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...Saturday night, the giant, orange brick building at Des Plaines, Ill., sounds like an axle factory on overtime. In fact, though its name is the Axle, the place is a roller rink, one of hundreds of new skating palaces that are riding a revival of the sport reminiscent of its Gay Nineties' heyday...
...since the early '40s has roller skating enjoyed such a boom: an estimated 18 million teen-agers and young adults have discovered the delights of eight-wheel drive. Schools across the country are scheduling skating classes and turning gymnasiums into makeshift rinks. The Parsippany-Troy Hills, N.J., school system recently bought 1,800 pairs of skates for student use. New Mexico State University in Las Cruces even gives credits for skating, and the Boy Scouts have introduced a roller merit badge. But the majority of skaters have been lured by the garish, ultramodern rinks that are becoming as much...
Though teens clearly run the show at most Midwestern rinks, many physical fitness buffs have taken to the sport, which is easier on the ankles than ice-skating. Says one enthusiast: "You can roller skate for five hours without getting tired." Gutsy oldsters are also gradually invading the rinks, eager to brush up on fancy footwork learned back in the '30s-notably the "spread eagle" and the "mohawk," turning movements used to reverse direction. The management often obliges by playing such nostalgic tunes as Tea for Two, Rambling Rose and Heart of My Heart...
...fetching smile. Scarcely a year ago, students demonstrating against the regime covered Cairo walls with insults directed at her, the largely unknown First Lady. But since the October War, when Mrs. Sadat spent highly publicized 20-hour days visiting troops, touring hospitals and working as a bandage roller with the Egyptian Red Crescent, she has won over even these youthful critics. Civilians as well as soldiers refer to her by the sobriquet conferred by the armed forces, "Mother of the Fighting...
Badge of Honor. For some, sitting through the film has become a badge of honor, like riding the steepest roller coaster in the amusement park. "I've been in this business 47 years, and I've never seen anything like it," asserted Los Angeles Theater Manager Harry Francis. He estimates that each performance exacts an audience toll of four blackouts, half-a-dozen bouts of vomiting and multiple spontaneous exits...