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...four years since his personal disaster in Mexico City, where he won only two gold medals (and those in relay events), Spitz has grown up, graduated from college and at one time or another broken 28 world freestyle and butterfly records. That spectacular string of victories continued as the XX Olympiad got under way last week. Spitz led a green but able young American team into the competition with an incandescent performance that ranks with the legendary triumphs of Jim Thorpe, Paavo Nurmi and Jesse Owens...
...Berlin Olympics. The film that resulted was a propaganda classic, but her career as a movie producer in the Third Reich eventually led to two denazification trials (she was cleared). Now London's Sunday Times has hired her to put her 1936 experience to use photographing the XX Olympiad in Munich, and Leni plans no propaganda. "I have always loved the world and all races," she says. "I love the beauty of the human body...
...colors were cool, breezy pastels, not the strident Nazi red and black; it was Willy Brandt's gemütlich Munich, not Hitler's dark Berlin. With a fanfare of Alpine horns and a gaudy parade of 12,000 athletes from 124 nations, the XX Olympiad opened last week in an 80,000-capacity, acrylic, glass-covered stadium that stands on the site where Neville Chamberlain landed in 1938 to establish "peace in our time...
...Horst Wessel Lied. The traditional doves were released, the Olympic flame was lit by a torch relayed from Olympia in Greece by 5,976 runners, and West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated proceedings with the regulatory 14-word statement: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating the XX Olympiad of the modern...
...that erupted last week, virtually on the eve of the XX Olympiad in Munich, was potentially the most disruptive in the troubled 76-year history of the modern Games. The governments of eleven Black African nations, notably Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda, declared that they would not permit their countrymen to compete if the Games remained open to athletes from white-supremacist Rhodesia...