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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, April 21, 1968

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 the stars and stripes pre ailment Nosis is worked on by Joseph l. Myle Washington up scientists Are working on a Way to find out what is ailing you be fore you know you re  to the air Force office of scientific research which supports the work this May turn out to be valuable infield As widely separated As manned space flight and Public health and also As an Early warning system in the even of a germ warfare attack. The new system of disease detection and identification was described by j. R. Gould of the general electric co. At a recent conference on research applications conducted by the air Force in Arlington a. April 2if  it would substitute for time killing conventional methods used in hospitals the quicker and More efficient chemical analysis technique known us liquid Gas  by this Means Gould said individual disease causing agents can be fingerprinted by the unique metabolic waste Ami tissue interaction products the manufacture in the cells they , an air Force general electric statement said it maybe possible to detect and identify infectious diseases including those caused by viruses Days before fever or other overt symptoms  infectious disease might thus be recognized and treat ment begun at an Early stage of infection the statement said. In Laboratory experiments twas found that with the new method the presence of disease causing bacteria could be detected in a matter of minutes or a few hours whereas current identification techniques May take several Days. Virus infections according to Gould have been detected in animals As much As eight Day before the appearance of symptoms. No research in this Fiel has been done with human  said the new Finger printing method May help nearly detection of leukaemia birth defects radiation damage and cancer. For reasons of military Secu Rity Gould did not elaborate on the possibility of using liquid Gas chromatography analysis As an Early warning of germ at tack but he did say it May make possible rapid identification of disease producing sub stances in food water or  it May not be possible totes Large segments of the pop Ulace for unsuspected ailment which will generate fever and sore Throat and general debility but the technique May be use Ful in special cases. Consider the astronaut about to take off on a Long Mission to the Moon or a  such a circumstance it would be useful an air Force spokesman said if it could de Termine a week before launch ing whether the astronaut was Likely to come Down with som virus malady such As an infectious hepatitis a week after the launching. Ross the boredom Bridge Washington a Bridge players who want to Cut Down on cigarette smoking should avoid situations that might be Boring like being Dummy too often two Connecticut psychologists , they said the players should keep Busy with handstand brain and make lots of Trig Ger Quick decisions while underwire like those of the person who plays the  tips for smokers in Gen eral were implied in a report by two University of Bridgeport re searchers. They have been ? Itan to Jse Dummy carrying on a wide ranging stud of smoking behaviour by people in various work and social situations. Reporting to the 39th annual meeting of the Eastern psycho logical association Dorothy  and Eugene p. Boyko said they took a smoking Survey during five duplicate Bridge tournaments at a local  during the tournaments was heavy said the psychologists. Indeed they said Only a Frac Tion of 1 per cent of 25 million respondents to smoking surveys of the . Census Bureau an the american cancer society reported smoking rates As highs those observed among the card ," they qualified Muring interviews players frequently volunteered that their smoking rate at Bridge far exceeds their usual non Ridge playing rat6."and who smoked the most the  smoked the least the declares the players who Goethe bid. Said the psychologists the relative infrequency i Declarer smoking is Sunram. To those who theorize that 8sion and anxiety triggers on ing since Dummy is almost stir Ely passive and defends shares his competitive role wishes partner and makes Only s3 As Many decisions of play As to number required of Declarer an analysis of motor  verbal behaviour and number of play decisions i5quired of each role suggest that smoking rate decrease a function of the sheer number of tasks engaged  Tough looking tourist this strange face belongs to a 10-year-old chinese boy a member of the Chun eau opera com Pany of Hong Kong. He is made up to resemble the Monkey goof classic chinese opera. The company is touring the United states and Canada. Up photo Box office rules in Russia too Moscow up sexy silly foreign movies Are eroding soviet morals a Moscow newspaper