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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1960.
Winter Olympics open with pompEWHER
and pageantry at Squaw Valley
Squaw Valley, Feb.
18.
The 1960 Winter Olympic Games opened with pomp and problems today amid the striking splendour of this snug and snowy valley nestled in the High Sierra. The pageantry was of human origin, the problems were largely It snowed and stormed all the work of the weather. morning and nearly a foot of snow had fallen by the time the opening ceremony began this afternoon.
Traffle was badly jammed for miles along roads leading to the valley and the opening pro- gramme was delayed 15 minutes for late arrivals.
bors of California and Nevada nesos again here in Squaw | Valley, let the rivalry of good high school bands.
The United States
Marine men and fair play be pledged." The flags of the 30 nations band, somewhat more fortunate,
went
during their stay here whey could return home tur "The World's best amadors for unity and peace.
and
governi thousand Homing burn brightly through the ages, pigeons
representing the Inicing nation with nation and traditional "daves of peace,” mun with man as brotherB. Two unfortunate birds not "Refresh Thy people on their "Before we on earth devote lost and darted insite the tollame
WILY. lead us from ourselves in conquering outer areng' and crashed into a large night to nover ending day; fli space, we should devote our-stonebeant susperalod from the all our lives with love and melves to conquering Inter ceiling,
glory grace divine, and space.**
Que of the birds, apparently penise be ever Thine. Jule raised the efforts of all unconscious, tumbled Into the The massed High School there who helped organico the croit below.
chorus, accompanied by the Games here and then introduced At this point the prematurely Marine Corps band, sang in Avery Brundage, President of lighted fame in the Tower of the background as Malden read the International Olympic Com- Nations had almost burned it another prayer: mittee,
self out.
Declared open
Brundage said: "I have the honour to ask the Vice-President of the Unked
"From war's alarms, from Andrea Mead Lawrence, who won two skiing gold medals for atrons ar
deadly pestilence be Thy our sure defence, the United States in the 1952 Olymples, began the descent of Thy true religion in our heari Papoose Peak with the official increase. Thy bounteous good- neos nourish us in peace, be drums from
guardian, the Thou vur ruler, States, Richord M. Nixon - roll of presenting President Dwight Marine band accompanied her guide and stay thy word our
the hill.
Thy paths Followed by law, the VIII Olymple Winter eight other skiers and holding woy."
Eisenhower to proclaim
torch,
open down
games, infiinted by the Baron the torch aloft, Mrs Lawrence
Pierre De Coubertine,"
Nixon, speaking from his box!
skater
Prayer
Oath
Our chosen
Carol
arrived at the skating rink,
At the edge of the skating During his prayer, In the Tribune of Honour, said: oval she handed the torch to Helss, America's world champlon
"I now declare open the Ken Henry,
United States gold gure skater, inconspicuously Olymple Games of medal winner at
the American delegation the 1902 left Winter Eighth Winter Games." Squaw Valley celebrating the Olymples in Oro, The Marine and began a lonely walk to the ali Į was just inside the open end of entered in this Olympics
She represented bur played the march from rostrum. Some spectators expressed "The Captain from Castile" na the Vice-the arena, attired in heavy olivejup and the parade of athletes
athletes in reciting The These included. U.S. president Richard M. Nixon, green uniforms,
point on Henry skated with long, grace- Olympic oath. began. Just as the parade stari- myslineation at this
the roting that u dame was burning ful strides around The ceremony began with an fed the show stopped and
the arena, whose plane from Sacramento,
Vice-president sun broke through.
brightly in the large petéstal the torch elevated high in his California, to Reno, Nevada, was Introduction of
of Nations. 1ight hand. not allowed to land for several Nixon by columnist Bill Henry The Greek flag came first al- at the Tower minutes because of the storm. of the Los Angeles Times, who though Greece does not have a although the skier and
acted as public address an-team in these Winter Olymples. who were supposed
After the fooms got to their the torch down Squaw poaltions, annauhoër Band around the stenting oval had Henry asked the crowd in not yet appeared, sive a "big American wel- After the Olympic hymn was como" to the Olympic athletes sung by a massed chorus of High School students, of all nations. The asaеm-4,000 blage responded with a roar. Renzo Menardi, Deputy Mayor With the teams in position the of Cortina, Italy, site of the 1050 flag bearers marched outside the Winter Games, presented arena to encircle the speaker's Winter Olymple fag to U.S. Congressmart Harold T. John- stand,
son, who represents this district In the American Congress.
It was
The venue The venue of the opening ceremony was indoors at the Blyth Ice Arens and outdoors at the tower of Nations. The arena temperature was right around freezing. 27 degrees Fahrenheit outside.
For more than an hour before the programme began, a 2,000- voled High School chorus stood in the swirling snow on elther side of the Tower of Nations, In front of the singers were 1,500 shivering melons, mem-
nouncer,
Approximately 5,500 pcela- tors were in the preza,
of
In a freworks display open- ing the Games, the flag Greece, the United States, the VIII Winter Olymple flag and the Olymple fag zelf wers Gred Into the nir, Then Henry said; "The people of the United America, to all the States of
welcome
people of the world, and honour to the Olympians. As first in the far Greek Pelopon-
FOUR D. JONES THE REBEL TRIO TAKE TO
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Prentis C. Hale, Presdent of the Olymple organising com- mittee, wag Die first speaker. He urged the athletes to get toypother
!... AND ON REACHING THE BRIDGE
THEY MEET THE DEPOSED DICTATOR
ETAT GENERAL TWINGES
GOING SOME - WHERE.AMIGOS? WHAT'S ALL
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After that came three can- non shots and the release or
THE POPULATION OF OBUVIA HAVE GONEALL
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Henry, after making circult of the skating Oval, cilmbed-up a bank in front of the Tower
of Nations, then ascended A white wooden Lower, and dipped the torch into the
metal large black bowl stop its standard lendung
ihe fame that will
barn throughout the 11-day Games. Actor Karl Malda then read an Olymple prayer":
"Ged of our fathers, may this flame of truth and brotherhood
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At a given signal during the national anthem, the first of many salvos of daylight shells fred, sending ponderous war puffs of smoke sweeping over the Tower of Nations, Thousands of balloons-blue, yellow, red, were released and goated gally off into the brightening skies to the West-AP.
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
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