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Writer Clarke has been a fascinated observer of that industry and its products for most of their existence. "When I was a kid growing up in Los Angeles, the whole family would sit around and watch roller derbies and wrestling-the only things that were on sometimes in those days," says Clarke. "In 1949 that little flickering black and white image in your living room was like some invention of Merlin." Clarke, who came to TIME in 1965, was our Show Business writer in the early '70s, and returned to the job full time last January. These days...
...Riverside Park in Agawam, Mass., the main attraction was the Kennedy clan. Paterfamilias Ted braved the Thunderbolt roller coaster with Teddy Jr., 15, sailed through the "Music Express" with Kara, 17, and happily bumped minicars with Patrick, 10. The occasion: a three-day family outing in western Massachusetts. Besides his own brood of three, Ted took along seven of their cousins. The agenda included canoeing, visiting a wildlife sanctuary and, of course, sleeping under the stars. The Kennedys also visited the home of Herman Melville in Pittsfield, and caught the Linda Ronstadt concert at Tanglewood, where they were joined...
...back in January of 1965, the Dow Jones industrials cracked the 900 level for the first time. Since then, the average has been on a roller-coaster ride-dropping as low as 631 in mid-1970, soaring as high as 1052 at the start of 1973. But it has been a ride to nowhere; after all the ups and downs, the average is just about where it was a dozen years ago. Moreover, even those figures badly understate just how dismal the performance has been. Stock prices have been stagnating at best while prices of just about everything else have...
Earlier, he had rented a Memphis movie theater and a roller rink for afterhours amusement. In recent years, his only forays out into the real world were concert tours that were carefully insulated. The routine was usually the same: private plane to private limo to back entrance of hotel to specially cleared elevator to penthouse suite; then, after a while, off to the concert, onto the stage, back to the hotel, then to the airport. Reality never intruded, except when the schedule faltered. In a 1972 documentary, Elvis on Tour, there is a quick scene of Elvis, stranded...
...Texas State Men's Twirling Championship two months ago -and won. He is now demonstrating routines like high tosses and the California Bounce to judges at the National Baton Twirling Championships in Denver. After the competition, Murphy plans to give up the baton and switch to another hobby: roller skating...