says. But there s Little that can be done about it the newspaper said because these movies bring in bigger crowds than ideologically upstanding soviet films and russian movie Heaters need the Money. The newspaper soviet Russia complained that in dozens of foreign movies we see a woman in bed in the bathroom on a Beach or just nude without any special reason. By releasing banal foreign films on soviet screens it said we surrender our positions and Little by Little lose some part of the moral and spiritual treasures of this  the newspaper said it was not against All imported movies. Our spiritual world would be much poorer without such movie Sas it s a mad mad mad mad world or the first two parts of yesterday today and tomorrow " the third part dealt wit the unsuccessful seduction of a roman prostitute it also praised the work of Stanley Kramer lean Cabin Michel Angelo Antonini Federico Fellini and Tony Richardson. Fellini s la Dolce Vila has been shown Here but Richard son s Tom Jones has not. The article objected to two foreign films the naked Virgin with Ava Gardner and a French comedy. Some movie people say our spectators Are not Well developed in aesthetics it said. This is a dirty lie about our  the real trouble lies with Money the newspaper  soviet ideological film common fascism attracted 118,000 viewers at 479 showings in the City of Gorky it said while the american movie some like it hot pulled in 268,000 persons at 1,037 performances. The film starred Marilyn Monroe Jack Lem Mon and Tony Curtis so the question is which is More important rubles or human souls the paper asked without answering the question. Soviet Russia said the committee in charge of purchasing foreign movies protested that it was compelled to buy these films in order to sell soviet  newspaper said that Western films Are selected by a narrow Circle of experts. It suggested that the Board be expanded to in clude workers Farmers office clerks and  Eye in sky watches for tornadoes Small. For example the prob sucking up almost anything in ing splinters into deadly mis ability of a twister striking a its path. The average Tornado Siles uprooting Trees Ana nun Washington up a Friendly Eye High above the Equator is watching for violent and freakish storms of the Typ that caused so much damage in Arkansas Friday. Potential tornadoes Are photo graphed every 15 minutes Dur ing Daylight hours by a camera aboard a National aeronautics and space administration Satel Lite. Scientists will prepare movies from the photographs Tosee if the storms can be identified in Advance by the motion of characteristic Cloud patterns. Weathermen still cannot pre dict when or where a deadly Cone of wind will burst from the Clouds and scythe across the Countryside the National Geo graphic society says. In 1967, 906 tornadoes raked the a it estates killing 116 persons and causing millions of dollars in damage. Hut the Chance that a specific location will be struck by a Tor Nado in any one year is quite Community even in areas Pronto the storms is very slight about one in 250 years. There have been disastrous exceptions. Oklahoma City has weathered 20 tornadoes since 1892. I Baldwyn miss., was surprised twice within 25 min utes in March 1942. Twisters hit Codell kan., on May 20 in 1916, 1917 Aud 1918. Tornadoes May occur in an month but they strike most frequently in april May and  conditions appear indispensable moist warm air Atlow Levels and Cool dry air at higher Levels a southerly win Dat the surface and a Strong Over Riding wind from a different direction. Suddenly from the midst of thundercloud a dark funnel lashes out with a twisting ele Phant s trunk of whirling air that speeds across the ground meanders Only about four Miles but spreads great destruction in its  estimated at More than 300 Miles an hour Roar around Core of Low air pressure turn ing people and reds of Yards. Twister tossed an 83-ton Railroad car and its 117 passengers feet through the air and 1them in a ditch. European edition col. James w. Campbell Usa it. Col. F. 8. Michael jr., Usan Deputy Mert Proctor Manao Jna Elmer d. Frank product on Henry 8. Epstein circulation an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed Force pull shed a commander in chief . European command Surmany. Military addrow the stars and stripes Apo 00176. Tie Star and strip., Poat Fach 1ttj4, 61-Darmstadt, Germany. -.332, prefix 08155 2071? m Darmstadt Airstrip prefix z376 741. Telex i i i � i met York office my Washington st., new York 10014, Tel area Coda 8cond clans Pottage paid at new York . The appearance of i ,.tyw of menu in this newspaper concer Lnu commercial publication does not endorsement by the department of . Or any of its components. The United states in an open society in which he a s to know it cherished and  president Lyndon  
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