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People in the news Henning's tricks wedding bomb FAIRFIELD, lowa (AP) The groom wore white tails and shoulder-length curls, the bride wore a fur-trimmed satin gown, and more than 1,500 people watched the ceremony in a huge, not-quite-finished meditation dome. Sunday's ceremony marked the union of magician Doug Henning and New York artist Deborah Douillard, 26, on the campus of Maharishi International University, where the couple met in January while studying meditation. Things went along about as one might expect at a magician’s wedding, only both of his magic tricks didn’t turn out as he might have wished. At one point, Henning, 34, turned to the audience and said, “As a symbol of my love for Debby and my wish for peace throughout the world. I am going to produce a symbol of peace and love a white dove.” The bird flew briefly into a throng of cameras, then was captured and placed in a cage, but not before it soiled the bride's dress. Later the groom proceeded to show the congregation a large white and gold box with legs, opening it to show it was empty. The bride and groom each put a flower in the box, and Henning promised they would become “a rose for everyone in the audience.” But the sides of the box collapsed and a mass of flowers fell from its secret compartment. The couple took it all in stride, kneeling to distribute the red roses and miniature carnations to the children who gathered around. • NEW YORK Months before Christmas 1981, toymakers were already planning for the 1982 holiday season. For the industry, it will open officially in February with the allimportant Toy Fair in New York. A toy at the front of the parade will be a familiar figure: G.I. Joe. Introduced in 1964 by Hasbro Industries, a Pawtucket, R. 1., toymaker whose other old favorites include Potato Head and Snoopy Sno Cone, G.I. Joe fell from grace and production six years ago. His retreat, according to Stephen Hassenfeld, Hasbro’s chairman, was due only partly the public’s Vietnam-era disenchantment with the military. Other toys notably the $6 Million Man and the Evel Knievel doll proved tough competitors. But perhaps most important was the 11-inch height of the original Joe. “He was difficult to accessorize at attractive price points,” said Hassenfeld, explaining that the costs of plastic and tooling were prohibitively high. Thus, the toy soldier making his debut in February will be scaled down to 3% inches, about the same size as the Star Wars creatures, and sell at a suggested retail price of $2.99. G.I. Joe vtfll also have shed his World War II uniform, in favor of accessories “closer to tomorrow’s rapid deployment force,” Hassenfeld said. And there will be a total of 11 recruits, including one woman warrior, Shana O’Hara (codenamed Scarlet), in counterintelligence. As an extended product line, G.I. Joe will enable Hasbro to deploy the add-on strategy beloved of toymakers such as Mattel and Kenner whose Star Wars characters are viewed as direct competitors. Still, Hassenfeld is not counting his sales before they multiply. “You can’t force issues,” he said. “There’s a lot of magic that has to come together for a line to work.” • President Reagan has accepted private donations to help refurbish the White House and to buy a new set of dishes, but he has drawn the line at a proposed fund-raising effort to replace the 18-year-old jeep he uses at his California ranch. That’s the word, anyway, from Barbara Walters, who described the decrepit vehicle in her Thanksgiving interview with the president as “the scroungiest jeep I’ve ever seen.” During a telephone call last week, Miss Walters said, the president told her that “everybody laughed,” about he comment. But when Miss Walters suggested taking up a collection to buy a new one, Reagan balked. “Under the circumstances,” he told her, “I don’t think I’d be allowed to accept it.”

