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...Zurich and Geneva makes more than just political sense. The economic burden of the Games can be tremendous, Host city Montreal, for example, lost a bundle in 1976 and almost did not complete construction of its stadium in time for the opening ceremonies. Although local business thrives during an Olympiad, the host's tax coffers are rapidly depleted. If the site of the Games were made permanent, the initial expenditure would be offset by a lack of building requirements for all subsequent Olympiads. The initial construction costs themselves might be spread out, and assumed by the various participating nations...
Although far from an amateur, McKay obviously loves what he does and performs with the same concentration as that shown by the athletes he describes. With his 65th birthday on the horizon before the next Olympiad, he thinks about slowing down some, spending more time at his Maryland farm and racing a small stable of horses. Perhaps this will be his last Games. But then he stirs restlessly at the thought of Calgary in four years. "The Olympics," he says, "is the last real drama." That is precisely what he and ABC are striving to create for 13 days...
...long countdown to the November elections is already well begun as the race to become Ronald Reagan's Democratic challenger fills columns of print and hours on the air waves. The summertime conventions seem only a blink away. But July will bring another memorable event: the XXIII Olympiad, the largest Olympic Games ever organized and the first Summer Games held in the U.S. in 52 years. And almost as a prelude comes the first spectacular, the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. There the U.S. is thrusting into competition its most balanced and impressive team ever, one that stars...
...heart. Whatever befalls them between now and next July, whether act of man or nature, could scarcely be as bad as the troubles that bedeviled the promoters of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Yet that small band not only survived, it triumphed and made the Games of the X Olympiad profitable and one of history's best and most fondly remembered...
...woke up to what was happening. Movie stars offered to entertain, merchants lined the streets with foreign flags, and, most important, tickets suddenly began to sell. Years later, visitors remembered the extraordinary atmosphere of amity that pervaded the air during the 16 days of the Games of the X Olympiad. At the end of the first day's events, an announcer asked spectators to remain seated so there would be no traffic to slow the athletes on their way back to the village. The great throng joined in singing a chorus of songs until the contestants were well...