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Senate Backs Coast Bid For 1960 Winter Olympics WASHINGTON, D. C, May 13 UP.— The Senate today approved a bill extending an official invitation to the International Olympic Committee to hold the 1960 winter Olympic games at Squaw Valley, Calif. The bill was approved without dissent. It now goes to the House for action. The Senate passed a bill in February which associated the government in an invitation to hold the summer Olympics at Detroit. The new bill extends a similar invitation for the competition in winter sports. The Olympic games were last held in the United States in 1932 at Los Angeles. That year the winter games were held at Lake Placid, New York. In 1949 Detroit and Lake Placid bid for the 1956 games, but Melbourne, Australia, was selected. The International Olympic Committee is scheduled to meet in Paris June 14 to select the 1960 sites.
