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jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim 5 eauties Believe In Mod i been done away with a long time ago. "We don't have chaperones in Spain anymore," says Pa-quita Delgado, an 18-year-old charmer who captivated everybody with her smile. Jungaea Hong, of Seoul, Korea, pointed out how the mod-look fashion has entered her country. "There are minis all over the place and long hair for boys is the 'in' thing," she says. Tonight the most beautiful girl in the world will be crowned.

There will be smiles and tears and glory for the winner. The losers will go back home with a lot to tell and more than enough to the world." An Interesting item about Venezuela is that they use the term "teenager" to describe the members of the young set who are "Americanized," Miss Dominican Republic, Jeanette Rey Garcia, says she had to her mother along with her as chaperone. "My country is very up to date," she says, "American music leads the way in the Dominican Republic and we even have go-go girls dancing inside cages. I love it!" Some Latin girls are proud of their system of taking "mom" along for everything. Others wish the custom had By MARIO GARCIA Reporter of Tht Miami Nawi Teenagers in five continents are dancing to the pulsating tunes of American modern rhythms.

Mini-skirts have taken over from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina to Seoul, Korea, and the mod look is becoming universal. This is the concensus of the 56 international beauties competing for the title of Miss Universe at the Miami Beach Auditorium tonight. The (iris, many of whom are teenagers themselves, have varied opinions on what teenager should do and what they shouldn't. Some of them find that young people in their native lands are pretty much 'Americanized' but are quick to point out the "differ- morning she went out for a swim and spent about fifteen minutes trying to decypher the sex of a "character" git-ting near her. Some of the beauties are not that frightened at the looks of some of our teens.

One of these is Wendy Ballenden, one of the few blondes in the contest this year. Miss South Africa says she is used to the mod look because "teenagers in my country are very much like the English." However, it is rare for the boys to have long hair "unless they play in a band." One wonders what teenagers do with their spare time in the Republic of South Africa since there is no television. "We surf, travel, dance, listen to records and go to see-American movies," explains the 20-year-old South African who was selected among the fifteen winners in the swim suit competition. "Le difference," between teenagers in Belgium and here is very little, says Mau-ricette Sironval, an 18-year-old green-eyed blonde, who ran communicate only in French. Miss Belgium French only The boy-meets-girl, girl-meets-boy Influence is also universal.

But here too are some differences. 'r THP! MIAMI NEWs Miss Spain 'no chaperone Miss Belgium says that mini-skirts here are "too long." "We are mod all the way, our boys wear extremely long hair, and you hear more American music than in the States." The fact that she only speaks French has favored Miss Belgium. Helping her out with the interviews and translating instructions for her is French-born singer Jean-Paul Vignon, who will be guest entertainer at the show tonight. Dating appears to he about the same all over the world. Ingrid Vila Riveros, Miss Chile, says that there is "too much freedom for teens in the United States." The 19-year-old medical technology student points out that parents here are "too liberal." "We have mini-skirts in Chile," she says, "but I find them exaggerated here." Miss Chile says she has a good anecdote to tell the folks back home.

The other Chaperones are still essential elements in the Latin scene. Miss Venezuela, Mariela Perez Branger, a favorite in tonight's contest and one of the fifteen swim suit competition winners, explains that girls are still very much restricted in her country. The shapely brunette with teeth that knock you out says that there is a "teenage movement spreading around fi 'ii. nvre mrtt kvne r.l:,.. 3 jlftt Saturday, July 15, 1967 18-B Miami News Photos by Joe Rtmkus MISS s.

AFRICA IS CHAIOU.NG She's Wondv liallciulrn OtlS Selling Sexual Freedom: A Teen Dilemma Mail Work Calls For Volunteers To find out if there really is a "new morality" among teenage girls Seventeen magazine made a report based on 1,567 responses to a confidential questionnaire Soul Tonight tMmt iH I whwmhww Those who dig "soul" music, often called (rhythm and bluest can hear a leader in that field, Otis Redding, performing in person tonight at 8:30. The program, held at Dinner Key Auditorium, is supported by Arthur Conlcy, Percy Sledge and a host of "soul" singers and instrumentalists. Soul, according to Redding himself, is a word that has many meanings. In the pop world it usually means "an intensely dramatic performance by a singer, projected with such feeling that it reaches out and visibly moves the listener. 1 Some 250,000 March of Dimes mailers, which go to Dade Countians in January to help raise funds to fight birth defects, are now being addressed and stuffed by teenagers from high schools throughout the area.

