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OPLAN 7.7/What does it take to put on a track meet? If it’s a high school dual meet, it takes some runners, a starter, a couple of stop-If it’s the national Junior Olympics, the logistics are infinitelymore complicated. No only is there track, but swimming, diving,gymnastics and judo. Providing facilities to live, practice andcompete for some t50 young athletes is a major task. Makingo smoothly with 18 months of advance planning order of planning. jWhen Sid Brooks decided Colorado Springs should be the sitefor the 1971 Junior Olympics, it remained to the highly-organized Air Force Academy and the city of Colorado Springs to engageall their resources in making it come about.The recent furor over the Pentagon papers came about over classified material on the Vietnam War But few wars have been fought with as meticulous precision as is listed in an official Air Force document—USAF Academy Operations Plan Number 1-71:AN 1-71.ht a mr*OPLAN 1-71 sets forth the plan for the 1971 Junior Olympics,!starting Monday with the arrival of the first planeload of competitors and continuing through Friday, when they all depart.If you haven’t seen a military operations document, you will beil covered in the 86-page plan. And, lest ourjmore officious friends object to the publication of military se- 'it be known that on each and every page is printed ;^lAinn|y k J tf
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Tue, Aug 03, 1971
Page 15
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