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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989:Somewhere in the Southern Alps would seem ideal [for a H...
Date: 1968
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 and Lonsdale, Neil 1907-1989:Ten cartoons by Lodge and one by Lonsdale on the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: A-349-034
Description: The cartoon shows three ways in which athletes could be conditioned for the high altitude conditions of Mexico City where the 1968 Olympic Games were to be held by training in the Southern Alps. Leaping across a chasm would have an automatic eliminating efffect for the long jump if the athlete could not make it; a runner is sped up by being chased by an angry mountain goat and a tourist outside the Hermitage Hotel has been knocked out by a shot put. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone, newspaper cutting and pencil 441 x 330 mm