European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday october 9,1987 columns today s crossword new drug to wipe out old age Brand Rooney 1 looks like it s going to be a race against Lime Tor i Host of us past 40 to in whether we live forever. They keep Chipping away at the things that Are killing people and in looks like there s a Good Chance they la have everything licked in our lifetime. The food and drug administration has approved new drug that will Tower our cholesterol level. Cholesterol is the one that clogs up your veins and arte Ries like rust in a pipe and produces heart attack when the blood can t get through. The drug works Best Nobel prize winning or. Michael s. Brown said when taken in conjunction with a Tow rat Low cholesterol  nothing ii Ever perfect. That s the 1 rouble with Al these new discoveries. What i want is a Small Pilot that can be taken once a Day before dinner with a Martini that will cure any thing already have and prevent anything i might catch in the future. In addition to inhibiting cancer heart disease cirrhosis of the liver kidney failure and shingles i d expect this Little Pill to keep me from getting alzheimer and palsy and at the same Lime restore any names to my memory that i can t think of. Neither do i want to read a lot of warnings on the Label telling me that if i Lake too much of the stuff it could produce bad Side effects. This All purpose live forever Pilot should be 100 percent Sido effects less. You can t Knock he drug companies thai Are developing All these Miracle medicines. It s capitalism at its Best. The drug companies want to gel Rich and they spend a to of Money developing new Medicine to thai end. Thai s the Way capitalism is supposed to work. Merck and co. Developed Lovas atm and it deserves to make a lot of Money. Just As soon Ai science has ticked old age and All the diseases we humans die of we re going to have to face the problem of where All of us ire going to live. It no one Ever Dies there s going to be a Honey of a housing shortage. Between our new Liberal attitude toward promiscuous sex the outlawing of abortion and the elimination of death this is going to be one crowded planet in another i do years. T just wanted to make sure you heard the Good news about this new drug. Lov Slatin will sell for about si.25 a dose and doctors estimate a person with a High cholesterol level will need four doses a Day soil in t going to be cheap. I figure thai if Lovas Lalin costs $5 a Day for the next 100 years that la run me s182,500. Listen the Way i enjoy life it la be Worth it even Ift have to borrow. E Tribil Molj Sie press to be praised Nof blamed by Russell Baker the recurrent suggestion that the press should have a bad conscience about forcing Gary Hart and Joe Biden out of the democratic presidential nomination is sentimental silliness. Somebody would have had to gel them out eventually and for doing the Job sooner rather than later the press ought to be commended. By narrowing a confusingly Large gang of competitors the press has done a service to the state by providing an Opportunity for closer scrutiny of Theresa of the Bunch. Whether Many people will Lake advantage of the Opportunity is another matter. Scrutinizing the Politi Cally ambitious is not something thai normally inter ests most americans unlit ail but two have been eliminated by which time in is too late. Cd it is unfair to scold the voting masses for not participating More passionately in the Early Elimina Tion heats. Who would want to live in a country in which millions spend their Days seeking to learn How sen. Paul Simon the Rev. Jesse Jackson gov. Michael Dukakis vice president George Bush and  Dole differ philosophically on the matter of reducing the balance of payments deficit in the Darker Ages or bad old Days if you prefer winnowing the Field of competitor was left to a few experts who peal their lives in politic and government and had useful knowledge to guide them in making the cuts. Now that we have reformed these tyrants out of existence and Given the winnowing Job to the Unin formed and uninterested multitude almost everybody can and docs have a run at the presidency usually on the theory that you can fool All of the people some or the time so Why not try it to is soft headed to abuse the press for doing the scrutinizing that used to be done by political professionals. The Public for sensible reasons Wilt not do it television is too timid to do i the political professionals Are barred from doing in by the forces of moral uplift that have turned presidential campaigns into television entertainments. Since 1952, the electorate has been treated by politicians less and less As an electorate and More and More As an audience with Good reason the Man who gets elected president lends increasingly to be the Man with Superior production and performance  presidential politics become a big lick it Brunch at the entertainment Industry fooling All of the people some of the time becomes a very High Art performed by heavily funded battalions of show business  press let us admit it has always been sullen and surly about its television competitor. There is a sense in the newspaper business that the to Guys Are Loo soft too profit on Nied too prone to let the political Guys gel away with murder because to needs entertainment to hold its  politicians know of course thai to will destroy them if they Don i master its Black Art we enough id give a winning performance. Now they face the possibility that the press May destroy them too if in catches them carrying the performance to extremes. 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