Word: olympicsized
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To a peaceful village, the Olympics promise crowds and turmoil
Lake Placid, N. Y., which played host to the Winter Olympics of 1932, has been chosen again for the 1980 Games. And after years of decay and decline, the little (pop. 2,800) Adirondack village is already experiencing a boom that could change the nature of the town forever. TIME...
Lake Placid's efforts to bring back the Olympics began in 1973, when local voters approved the idea in a referendum. Congress and President Ford pledged their support the following year. The International Olympic Committee then designated Lake Placid as its choice and also approved Lake Placid's...
Other countries had long been trying to outdo one another with increasingly elaborate and expensive Olympic facilities, at Innsbruck, Grenoble, Sapporo. Six years ago, however, after Denver was named for the 1976 Olympics, environmentalists organized opposition, and Colorado voters finally rejected the Games. The Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee then...
As for the Olympics Estey said, "I'd love to go to the Olympics but my chances are minimal. I'm not the Bobby Hackett of skating."