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...Olympic program could be called berating-the-organizers. Every four years, disgruntled officials around the world find some reason or other to mount un-Olympian attacks on their host's preparations. Last week, with the 1960 Winter Olympics coming up this month in California's Squaw Valley, it was the U.S.'s turn to get its lumps...
...France, Dr. Jean Carle, chief of the mission to Squaw Valley, exploded at the crowded accommodations. "Can you imagine four women living together in one cramped room for a month? Eh bien, non! Ridiculous!" He also fretted about the disconcerting effect of importing big-time vaudeville acts to the valley: "How are we going to put our young men and women to bed at an early hour if there's a chorus line and Frankie Sinatra singing across the road...
...singing the opening hymn These Things Shall Be). Harrumphed Switzerland's Otto Mayer, chancellor of the International Olympic Committee: "All this hoopla has little to do with the Olympic spirit, and I've wired the U.S. accordingly." Shrilled Zurich's Sport: "Assigning the Games to Squaw Valley was a big mistake. The committee fell for the big bluff of smart American businessmen...
...Back at Squaw Valley, long-suffering Managing Director H. D. Thoreau (a great-grandnephew of the Walden Pond naturalist) said with a sigh that 80% of the female competitors will be housed in pairs, the rest three to a room. Said he: "In other Olympics, I've heard of competitors being billeted in schools and dormitories." What was more, while each country paid its own transportation and housing in previous Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley is laying out a subsidy of $500 per competitor...
...skiers finished about as expected-the best they could do was a 35th in the giant slalom. It was apparent that at Squaw Valley, U.S. skiing prestige will be in the hands of the girls. They seem strong enough...