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Show 18th Olympiad Opensiin Tokyoin Splash of Color, Pageantry By JACK V. FOX or. the Olympic ealendar’ for United Press International TOKYO (UPI) — The Olympic games opened Saturday to the sound of oriental gongs and the spectacle of 5,500 athletes marching in rainbow-hued costume to the delight of a proud but. rather reserved stadium packed with 72,000 Japanese and their overseas. visitors. 1964. The girls looked lovely and Hirohito—dressed in western|a good cheer by waving indihonors for dress probably were|morning suit—appeared in the} vidual little Japanese flags. taken by the British and Ger-|royal box shortly before 2 p.m. Pomp And Ceremony But Saturday it was pomp and ceremony, music and speeches. Emperor Hirohito formally inaugurated the games in a onesentence speech in. Japanese: man ladies, dressed almost| Japanese standard time. identically in all pink, and the A few minutes later, On and on they came, until. the 368member United. States the|team came marching in good Australian lasses in yellow. The|Olympic team. from Greece led rhythm. The American men American girls were in patriot-|the march into the stadium, the|wore > cowboy-style hats. The ic combine — blue bolero jack-|remainder coming in alphabeti-|flag bearer was shotputter Par“1 declare open the Olympic ets, white skirts, red shoes and cal order except for Japan, ry O’Brien. Right behind the Americans gaines of Tokyo. at the XVIII handbags with a few wearing| which as the host nation was Olympiad of the modern era.” red ribbons in their hair. last. came Russia with weightlifter The biggest cheers for the It was a perfect, sunny day The opening went without a Australia got a big welcome. and poet Yuri Vlasov carrying ~ for the start of the 18th Olym- teams went, naturally, to the hitch. Japanese police and|The first of the Communist|the hammer and sickle. Their piad, first ever held in Asia. Japanese host contingent and members of the Ground Self|athletes were the Bulgarians. women, sharp in cream colored Jet planes painted the five then almost equally to the Unit- Defense Force (Army) were|They waved cheerfully to the|suits, all waved red handkerring Olympic insignia in deli- ed.States, the Soviet Union and out en masse to control the|stands and were warmly ap-|chiefs to the crowd as they circate colors in the sky. Doves in to Mexico — whose men and crowds and traffic and squelch|plauded. When the 39-member|cled the track and filed into the thousands wheeled and cir- women in brilliant red jackets any would - be demonstrators. Cuban delegation entered, it got!line facing Hirohito. cled above the vast crowd. Can- stood out vividly on the green There was no w non boomed. A slender Hiro- field. Wears Western Suit The applause in| the vast shima College boy in white ran gracefully around the track and arena: was warm but certainly up more than 100 green carpet- not thunderous and few spectaed steps to light the flame that tors got to their feet. The Japwill burn the next two weeks. anése are rioted for their reYOUR MONEY REFUNDED Sunday the athletes got down serve. Until a few years ago, (1) IF you are not satisfied with the price of your glasses. to the business they came here although wild about baseball, (2) IF your lenses and framesare notfirst quality. for — competition in rowing, they would watch a game in basketball, boxing, football (soc- utter silence except to applaud (3) IF you paid extra for “Credit”, mildly for a fine play or home cer), weightlifting, field hockey, wrestling, swimming and div- run. Large Number Participate ing, riding, volleyball and water polo. They are the first sports There we 94 nations in Saturx |day’s opening ceremony. North Korea, Indonesia, Ecuador and SUNDAY, OCTOBER1, 194 Sunday Herald 13 SATISFACTION Uncouditionally GUARANTEED TORCH CEREMONY—Yoshinori Sakai, 19-year-old student born on day of Hiroshima atomic bombing, runs around the National} Stadium in Tokyo as he arrives to light the flame at the opening of the XVIII Olmypiad. (Herald-UPI Telephoto) "ONE LOW PRICE 4|\Barbados withdrew at the last moment but it was still the largest Olympic turnout in history—surpassing by 10 the number of nations at Rome in 1960. They ranged from: the huge German team, larger even than the Russian and American contingents, to the entry from the country of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. 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