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It’s Your Move, Sweetheart—l’ll Just Watch
By LEE MUELLER
NEW YORK (NEA)
Os all the fantastic fog shapes that have risen off the
swamplands of human relations scholarship recently, prob
ably the most captivating is this new thing (gesture,
motion) they call body talk.
Body talk. Take your phrenology and palmistry and
ophthalmology and go play with them. This is plain lan
guage a man can understand.
Nearly everyone is acquainted with the traditional
gestures we use to convey messages. We rub our noses for
puzzlement. Shrug our shoulders for indifference. Wink for
intimacy. Tap our fingers for impatience.
This however, is obvious stuff. Now some social scien
tists are developing what they call kinesics—the study of
communication through body motion.
In New York and elsewhere, the newest groovy parties
these days are silent. Invitations request that guests leave
their voices at home and come prepared to communicate
with body language.
According to a new book by Julius Fast entitled “Body
Talk,” kinesics is a study of the mixture of all body
movements from the very deliberate to the completely
unconscious—an intricate undertaking because, he says,
the body (excluding the tongue) never lies.
“Clinical studies have revealed the extent to which body
language can contradict verbal communications,” he says.
"A classic example is a woman who told her psychiatrist
that she loved her boyfriend very much while shaking her
head from side to side in a subconscious denial.”
In the past few years, hundreds of researchers across
the country have become convinced that what people do
with their bodies communicates as importantly as the
words they use. According to one kinesicist, Dr. Ray Bird*
whistell, most of the time our words express only 30-35
per cent of our meaning when we speak.
Sandersville
Boycott Ends
SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
—SouthernChristian Leadership
Conference official Hosea Wil
liams has predicted Washington
County, the scene of some nine
months of racial protests will
“shine as a beacon of light for
other counties” in Georgia.
Williams made the prediction
in the jubilant mood following
a milestone agreement between
Negroes and whites last Friday
night that brought an end to ra
cial demonstrations and a boy
cott of white merchants begun
last October by Richard Turner,
a 39-year-old Sandersville car
penter.
“This certainly exemplifies
the sanity and dignity of the
American people, when they
can come together and resolve
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ineir difficulties without
bloodshed,” Williams said of
the settlement.
About 300 Negro marchers ral
lied peacefully at the Washing
ton County Courthouse Saturday
and pledged to follow the terms
of the biracial agreement and
end their boycott.
“Go to the stores and buy
what you want and what you
can pay for because when you
owe a man money that man
owns you,” the crowd was told
by Collins Harris of the SCLC.
Racial protests had erupted
under, the guidance of Turner
after he wrote Mayor Joe Slade
asking for major improvements
in Negro sections of Sanders
ville. Washington County is 55
per cent Negro. Turner got no
response and demonstrations
and eventually the boycott
followed.
Saturday, Turner told the
courthouse rally “I plan to go
to the stores and shop and shake
hands with my white friends.”
Slade said he was “very hap
py” about the 4% hour meeting
that led to the agreement and
added, “The situation now is
very calm and peaceful.”
“The problems between
blacks and whites have been
resolved,” said Sanders G.
Mercer, the white co-chairman
of the biracial negotiating com
mittee. “Everything has been
worked out. There’s been a lot
of work done on it.”
Williams indicated the agree
ment included the addition of
eight Negro deputy voter regis
trars and designation of the
SCLC as the official arbitrator
in any future negotiations.
In recent weeks, he said, Ne
groes have been added to the
Sandersville police force and
others have been hired by white
merchants. Williams said city
officials had even dropped
charges against persons arres
-ted during the racial protests.
The body says the rest.
Man’s courting behavior, for example, is not unlike that
of a chicken. He has been observed preening outrageously
(straightening or toying with his tie, smoothing his hair,
touching his face) when in the company of a female he
admires.
The woman, on the other hand, usually counters by
either telling him to forget it (crossing her arms and/or
legs tightly) or encouraging him.
The greatest encouragement a man can receive, accord
ing to some kinesicists, is for a woman to show him the
palm of her hand.
“From that,” says one expert, “you could perhaps derive
a cheap rule: Whenever a woman shows you her palm,
she’s courting you—whether she knows it or not.”
