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THEY SAID IT
Edited by Robert W. Creamer
January 17, 1977
?Claude Charron, Quebec's Sports Minister, on the future of Montreal's Olympic facilities: "The stadium is a white elephant, and if you throw in the velodrome and swimming pool, you have to say I'm in charge of a herd of white elephants."
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January 17, 1977

They Said It

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?Claude Charron, Quebec's Sports Minister, on the future of Montreal's Olympic facilities: "The stadium is a white elephant, and if you throw in the velodrome and swimming pool, you have to say I'm in charge of a herd of white elephants."

?Bruce Munro, former Harvard basketball assistant, asked what kind of player West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller was when he was on the Crimson squad in the '50s: "He was tall."

? Weeb Ewbank, former Colt and Jet coach, on life in retirement in Ohio: "All that's happening to me is that my self-winding watch has run down."

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