European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday. October 27, 1985 yuppies Are fair game for 2 entrepreneurs T i. I. I non " Hoston a Don l Ever  that Yupp tax  it easy a perfectly Ripe slab if brie can be  to find. A superlative  Mechanic is rare. Spring skiing conditions can be in unpredictable. And now puppies have one More Bur Den a new Board game that pokes fun at All those things they hold sacred from gourmet mushrooms to $500  kit tens 1 he Yuppie game which will hit the shelves of toy stores across the nation this week was invented by two Boston entrepreneurs who admit they arc yuppies the much is i be got a fast track Job and i m a gourmet  said one of the inventors Robin , a to producer. Some of my Best friends Are investment Bankers. I have Many characteristics of a Young Urban professional but i like to think of myself As a Yuppie Vith a   and artist Ann Benson who drives a Volvo station Wagon and lives in a renovated victorian House said their game is a Tonguc in Ehrck parody of the excesses of Yuppie life. We re making fun of the pretentious Ness the $800 soup pot the $5,000 imported dog said Landerman 28. The $19.95 game is relatively simple to under stand Liach player starts with s50.000 and a Yuppie express card and travels around the Board collecting dividends paying tuition buying cars and meeting potential marriage  the game requires no skill just Luck. A player Rolls the Dice lands on a space and must follow the directions of a card draw n from one of five stacks lifestyle invest ments possessions a upheavals or family and career. The game is won by the player who first achieves the seven Yuppie goals 5150,000 in Clear Cash assets a spouse a  career with a minimum salary of $40,. At least one child a  school for the  a Home that could appear on the cover of architectural i Post Magazine and one Turbo charged automobile. Before you play you need a bottle of while wine. Uric some Kiwi fruits and you have to be wearing Calvin Klein clothes Benson joked. Benson and  said they spent 400 hours coming up with the 300 playing cards. Says one after several Kir royales at sunday Brunch you accidentally use the word groovy lose  invest in a Monogram removal Busi Ness for recently Yuppie red preppie. Your initial profit is a letter perfect $i5k," says another. You arc audited by the Taxman. In the future please try to refrain from deduct ing the Cost of per Rich As prescription Medicine. Pay Bank $3.000." divorce Community property and yup Lings arc retained. Legal fees additional therapy and video dating service total $5.000. Pay  your triplets Sara Kara and Tara have been chosen for a National to com Mercial for All natural Yogurt. Annual residuals is 5k." a Inderman and Benson said they real i a their game is bound to offend some yuppies but they Don t expect yuppies to buy it anyway. We believe that the prime characteristic of being a Yuppie is denying you re a Yuppie said Landerman. We think the game will be a gift purchased by the mothers and fathers of yuppies the friends of yuppies the Sisters and Brothers of  it s something even non yuppies can afford said Benson. Implant patients still waiting for human hearts Pitts Jurg a up1 doctors were very encouraged saturday by artificial heart recipient Thomas Gaidosh s Progress while across the state Anthony Mandia said in la Urshey thai he would like to wait for his human heart at Home. Both men Are awaiting human hearts to replace the mechanical devices beating in i hair chests. Doctors Ai presbyterian University hos Pital in Pittsburgh called Gaidosh s Prog Ress a Beautiful example of the marriage Between the Jarvik-7 artificial heart and the Satiem s own  Gaydosh. 47, of sulcus Villa spent an uneventful night and was in critical Condi Tion which is Normal after such surgery a spokesman said. Mandia clearly anxious Tor a natural replacement of his Irli fical heart jokingly asked his doctors if he could go Home and wait there for a transplant said a spokes Man at Mershy medical Center. Mandia 44, of Philadelphia spent most of saturday morning sitting in a chair lie also requested but did t receive a room with a View. His spirits arc quite High said or. John Burnside vice president of Pennsylva Nia stale University teaching Hospital. He s clearly anxious to get on with  Burnside said he talked with Mandia about Gaidosh. He asked How s his heart doing Tell him i m rooting for him " the doctor said. Burnside said in arc is no sense of urgency to find a donor human  is no magic window the doctor said. There s no optimum  Gaidosh responded to verbal commands and his blood pressure was Normal. He communicated with Hospital staff members and relatives by nodding his head or squeezing a hand. The Jaryik-7 was implanted in Gaidosh thursday in a six hour operation to keep him alive until a human donor can be found. He suffered from idiopathic cardiomyopathy a heart muscle disease of unknown origin. Gaidosh had been a heart transplant candidate for a month and was on acute status for 2 a weeks. Mandia a handicapped former Phila Delphia City clerk became the first recipient of the Penn slate heart in emergency sur Gery oct. 18. After regaining his strength from the surgery the patient was returned to the transplant list oct. 20. One potential donor heart was ruled unsuitable and a second failed As doctors were in route to pick it up. Picked a Patch of pumpkins Kight year old . Rich from Ononda a Hill  has rouble carrying his freshly picked pumpkins. The youngster was doing his halloween shopping at Max ii tilts pumpkin Patch in the nearby town of Nedrow. Congress panels seeking Dod improvements in toxic waste site cleanups by Cox news service Washington Congress is mov ing to strengthen requirements that the defense department clean up toxic waste Sites at military installations. The Effort by both republicans and democrats in the House and Senate is lied to re authorization of the superfund toxic waste cleanup program which has passed the Senate and is working its Way through a parliamentary Maze in the i Louse. The Issue could reach the House floor As Early As this week. But legislators caution that disputes among House committees could cause further delay and that there Are Likely to be major differences Between the House and Senate versions of the legislation that will have to be worked out in a later conference Between the two Chambers. There is widespread congressional Dis satisfaction with military cleanup activities which have been directed by the de sense department rather than by the environmental Protection Agency. Much of the preliminary work done by the defense department has suffered due to the failure to work More closely with the state and local environmental representatives Oklahoma Democrat Dave Mccurdy chairman of a House armed services committee environmental task Force said in a report to the committee last week. In addition the failure by Federal Agen Cieslo provide full and timely information to affected communities has fuelled controversy and created a Reservoir of suspicion and ill will that will take years to  California Republican Pete Wilson author of Senate amendments on the Issue. Told his colleagues recently that the Mili tary services made some Progress Over the last three years but they have not made enough  the Senate Bill would establish a Spe Cial Pentagon account for funding cleanup efforts and would  management of the cleanup program in inc defense Sec Clary s office. It also would establish timetables for the program and would require the defense department cooperate More closely with the Epa and with stale and local agencies. Compiling Bills written by the Energy and Commerce committee and the Public works and transportation committee would give the Epa More authority Over cleanups at Federal facilities. Mccurdy s task Force has prepared More detailed amendments it wants to see incorporated into the superfund legislation. The House task Force would establish a a scarch and  program for identifying and disposing of hazardous materials used More often by the military than by private Industry. A state could go to court to Force action on Federal property in Many cases. A number of mate officials have reacted favourably to much of the task Force s proposal. Leaders of several congressional commit tees have been trying to resolve larger differences that have delayed Ricaut Honzatko of the full superfund program which has been operating on temporary authority since its previous five year author Avion expired sept. 30.  do inc new York times new service