ROME – They were the Summer Games that ushered in the Olympics as we know them today. Starting 50 years ago on Wednesday, Rome hosted the first Summer Olympics to be commercially broadcast. They were ...

ROMEROME — They were the Summer Games that ushered in the Olympics as we know them today. Starting 50 years ago on Wednesday, Rome hosted the first Summer Olympics to be commercially broadcast. They ...

Television - and gold medals - made a boxer named Cassius Clay and sprinter Wilma Rudolph household names. A glamorous setting for a larger pool of competitive nations. And lots of money spent on the ...

The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome were fraught with change and significance. It was a time of racial struggle in the United States. The Cold War between the USSR and the United States was heating up.

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On the final evening of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, a ...

The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reflected a changing world. Despite the subtitle of David Maraniss' new non-fiction book, Rome 1960, it's hyperbolic to say the Games themselves altered people's ...

Book Tour is a Web feature and podcast. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work. On the surface, the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome were a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chapter One All Roads to Rome Two weeks before the opening of the 1960 Rome Olympics, in the midst of one of the hottest summers of the cold war, a press ...