Mrs. Betty Lou Randolph, executive director of the Dade County Chapter, National Foundation, said that several hundred youngsters are at work, but more help is needed. She suggested that volunteers phone the Dimes Office, 635-6435, and noted that they can do addressing and stuffing at the MOD headquarters, 2917 NW 7th or at home. I 1 TA it getting pregnant," says one high school junior, "But I don't know of a doctor or clinic who would give a girl my age a contraceptive Most kids my age wouldn't know where to turn for an abortion. I couldn't tell my parents; it would hurt them terribly.

A lot of girls don't know what they're getting into when they start relations. It's a very lonely thing it really is." World Crisis Shakes Sam. Up The present world situation has extended its influence into popular music. Sam the Sham has changed the name of his group. A spokesman for Sam said: "Because of the world situation, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs will now be known as the Sam the Sham Revue." Reportedly for the same reason, the new Sam the Sham album has been recalled.

The album cover featured a picture of an Egyptian mummy. and the word Nefertiti. Lovin' Spoonful Is Full Again The week-long mystery surrounding the replacement for Lovin' Spoonful member Zal Yanovsky has been answered. The man who will step into Zal's shoes will be Jerry Yes-ter, a long-time friend of all the Spoonful members. Jerry produced the Association's second album, but has indicated he is very happy about getting back into the perforfing limelight.

EiZZ BROKEN HEARTS, FEAR, CONFUSION Result From Pre-marital Sex sent to girls aged 13-19 out the nation. Last week Young Set took a look at the statistics found by this survey. This week Young Set shows how the Seventeen survey answered the question, "Why do girls' lose their virginity?" By JAXA DAVIS Reporter of Ttio Miami Newi Love was the reason most often given for sexual relations before marriage. A 19-year-old said of herself, "My reason? I'm in love," and of others, "Cheap girls can give no reason." Three out of 5 girls who have had intercourse stress inner insecurity, often resulting from lack of parental love, as the cause. Other girls explain: "Kids think it's a cool thing.

They want to go along with the crowd" "Social pressure around here is unusually high. My town is very advanced. The result is most girls think it's perfectly all right." Pressure from a boy friend, combined with a' desire to hold him, spurs premarital sex. "He says it will prove she loves him, and she's convinced by it," explains one 18-year-old girl from California. Steady progression from necking to petting is also a factor.

Eight out of 10 girls have necked, including two-thirds of the 13-15 year-olds. Seven out of 10 have petted by the time they were 18-19. A sixteen-year-old Floridian says realistically, "If you go with a boy a long time, kissing leads to necking, necking to petting and then maybe passions are aroused and it leads to sexual relations." A 14-year-old confesses, "There are times when I would like to go farther, hut 1 don't feel I'm quite a stable enough Poets Strike A Low Ebb "It means that the ninger is saying something, sometimes even more thim the lyrics themselves might convey normally. Soul is nut something that can he feigned either you have It or you don't," Redding feels. Redding evidently has it to a degree which has placed him among the top 3 artists in his field right up there with James Brown and Lou Rawls.

Redding is currently on the best-seller charts with two items an album with Carla Thomas called "King and Queen," anrt a single also with her called "Tramp." Arthur Conley is a protege of Redding's and has bad such hits as "Sweet Soul Music," "Take Me," and "I Can't Stop." Percy Sledge has had big hits in "When a Man Loves a Woman" and "Just Out of Reach," while Betty Swann, also on the show, has had a t-selling single called "Make Me Yours." Also appearing on the show ar The Manhattans, The 5 Stairsteps, James Carr, Betty Harris, The Bar Ka.ys and Sad Sam. Advance sale tickets for students IS or under are $2.50, adults at Dinner Key Auditorium. All tickets at the door are S3.50. person yet. You shouldn't ever do anything you're scared of." Many girls who were no longer virgins showed serious doubts about the course they had taken.

