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Over the years he has become well known to some of the tribes, he says, and describes the Indians as "simple, honest, loyal people. They are very trustworthy as long as you treat them as gentlemen...
...Christmas light flashers in all the Yard lanterns. It seems that the "Yard cops" (now University Police) had, in the days before radios, been in the habit of switching these lights on and off to summon assistance When the lights came on that evening in the late 1920s, portly gentlemen in blue could be seen puffing from one corner of the Yard to another, anxiously seeking whichever colleague it was who required their...
...both wrong. I'm afraid," answers the stranger "It's the opening and closing ceremonies. No athletics are performed there, gentlemen. Only a parade featuring all of the Games' participants--despite the political tension, wars and ideological splits of their governments--marching together harmoniously, with a common interest. All have gravitated to the same track, traveled far from the troubled homes and governments to compete...
...when you gentlemen complain that politics have ruined the Olympics, you overlook the fulfillment of a need which we all receive by accepting the political significance of the Games Recently, it is true, politics have dampened the sprit of the Olympics, and it's quite easy to accentuate such failures. But by doing this, you all ignore the political benefits which we can and do gamer from the Games. These benefits aren't as starkly noticeable as the failings which political association potentionally entails, but they are just as profound Isn't it soothing to know that the world...
...stranger distances himself from the table and proclaims. "Gentlemen, think about an Olympics where the best compete against the best, but without associations with their countries. Yes, it would lack the sometimes burdensome political ramifications of the Games, but how empty such an Olympiad would seem, how pointless...