Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Citizens have finally rebelled against the growing despoliation of the countryside and the social and economic ills that it creates. They have launched what amounts to an inchoate, national crusade to get better ways of using land no matter what the cost. In state referendums last year, Colorado's...
RICHARD D. LAMM, 38, Colorado state legislator who is in the forefront of brash new band of growth critics. Led successful campaign against locating the 1976 Winter Olympics in Vail and Steamboat Springs, on ground that the Games would cost the taxpayers too much, lead to overdevelopment of trailer parks...
The slow-motion freaks do not fare any better. Japan's Kon Ichikawa, who all by himself made a better Olympics film about the 1964 Tokyo Games, uses slow motion to record the 100-meter dash. Although it is fascinating to see some of the world's fastest...
In agony and outrage over the murder of its athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Israeli government organized a 15-man group of killers to liquidate the leadership of Black September. As Prime Minister Golda Meir bluntly announced: "We would do all we could to strike at the terrorist...
Williams himself had been considered a strong contender for the honor until just shortly before those Olympics. In a May 1972 track meet in El Paso, however, he pulled a hamstring muscle and was unable to compete in the upcoming Olympic trials. "They were too soon for my leg to...