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...past two years, Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church has stirred more controversy in the maritime town than anyone there can recall. "You'll have to strap marks on your ass before I give you a permit...you're not welcome here," Mayor Leo Alper told two church representatives when they applied for a harbor development permit in 1978. And since they opened shop in Gloucester four years ago, the world has started to watch. Members of Moon's church have gradually established a profitable fish processing plant there in addition to their even more lucrative operations in Kodiak...
...sport's growth has been the improved quality of the skates themselves. Equipped with the quiet and smooth-rolling polyurethane wheels and precision ball bearings that were developed for skateboards, the new skates have better traction and more maneuverability than the noisy metal strap-on models that kids used to rattle around on. Says Harry Ball, 61, president and owner of the California-based Sure-Grip Skate Manufacturing Co., which this year will double its 1978 sales of over $5 million: "The new skate is no longer a toy but a piece of athletic equipment...
...sell not only skates but also items of rolling paraphernalia like arm and knee pads priced at $5 to $15 a pair and $10 visors that light up at night for safety. Roller fashions are also in demand. Chicago Designer Roberta Jakus' "Roller Rinx" line of satin, spaghetti-strap tank tops and shorts and jackets are selling at $43 per outfit. One manufacturer is preparing a line of skates that look like cowboy boots but carry a city slicker price tag: $200. A current fashion at roller rinks is old skate keys color-plated with disco colors and hung...
...biggest the size of suitcases and the best equipped with auxiliary tape decks. The fancy status symbols of the genre- Sanyos or Sonys or JVCs- cost up to $400, but for a mere $55 a box-toter can get a General Electric tape model that comes with a shoulder strap, a 5-in. heavy magnet speaker, an automat ic program advance, a variable tone control, an eight-track cassette player and, of course, great promise: It is called Loudmouth II. To the new breed of listener, such equipment has already be gun to seem a natural part of existence, inevitable...
...second play fares much better. After a minute break. Porter in white, black bra strap sliding down her arm, launches into a gutsy chat about her lost gloves, her almost lover, and her father's death. Here she has a character to play, and she plays it for all its worth. Her streetwise manner and stance never break as she cracks her jokes, and snares a light for her cigarette from a man in the audience, yet she is suddenly vulnerable remembering the pointlessness of her father's death. We can forgive her occasional stumbling, as she catches...