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...GRAND OLYMPICS. A classic sports-tacular. this Italian-made color documentary dazzlingly synthesizes the glory that was Rome's during the summer Olympiad...
...Grand Olympics is a blood-and-guts thriller of more heroic cast. Filmed by 22 Italian cameramen under the direction of Romolo Marcellini, this color documentary dazzlingly synthesizes the glory that was Rome's during the summer Olympiad of 1960. The film begins with a helicoptic view, swooping over the dome of St. Peter's, then briefly darts away to Greece to catch the sun's rays igniting the traditional torch through a burning glass at Olympia. Soon some 5,000 athletes from 85 nations parade through Rome to the vast Stadio Olimpico. The flame arrives...
Died. Carl Diem. 80, scholarly German sportsman whose love of the classics led him to revive the ancient Greek tradition of relaying a torch from Mount Olympus to the far-flung sites of the Olympic games, beginning with 1936's XI Olympiad in Berlin, where he also successfully resisted Nazi efforts to bar Jewish athletes; of a stroke; in Cologne...
Died. Robert Garrett, 85, Baltimore banker, collector of ancient Oriental manuscripts, and last survivor of the 13-man U.S. squad that won the unofficial team victory in the first modern Olympiad in 1896; of arteriosclerosis; in Baltimore. After arriving in Athens tired and out of shape a day before the Games began, Garrett, then a Princeton junior, unkinked quickly, finished first in the shotput and the discus throw (which he had never tried before), took second in the broad jump and high jump...
Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). "Olympiad 1960" reviews both the winter and summer games...