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Computer Enters
Horoscope Field
By LEROY POPE
UPI Financial Writer
NEW YORK (UPI) — It was
Inevitable that the astrologers
of the world eventually would
awake to the tremendous possi
bilities of the electronic com
puter.
It takes a professional
astrologer 30 hours or more to
do the calculations and cast a
10,000 - word individual horo
scope.
The programmed computer
can do it in less than a
minute. Also the computer can
store sufficient information to
cast two billion individual horo
scopes without duplication ex
cept in the case where two per
sons of the same sex were
born at precisely the same sec
ond In the same place.
This means the cost of pro
ducing such a horoscope can be
drastically slashed by the com
puter. So two New York firms,
TBS Computer Centers Corp.
and Time Pattern Research In
stitute, of Valley Steam, L. 1.,
have joined forces to market
computer-cast horoscopes by di
rect mail.
An Old Practice
They are selling for sls
through national women’s mag
azines individual horoscopes
that would cost SSO to 0200 in
the ordinary course of business.
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The astrologer of the venture
Is Katina Theodossiou of Lon
don, whose column appears in
the Beaverbrook papers and
other papers in Britain. She al
so has written many books on
astrology and is heard on the
subject on British television and
radio.
Astrology has been practiced
for 5,000 years and is believed
devoutly by most of the popula
tion of Asian countries and by
millions in Europe and the
Americas.
Murray Lee, president of TBS
Computer Services, told a news
conference that 1,500 American
newspapers carry a daily horo
scope. There are several astro
logical magazines and the sale
of generalized horoscopes in
variety stores at 25 cents to $1
runs to millions.
Move Women Believers
Lee estimated that 40 million
Americans are interested in
horoscopes and five million be
lieve in them. Among as
trology's devotees, women out
number men two to one, Miss
Theodossiou told the news con
ference, but an astonishing num
ber of sophisticated business
men, scientists, educators and
politicians have shown an in
terest in it.
‘‘The elder J. P. Morgan used
to consult Evangeline Adams,
a noted astrologer of his day,
and Texas financier Clint Mur
chison has admitted using as
trology in business dealings,”
she said. "I know one wealthy
American lady who insists on
holding business conferences at
3 a.m. because her astrologer
has advised her it’s a propi
tious time in her case.”
Then there is the well known
David Williams, president of
the New York Astrologers Guild
who specializes in advice on
trading and investing in the
stock market to brokers and
their clients.
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DIANN’S ‘DOG’ wouldn’t
win any prizes at the local
dog show, but she’d sure
raise a ruckus among the
canine entries. Orphaned
last spring, the raccoon
was raised by Diannßusch,
16, of Okauchce, Wis., with
the permission of the state
Conservation Dept., and is
now easily handled and
will walk on a leash.
Gov. Romney
Begins Another
Multi-State Trip
LANSING, Mich. (UPI) —
Michigan Gov. George Romney
today begins a cross-country
trip apparently to get a cross
section of party sentiment for
his unannounced candidacy for
the presidency.
The eight-day trip, which will
expose Romney to the political
winds and Republican whims in
10 states, begins in the Great
Plains, stretches to the Rockies,
to the Southwest, and through
the East to New England.
There were few meet-the
people stops scheduled, with
most of the slate filled with
dinners and lunches with party
faithfuls.
The itinerary includes a
possibly significant stop at
Phoenix, Ariz. Romney ar
ranged the stop after former
U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater
invited his one-time protagonist
to speak to a fund-raising
dinner.
At every stop along the way
Romney will talk to fellow
Republicans. His presidential
aspirations are certain to crop
up time and again.
When Romney returns to
Michigan Nov. 1, he’ll have two
weeks before he is expected to
formally throw his hat in the
GOP presidential ring.
Four of the states on the
Romney itinerary have pres
idential primaries and Romney
already has said that if he
decides to run, he’ll enter the
first-in-the-nation primary in
New Hampshire, one of those
states. The other presidential
primary states on Romney's
scheduled are South Dakota,
Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Heidi Destined
To Die At Sea
MIAMI (UPI) — Hurricane
Heidi, far out at sea, seemed
destined to die in the cool air
of the North Atlantic.
The seaon’s eighth hurricane,
with top winds of 85 miles an
hour, was expected to gradual
ly decreased in intensity as
“cooler drier air works into its
circulation," the Miami weather
bureau said.
Early today, the hurricane
was 600 miles east of Bermuda,
near latitude 33.0 north and
longitude 54.7 west, and moving
easterly at 15 miles an hour.
