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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Coverage of the 1960 Rome Olympics in Life Magazine

1960 Life Magazine article on the 1960 Olympic Games

Courtesy of Google Books -- coverage of the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics in the September 12, 1960 issue of Life Magazine. Back then, it was apparently acceptable to refer to a female athlete (German diver Ingrid Krämer) as "chubby."

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