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...refurbished Lenin Stadium was swarming with more than 15,000 people for much of last week. Gymnasts, musicians, students and some 100 truckloads of soldiers were on hand to rehearse the opening ceremony; the troops were readying flash-card routines, including a rendering of the ubiquitous Teddy-bear mascot Misha. As if to underscore the official line that all was going well, newspapers trumpeted a statement by an African sports official that "in spite of the attempts by certain circles at frustrating" the Games, "they will be a success...
...promotions tied to the Games. None of the payment is refundable even if American athletes boycott Moscow. The Chicago firm VPI, Inc., for example, has stockpiled 28,000 mugs and 15,000 key rings emblazoned with the Olympic design or drawings of Misha the bear, the Games' official mascot...
Misha, the Moscow mascot of the Summer Olympics, has been shaken by Jimmy Carter's Olympic boycott, and so has the NBC peacock. Now the shock waves have reached Postmaster General William F. Bolger, who last week withdrew all U.S. Olympic commemorative stamps, postcards and envelopes from the market "in support of national policy." Will the Olympic issues become hot collector's items like the 1918 upside-down airmail stamp, or even the less exotic 5? 1967 American Space Twins issue, which still commands $10 for a block of four? Not likely. Some 300 million Olympic stamps were...
...decades, people have been puzzled by just what a "Crimson" is. Animal, vegetable or mineral? It is none; and the search for a Harvard mascot has grown futile. Even if one were found, a Crimson would probably turn out to be some ridiculous-looking nurd approximation with grand horns, webbed feet and a Brooks Brothers button-down...
...time has come to put an end to all the idle speculation. In the throes of the worst Harvard football season since 1950, potentially the poorest in the program's 105-year history, we need some conflict, some fervor, some faith. And the simple introduction of a new mascot could prompt such a spiritual lift...