If you are not wearing it . . . sell it! You can't enjoy jewelry if it's sitting in your safe BUYING YOUR OLD ORIENTAL RUGS shell, which is wider than the racing shell. He recommends attending the Cobo Hall boat show in February as a good way to find a boat and so- meone who gives lessons. As a beginning rower, Jacob had some problems. "When I first started, all I could think about was rowing and trying to keep from tipping over. I would hold the oars very, very tight. Now it's much easier, much like swimming. When you start out swimming you're just trying to get from one side to another. And after you develop a technique (and) you become more efficient, you can think about other things." The thinking time rowing provides him is another benefit."' come up with a lot of good business ideas. I come up with a lot of ideas for the community. The business. Personal. Anything. Ideas float in and out." Jacob's rowing is not confin- ed to Cass Lake. He travels to most major U.S. cities, and many foreign countries, on business each year. In most places he finds a rowing club and maintains his early- morning schedule. "Rowing is a very close-knit group," he explains. "For in- stance, when I was in Israel, I was able to row with the Israeli Rowing Club. That's on the Yarkon River," which empties into the Mediterra- nean north of Tel Aviv. "I've made very close friends in Israel through the rowing," says Jacob. "In fact, I had business in Paris, and rowed in the Paris Rowing Club with an Israeli who I had met. "If I go on the West Coast or the , East Coast, or Philadelphia, wherever I go on business, I'm usually able to find a rowing club and know somebody." Despite his heavy rowing schedule, Jacob says he is not a great rower. "I'm a very average rower. People who are really terrific rowers are the ones who do nothing but row. That is their entire dedica- tion. They row twice a day. I can't devote that much time to it." His level of skill, however, does not affect Jacob's desire to row. That attitude carries over into his work. "I like to be a participant in things, not just to sit back and be a spec- tator. So when it comes to community work I really like to be involved and put things together and work with others?' Jacob is on the boards of the Jewish Vocational Ser- vice and the Jewish Associa- tion of Retarded Citizens, he is active in the Allied Jewish Campaign and is on the young leadership cabinet of United Jewish Appeal. Since he credits sports with helping to develop his own ag- gressive attitude, Jacob believes that sports can do the same for others. "I'm a real advocate of kids participating in team sports in high school. Because it re- quires a lot of discipline for kids to be on a team. If you think about it, very few high school teams actually cut kids off the team. There's always a place for him if the kid wants to try. Most kids quit. I was determined in high school not to quit" the swim team. Continued on next page facilities at the kibbutzim are rather poor. Without modern, safe equipment you can't learn difficult in- dividual routines." The U.S. gymnastics pro- gram, he said, does not com- pare to that of Eastern Bloc countries like the Soviet Union. "High school gym- nastics competition is very limited and there are only ten gymnastics clubs in the coun- try with boys teams. Russia has 1,300 boys teams. As a result, most college coaches have to correct our athletes' mistakes. We don't get them early enough. "And we lose our boys and girls after they make an Olympic team to college or careers. In the USSR, the on- ly way a young person can travel is through sports. "Then, too, at the very top levels the Soviet coaches work with two or three elite gym- nasts whereas our top coaches work with 10-12 such athletes. Their intensive,in- dividualized instruction is the only way to produce Olympic and world champions. "When coaches come to the U.S. from Communist coun- tries they know more about capitalism than we do. That's why Bela Karoli, for instance, is a millionaire. He's a good coach, he works his girls very hard, and he's very good at promotion. But he works with his best kids during the day and with the others at night. "I'm a college professor first, a gymnastics coach se- cond — and that's the way I like it." ■ 251 Merrill Birmingham (313) 644-7311 deposit box. Sell it for immediate cash. We pur- chase fine gems. Diamonds and Gold Jewelry. 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