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...Olympics always present a surpassing spectacle, and Mexico City last week greeted the greatest gathering of athletes in history; 7,226 competitors from 119 nations. In Olympic Stadium, to the boom of cannon salutes and the blare of bands, the teams marched in review before Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and 80,000 cheering spectators. As always, the parade was led by the Greek team and wound up by the host nation. The formation was familiar, but this year its colors were uncommonly bright. The Mexicans were dazzling in white. There were green-gowned Nigerians and Australian girls...
...Teotihuacan, 40 minutes outside the city, to see the son et lumiére spectacle drops the spectator nearly 2,000 years back in time. A bit off the beaten track for tourists is the Plaza Garibaldi, where wandering mariachi bands play, adding the vibrancy of guitars to the blare of trumpets...
...Pure. Most of Jerusalem's 60,000 Arabs shut down their shops and went home in protest against the parade. Some watched the parade on TV behind shuttered windows; others, excited by the blare of loudspeakers and the roar of jets, came out on their balconies to watch. Radio Amman charged Israel with buying 20,000 Arab kaffiyehs (headdresses) beforehand with the aim of having dark-complexioned Israelis wear them in the streets and thus making it look as if Jerusalem's Arabs were joining the celebration. The few Arabs who did mingle in the crowds, however, seemed...
...seldom any enemy to be seen-only small Communist guardposts on the opposite hills. The terrain is rough with stumps, harsh inclines and thick, scrubby bushes. Thousands of white herons, pheasant, deer and bobcats rustle through the undergrowth, sometimes tripping flares or detonating Claymore mines. North Korean loudspeakers blare constant propaganda. When American and North Korean patrols spot each other across the zone, they regularly shout obscenities back and forth in the other's tongue...
...believed that Thayer held a heman daring enough to trip the fire alarms, but half the Yard turned out last night to cheer when bells and sirens began to blare...