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Blacks? Chicanos? Women's Liberationists? Nope. Old folks. The latest protest group making waves is a doughty band called the Gray Panthers, founded in Philadelphia by a curt, spry lady named Margaret Kuhn, 67, who definitely does not weave scatter rugs or play shuffleboard. She and five chums, all retired church workers of different denominations, set up headquarters in Philadelphia's Tabernacle Church last year. Their basic goals: to develop a new life-style and a new base for the elderly...
...pungent clouds of orange-blossom fragrance. On either side are expansive, marshy pastures, dotted with browsing brahma bulls and heifers. There are other signs of the area's normal atmosphere -the Sebring without gears. On the town's outskirts sit neatly tended villages of mobile homes and shuffleboard courts. Sebring is middle Florida, where the air is clean and dry, and the main profession is retirement...
...grandfather, sat on the couch across from the desk, by the window overlooking the shuffleboard courts, the swimming pool, the beach-his haunts on normal days. He seems to be a tall man (although he really isn't), perhaps because he is still so fit and dapper. Bright blue shirt, ruddy tan face, white hair combed back. He is much quieter than my grandmother, a little hard of hearing now, and is very good with a cigar. You might say he plays George Burns to his wife's Gracie Allen...
Most important, friendships are easy to make. One relative newcomer to Laguna Hills Leisure World, Calif., received more than 200 get-well cards from her new neighbors when she went to a hospital in Los Angeles. There is an emphasis on good times: dancing, shuffleboard, outings on oversized tricycles and bowling (the Keen Agers v. the Hits and Mrs.). Clubs abound, including Bell Ringing, Stitch and Knit, Lapidary and "tepees" of the International Order of Old Bastards. The I.O.O.B. motto: "Anything for fun." There is, in a sense, a chance for a new start. "It doesn't matter what...
...swimming pool is no longer enough. In Houston, Developer Jenard Gross' latest 1,250-unit project will also have a shopping center, tennis courts, a gym and sauna baths, along with air-conditioned one-bedroom apartments for $150 a month. Some builders throw in a private cocktail lounge, shuffleboard courts, a putting green or even a big community center for games, hobbies and parties...