(I am not studied in the art of kinesics. I scarcely know
a knuckle when I see one. But I beg to differ with this
particular expert. On two occasions that I know of, a
woman has shown me her palm and she definitely was not
courting me. It’s called a slap, although since there is a
sound involved I’m not sure it can qualify as pure body
talk.)
According to Fast, the readiness to court is visible first
of all in men and women as a heightened muscle tone. The
individual holds himself erect; legs have a tighter tone;
even the face changes; sagging jowliness and pouches
under the eyes all decrease. Eyes seem bright and skin
becomes either flushed or pale.
That these symptoms also apply to a person who has
influenza may be a coincidence, although I doubt it. Homer
said: “Love is a sickness. . .” and there is not much
reason to dispute him.
Nevertheless, it is obvious that a place exists in modern
society for body talk. We speak often of Raquel Welch in
my office. And Elke Sommer. And. . .
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Maintenance Man
Held In Killings
LOS ANGELES (UPI)-A
maintenance worker whose
family once shared the home
where an attractive divorcee
and her two daughters were
beaten to death was booked on
suspicion of their murders
Sunday.
Mrs. Carolyn Stafford, 37,
and her daughters, Julie, 8, and
Carol Lynn, 17, were bludg
eoned to death in their beds
sometime Saturday night in
what police termed a “copy
cat” killing similar to the claw
hammer attack which killed
two members of a San Gabiriel
family and critically injured
three others last week.
The suspect was identified as
Gerard Trent Jr., 25, who,
together with his wife, Bonnie,
22, and her two children by a
previous marriage, lived on the
second floor of the Stafford’s
two-story Wilshire District
i home.
i Police said Trent “looks like
a prime suspect in the case.”
He reportedly had argued with
Mrs. Stafford when he and his
family moved out last month.
They had lived in the Stafford
home about one month.
Detective Sgt. Bob Calkins of
the Homicide Division said
I several “blunt instruments”
which could have been used in
the slayings were impounded.
He refused to identify the
weapons.
I Police refused to speculate
in disappoint
ment.
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about a motive or to release
evidence they said linked Trent
to the slayings. However, they
said there were “several
inconsistencies” in statements
he made to officers after he
was arrested at his job Sunday
afternoon.
Officers also refused to say
whether the slayings were
definitely related to the beat
ings of the Fred Senff family in
their San Gabriel home Wed
nesday. Senff, 28, and his wife,
Gloria, 33, are reported still in
critical condition from the
beatings. Their daughter, Jen
nie, 6, was reported in
improved condition.
Senff’s son, Ken, 10, and his
mother-in-law, Mrs. W. E.
Chapman, 53, were fatally
beaten by an intruder who
broke into their home early
Wednesday, clubbed the victims
with a claw hammer, then set
fire to the house.
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In Crash
On Bridge
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-
Nine young rock fans crammed
into a red Mustang early
Saturday morning and headed
north across the Golden Gage
Bridge for a pop music festival
in San Rafael.
In the opposite direction,
Robert A. Symons, 26, paid his
50 cents at the bridge’s toll
plaza and jammed his accelera
tor to the floor. He apparently
was trying to show two medical
secretaries how fast his 1970
blue Porsche would go. The
sports car was so new the
temporary plates still were on.
Seconds later his car, travel
ing an estimated 100 miles per
hour, hurtled head-on into the
Mustang on the approach to the
bridge. The Porsche’s transmis
sion was hurled 208 feet. Nine
persons were killed—six of the
young rock fans, Symons and
the two secretaries. It was San
Francisco’s worst traffic ac
cident
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Chet Says
Nixon
Shallow
NEW YORK (UPl)—Chet
Huntley says President Nixon is
shallow and Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew is appealing to
base elements. Nixon frightens
him. Agnew makes him resent
ful.
“I’ve been with Nixon social
ly,” the retiring NBC newscast
er said in an interview with
Life magazine. “I’ve traveled
with him in his private plane;
I’ve seen him under many
conditions.
“The shallowness of the man
overwhelms me; the fact that
he is President frightens me,”
said Huntley who retires Aug. 1
after 14 years on the Huntley-
Brinkley Report.