Griffin DaOy News
BRUCE BIOSSAT
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Hanoi, Jungle Hide Identity
Os Viet Cong's Real Boss
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Insurgent Cubans had their Fidel Castro, Algerians their
Ben Bella, Indonesians their Sukarno. But the fondest friends
of the Viet Cong National Liberation Front in Vietnam cannot
produce even the shadow of a hero.
The truth is that not even the most diligent observers and
scholars can be entirely sure who the leaders of the NLF
really are.
Among the latest to probe are Rodger Swearingen and
Hammond Rolph of the University of Southern California, who
have done a documentary study for the American Bar As
sociation on the subject, “Communism in Vietnam.”
The authors ask this question:
“Why this strange obscurity in the leadership of a move
ment to which so much is attributed—a movement which is
looked upon by its adherents as the vanguard of the anti
imperialistic struggle, and which so many consider the cul
mination of the national revolution of the Vietnamese peo
ple?”
Their chief answer is that the peculiarly shadowy nature of
the higher level leadership “is probably one indication of the
tightness of control by North Vietnam, whose leaders may
wish to make certain that no strong and attractive figure
arises in the south who might at stfme time or another take
an embarrassingly independent posture.”
Many U.S. critics of President Johnson’s Vietnam policies
like to insist that the NLF is properly representative of the
South Vietnamese people’s legitimate aspirations and hence
must be dealt with first-hand in any negotiated settlement.
Unfortunately for their case, they have never been able to
furnish convincing evidence that it represents anything but
Hanoi. Even the late Bernard Fall, a Vietnam scholar from
whom the critics occasionally took comfort, saw the NLF as
a very fragile false front.
The ostensible chairman of the NLF is Nguyen Huu Tho,
who in 1947 took part in some futile negotiations to end the
earlier Indo-China war. Professor Fall had little regard for
him, and the two Southern California scholars brand him a
“nondescript Saigon leftist lawyer” who has carried on mostly
“decorative duties” since the NLF’s founding.
Some 12 of the 15 members of the NLF’s presidium are
styled as non-Communists. but Swearingen and Rolph say the
evidence indicate all 12 have long histories of pro-Red front
activities and several may actually be party members.
Somewhere in this varied assortment of obscure types is
the real leader of the NLF. The authors make their own
guesses on the basis of the available evidence. They suggest
he is probably one Tran Nam Trung, head of the NLF military
committee, and likely “one and the same person” with Lt.
Gen. Tran Van Tra of the North Vietnamese regular army.
But the operative point is that, whether he or some other
is the man, the true leader is not now nor is he ever likely
to be a charismatic hero to the whole South Vietnamese people
or even just the Viet Cong themselves.
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CAMPAIGNING— ShirIey Temple Black, Republican candi
date for Congress in a special election, receives an Optimist
Club button in San Mateo, Calif., from Dr. Kenneth C.
Stergion after addressing the club. Her campaigning has
been mostly 10 and 15 minute speeches Rt informal meet
ings of housewives and businessmen.
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JOHN STEINBECK IV, 21, son
of the novelist, leaves night
court in Washington en route
to a U.S. Army stockade
after being arrested on
charges of "maintaining a
common nuisance” where
narcotics are illegally sold or
used. Police raiding his
Washington apartment found
20 pounds of marijuana in
two suitcases. He is a GI.
Tuesday, October 24, 1967
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States since the turn of the century, but the ones shown above are among the most
deadly, in terms of lives and property lost. Their respective tolls in the United
States include: (1) Galveston, 6,000 dead, S3O million damages; (2) Audrey,
390 killed, $l5O million; (3) Florida, 1,836 killed, $25 million; (4)Diane, 184
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CONSIDERATION COUNTS
LANSING, Mich. (UPl)—The
Michigan House has passed a
bill to start the auto licensing
year on Nov. 13 and end it
March 31, so, according to
suporters, drivers won’t have
to squat in the snow to switch
plates.
DO-IT-YOURSELF
BENTON, 111. (UPl)—Bur
glars who hit the Taylor Motor
Co. here Thursday took a 1966
car that needed repairs and—
two large boxes of tools.
-NOTICE-
In order to provide our employes more
reasonable time off during the week
GILCHRIST ANIMAL HOSPITAL
Will close at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday beginning Nov.
4th. Office hours will remain the same otherwise.
Emergencies wiil be seen at anytime as usual.