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People in the news Dear Ann, we're in New Haven... NEW HAVEN. Conn. (AP' Columnist Ann Landers says Yale University is special to her because it is "synonymous with made-up letters.” "I can always tell a phony letter,” she told an audience of Yale students Monday night, “and the Yale letters have a special sound to them.” She didn't say what that special sound was. but she told her audience of more than 2(H) people that each year she and her eight secretaries in Chicago receive hundreds of fake letters bearing New Haven postmarks. Eppie Lederer. 62. from Sioux City, lowa, is the woman behind the pen name She has been publishing letters from readers and offering advice for 25 years and swears those that make her column are authentic. "Someone would have to be psychotic to make them up.” she said • Andrei D. Sakharov, the Soviet physicist who was exiled from Moscow to a restricted city because of what were called anti-government activities, has a stepdaughter. Tatyana Yankelevich. who lives in Newton, Mass. He had been managing to communicate with her and his two grandchildren in a series of letters, which stopped coming late last year. The letters were sometimes richly illustrated with drawings for the children’s pleasure, and Mrs. Yankelevich has released some of the drawings, with Sakharov's notations.Jor publication with an article in the March issue of Moment magazine. "The wire that carries telephone conversations lies on the bottom of the sea or ocean and is calk'd a cable,” said the note in Russian that accompanied one drawing. "Actually. the ocean is very big. and to draw it properly one needs a very big sheet of paper.” • LONDON (AP) British pop singer Andy Gibb, 22, already a millionaire, has decided to make his home in the United States but says, “You can keep Los Angeles... Too much showbiz hype. “They should lock it up every night, as far as I’m concerned.” Gibb is hoping to buy a new house, probably in Florida, but he likes New England, too, he told London’s Daily Express. • Julie Andrews and William Holden will star-in “5.0.8.,” a comedy that deals with the adventures of a film star with a scratchless image, much like Miss Andrews’, who agrees to appear in a major studio’s porno film. Her husband, Blake Edwards, will produce and direct from his original screenplay. The couple both figured prominently in “10,” one of the runaway hits of the season, and Miss Andrews will soon be seen in the remake of “Little Miss Narker,” the Damon Runyon story. • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Former President Isabel Peron has been acquitted of illegally accepting $14,000 worth of jewelry as birthday gifts from a government bank. The 49-vear-old Mrs. Peron remained under house arrest Monday at a family estate, facing four other charges, including diverting $1 million in flood relief funds to her personal account. Mrs. Peron, third wife of President Juan Peron. became president in 1974 when he died. She was deposed by a coup in March 1976.

House Call Reduce risk factors after attack?

Bt G. Timothy Johnson, M.D. Dear Dr. Johnson: Does it really pay to try reducing heart disease risk factors AFTER You‘ve had a heart attack? I’d think that by the time you’ve had an attack, the disease is already so far along that it’s too late to make any difference. Right?-Otto A., Laguna Beach, TTalif. Dear Otto: Your question is important because of the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer heart attacks and survive every year and who wonder whether it pays to do the things they hadn’t done before. The answer generally is yes. it does indeed pay. Quite a few studies indicate that if people attempt to reduce their risk factors, even after a heart attack, they may survive longer than heart disease victims who do nothing. Particularly important is to stop smoking. Heart attack victims who continue to smoke have a much higher death rate compared to those who quit Dear Dr. Johnson: I’ve suffered from shakiness for years. The last time I saw my doctor about this problem-many years ago-he said it was a “familial tremor,” hereditary, and there wasn’t much I could do about it. But now I wonder if there are new ways to treat this problem. Has any progress been made in that direction 9 -Warren E., Hartford, Conn Dear Warren: Presuming that the diagnosis of your problem was accurate, and that you have what is known as essential tremor-meaning a benign problem that can’t be

traced to some disease- then there ARE some new treatments available. Most exciting is use of the socalled beta-blocking drugs. These compounds are used widely in the United States to treat heart pain (angina), high blood pressure and migraine headaches. In many cases, they also have been effective against tremor. So, I urge you to see a good neurologist about your problem. You may be surprised

