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...wedding pictures are ready for the album, and at 22, Olga Korbut has left her temper tantrums-and her parallel bars-behind. The Olympic gold medalist plans to coach gymnastics rather than perform. She also hopes to travel with her husband, Leonid Bortkevich, 27, a singer with the Soviet Union's popular folk-rock group Pesnyary (Singers). First stop: Cuba, where the couple will have a delayed honeymoon and where Leonid's group has an invitation to warble. As usual Pesnyary will perform jazzed-up Byelorussian songs. A pity, since Olga's favorites are by Stevie Wonder...
...historical have endured as voluptuous celebrations of human passion and faith. Marking the 400th anniversary of his birth, Rubens by Frans Baudouin (Abrams; 405 pages; $60) pays rich tribute to the Flemish master with a gallery of 278 illustrations and a meticulous text tracing his stylistic development and the temper of his times...
Oblivious to the reprimands from the other side of Houston, the Women's Conference kept up its brisk pace. Only on the last day did the women begin to show understandable signs of fatigue and short temper. The final resolution proposed creating a Cabinet-level department to deal with women's issues. Some delegates objected that the position would "ghettoize" feminist concerns in one department and take the pressure off other areas of Government. The resolution was the first and the last to be disapproved. With that, the meeting adjourned in boisterous disarray...
...part, Howell derides his opponent as "Young Johnny" or "Johnny Boy" and accuses Dalton's camp of "Nazi-like" tactics. Howell has tried to temper his maverick image by invoking his closeness to Jimmy Carter, who joined him on the campaign trail last September. Moreover, Howell is running on the same ticket with Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law Chuck Robb, a reassuringly moderate candidate for Lieutenant Governor...
...then the new Chris Doherty took control again, avoiding a seemingly imminent game ejection by trotting off the field before the brouhaha got out of hand. This is the Doherty that has tamed his temper and come up with a banner season in the Crimson backfield...