Huntley, who is returning to
his home state of Montana,
said, “Spiro Agnew is appealing
to the most base of elements.
All the networks broke their
asses putting his famous Des
Moines speech on television. We
almost created him, for God’s
sake. . .1 resent being lumped
in with his Eastern establish
ment effete intellectuals. I’ve
had more cow manure on my
boots than he ever thought
about."
Os the presidents he has met,
“I think I liked LBJ best. He
was kind to me. As insufferable
as he could be, he was a
gracious and funny man at
ease. I never tried to argue'
with him. I just kept filling his
glass with Scotch and we talked
about breeding Herefords. I’m
going down to his ranch
someday and sell him a bull.”
Why is Huntley retiring at
58? . .I’m not running away
from things, I’m running away
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By RICHARD PUTNAM PRATT
A friend of ours has in
vented what he calls “the
matchbook test” for con
sumer caution. His theory is
this: If something is adver
tised on matchbook covers,
watch out.
He makes an exception for
restaurants, but warns par
ticularly against those who
use this medium to peddle
small loans, life insurance
or no-m oney-down auto
sales.
He may have something.
Computer schools are going
in heavily for matchbook
advertising, and there is
reason to believe that many
such schools are not all they
ought to be.
There are some 1,000 com
puter schools in the United
States, and about 80 of them
are accredited by agencies
that insist on adequate edu
cational standards. A like
number are still trying for
accreditation.
The quality of the rest is
anybody’s guess.
One outspoken expert has
even suggested that three
quarters of them ought to be
shut down for failing to do
an adequate job. The com
plaint is a common one.
Sometimes students have
been the victims of out-and
out fraud. They’ve been
high-pressured into paying
for expensive courses, only
to discover later that the
school was shut down and
the operators gone.
More typical, however, is
the school that offers com
puter courses of question
able value. In this area, the
difficulties are many and
varied.
Some schools are inade
quately equipped. The ma
chinery involved in data
processing is expensive, so
many must skimp. Their
computers may be ancient
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SYSTEM INSTALLED
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)—
What is labeled as the nation’s
first foolproof system to
prevent airplane hijacks will be
installed this week at New
Orleans International Airport.
In announcing the device, the
Federal Aviation Administra
tion said the system involves
use of a meter to detect hidden
metal on passengers or in
baggage and a “behavorial
profile chart” for identifying
persons with “characteristic
hijacker personality traits.”
OVERCHARGE CITED
WASHINGTON (UPI) -A
congressional watchdog agency
claims defense and space
contractors overcharged the
to think. Maybe where there’s
clarity of air, there’s clarity of
thought.”
Monday, July 13, 1970
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In Computer Course
and outdated. Or they may
not have any at all, relying
on occasional rental of
someone else’s machines.
Other schools aren’t prop
erly staffed, with too few in
structors, and suspect quali
fications for those who do
exist. Textbooks are often
inadequate, outdated or non
existent.
Perhaps more important
than the staff and its physi
cal equipment is the kind of
material taught. Schools
have been found teaching
concepts and approaches of
little practical value to po
tential employers of its stu
dents.
The National Better Busi
ness Bureau issues a pam
phlet that every prospective
compute r-school student
ought to read. Its last three
pages are filled with tips on
how to avoid being bilked. It
advises:
Checking to see how long
the school has been in exist
ence, whether its students
have actually been em
ployed by companies satis
fied with their training and
whether the school has a
good reputation with em
ployers.
Asking if you can see the
school’s facilities in advance
of signing up, if you can
speak with students cur
rently enrolled, if the school
is accredited, and if it is ap
proved by any state or local
body.
Reading the enrollment
agreement carefully, requir
ing an explanation of tuition
payments, refund policies
and fees.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The pamphlet
is "Careers, Computers, and You,"
25 cents, National Better Business
Bureau, Inc., 230 Park Ave., New
York, N.Y. 10017.)
government more than $33
million in the 12 months ended
June 30.
The renegotiation board said
its findings for fiscal 1970 were
50 per cent more than the
excessive profits it had discov
ered during the previous fiscal
year and was the largest
amount determined since 1960.
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