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Maybelle Van Winkler...
...best known as Vinnie Barbarino, the tough, macho "Sweathog" in ABC's hit series Welcome Back, Kotter. The show is an updated version of Happy Days, a genial exercise in instant nostalgia, and Vinnie Barbarino is barely distinguishable from Arthur Fonzarelli, a.k.a. the Fonz, who made Henry Winkler famous. As it happens, Travolta even resembles Winkler...
Travolta's approach to his career, however, is very much his own. Despite his youth, he has been acting for ten years. Unlike Winkler, he does not spend his energies talking about the Yale Drama School or other heavy topics. Instead, he has shrewdly consolidated his reputation by recording a bland rock album tailored to subteens. Let Her In, Travolta's biggest hit on the album, is now No. 5 on the Cashbox charts...
...Womansurge warfare comes at a time when much of feminism's early momentum is gone. Though Womansurge is planning a national conference of feminists to take stock of the movement, it has no plans to become a membership organization rivaling NOW. But, says Wendy Winkler of the New Orleans 13, "if the leadership of NOW is so alienated from its members that there is no place to go, we may become a viable alternative to NOW. I'm hoping it doesn't happen...
California prosecutors are limited by similar requirements. Says Jack Winkler, an assistant attorney general who heads the state's criminal-law division: "We are most interested and concerned by what she has had to say. But mere words do not constitute a crime...