European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars an stripes thursday june 19, 1960 Coffee Breaks can be larders Relief from the grind the other morning a Rainy one. I dragged myself into my office plugged in the Coffee pot and flopped in an easy chair. I was a Little Blue. My Friend Felt the same. We got into one of those deep discussions of get into if our no very ver careful. In a great burst if existential despair. I moaned. What arc we Here for anyway .1" looking matter of fact my Friend replied. Coffee it seemed As Good an answer As any. Maybe better. What americans owe to the Coffee break i not measurable in Coffee spoons. Where two or three arc gathered Over a Coffee Mug. Life flows. The Coffee break is the mainstay of Ameri can society. It is the one thing that everybody takes from the most socially acceptable Cream of the crop right Down to the scum of the Earth. It is the one thing that nobody tries to revolutionise Structure improve eliminate or an Alyze. Everybody seems to agree even the most Low Down ornery Rascal that the Coffee break is a twice daily necessity. Sometime i think the Coffee break is the Only decent reason for going to work in the morning. The Coffee break is the staff of life providing As it docs Tom foolery camaraderie and sustenance All in one. If you think i exaggerate picture a Day with out Coffee Breaks. The Coffee Breaks that i have known and loved have their own slea a traditions. On a Good Coffee break the Coffee must be awful. What you want is powdered a Cam instant Coffee and artificial sweetener. It s not a real Coffee break unless it s All fake. People who whip out fancy filter paper grind their own Beans and use real Cream can ruin the Coffee break Mak no the whole thing a sacred ritual. The Coffee break in their finicky hands be comes just another thing to have to struggle Over. Furthermore there must be a healthy growth of funny looking stuff on the Bottom of car Mug. Throw in a soggy doughnut a few pcs Flics and plenty of furtive Wristwatch Gaing. And you be got the makings of an Hon Cal to goodness Coffee break. The Ideal Coffee break length is 15 minutes in theory and 30 minutes in reality. No Coffee break Lover Worth her saccharin would consider returning to the office Early. You must always be late. The guilt enhances the pleasure for All concerned. My theory is that the longer you spend on a Cofty break the less damage you do to humanity in general and your colleagues in particular. People Are just naturally nicer with a cup of Coffee in their hands. It keeps us from Hilling each other shuffling a lot of silly papers and calling yet another unnecessary meeting. People instinctively know How to pick a Good Coffee break companion. You Don t want any body who is a hair splitter and or nitpicker. You Don t want anybody who carries a Stop watch. You Musl avoid anybody who likes to Lake her Coffee at her desk and continue work ing. You Don t want anybody who uses the Coffee break to discuss feasible ways of plug Ging into More options of facilitating and implementing the concerns of the participants in the scenario. You want in other words regular daddy has a  a0 from of my 6ftrh4eft& have new Iheke i veg you .  Mike Sinclair people. Good Coffee Breaks come to pass in unlikely places. I once had some very Good Coffee Breaks in the Stock room of a clothing store where i was a clerk. We sat among the sock and underwear boxes giggling and saying dumb things. The Job was awful. But the Coffee Breaks More than made up for it. I be noticed that people gravitate toward the ugliest Ding Iest Little spots for their Coffee Breaks. They Don t want a clean Well lighted place. They want a Greasy spoon rest aural. A coat closet a Messy lab or a dime store lunch counter. Perfection of setting is threatening to humans. Thuv like their surroundings sordid. The utter frivolity of Coffee Breaks appeals to me and my frivolous kind. Americans have a distressing Businesslike practical Streak that gels on my nerves. The Nice thing about the Coffee break is that it is valuable time wasted. Coffee Breaks Are hard to innovate resistant to change and absolutely useless in the worldly sense. All they do is keep folks sane and that s plenty. Study rebuts past findings about Pill Walnut Creek. Calif. Up a 10 year study of 16.000 women failed to show a link Between birth control pills and heart Dis ease or various types of cancer a medical re searcher has reported. Or. Savitri Ramcharan of the Kaiser Perma non la medical Center said she was unable to explain Why her findings differed from other studies which warned of the dangers of the Pill. Past studies have linked use of the Pill to heart disease and cancer of the breast uterus lining or ovaries. If there is one message of our study it is that people should be aware of the fallacy of one. Absolute Black and White set of answers to All  the epidemiologist said. We would like to conduct further research on the data we have collected in this study but there is no More Grant  Ramcharan said the study was conducted with funds from the National institutes of health. Across 1 pronoun 4 tale8 dance 12 Frozen dessert ii seaweed derivative 14 to the sheltered aide i Hawker s vehicle 17 digits 15 High Hill 1$ illegal drug Sellers 21 slants t Groove Battle u entitle a muffles 8 stale14 dry fruit m commanded 17 City in Italy Sailor 41 cognisance o a bribe 44 open la an 51-locks51 single occasion52 easy target h heavenly body57 thought u period59 fireplace projections it sea Swallow 1 actor buttons down1 fruit of a Rose 2 former French coins reinstated 4 hallowed 5 Khan the world according to-"7 pianist Rubinstein i vessel or washing 9 Plant of the Lily family10 malicious look ii minus arg. 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I took a very difficult training course so i could work in a special Plant and passed with High Marks but i can t find a Job either. So we re on welfare. We Aren t Lazy. We Aren t Crooks. We re just like millions of Sother people in this country. Out of work and trying to hold our Heads up. Please print this. Then Are lots of us out there and we need to be heard. Michigan dear Michigan i know there Utaga Doorbell. The next letter trates the Point far better thai l dear Ann please print Justine More letter about people who drop in unexpectedly. I want to Frame it. I barely know this nut. Shehad to look up our address in the phone Book. So Why could the be called and asked if it was convenient to come by outnumber was right there. When she appeared at thedoor i told my husband i d kill him if he let her in. He did make excuses 1 heard him but she was persistent and he did t havea Chance. 1 gave him holy hell after she left refused to speak to him until the next morning. The whole thing upset me so Igot indigestion and could t cat a bit of  just know big Mouth told everyone she knew How missed up the House was and that 1 looked 90 years old without makeup. Thanks for letting me make the Point again Ann. It s some thing people need to see several times before they realize you mean them. Ill in Videar of the tract with them is they Are tuck Here Eland usable to Sec the sashes a others see them. 1c 1no fed Bennf Trout me