European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 25, 1967 apathy is getting excited Over f apathy is a _ a a two it m _. _ a i by Dick West Washington up first we had a rash of happiness is books. Happiness is having Beautiful neighbor who undresses with the shades up  we had a rash of misery is books. Misery is sticking out your hand to make a left turn and hitting a traffic cop in the Mouth Etc. There also have been a few books dealing in this fashion with other emotions. But none that i have seen touches on the most predominant emotion of All apathy. Sooner or later i m sure someone will get around to compiling an apathy is , perhaps the follow ing definitions will tide us Over apathy is going to the Book counter in a drugstore and Dis covering that a new happiness is Book has been  is turning to the Tele vision Page in your newspaper and Reading that five of this sea son s new situation comedy shows Are ending next  is hearing that Val Ley of the dolls is being mad into a movie. Apathy is another Magazine photograph showing the upper half of Liz Taylor. Apathy is being Given a one year subscription to the con Gressional record. Apathy is Phyllis Diller in miniskirt. Apathy is the printed mattering Playboy Magazine. Apathy is learning that Doris Day is making another picture. Apathy is the latest Maga Zine article giving the inside Story of William Manchester feud with the Kennedy. Apathy is a joke about Bob by Kennedy s hair. Apathy is a television foot Ball commentator s third explanation of what a pass pattern is. Wins disbelief no votes apathy is the last Bow game to be televised on new year s Day. Apathy is a fifth Commer Cial during a station break on the Johnny Carson show. Apathy is a freshman Sena Tor denying he is a candidate for the vice presidential nomination. Apathy is any vice presiden tial candidate. Apathy is being told you Are apathetic. San Francisco a gov. George Romney of Michi Gan who May not have won an votes has made the scene in Hippi Eville and Given scores of hippies a Temperance lecture. The undeclared candidate forthe Republican presidential nomination came away with necklace of love beads around his neck Friday and Flower from a hippie admirer. It was a bizarre contrast Romney in his neat Blue suit and starched Collar his wife Lenore at his Side completely sur rounded by some 200 to 300 hip pies with Long hair beads tattered garb and Bare feet. The visit to Golden Gate Parkway an unscheduled Stop in Romney s nonpolitical tour of american cities. Trip to Hippi Eville Romney had been visiting Achurch run project called Huckle Berry s for runaways which tries to get runaway children who Are drawn to this hippie Hasenback to their parents. Then one of the hippies suggested he visit the now famed Mecca for hip pies the Haight Ashbury area. Romney and his wife squeezed into a pickup truck a tall Long haired hippie at the wheel and zipped Down to the Park followed by a Busload of newsmen photographers an Romney staffers. When this invasion appeared hippies dining under the Trees on Corn on the cob and greens let out shouts of end the War in Vietnam Down with the draft get the Cia out legalize pot marijuana Sam Jones out of service two years for conversion the Johnpaul Jones has been recommissioned As a guided missile destroyer at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Here rigger Carl  rides a Crane bucket High Over the ship which will carry a surface to air Sam missile system. A photo for a moment it was too noisy for anyone to hear anyone. Romney called out i have come Here to hear what you have to  in the hubbub the slender mrs. Romney told the hippies i am Here to listen to you. Want to know How you feel about  someone shouted from the crowd we re the children of  Romney giving the hippies lecture on americanism said that America provided a greater Opportunity for self expression than any country  Romney tried to Tell the crowd we re All children of a common  but he was interrupted by Acry then let s live that  finally a Young red haired hippie told his comrades to give Romney a Chance not to let him go away with a bad impression he comes to learn. He knows we re not going to vote for him or any other  Romney was asked if he would support a Bill to legalize marijuana. Ill give it to you straight out said Romney a mormon who neither smokes or  think we d All be better off if we let tobacco alone and drugs alone and All forms of  there was a murmur of disbelief. Hippie clinic goes broke closes doors san Francisco a Afree medical clinic that operated around the clock for three months in a bizarre world of Ltd marijuana and infectious disease has closed its doors its staff broke and exhausted. A spokesman said the Strain of hat passing Arm twisting and various other fund raising Effort sin the hippie Community had proved too much. The clinic closed Friday after treating More than 12,000 hippies. The clinic had operated since june. Its 30 physicians and 40 nurses All unpaid had treate Young people for illnesses and in juries and offered sympathetic psychiatric help to hippies. Who he it s Sam Houston Johnson of Austin tex., the presi Dent s Only brother and not too much is known about him. Austin residents Seldom see or hear of him. The chief executive two Sisters and his brother feel the president is the news maker and they should stay out of the picture a close relative said. A Navy halts Effort to blast ammo on sunken vessel Kodiak Alaska up the Navy is abandoning efforts to de stroy the Hulk of a Liberty ship sunk off the Aleutian islands after experts concluded that 2,000tons of obsolete explosives in her holds Are Safe from detonation. A last attempt to touch off the Robert Louis Stevenson s cargo of dated ordnance came tues Day when p3 Orion patrol planes from Adak naval station dumped two dozen 2,000-Pound bombs on the site where the Craft went Down in August. All the bombs exploded but apparently with no effect on the six hydrostatic pressure Sensi Thrim Are nos off is p o g o live fuses attached to the explosives. The ship was sunk 20 mile South of rat Island after its sea valves were opened by scientists who hoped it would Settle into water deep enough to Deton ate the explosives. They were to measure the blast As part of a Experiment in detection of under water explosions. Nature foiled the Experiment however and the Stevenson was windblown into a thick fog and Sank in shallower water. The oceanographic research vessel Silas Bent performed tests following tuesday s born drops to see what Impact they had had on the  data on these fuses expanded by special research on the effects of the Stevenson s present environment established a rapid deterioration which within a matter of week renders these fuses completely inert a spokesman said Fri Day. Tuesday s bombing con firmed the results of these calculations and  the spokesman said the pres sure created by the exploding bombs should have been More than enough to detonate the explosives if any of the fuses had been operable