Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To zealous environmentalists, ski-area developers have become abominable snowmen. Those beautiful patterns of milk-white ski runs cut into the side of a mountain seem to be networks of disfiguring scars in the view of some critics. Increasingly, they charge that ski developments cause soil erosion, leak sewage into...
Against the Olympics
Sir / It might be assumed that all Coloradans voted against holding the Olympics [Nov. 20] here for financial or ecological reasons. I would like to offer two other reasons for the negative Olympic vote.
Many people felt that we the residents of Colorado should have been asked whether or not we wanted the Olympics before Mayor McNichols and company requested them from the I.O.C. This request was, in effect, taxation without representation.
During last summer's Munich Olympics, Soviet Gymnast Olga Korbut twirled and flipped spectacularly, then went to pieces and made a disastrous muddle of her second appearance. She wept in shame, and the sports world fell in love with her. Olga recovered and carried home two gold medals. Now...