European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday May 6, adding show Biz to political coverage to looking for the unconventional by Vera Glaser Washington Nana a Little bit of show Biz helps the politics go Down say television tycoons who will spend thou Sands this summer to brighten the deadly convention routine with Jazzy personalities. The sultans of tube land apparently consider almost anything preferable to those state Rol Calls and pompous platitudes even commentators whose knowledge of politics and or professional news reporting maybe peripheral. Author Gore Vida whose cur rent opus Myra Breckinridge has been billed As the dirtiest Book extant and tuba voiced columnist William Buckley willbe teamed by american Broad casting co. Abc in a nightly debate on the significance of that Day s convention proceed Ings. Miles apart politically but equally adder tongued both gentlemen have tried and failed to win elective office themselves Vidal for Congress buckle for mayor of new York. Tax increase called Way to Avert crash Washington up administration officials said Satur Day the . Economy i growing so rapidly that without a tax increase to slow it Down we take unnecessary risks of a  the officials refused to be publicly identified. But they raised the warning of another inflationary crash like that of 1929 because they said the rat of economic growth is clearly  they said the Economy great a 10 per cent annual rate during the first Quarter of this year. That was a $20 billion increase in the Gross National product during the first Quarter. Meantime Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield predicted that Congress May yet come up with a tax increase plan despite the bruised feeling resulting from president John son s Tongue lashing of the nation s lawmakers on the tax is  administration officials i said a tax increase would Lessen the budget deficit which they said was fueling the hectic Pace of the Economy halt the tightening of Money slow Dow inflation ease the balance of pay rents deficit and improve America s world Trade position. They argued that the present4 per cent rate of inflation was unacceptable and said while Congress can repeal a tax i increase when it is no longer needed it cannot repeal inflation. Not to be outdone broadcasting system Columbia up acc up routine us runs mow Power to rim an employee at Villas Park in Madison wis., has eyes Only for his Power Mower and grass cutting. We Hope you have eyes for the Row of coeds. A photo Spray May replace flu shot Needle Atlantic City . A antibodies in the fluids thata flu vaccine sprayed directly into the lungs gives better Protection than vaccine shots a University of Florida medical scientist said sunday. The vaccine containing killed flu viruses is sprayed into the nose or Mouth while the person takes deep breaths. Or. Robert h. Waldman microbiologist said the Spray proved far better during a flu epidemic than the regular shots. The Spray avoids sore armsand the fever that shots some times produce he added and flu infection is Shorter if it occur despite vaccination. Doe the Spray technique produces Bathe the lungs and respiratory tract where the influenza virus grows during an infection or. Waldman told the american federation of clinical research. Regular shots in the Arm pro Duce antibodies in the blood Stream and body tissues. The Spray technique therefore is aimed at More direct Protection. Tests were conducted Amon More than 2,000 prisoners at the Florida state prison at Raifor last january during an influenza epidemic. The Spray was 79 per Cen effective in preventing illness while flu shots were Only 23 per cent effective or. Waldman said. Only eight out of 320 men receiving the Spray came Down with flu or 2.3 per cent. Of the eight five were Well by the third Day. Of 260 Given Standard shots,9 per cent became ill and were sick for about six Days. Among1,400 prisoners receiving no vaccine at All 12 per Cen became ill. The Spray method offers hop for methods of combating the common cold and virus or bacterial diseases settling in mucous linings such As the Gastro intestinal tract and Genito urinary tract or. Waldman said. Quick action cools . Race tension Gaffney . A National guardsmen state and local police broke up an angry confrontation Between hundreds of negroes and Whites saturday night apparently without violence. South Carolina gov. Rober Mcnair acting swiftly to prevent a racial outbreak sent guards men into the City and imposed a rigid curfew following two Days of tension. The disturbances began Friday night when a negro policeman arrested two teen aged negroes a boy for being drunk and a girl who was charged with disorderly conduct. To go arum i a anew a Fala had a Dala party no Al in Trad flight from suptn00, Ajith up ewer. Was nobleness a a Hallow fid ? is Art Buchwald himself As a very respondent Buchwak Utti would hold Forth for two n a per evening. Lyles lbs s other Star , is the author Fth it e Selling making of the presiden books and an avowed Sun nil of the late John Kennedy Inland Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to Dale  company Abc has signed up no outside Talent and apparently will depend on the time. Tested duo of Chet hum lev am David Brinkley. Rumours that the team May break up Are circulating again. The sums paid such Talent said to be astronomical Are Koot under wraps. Rep. Melvin Laird of Wisconsin chairman of the House Republican conference recently wooed by a network will not divulge the amount of the Cash offer but reportedly it approached his annual $30,000 Sal Ary. Laird turned it Down fear. Ful of losing friends among Hislop colleagues and the news  by Abc four years ago to Star non professionals at the conventions were disappointing. They hired former president Eisenhower As a commentator for the san Francisco conclave that nominated Barry do id water and then sen. Hubert h. Humphrey for words of Wisdom at the Atlantic City convention which ultimately named him no. 2 Man on the ticket. Lead balloon to the Surprise of no one familiar with has non political stance As the nation s chief executive Ike went Over like a Lead bal Loon. The voice of Humphrey also misfired when he dropped out Midway through the convention to untangle a Nasty civil rights hassle on orders of presi Dent Johnson. Conn. Sen. Abra Ham Ribicoff was hastily tossed into the breach. Even the irrepressible Art Buchwald has his bad Days. He has shown himself understand ably to be More entertaining on the printed Page than the airwaves. At a recent Charity Tele Thon masterminded by Ethe Kennedy wife of the new York senator Buchwald was less than scintillating As he emceed four hours of Star studded entertain  Buckley the Darling of the conservatives who struck out Fil a televised debate with Illinois sen. Charles i Ercy. Save Money to save Money arc will substitute a 90-minute instant documentary of each Clay s Conven Tion proceedings r u t h e r than Gavel to Gavel coverage. \ Swington Bureau chief John a non described the new format As much More than High lights. A will use a thematic treatment the issues developed in the pre ceding 24 hours. No question the change was dictated by economics but we think we May have a Sleeper  of suspense ironically the 19fi8 convention Promise to provide plenty of us Ponse without embroidery. Democrats expect a Knock Down drag out three Way bait e do tween Humphrey Kennedy Ana sen. Eugene Mccarthy and out Aiza queue of Hep favorite sons could lend a less touch to that gather Lionly time will toll. Of but the Republican show of aug. 5 in Miami Beth. The in Ond act starring the i a , scheduled for aug. I m Llu Eago