NO GAMES ‘GOLD’
Dozens of souvenir hunters have telephoned the Games office and members of the Games Organising Commitee at their homes wanting a scrap of anything which might be regarded as a genuine Games memento. They are all out of luck. “All that is left are the buildings; nobody will be souveniring them,” the committee chairman (Mr R. S. Scott) said last evening. “When the village emptied out, some people thought an odd shoe, or sweaty singlet, or some such, might have remained, and this was what they were after. “There was nothing left but some rubbish, and now even that is gone,” he said.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33452, 6 February 1974, Page 12
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