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...Patterson, 27, a Chicago teacher, wanted to learn German before she takes a trip to Europe this summer. Olga Howard, 86, whose family spoke German when she was a child and who lives in Evanston, Ill., was anxious to teach the language. They both called the Learning Exchange, a service that connects people who want to learn something with people who want to teach it. The women have been meeting once a week ever since, and Mrs. Howard has "high hopes that Dee will be understood when she asks where to check her luggage" upon her arrival in Austria...
...team now touring the U.S. is being hailed as much for its trencherman as its skill on the high bars. Last week when the team arrived in San Francisco, plates of pears, mangoes, bananas and pineapples (all unavailable in Moscow) were awaiting them. But the star of the team, Olga Korbut, prefers apples. Said Olga's special bodyguard, "She eats them by the dozen. In fact, she eats everything in sight." None of the French fries, hamburgers, pancakes or cases of catsup, however, make the slightest bulge on Olga's 82-lb. frame. When she is not swinging...
...princess to empress of the sport. Grass is not her favorite surface, though that did not stop her from taking the Wimbledon crown this summer. But King's grit could reassert itself, and a number of foreign competitors, including Australia's Evonne Goolagong and Russia's Olga Morozova, are around to keep the action crisp...
...Every top player is a loner. You're not a follower. You're a leader," explained Wimbledon Women's Singles Champ Chris ("The Icicle") Evert, 19, after her easy victory over Russia's Olga Morozova. Fortunately, Loner Chris has another leader to lean on: Wimbledon Men's Winner Maverick Jimmy Connors, 21, who demolished Ken Rosewall in straight sets. Jimmy and Chrissie established a record of sorts: they are the first fiancés ever to win at Wimbledon in the same year, and got a big hand when they led the dancing...
Because of the wide gap between white-and blue-collar feminism, some union women believe that the two should be kept apart. Says Unionist Wolfgang: "Sisters cannot unify solely because they are women. We have to look at class rather than sex." Olga Madar, international vice president of the United Auto Workers and newly appointed president of the CLUW, disagrees: "For the first time women workers have united to speak out against sexual discrimination. At the same time union women bring real, down-to-earth issues to the feminist movement. The blend is important...