RUSSIA: Physkultura Hurrah!

"In Russia there is little or no talk about war," wired the A.P.'s Eddy Gilmore. "The question of burning interest at the moment is football."

Last week Moscow's big Dynamo Stadium, which looks like a Hotchkiss firstformer's dream of the Yale Bowl, put on a show that made the U.S. collegiate spirit look limp. Occasion: the Soviet Union jutbol (soccer) championship final between Moscow's red-jerseyed Spartak eleven (made up of cooperative workers) and the blue-jerseyed Dynamo team from Tiflis (who represented the Georgian Republic's interior ministry).

The Dynamos seemed pretty sure to win....

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