European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday August 1, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 3 by Dick West Washington up do Vou Ever find yourself wonder ing what psychologists do All Day besides just sitting around being psychological Well Best As i can Tell they Send part of the time brooding and part of the time getting eople to fill out questionnaires. Not Long ago a University of Minnesota psychologist Milton d Hakel. Found himself Brood ing Over the ambiguity of frequently used often is often How thy name is often ambiguity frequent is frequently Andis often More often than frequently or is frequently More frequent than often such matters Are the life blood of psychology. So Hakel had his students fill out a questionnaire on the subject. He gave them a list of 20 frequency words ranging in fre Quency from always to then he asked them to indicate what each word example if usually meant a thing would happen about 80 times out of 100, the student would give it a rating of80. The findings recently published by the american psychological association show that in the minds of the majority of the students often is less Sel Dom than the median rating was 74times out of 100 for often and 72 times out of 100 for in the Middle frequency bracket now and then 34 received a higher often Ness rat ing than sometimes 20occasionally 28 and once in a while 22. Individually however there was a wide variation. Hakel found that one Man s rarely is another Man s hardly Ever and so is amazing that we can communicate at All he concluded. I Don t wish to give the impression that i am defending ambiguity but i Don t believe ithe situation is As bad As Hakel pictures depends on the context in which ambiguous terms reused. Frequently and some times even often their mean Ings Are quite Clear. Suppose for instance that . Senator arises to deliver a few Brief few and Brief May be imprecise but everyone knows their mean Ings Well enough to Start look ing for the nearest say a committee chairman promises to handle a that generally if not usually Means it willbe pigeonholed until next year. Lights May jog memories de producer readies Jayne s last film lbs has no convention plans Washington up the White House said tuesday president Johnson has no intention of engaging in an partisan activities this sum Mer and May even stay away from the democratic National possibility was raised by press Secretary George Chris Tian who said at the moment he knew of no plans for Johnson to attend the democratic convention which starts one Day before Johnson s 60thbirthday on aug. 27. Christian reminded newsmen of the president s March 31 speech in which he announced he would not seek re election and said he did not intend to devote a Day or an hour of my time for any political Sobell seeks Shorter stretch Philadelphia a Morton Sobell convicted in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spy Case moved tuesday to have his 30-year prison term reduced. Thomas i. Emerson his attorney asked the . Circuit court of appeals to give Sobell credit for time he was held in jail under $100,000 bail while awaiting trial. Sobell was arrested aug. 18, 1950, and charged with the Rosen bergs with wartime espionage for the soviet Union. The Rosenbergs were executed and Sobell was sentenced to 30 years. He began serving sentence nov. 19, 1952. Hunt saves another million Washington up a. , one of the richest men in the world won a . Tax court suit Over nearly $900,000 that the internal Revenue serv ice claimed he owed in Back taxes the court monday upheld Hunt s claim of $890,987.11 in deductions As legitimate Busi Ness expenses and interest pay ments made in the operation of his first wife s estate during 1958, 1959 and 1960. The wife Lyda Bunker Hunt died in 1955 leaving an estate Worth nearly $2 million. Highway Bill Milfs Udall Washington up Interior Secretary Stewart Udall tuesday said he might ask president Johnson to veto the $21 billion 1968 Highway act because it May mean More highways through Park lands one of the most controversial sections of the new Bill has Ian stage some interpreted As modifying existing safeguards against encroachments of interstate highways through Parks wildlife ref Uges or historic Sites. We Are very unhappy Over several parts of Udall said at news conference in commenting on the Bill now awaiting president Johnson s signature. Noii cast aside by Vernon Scott Hollywood up the anniversary of Jayne mans j Field s death in a Louisiana Auto Mobile crash Over a year ago passed unnoticed in the town that gave her Fame headlines and j tragedy. But this month memories of the blonde Glamor girl will be jogged by the release of a movie in which she was working on j and off at the time of her death. Producer Mike Musto will open single room furnished in Phoenix. Ariz., As a test Market. If the film is Well received Musto will show the picture in i Heaters across the country. He says Jayne proved she was really a Fine dramatic actress in this picture. All she needed was a Chance to prove he ability. Nobody was willing to give her an Opportunity. Most of the j men in her life just took advantage of less than a year after he death two of Jayne s sex Hus bands Mickey Hargitay an Matt a Inver remarried. At the time of her death both pro claimed their undying love for the actress. The big Pink mansion wit heart shaped swimming Pool and Bath tub on Sunset Boulevard i for Sale at $275,000. No takers. Her estate still has not been unravelled. Hargitay cimber and the children have received Vari Ous sums of Money according to began the picture with me in september of 1966," must said. But she had another commitment in october. We stopped shooting until february of 1967. There were problems and we had to Stop production again j with five key scenes to film. She died in june before we could finish the asked Why he had delayed re leasing the picture for More than a year Musto said miss Mansfield owned 40 per cent of j the profits and that this participation in the film was thrown into the estate was such a mess that i had to he explained. Then i had to rewrite and reorganize the picture so i would make sense without the missing scenes. Actually it Isnow told in three different Story is about the life of a prostitute. When i announced i was going to make the picture Jayne pleaded Withroe to play the Lead role. She gives a warm Musto financed the picture himself. Now he must wait to see whether the Public or eve the hundreds of people she knew in Hollywood Are interested unseeing Jayne Mansfield one last time. More smuggled heroin seized at Dulles Airport Washington a Cus Toms officials said tuesday they have seized another 12 pounds of pure heroin being smuggled into the country by a ring that hid dope in the washrooms of narcotics taken at Washington s Dulles International air port monday brings to 66 pounds the total seized since Federal authorities moved sunday to halt the ring s Fleishman assist ant commissioner of customs said 66 pounds of the drug rep resents an investment of nearly $700.000 to the smugglers. Estimates of its value when peddled to addicts ranged up to10 times that amount. Federal authorities in Newyork said that the rerouting of an Airliner from new York Backoo Rome because of air traffic snares in new York gave the break in the Case. Four men have been said those arrested were Willie Wouters 54, a restaurateur of Bellegarde France Jean Marc Montoya. 31, chauffeur from Paris Daniel Mitnik 38, a chilean living in new York City and Jack Gros i by 43, of new York City who gave his occupation As travel Counselor. New York up an expectant Mother shattered the boredom of Rush hour strap hang ers tuesday when she went into labor on a Lexington Avenue subway train. Blase new yorkers abandoned their reputed policy of non evolvement Long enough tonal the train and get the woman to a transit authority spokes Man said the woman went int acute stages of labor As the l o w d e d southbound train neared the 86th Street station a about 9 . And made her condition known immediately to fellow passengers took Over the to spokesman said. He said they informed the conductor of the crisis who told the Motorman who in turn halted at the station and summoned they did t wait for the ambulance the spokesman said. One of the passengers took her off the train an carried her up to a Rocky name Frk Buffalo . A a Federal judge has ordered the forma icon of a three judge court to decide whether new Nelson Yorkton the gov.. I a jul Ufen Juull la act. Hic Wii Ciui i ii ii a. Rockefeller can legally appoint a successor v seat vacated by the assassination of Robert f. Kennedy. A John o. Henderson of . District court made the decision Loki a suit filed by or. Joseph a. F. Valenti a Dean of St. S Llu r cold e in a set for the panel to he by haul customs agents Linus Miller left and George Festa. At a Washington news conference hold 66 pounds of pure heroin Sei de since sunday. Smugglers hid the narcotics concealed in men s Black socks in the washrooms of airliners. Associated press photo
