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...impact of these projects on Lake Placid has been enormous. Winter unemployment in Essex County often runs as high as 20% of the work force. This year more than 200 people from the area are employed in Olympic construction, which has, according to Project Manager Ramon Lopez, brought $1.6 million in wages into the region since last spring. Northern New York companies have also benefited, winning 32 of the 38 contracts totaling $25,212,370 awarded by competitive bidding...
Most residents of Lake Placid are enthusiastic about the Olympics and pleased at the prospects the Games could provide. "People are really excited," says Sheila Young Ochowicz, 27, a now retired speed skater who won gold, silver and bronze medals at the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck. "The competitive facilities are all first-rate, and they're a lot closer together than things were at Innsbruck...
...everyone agrees that the Games are good for Lake Placid and the Adirondack area. The Adirondack Park Agency and other environmentalists objected to any construction that would detract from the purity of the north country's wooded wilderness. Most of their complaints were taken care of by Olympic planners, who note, as one of them said, that "we live in the Adirondacks too." But the environmentalists are still unhappy about one aspect of Olympic construction: the jump towers are clearly visible from the small farm where Abolitionist John Brown's body lies amoldering in its grave...
Despite these reservations, however, most of the people in Lake Placid are working hard to make the Olympics a success in the hope that the Games will boost the village's tourist trade in the years to come. Their efforts are understandable. The village's first Olympics in 1932 put Lake Placid on the country's winter sports map; the 1980 Games could change the map itself...
...country's freshly romantic disposition is to be found in the worlds of symphony, opera and ballet; increasingly audiences have cooled on experimental and abstract works while warmly receiving new performances of old favorites such as Brahms' Second Symphony, Carmen and Swan Lake. The mood of theatergoers was dramatized neatly on Broadway when an effort to revive Hair fizzled dismally with critics and public alike, while Man of La Mancha, with all its improbable visions, came back successfully (to run alongside such other hits as the shamelessly treacly Annie and Neil Simon's latest domestic frolic, Chapter...