Boone, Elvis once quite alike

By JOE EDWARDS Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) They were both rock ’n’ roll pioneers. They were Southerners, born just six months apart to parents of modest means, with close family ties. Elvis Presley of Memphis and Pat Boone of Nashville both of them handsome, polite and gifted of voice went on to successful movie careers after becoming teen idols in the mid-19505. They lived near eachother in Bel Air, Calif., for awhile. These striking similarities ended as both reached middle age. Presley ended up a fat 42 with drug problems and a busted marriage behind him when he died in 1977. Today, Boone is a jogging-trim 47, prefers milk to marijuana, has been happily married since his early singing days, and has four daughters and four grandchildren. “I simply took a different path,” Boone says of the differences in lifestyle. “I guess my career wasn’t as important to me. My family and my relationship with God took precedence over career decisions. I never allowed my career to imprison me.” There were contrasts almost from the start. Boone was smooth and cleancut with a calm delivery while Presley was frenzied and had a stubborn shock of black hair that continually searched for his eyes. Boone, who knew Presley well, says the two were professional rivals but admired one another. “We were close,” he recalls. “We stayed very friendly.” Boone, interviewed by telephone, says he “sensed a void” in Presley in the 19605, when they both lived in California. “He’d come over and want to see my kids who were just tykes,” says Boone, whose hit songs included “Ain’t That a Shame,” “April Love,” “Love Letters in the Sand,” “Don’t Forbid Me” and “Friendly Persuasion.” “He’d play around in the backyard by the hour. He seemed to want a family situation,” Boone says. “The way he hugged Shirley < Boone’s wife) and the girls was very

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DOUG HENNING: Loses touch

Veteran NBC football announcer Jay Randolph was the subject of a flattering page 1 story in the Wall Street Journal last week. The St. Louis resident, who’s the son and namesake of Sen. Jennings Randolph (D.-W. Va ), was lounging in bed when his wife, Sue, walked in with the news that the story had been published. When Jay inquired whether the story was favorable or negative, Sue replied: “Well, Jennings, it’s on the front page -- and you’re not dead and you’re not in jail.” • SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) All Billy Joe Donnelly wanted to do was win $5 by breaking the house record for the video game Defenders. Instead he played for 27 hours and 40 minutes to demolish the world mark. Donnelly, 15, a student at Linton High School, plugged a quarter into the machine Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and played until 3:10 p.m. Sunday. Bill Shelley of the Studio of Bridge and Games said. He said Donnelly surpassed the world record of nearly 16 million points tallied by Steven Juraszek of Arlington Heights, 111., and kept going until the machine registered 22,628,825. His mother, Marion Donnelly, said Billy Joe was being fed by other people while he continued to play and had taken only 8 minutes off for bathroom breaks. A Defenders player must protect a contingent of 10 little men from waves of attacking aliens, mutants, flying saucers and an exploding star. His defense is smart bombs and as a last resort hyperspace. • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Some South Carolina Republicans want Sen. Strom Thurmond to run for reelection, even though he says his current term will probably be his last. Thurmond, a Republican who is Senate president pro tempore, will be 82 when his term expires in 1984. But Rep. Carroll A. Campbell Jr., R-S.C., said he hopes to change Thurmond’s mind. “I fully intend to start urging Sen. Thurmond to run for re-election and that he start by announcing it next year,” Campbell said. Rep. John L. Napier, R-S.C., a former aide to Thurmond, also said he supports efforts to have his old boss seek another term. • THIS WEEK’S CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY PEOPLE: Monday means another year for baseball star Johnny Bench, 34, of the Cincinnati Reds, actor Eli Wallach, 66, and actress Ellen Burstyn, 49. Rock star Greg Allman, 34, actor Maximillian Schell, 51, and entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., 56, all celebrate on Tuesday, while Broderick Crawford of “Highway Patrol” fame is 70 and fellow actor Kirk Douglas is 65 on Wednesday. Thursday finds actress Dorothy Lamour hitting 67. On Friday, heiress Christina Onassis is 31, while political activist Tony Hayden is 41. Singing “Happy Birthday” next Saturday will be Frank Sinatra, 66, and Dionne Warwick, 41.

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moving. His mother was dead and his father had remarried. This may have been part of the reason he was susceptible to drugs.” Boone remembers seeing Presley shortly before he died of heart failure. The meeting came at Memphis International Airport, while Boone was on his way to Orlando, Fla., and Presley was heading for Las Vegas. “He looked fat and I slapped him playfully on his stomach. He said he’d been eating too good and said I should go to Vegas. And then he said, ‘You always were going the wrong way.”’

