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...improbable feat, but the organizers of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich were resolved to resist "gargantuism," to emphasize the "human scale," and to build an "anti-monument sports complex" in a green setting with a "minimum of travel." Most important for a community that other Germans call "Weltstadt mit Herz" (Metropolis with a Heart) there must be a "touch of gaiety in the air." The goal, says Willi Daume, president of the German Olympic Committee, is "a more carefree Olympiad, free of both false pathos and the fanatical pursuit of medals." Daume and the Munich planners have not wholly...
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