B,J, Becker First things come first

East dealer. Both sides vulnerable. NORTH ♦ A 6 4 97K 9 8 OA9B 6 4 3 ♦ 7 WEST EAST #8 2 ♦ K J 10 9 7 97 QlO6 53 2 9? J 05 OQJ7 ♦ Q 9 8 3 ♦ K 10 5 2 SOUTH ♦ Q 5 3 97 A 7 4 0 K 10 2 ♦ A J 6 4 The bidding: East South West North Pass 14 Pass 1 0 1 ♦ Pass Pass 3 0 3 NT Opening lead eight of spades. The defenders usually have

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GARY SANDY: Suited to a T WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) When Gary Sandy shows up on an upcoming episode of the television show “WKRP In Cincinnati” wearing a Wilmington College T-shirt. Hugh Heiland won’t be surprised. Heiland is a drama professor at Wilmington College And about 12 years ago, Sandy, who plays Travis, the 1 program director of the fictitious radio station, was one of his students. Heiland has followed Sandy’s career and during a recent visit to Hollywood, the student introduced his ex-teacher as “the guv who taught me everything about theater.” • Sylvia Lyons, whose late husband Leonard was a Broadway columnist for The New York Post, lauded Abe Burrows for his achievements as a “lyricist, composer, humorist” and. of course, writer, at a party she gave Sunday night to introduce his new book, “Honest, Abe.” Then Lou Jacobi, the Bronx-accented character actor, recounted that a part in Burrows’s “Guys and Dolls” had provided his first break as a performer. After being Sam Levene’s understudy in the role of Nathan Detroit on Broadway, he had won the role of Liver Lips Louie in a 1951 production in London, Jacobi said. Since he had only a single line, he was eager for a big laugh. “I said. ‘C’mon guys, let’s get out of here,’ every way you could think of. but nothing,” he said. So he took his woe to Frank Loesser, telling him. “Gee. Frank, I just qjn’t get a laugh.” “I don’t know why,” he said the composer had told him in feigned amazement. “It’s killing them in New York.” The show, nevertheless, projected Jacobi into many other roles. He’s just finished shooting a film in Canada, while the man he had earlier understudied, Levene, is preparing to open March 16 at the John Golden Theater in a new Henry Denker comedy, “Horowitz and Mrs. Washington.” • Three films will be going before the cameras in New York next month. Two of them are being produced by David Susskind and Time-Life Films. They are “Fort Apache: The Bronx,” starring Paul Newman and dealing with the adventures of a patrolman at the police precinct that was given that nickname several years ago because of the high-crime area in which it was situated, and “They All Laughed,” starring Audrey Hepburn. Ben Gazzara and John Ritter, a comedy about three private detectives, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Production is scheduled to get under way March 10 and 31, respectively. The third film is Joseph E. Levin’s “Tattoo,” a murder mysterv-love story starring Bruce Dern which goes before the cameras March 24.

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more to think about than the declarer because they don’t see each other’s hands and consequently have only a partial view of their combined resources. Declarer, however, seeing dummy’s cards and his own, is in a much better position to assess his strong and weak points and to take advantage of the knowledge he possesses and the opponents do not. East had a problem of sorts when he won the spade lead after declarer had followed low from dummy. But correctly he decided there was no future in a spade continuation. Accordingly, he shifted to a low club, thus sounding the death knell for declarer’s chances. South played low, West taking the eight and returning a low club to the king. There was no recovery for South, whatever he did, and eventually he lost a spade, three clubs and a diamond to go

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down one. East unquestionably earned his success by abandoning spades and shifting to a club at trick two, but actually he should never have had the opportunity to beat the contract. South erred grievously when he ducked the spade lead in dummy. He was asking for trouble and he got it! The bidding and opening lead had clearly marked East with the king of spades. It was therefore unnecessary to protect the queen by playing low from dummy. There was more pressing business at hand. Dummy’s diamonds were screaming for attention before declarer’s weak spot in clubs could be exploited. South should have gone up with the ace of spades at trick one and attacked diamonds at trick two. That was the correct order of procedure and it would have led to nine easy tricks.

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