B.J. Becker on bridge

South dealer. Both sides vulnerable. NORTH ♦Q9 <7KQBS OKQJIO ♦ J 63 WEST EAST ♦J 105 483 <7A6 <7 109742 074 0 8532 ♦ AKQ 1082 ♦ 7 4 SOUTH ♦ AK7642 <7 J 3 0 A 96 ♦ 95 The bidding: South West North East 14 24 2 0 Pass 2 ♦ Pass 4 ♦ Opening lead king of clubs. Anyone can take tricks with aces and kings; the real challenge lies in taking tricks with lower-ranking cards. Consider this deal where declarer made four spades. West started with the K-Q-A of clubs, South ruffing the third club as East discarded a heart. Declarer drew trumps, lost a heart, and made ten tricks without even breathing hard. The outcome seems normal, but actually declarer should

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go down one. Better defense would have stopped the contract. West can tell from seeing dummy at trick one that South has the A-K of spades and ace of diamonds for his opening bid. He can also tell, after winning the queen of clubs at trick two, that the only chance for the defense lies | in scoring a trump trick for his side that does not exist naturally. With this in view, West plays a low club at trick three, instead of continuing with the ace. As it happens, East is able to cooperate by ruffing dummy’s jack of clubs with the eight of spades. South must now go down one, whatever he does. His best play is to overruff, hoping to find the remaining trumps divided 2-2. However, it turns out that West has the J-10-x and has a sure trump trick coming once East’s eight forces out the king. Note that West does not lead the K-A and a low club, since East might make the mistake of ruffing low on the basis of South’s having the queen of clubs. Instead, West leads the K-Q of clubs, announcing he has the ace, and continues with a low club in order to emphasize the importance of East’s ruffing with his highest trump.

meaning the sudden loss of wellpigmented hairs. When those well-pigmented hairs are lost, non-pigmented hairs are often left behind and thereby show up white. If you are concerned about this problem, you should consult a dermatologist or skin specialist. Question: Just how important is coffee as a cause of heartburn? I know coffee can keep me awake, but I also have the impression that it can produce heartburn, which may be what is actually keeping me awake. Would you please clarify this issue?

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Answer: Heartburn is the popular term for reflux esophagitis -- the backup (reflux) of stomach acid into the food pipe or esophagus, causing irritation and inflammation (esophagitis). Caffeine is a well knowp stimulant of stomach acid secretion. Therefore, it is entirely possible that coffee can cause heartburn. Whether or not it is a cause of heartburn in your case is a question I cannot answer, but the theoretical possibility certainly exists. There have been attempts to study the question of whether or

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husband becomes concerning his platonic role in the boudoir, the more he drinks (and smokes) to mask his fears and inner tension. But the more he indulges in the alcohol-tobacco sex syndrome, the faster he declines in his libido. Alas, even one negative sexual episode can throw even a virile college athlete into a platonic state in a single night! And our medical injections of sex hormones in such males may still leave them impotent, for a chronic psychological fear can curb both a man’s gastric appetite as well as his sexual function. Avoidance of the alcoholtobacco syndrome can help restore the testosterone level in a husband’s blood. But an understanding wife, who becomes seductively aggressive in their boudoir, can remedy most cases of male impotence. Alas, the usual feminine passive role, even if she were a beauty queen, could still leave a fearful man totally platonic unless she actively banished that male defeatism complex. (Always write to Or Crane, Hopkins Bldg . Meilott, Indiana 47958, enclosing a long stamped, addressed envelope and JSC to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his booklets.)

not decaffinated coffee is also a stimulant of stomach acid. To make a long story short, it would appear that removing the caffeine from coffee does not remove coffee as a cause of heartburn. In other words, decaffinated coffee also is a potent stimulant of stomach acid secretion. If you are having trouble with heartburn, either regular coffee or decaffinated coffee may be the culprit. And it might be worth going without either to see if the heartburn improves. (C) By The Chicago Tribune-New York

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