"It was the worst feeling I've ever had. I quickly stopped dating the boy," says an Alabama high school junior. Another teen, confessing to a guilt, fear and confusion, says, "Now that I've taken on these adult responsibilities, I suppose I must be an adult. But as far as age goes, I'm still very young and there are times when I wish I could put my head on my mother's shoulder again." morality" spoke out strongly with a sex-is-beautiful-when-you're-in love ethical code. "I have never felt guilty about my sex relations," says a Texas high school senior.

"It was something I wanted and did willingly with a person I felt very deeply for." A 17-year-old Connecticut teen puts it this way, "I felt only joy to have shared a beautiful part of life with someone I really love We hope to get married when he graduates from college." A 17-y a r-old New Yorker summed it. up, a casual thing sex is wrong. Kids who regard it as a fun-filled evening disgust me." TEEXS ARE GOING mod-ly mad over the summer pants-dress the teenagers answer to comfort and fashion. A dress that earns it's stripes for high-ranking fashion is this newesy shift from McCall's Patterns. The swinging split skirt can be made i if you wish.

Pattern No. 8815 for Misses' sizes 10-18 sells for 75c. The big fashion stripes pictured here are bold black and white on an easy care arnel and nylon knit. Time out, Young Set poets Eugene Griener, conductor of the Robert Frost Memorial Poetry Contest, has announced that the monthly competition will be discontinued until reopening of the school year. With poetic creativity at low ebb this vacation season, Mr.

Griener suggests that entries be held until the contest is resumed in September. An announcement will be made on the Young Set page next month. Defenders of the "new "I worry terribly about 1 giiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiciia Lb i li1: nr i ni: -i Early Records Keep Boys From Service ii iiniiiniiiiirm Olis Rrariing soul sinprr Unsung Her os Behind Every Show's Limelight There's A Dedicated Technician OPELS don't change too much on the outside. The makers have concentrated mainly on the internal workings An innovation in the engine is the standard 65.8 cubic inch overhead valve four cylinder twirler that churns out 54 H.P. There is also an optional high performance package that ups the compression ratio.

Import cider! that lie didn't Crire for acting all. But he hung around backstage, becoming interested in learning about how things arc done behind the scenes. Starting out as and (iiipliur (as in 'go ler go fer food, put on probation. When I asked him to check into the record of a youngster they had rejected he was surprised but willing. When he found out that particular boy's record amounted to shooting out insulators along a railroad with his air rifle when he was 12 years old, the Coast Guard officer was embarrassed.

But. the fact that the boy had been turned down was by that time recorded in Washington and it took time and a great deal of correspondence, including a letter to his senator, to reverse the Coast Guard's decision. Unfortunately, the kid who yearned to get in the Marines didn't have anybody to help him. The probation officer thought the whole thing was ridiculous and unfair but he didnt' feel that he could fight it. For a piddling, juvenile offense the Marines lost a boy who might have been valuable in his country's service.

And the boy lost a career which he had dreamed of all his life. OpeVs A-luring For Third Year By CELESTIXK SIBLEY Women'i Newi Service The notion that juvenile offenders are not saddled with a record is pure fancy. Newspapers are prohibited from using their names, which is right and proper. The FBI probably does not have a file on them, replete with fingerprints. But a record is kept nonetheless and it is available to the Armed Services, which do not hesitate to use the slightest juvenile infraction against a boy trying to enlist.

A few years ago a probation officer told me sadly of a poor boy who grew up in the slums, frequently hungry and never with enough to wear. His father was in jail from time to time and he might have been expected to follow the family pattern of falling into conflict with the law. He didn't. He was a good boy, except once. Once he joined some friends who wore stealing hub caps off cars.

