European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse The games up pie Gomes my lame Burnt be fore floodlit olympic Tower. Soccer imodium lop and pent Agenol wrestling stadium Ore at a Omokawa sport Park Complex. Left Center ii memorial Tower. Monorail links Airport to City. New roads have been by if too. Appedu by George Eberl Scalf Wilder in Sokoni so years ago had hinted that i la olympic ilium s would one Day i staged in Tokyo to would have been laughed right off his Rice Purily. Tin Prospect was Ubu i us Bright orphan Annie gulling married. Vat in ii few Shori Dilys the world s must ii Julmis City will turn itself in Side jul la i he whirl a a most notable Musi a orgy the olympiad. Sleek athletes from the Plains of he american Midwest Puiul the Steppes of Central Aslou Greco Tomun Grunt and groaners including perhaps a few from Greece and rom trim equestrians from the world s Horsey sets divers und Rashmin Sci Gnu life cars an whistle blowers vault cars and vendors Tui the usual hordes of hangers on and official will descend with Locust like fury on Dili teeming Tlly in the land of the teahouse and the , and before the final Smuke of the olympic Torch drifts away into them Coly publicized japanese Sunset it is is limited that 12.5 billion will have been ladled out much of it in per manent improvements for Tok Omak Init the ism games the in mile a in olym Pic history. Translated into yen tin1 Fil tire is staggeringh9j.73i.ibo.wx. When Commodore Matthew Calb Niilo Perry floated into Tokyo Liny in ih51 to demand that Japan shed us centuries old tradition of isolationism and establish diplomatic relations with the t United slates few would have guessed shut 110 Vears later this Simie tiny Island Empire would throw open us doors to vast Ai mics of athletes. What is More an internal Lonzil Dis has hit the once detached japanese that makes Asiatic flu seem inconsequential olympic fever. Its symptoms which wracked name in 1980 and which were Muchley in evidence Early this year at Innsbruck Austria during the Winter instalment of the olympiad even now have set up quivers along Tokyo s main drag Ihmi. And stirred excitement in such varied Corners us Coffee House and squid paddlers shops hotels and i Vic offices. In fact City officials have been work ing overtime appropriating funds for a remarkable array of purposes chief Lymuell million Dollar construction projects to delivering edicts designed to Poge 10 the stars and stripes Dull up Tokyo s exotic moral climate. Caring greatly what people think and out ii Nii a to lose Fiscu in the crowd of nearly 7.000 alleles from 115 nations not to mention the other thousand who will show up for satisfaction of the pleasure motive Tokyo s City father arc trying to truck Down on u Host of Long accepted features sidewalk slum Bering aug runs the Shady ladles of Honky Tonk bistros urination in the Tokyo s civic official ire banking heavily on traditional japanese crack Rusness la offset Uny disturbing Ira pres Slons their visitors May receive. The local polic have been relentless in their efforts to whip the More casual till into against such highly gifted entrepreneurs As pickpocket Nai reached a fever pitch and Lawi have been passed requiring dark and mysterious Coffee shops to Supply Light Ade quate enough to read a newspaper from 12 inches and More recently for these Coffee houses to close Al 11 . Strictly in terms of financial output millions of dollars have been Laid out Lor More housing an outlay that will offer Post olympic Relief to Tokyo s Jam packed 10 million inhabitants As Well As improved transportation including new roadways und newly completed local und Long distance railways. All of these projects arc Over and alive the major sport complexes be ing erected to accommodate the olym pics itself. The spurting aspect of the games seemingly almost forgotten in the ire ii led a ii creating an atmosphere Mari Western than the West Ern hemisphere itself May also take a Hack Seal during the frantic 15 Days to politics and to the inevitable shenanigans of the visiting athletes an officials. International friction has already been witnessed Over the participation of in Donesia Cambodia nationalist China South Africa and North and South Korea. Indonesia was suspended by the International olympic committee for its refusal to allow nationalist China and Israel to Lake part in the 1993 asian games it Djakarta. Although the Ioc recently offered to lift the Hun. A Balky Indonesia promptly Stu cd us rival " Lames of the new emerging cum Budia took Indonesia s Side in the ruckus. And if his weren t enough nationalist China had threatened to Boycott the olympics lie Cimic of the Ioc s decision that it must compete us Taiwan and South Korea said it would pull out it the North korean National Anthem we replayed or if the North korean Flag were displayed. While the general atmosphere could prove to be More chaotic than a dog at a Flea circus there is ample reason 10 in Livo thin the 196-1 olympics May pro vide Sun Bright positive moments on mid off the Field of Bailie. Beyond the Pale of Pool and Urana these games have produced More than one marriage. Among the More notable the betrothal of Penny i Itou und austrian skier Ekuni Zimmerman who met in the us Winter olympics it Squaw Valley Calif. Of less recent Vintage was the mus Cular marriage of american Hummer thrower Harold Connolly und Czecho Slov klan discus Tosser Olga and czech male who met in Melbourne in 1958, competed for . At Rome in 1900, nor is it Only Romance that flourishes ii kind of camaraderie among the Curi Ous nations alleles frequently Springs a i if. Of Iii i Iii sunday october 4/1964
