic Olympic Tower, a 943-ft. skymark for the Games. Below, sprawling over 740 undulating acres, is the Olympic Park, a verdant retreat with a boating lake, broad tree-lined walkways and facilities for more than two-thirds of the 195 events* on the Olympic agenda. Three of the largest venues are partially under one "roof...
HIGH above the Isar River embankment in the ornate home of the Bavarian parliament, the 74-man International Olympic Committee met last week behind guarded doors to select a new president. After the ballots were counted and burned, Irish whisky was delivered to the conference room. The choice of drink was appropriate. Some hours later it was announced that the successor to Avery Brundage, for 20 years the autocratic arbiter of international amateur sport, was Michael Morris, Baron Killanin, of Dublin...
LEFT-WING TANNHÄUSER'S FALL, ran the headline in Süddeutsche Zeitung next day. "The Bavarian minister-president vowed to cut off all further subsidies to Bayreuth if any more Communist propaganda is ever attempted," fumed Wolfgang Wagner, the politically neutral director of the festival and grandson of the composer: "Is this democratic freedom?* Haven't there been boos in Bayreuth before...
...changed all that. "A genius like Richard Wagner," he says, "inevitably provides room for a whole complex of often contradictory interpretations." There was nothing contradictory about the box office results after the news of his scandalous Tannhäuser. Gossip about Bayreuth's impending demise stopped, the Bavarian ministry denied it had ever thought of cutting off subsidies, and the paying public, though it may have come to denounce, remained to cheer. Said Wolfgang: "When Grandfather went to Bayreuth, he conceived it as a workshop. Tannhäuser has brought us back to where we should always have been...