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...couldn't rightly call this type of grilling envy. Sometimes it reflected amazement at the unpractical and uncomfortable use foreigners made of their money. In a cramped bus headed for dull and puny Olympia, near the tumbled grace of the ancient games-site, a teenager offered her seat to a German woman and murmured, "Those back-breaking packs: I would never do this tourism...
When the heralds fanned out through ancient Greece to announce the forthcoming Games at Olympia (see BOOKS), they carried with them the proclamation of a sacred truce that extended for at least a month before and after the Olympics. Since the Games of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal have already become an arena of international acrimony second only to that other supposed citadel of world harmony, the United Nations, the time is ripe for a modern equivalent, however profane, of the sacred truce...
...modern games, athletes considered the rewards worth the risks. Presaging the late Vince Lombardi's dictum that winning was the only thing, the founders of the first Olympics placed little value on participation for its own sake. There were no prizes for second and third place at Olympia; an athlete took first or nothing...
...centuries, has been peasants' clothes." The keynote, he says, is "simplicity," adding: "To arrive at simplicity without looking contrived is one of the most difficult things in the world." In Beene's bag are such fashionable women as Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Mary Wells Lawrence, Jackie Onassis and Olympia de Rothschild. He designed Lynda Bird Johnson Robb's wedding dress...
...Olympia, Wash...