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...male dancer reaches into a movie screen for his ballerina and performs a perfect pas de deux with her projected image. A pianist plays onstage accompanied by seven movie versions of himself, playing different instruments. A roller skater, chasing four girls who have boarded a bus, rolls downhill on the narrow streets of the oldest quarter of Prague, dodging pedestrians, cars, cops, beer carts, fire engines, lampposts. This roller skater is onstage as well as on various screens, weaving and skirring from one medium to the other. Some spectators found this bizarre slalom more breathtaking than the roller-coaster ride...
Married. Chubby Checker, 22, Negro rock 'n' roller who started the ball writhing a couple of years ago when he made the twist the dance of the hour; and Catherina Lodders, 21, devastating (37-23-37) Dutch model, Miss World of 1962; in a ceremony performed by the white pastor of the Temple Lutheran Church of Merchantville, NJ. The surprise guest turned out to be Chubby's mother, Mrs. Eartie Evans, who had opposed the interracial marriage at first but finally came round, deciding "if I couldn't beat them, I'd join them...
...teacher you have me guessing! How could she "find time for some seven hours of practice every day, lift weights, work out on roller skates, and run as many as 40 200-meter sprints in the afternoon under the watchful eye of a coach?" Please let us in on her big secret. When does she grade her papers? VIRGINIA COLSON DUFFIELD Garden Grove, Calif...
...like Grishin and Lidia Skoblikova are "amateurs" mainly because there are no professionals in Russia. Grishin is an officer in the Red army, and Skoblikova is a schoolteacher who finds time for some seven hours of practice every day. Even during the offseason, Lidia lifts weights, works out on roller skates, and runs 200-meter sprints-as many as 40 in a single afternoon-all under the watchful eye of a coach. Terry McDermott has had practically no instruction at all: the U.S. Olympic coach lives, of all places, in Los Angeles. Winner McDermott's total preparation...
...Control. After graduating from M.I.T. in 1895, Sloan parlayed a $5,000 grubstake into control of a small New Jersey roller-bearing plant. In 1916 William Durant, the flamboyant founder of General Motors, bought out Sloan, who became a G.M. executive. Only four years later, when Durant was forced out for speculating in G.M. shares, Sloan had shown such a flair for organization that the new Du Pont management made him executive vice president. In 1923 he became president...