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...AROUND US are signs that rock 'n' roll is getting old, and not just old but respectable too. Elvis Presley once outraged an older generation's aesthetic and moral tastes with his youthful exuberance and the sexual swivel of his hips. These days Las Vegas audiences pay huge sums to see the now 40-years-plus entertainer--grown paunchy with dyed hair and capped teeth--struggle through one abbreviated set. The Rolling Stones, defiant, sneering stars of the '60s, now mingle easily among the best of any Social Register crowd, and much the same holds true for other rock stars...
...masters of upmanship. A leader of Israel's elite Palmach commandos in 1948 and a hero of the 1967 war, Rabin seldom loses a chance to one-up his Defense Minister on military matters. During briefings by Peres (who never served in uniform), Rabin has been known to swivel impatiently in his chair, scowl and then ignore his minister by shooting questions directly at uniformed generals present. Complains a Peres aide: "Right from the start, Rabin was out to humiliate Peres in any way he could...
...conventions. Of course, networks have other motives. Conventions are their most conspicuous "public service"; they are also television's own Olympics, with their news departments' prestige at stake. Besides, there is the adrenaline of it: a fatiguing 12-hour day watching over his loyal floormen from a swivel-chaired aerie has to be as heady for Walter Cronkite as describing five blast-offs Into space. Yet all the feats of gadgetry, all the energetic floor work went largely to waste during last week's noisy and frequently mindless prime-time demonstrations...
...Catholic grammar school. "I was beating this guy out for the position," Schreiber says, "so he pulled off my cap, and the priest who was coaching the team shrieked, 'It's a girl!' and ordered me off the field." But she came on strong later as "Swivel Hips Schreiber," star running back on the girls' flag football team at Rice University. Her 50-yard near-touchdown run (she slipped three yards from the goal line) made the front page of the Houston Chronicle. In Montreal last week, Schreiber tested her speed against the former U.S. Olympic...
Slumped down in his high-backed swivel chair, his brown boots propped on his typewriter, Jordan, 31, looked like a young man-with his pink face and shiny black hair-speaking to a late date. As he talked, his fingers riffled through a sheaf of unanswered telephone slips, and every so often he rolled one up and tossed it across the room at a nearby wastebasket...