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Eager and determined, Lake Placid prepares to hold the 13th Winter Olympics...
...people of Lake Placid were persistent. Their parents had played host to-and many had competed in-the Winter Olympics of 1932, and they wanted to bring the Games back to their village. Over and over they trooped to meetings of the International Olympic Committee and submitted proposals, only to be snubbed for such fashionable Alpine resorts as Cortina and Innsbruck. When the I.O.C. agreed on an American site for 1960, the nod went to the Sierra Nevadas and Squaw Valley, but still the Lake Placid boosters kept returning, a shade from the Olympics' past that refused...
Everything is coming together when for so long it looked as if every thing would come flying apart. With disarming candor, the local officials who finally managed to bring the Games back to Lake Placid admit that they did not know what they were getting into. The area had world-class skiing slopes, but no support facilities for the Games and no idea of how to go about building them. Says the Rev. Bernard Fell, an ebullient former policeman who is president of the Lake Placid Organizing Committee: "None of us were trained in managing a construction project or picking...
Last week Fell worked on final details in an office that was as modest as the man himself. An Olympic flag hung from a small pole on one wall. As he talked, he signed the certificates that will be given to the top finishers. Lake Placid's motto for the Games has been "An Olympics in Perspective," and he said he felt that the organizers had lived up to the challenge. The Games would have few of the flashy trimmings of other years, but the facilities for the competition were first-rate. That was the point...
With just 5,600 beds available in the Lake Placid area, many spectators will be forced to stay in resorts and cities miles from the slopes. Some will be bused in from as far away as Montreal (110 miles) and Burlington, Vt. (100 miles). A huge traffic tie-up is all but certain on the narrow mountain roads leading into Lake Placid, which has but a single traffic light...