Whether he actually committed the theft or was simply in the party isn't known. But he wound up in juvenile court where his mother was relieved to have him placed on probation. When the lime came for this boy to go in the Marines, a thing he had dreamed of all his life, he was turned down cold because he had "a record." Now I don't know if the Marines bothered to find out how serious the record is. I do know that an officer in the Coast Guard once told me that they automatically rejected any bih who had been By NATHANIEL SIH tiARS Curtain up! Light, the lights! Ah, the smell of the greasepaint, the glory nf the theater, the thrill of an opening night! Tread the boards! Act, emote be a Star! Nearly everyone who goes into thealer work is first attracted by the glamor of acting on stage teens especially seem to think that acting is the be-all and end-all of the theater world. But even time the curtain goes up, and the lights are lit.

it's a small croup or unsung, hard-working people that makes the play run smoothly. They are the theater's technicians light men, prop girls, grips, cost timers, make-up assistants and working backstage can be just as creative, just as much fun and just as rewarding as being an actor in the limelight. Or perhaps even more so, to hear some of them tell it. 'It sure beats the heck out of says 16-year-old John Hopkins, one of the stage technicians at Ivan But doesn't she just love to act? 'Not she shrugs. For Jana, acting's something to do when they need a bit player and there's a long, boring gap between light cues.

'I just trot out. onstage, say my lines and race back to the light Jana takes her lighting seriously and does it well. John Richey, an assistant director on the Gleason show, praised her to the sky when he directed a hill of one-acts at the Playhouse. In the absence of a vacationing lighting director. Jana lit Vizard' from the ground up designing, hanging, focusing and geling the instruments, making up cue sheets quite a job for one small girl.

John and Jana both look forward to working in Ivan Kivitt's new theater, slated to open the end of this month. It will be much bigger and better than the old theater they're now working in. 'What an operation that's going to says Jana. 'Over there we can really do some creative Is their work really that important? says John. 'Without a backstage crew, a show couldn't go orti' And you be learned the trade from the more experienced hands, lie apparent has learned (iiiekl.

for on the current Merry-(io-Kound production of 'The Wizard of John smoothly and efficiently handles the many backdrops that effect the play's scene changes. One of John's co-uorkers hi the Mei I y-Go-Rnunds. Jna Seance, is a veteran stage worker at 15. For nearly two years now. she has helped out backstage as well as appearing 'out front' in a number of character roles.

Although she sometimes helps with props, costumes and makeup. Jana never strays very far from 'her' dimmer-board, from where she controls the lights and lighting effects onstage. 'Lighting's my she explains. 'I've found that I enjoy it more (than and besides, itt more of a By DAVID HORTOX Young Set Car Columnist Buick has a kid brother. He is called the Opel Kadett.

Like big brother he is trying very hard to lure the buyers of competitive makes into the showroom. And he is doing it too! Between the Opel's introductory year, I and the end of its third year of production, I it became the second largest selling import I in the U.S. Credited with this rapid growth is the I Kadett's "Americanized" styling. In fact, the, good people at Opel have left the styling almost exactly as it was in 106(5 for 'G7 and have concentrated mainly on the internal workings. And speaking of internal workings, let's see what engines one can get in an Opel.

First there is the standard 65.8 cuhic inch overhead valve four cylinder twirler 1hat churns out. 54 H.P. This figure, if you will recall, tops the Opel's nearest competitor, Volksw agen, by one horsepower. From here we get into a little more power (this is beginning to sound like a goxem-ment lesson). There is an optional high performance package that ups the compression ratio from 7.8 to 1 to 8.8 to 1.

This boosts the power output to 60 H.P. With this package comes power assisted front disc brakes. But that's not Opel now has a new model out called the Rallye coupe. This new model is aimed at the sporty sedan market and boasts an even higher power offering. It has 67 H.P.

9.2 to 1 compression ratio, twin intake manifolds, dual Solex carbs, dual exhausts, running lights, radial-ply tires, sport wheels, 4-speed box, bucket scats, tach, and front disc brakes. Of course the Opel line features other models too, some not so fierce. One is the station wagon model. You have all seen the TV commercial of an Opel wagon having a tug of war with an elephant. Like I said not so fierce.

All totaled, the littlest Buick has a lot to offer. Plenty of go, plenty of luxury, plenty of authorized service centers. Dade Fraternity Has Open House Phi Delta Fraternity of Miami Dade Junior College is sponsoring an open house featuring the Razor's Edgi next Friday July 21. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. in the North Campus Student Union.

Donation $1.25 per firson. Kivitt's Merry-Go-Round Playhouse. John, a newcomer to theater with about four months experience, performed in one show, and de can hardly argue wiLl that. 1.