Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 40,000 balloons soared aloft, and 6,000 pigeons fluttered skyward. The blazing torch arrived-borne for the first time by a woman, Mexico's 20-year-old Norma Enriqueta Basilio Sotelo-to end a 10,000-mile odyssey that started at Olympia. After a final 21-gun salute, the games of the XIX Olympiad were officially under...
...extensively interviewed this week's cover subject also had a preview of another important document. Since his days as a Seattle newsman, Saltonstall has been a longtime friend of Governor Dan Evans; he listened critically as the Governor delivered his keynote address into a tape recorder in Olympia. Before he flew off to Miami Beach with Evans, Saltonstall was able to give the editors in New York in advance a good idea of just what the G.O.P. keynote speech contained...
...process of refining his thoughts and tailoring them to the time limitation, Evans invited a few dozen friends and advisers to his official residence in Olympia for a trial run-through of his still unfinished speech last week. One suggestion offered afterward: throw in a few more ripsnorting flourishes to bring the people in Convention Hall to their feet. Evans vetoed the idea. "We ought to aim at the people who are watching on television," he said, "rather than delegates who won't be listening anyhow...
...clergy swear allegiance to the government, and arrested those who refused. But now thousands of priests who were forced to work in factories and on farms have returned to their flocks. A certain amount of private business is tolerated. Jerry Herdglotz, 47, for example, now drives his own Opel Olympia sedan as a private entrepreneur, makes $250 a month v, $150 that he used to earn working for the state cab company...
...will not die. Economic boycotts are planned for 40 cities in an effort to force merchants to help the poor. From his jail cell, Abernathy vowed to fast through his 20-day sentence and pledged that "Resurrection Cities will spring up all over the country." One did, briefly, in Olympia, Wash., on a corner of the state capitol grounds. "Resurrection City II" (three Indian tepees and four tents) and its counterparts may continue to prod the nation's conscience-and occasionally test its patience...