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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...
When the heralds fanned out through ancient Greece to announce the forthcoming Games at Olympia (see BOOKS), they carried with them the proclamation of a sacred truce that extended for at least a month before and after the Olympics. Since the Games of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal have already become an arena of international acrimony second only to that other supposed citadel of world harmony, the United Nations, the time is ripe for a modern equivalent, however profane, of the sacred truce...
After three years of administrative hassles, labor troubles and ballooning costs, construction of the sprawling facilities for the games of the XXI Olympiad in Canada neared completion last week. The sun came out over Montreal following two weeks of cold and damp weather, allowing workmen to lay down the red tartan artificial surface in the stadium's eight-lane track. That took care of the last major project, though many odds and ends remain to be tied up before the lighting of the Olympic torch opens the 16 days of games on July...
...What's cheating to us is not cheating to them." The pivotal problem is that the judges are originally picked by member nations, leaving the Olympic Committee little choice but to rubber-stamp the nominations. One sure way to avoid a recrudescence of suspect decisions at the XXI Olympiad would be to change the system and let one of the international Olympic bodies choose the judges...
Died. Lieut. General Frank William Milburn, 70, a husky West Pointer who won three Silver Stars for front-line bravery as XXI Corps commander in Europe and I Corps commander in Korea, retired in 1952 to become athletic director of Montana State University, in 1955 sat on the ten-man committee that wrote the new soldiers' code of conduct designed to guide captured U.S. soldiers; of emphysema; in Missoula, Mont...