Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the ceremonies and the gas-fired torch flared into life at trackside in Montreal's ribbed, concrete Olympic Stadium last week, the XXI Olympiad had already produced one record. For the first time since the modern Games began in 1896, a host country had imposed its own foreign policy on the event. The result was some indecorous sports brinkmanship that forced the angry withdrawal of a clearly ill-treated team from the island Republic of China, further strained U.S.-Canadian relations and left much of the remaining world bothered about what a West German...
Side by side in a box for a game at Yankee Stadium last week, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger-long a Yankee fan-and Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn-under threat of a lawsuit by the Yankees (TIME, June 28)-may have been secretly wondering what it would be like to switch jobs for a while. Kuhn could use shuttle diplomacy to bring about détente between team owners and players, whose contract impasse is as hard a problem to solve as the one in the Middle East. And Kissinger could use some advice on how to negotiate...
...Games one of sport's prestige athletes, Filbert Bayi, who holds the world record for 1,500 meters. Possible too was similar action by other black African countries. One week to the day before the Olympic torch was to be borne into Montreal's stunning $700 million stadium, the Games seemed to teeter on the brink of breakup. C.K. Yang, coach of the Taiwan track team and silver-medal winner in the decathlon (1960), at least put the matter in a hopeful perspective. Said he: "It has been like this for many, many Olympics. I always cross...
...work out the party's platform over prime-time television, as many as 60 million Americans will be riveted to their sets. Most of those citizens, however, will not be watching democracy in action at Madison Square Garden, but the Major League All-Stars in action at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. The three major networks will together be spending more than $12 million to win viewers to their convention coverage this week, but that event promises to be TV's biggest white elephant (or donkey) since -well, since the 1972 conventions...
...people who pay the taxes that enable me to compete." A Communist Party member since 1972 and honorary delegate to the ninth East German party congress last May, Fuchs is an enthusiastic supporter of the East German sports system, which allows her "to go to the stadium and train without putting a single pfennig on the table." Once motivated by ego, Fuchs says winning is now "a political matter...