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...almost as demanding as that of participant, and to help the former, a special Olympics supplement accompanies TIME this week. The product of weeks of reporting and research, the supplement is a preview of whom to watch and what to expect when the Games get under way in Munich. It was assembled under the direction of Senior Editor John T. Elson. The introduction and analysis of the Games were written by Associate Editor Edwin Bolwell. Bolwell, who will be in Munich later this month covering the Games firsthand, was first introduced to the Olympics spectacle 16 years ago. The Games...
...capture the atmosphere of the Games' setting, European Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum spent more than two weeks in Munich last month. Birnbaum, whose first trip to the city was under far less pleasurable circumstances-as a member of an Eighth Air Force B-17 bomber crew during World War II-returned now as a tourist and talked at length to businessmen, artists, actresses, politicians and students. His impressions provide ambience and a vicarious sensation of a city that for 16 days will be the sports capital of the world...
...mock the purported ideals of the Olympics. Since 1952 the focus has been mainly on whether the U.S. team, representing a free, democratic society, could beat the Russians, carrying the banner for Communism. This year, a powerful East German team will be trying to turn the victory stands of Munich into podiums for propaganda on behalf of the "superior" social order in their half of Germany...
...meter-wide radio telescope listens to the faint beeps and squawks of objects at the very edge of the known universe. At a research center in Tübingen, scientists struggle to understand the elusive biochemical secrets by which the brain performs its wizardry. Inside a sprawling complex near Munich, researchers heat ionized gases to temperatures of many millions of degrees in hopes of taming the almost unlimited power of thermonuclear fusion. These varied projects are all being conducted under the auspices of one organization -West Germany's Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, which...
...gamble, to be sure, and if the U. S. entry doesn't win a medal at Munich there will be criticism of this new concept and of Parker's selection of oarsmen. The first test will come later this month, when the crew goes to Lucerne. Switzerland for a regatta that will include some of Europe's best eights. A victory there could presage a medal at Munich, and vindication for Parker. Harvard's alumni Olympians and a novel concept in American rowing