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What they see will be a glittering montage of contradictory images: athletes gathering for an ancient festival of peace in an Olympic village surrounded by barbed-wire fences-a grim reminder of the massacre of eleven Israelis at the summer games in Munich four years ago; a lovely, old city of narrow streets and gilded buildings, crammed with cars, microwave towers and the trappings of progress. There will be much talk about the glory of amateur athletics, although the concept is now scarcely more alive than Innsbruck's medieval statuary...
Figure-skating fans already know what to expect. Two years ago at the world championships in Munich, Dorothy gave a performance that captivated the crowd-and revealed much about the source of her appeal. The drama began as Dorothy, who battles almost uncontrollable jitters on the brink of each performance, waited at the end of the rink to be introduced for her free-skating program. As the points awarded to the previous skater flashed on the Scoreboard, the crowd erupted in an explosion of boos and catcalls, protesting the low scores. Dorothy thought they were jeering her, and her already...
...Shah of Iran has canceled his visit to the Games after the kidnaping last month of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna. But Innsbruck will still attract a powdering of such celebrities as Muhammad Ali, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Lord Snowdon. To prevent another terrorist Munich, Austrian police will enforce tight security, even at the Olympic Ball, where every fourth tuxedoed guest is likely to be a policeman...
Died. Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengel, 88, whose piano playing soothed Adolf Hitler; in Munich. Son of a German art expert, Hanfstaengel was educated at Harvard and in 1921 went back to Germany, where he later became foreign press chief of the Nazi Party. Hanfstaengel broke with Hitler in 1937, spent most of World War II in the U.S., and returned to Germany...
...Talbott reported from Peking, it limited negotiations over such vital items as the future of Korea, the status of Taiwan and preparations for President Ford's first visit to China, scheduled for December. The Chinese feel that last summer's Helsinki summit on European cooperation was the Munich of the '70s-with Brezhnev the Hitler, Kissinger the Chamberlain, and Senator Henry Jackson, a foe of détente, the Churchill. They are also sensitive to Soviet attempts to penetrate Southeast Asia...