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Higher Learning. In Olympia, Wash., St. Martin's College devoted its regular weekly science seminar to a new subject: "The mathematical analysis of a crap game...
Maria Angelakopoulou, a pretty, 19-year-old Girl Scout, had the biggest day of her life. In Olympia, site of the Temple of Zeus, she kindled a flame for the Olympic Games at London by focusing the sun's rays on an olive branch. Maria's family was poor; her traditional white garment was a piece of borrowed store cloth held together with pins. Red bandits had cut off Olympia until the day before the ceremonies, so that only the skimpiest rehearsals were possible. A song from Euripides, to be chanted by a dozen small boys, was omitted...
...last Olympic torch, in 1936, was carried by a succession of more than 3,000 runners from Olympia to Berlin. This week the roads to Berlin were somewhat more difficult to traverse than those of ancient Greece...
...Olympic Games of antiquity, the bellicose cities of ancient Greece invariably observed a "sacred truce." This week Greek guerrillas had cut the relay route of the Olympic torch. Runners by day and night were to have borne the fiery symbol the entire length of Greece on its way from Olympia to the opening of the games at London on July 29. Instead, the torch could be carried a mere 20 miles to the nearest port, whence a British destroyer would take it to Bari, Italy, for the long relay through five countries to the English Channel...
There were other stirrings in Bizonia. In Ruesselsheim, General Motors' Opel factory shipped 24 Opel Olympia two-door sedans to Belgium, Opel's first automobile exports since war's end. Young Henry Ford II visited his Cologne plant and promised to expand it into the biggest automobile factory in Europe...