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Four years have changed all that, though. Harvard's last-place effort at the 1968 games at Mexico and dismal American showings in annual international competitions since then have signalled trouble for the U. S. eight at Munich next September. The competition there will be overwhelming. Defending world champion New Zealand, which upset a powerful East German group at Copenhagen last year. West Germany, victors in 1960 at Rome and still formidable. Australia. The Soviet Union. A brilliant, and, some say, invincible field...
...June. The addition of several members of the IRA champion Pennsylvania crew pushed the roster back over 60 again, and it will be from those five dozen that Harvard, and then Olympic coach Harry Parker, will choose the eight, the four, and two spares that will go to Munich this summer...
...happened, the bombings were not restricted to U.S. installations. Explosions were set off recently at police headquarters in Augsburg and Munich and the Hamburg publishing house of Press Lord Axel Springer. The wife of a supreme court justice in Karlsruhe narrowly escaped death when a bomb exploded as she started...
Santa's visits-and other remarkable East German stratagems-may well result in an early Christmas this year for the nation of 17 million. The gifts: enough gold, silver and bronze medals in Munich this summer to put East Germany in a class with both the U.S. and Russia in the 1972 Summer Olympics...
...demonstrated their sports muscle. They finished third behind the U.S. and Russia at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, the first time they had been allowed to field a team separate from West Germany's (although they were denied their own flag, emblem and anthem). This year at Munich, East Germany will have all the privileges of a full-fledged team. Its national anthem-Auferstanden aus Rui-nen-could conceivably salute as many victories as The Star-Spangled Banner or Gitnn Sovietskogo Soyuza. Last summer, in fact, the steadily improving East Germans bested the rest of Europe, including...