Page Ten THEMICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, October 8, 1968 Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY I _ ! / Mexico City welcomes U. Olympians MEXICO CITY W) - The "Star Spangled Banner" rang out over Olympic' Village for the first time yesterday and the head of .Amer-. ica's potent sports army warned Mexicans they had better get used to it. "This is the finest Olympic team 'ever fielded by the United States," said Douglas F. Roby of Detroit, president of the U. S. Olympic Committee, at the offi- cial flag-raising ceremonies. The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Fulton Freeman, who also partici- pated in the early morning ritual atop one of the Aztec pyramids, called upon all American athletes to exercise team spirit and co- operate with one another. While he declined to use the y words, "black" and "white," this jT' was an apparent reference to the early threat of black athletes at G ri d i I t first to boycott and then perhaps stage_ a demonstration at the rgatmet dmtizh ii A great tradition has been tossed asunder by the cruel and fateful righs mvemet, andof Mother Chance. eefntreliatedow accordinghndyes, it is as we had always feared, for we knew this last bastion to both top U.S. officials and mill-ofMaEteshdofllomay tants of the black movement. Now it bias happened, loyal readers. A vegetarian has won Gridde Some 200 of America's finest-: Pickings. the men dapper in blue jackets and gray slacks ,the women eye- catching in red coats, white vests and blue skirts-assembled at the plaza of the flags to receive their official welcome. Javier Miranda ,governor of the village, spoke the words of greet- ing throwing open Mexico's gates of hospitality. "This your home," he said. "I bid you welcome." Then Roby, calling himself a member of the class of 1920, took the rostrum to declare that no team in the Games has been better 'trained for the rigorous two-week competition following official opening ceremonies Sa- turday., Freeman spoke of the good re- lationship between the U.S. and Mexican governments and then turned his attention to the ath- letes themselves. "We hope you will exercise team spirit, not just as a basketball team or a crew," he said, "but as an entire team. You must lift up your fellow athlete when he is Ah, how harsh it sounds lying here on this printed page, How unresponsive to that which has gone before in making Gridde Pick- ings such a wonderful and marvelous tradition among those who creep on this campus. There were those who thought that Meat Eaters might reign supreme forever. But, alas, spinach, broccoli, and the lowly chard will have their day. This week's vegetarian winner is Bob Kotler, nick-named "the mad Crawdad" by his roommates at 415 East Hoover. Bob wins a Cottage Inn pizza complete with carrying case, and local bookies are giving 9-1 that he goes for green pepper on his pizza. There is little else for me to say now, except to entreat all true- red Meat Eaters within miles around to enter Gridde Pickings this i week and wrest the title from Kotler the Heretic.' For, as the Bard put it so well hundreds of years ago today, "Eat Montana Beef." '~ w -, 1 1 Where the girls are is where the Charley Brown is! Made to order ° ~~~~for the classroom commuter,. this ne-okCOsi/jcts .....tailored in 100% wool withne-okGP hr/ ackti 1$mfecelnn, a ra