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...cities are always sold out?and have long waiting lists. Half a dozen pros have been joined to players in holy matrimony, and the groups average about five or six marriages a year between the clients themselves. Commenting on the swingles system, former U.S. Information Agency Director Carl Rowan, an avid Washington tennis player, observes, "It's a safer and healthier way of getting a date, but it sure costs a lot more than buying three martinis." Confided a single girl at a New York City tennis club: "It's not like being picked up in a singles...
...newest glory of the cathedral is its third and final rose window (see color), which was installed earlier this year. The window, 26 ft. in diameter, is the work of Virginia Artist Rowan Le-Compte, 51, who was enthralled during a chance visit to the cathedral when he was 14 and decided to teach himself the techniques of stained glass. His subsequent career as an artist included many stained-glass commissions, and in 1971 the cathedral assigned him the rose window. Because it is deeply recessed and in shade much of the time, LeCompte used chipped nuggets of thick glass...
...does that these days, he told TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, "by making three versions of the same movie: a hot version (and we go the limit) for the U.S., Japan and Europe; a cold version with the bodies all covered for Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan; and a medium version for Hong Kong. Thailand used to be hot, but the students made an issue out of sex and so now it's cold...
...These United States, an homage to the country's natural beauty. Roland Flamini's tour as TIME'S Hollywood reporter led to Scarlett, Rhett and a Cast of Thousands, the story of how Gone With the Wind was made. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan spent a week on board the Mayaguez after the ship was rescued from the Cambodians, taping the recollections of captain and crew. During a six-week "vacation" he wrote from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. to produce The Four Days of Mayaguez. Jerrold Schecter, head of our Moscow bureau from...
Still, no journalist has treated the four days of the Mayaguez with such attention to personal and military detail. His facts, speedily and scrupulously assembled, make a strong, if arguable case for the American response. To Rowan, amid all the ambivalent U.S. op erations overseas, the recovery of the Mayaguez now appears to be an odd but valid entry in the saga of victory...