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HCHRISTMAS SPIRIT—Bob Hope always knows what the servicemen want when he makes his s
holiday round-the-world tour, and one thing obviously is a pretty girt Ursula Andress, dressed in
purple hot pants, joined Hope in an appearance aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy.
Indomitable Hope
hits the road again
ByPAULCORCORAN
Copley News Service
HOLLYWOOD - There is no
one quite like Bob Hope, who is
almost as closely identified
with Christmas as Santa Claus.
For the 21st time, the 66-year
old comedian will go abroad to
entertain the troops. The
around-the-world pilgrimage
will cover about 30,000 miles in
15 days aboard a C-141
Starlifter. Hope will give ap
proximately 20 performances
in as many different countries.
“We hoped perhaps we would
not need to hit the road again
this Christmas,” said the
master of topical humor, “but
the Department of Defense felt
it was needed. Since they asked
me, I was glad to say yes.”
Hope, who films the shows to
use segments on a 90-minute
special colorcast, has
developed a limitless com
passion for the serviceman. He
knows how lonely a man in
South Vietnam or Iceland
can be during the holiday
season.
“There are spots all over the
world,” Hope said, “where
there are men who need to be
entertained at Christmas.
There is no lonelier time of the
year, whether you are in Korea
or on a ship in the
Mediterranean or in the
boondocks of Thailand — let
alone Vietnam.”
Hope has had the full impact
of war brought home to him
many times in visits to the
wounded and injured men in
hospitals around die world.
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“War is the most impractical
thing in the world,” Hope said
in a serious, philosophical
comment. It is costly in lives, in
health, and of course in money.
“You wonder when the day
will arrive when we will be
adult enough to settle our
differences the way civilized
men should settle them —
around a conference table.”
What Hope tries to give the
serviceman is a respite,
however brief, from war and
boredom.
His troupe always includes
pretty girls. The wars may be
different, and the datelines
changed, but girls are girls —
something Hope is well aware
of— and seeing a pretty
woman is good medicine for a
lonely man.
Hope, for the 17th time, also
will have Les Brown and his
band along on the 1971 trip.
As do most members of the
troupe, Hope and Brown will
wait until return home to
celebrate the Christmas season
with their families.
Hope long ago discovered
that it doesn’t have to be Dec.
25 to get the Christmas spirit.
“It really does not matter
what day you get here, Mr.
Hope,” a soldier told him last
December. ‘‘That day is
Christmas, whatever the
calendar says.”
The exact spots where Hope
will perform are not released
for security reasons. The
countries he will visit will be
identified shortly before his
departure in December, no
information will be released on
bases to be visited in Vietnam.
The NBC show that Hope and
editors will put together for
presentation in January is
dramatically different from his
other specials.
Hope, of course, is the
principal figure but the “stars”
are the men in uniform. The
camera at each base focuses on
the faces of the servicemen.
Wives, sisters and other family
members back home, aware
that Hope has visited a par
ticular base, closely watch the
television screen to see if they
can identify their man.
Hope, who has been troubled
in the past by serious eye
problems, would rather be
home in Palm Springs this
year.
“My idea of a really great
Christmas, if you want to know
the truth,” he said, “would be
to have all the troops come to
Palm Springs where I’d get
Bing Crosby to sing ‘White
Christmas’ for them.
“That isn’t possible this year,
so I will be making the swing.
They are so darned glad to see
anybody from home, they give
you a big welcome.”
Hope always realizes deep
satisfaction from the trip. Most
of the men appreciate his
shows, and a good number let
him know.
A small young sailor aboard
the aircraft carrier U.S.S.
Kennedy expressed it this way
last December:
“Thank you, Mr. Hope, for a
little bit of joy.”
Jet travel upsets
your body clock
By GUY RYAN
The doctor checked me over
carefully. I’d been feeling pale
lately. He didn’t come up with
anything.
Then he asked, ‘‘Been
anywhere lately?”
“Just got back from the
Soviet Union,” I told him.
“Uh, huh, you’ve got
dysrhythmia.”
“I’ve got what?”
“Your circadian rhythm is
out of whack.”
I still didn’t know what he
was talking about, but I figured
it would cost a pile to have it
fixed.
“It’s nothing. It will go
away,” he assured me. “It
happens to everybody who
whizzes through a dozen or so
time zones in a few hours.”
I felt better already. But not
much.
And then a release from the
Air Transport Association
came along which cleared up
some of the mystery of this
strange malady.
The circadian rhythm is
based on a number of body
clocks relating to your daily
time cycle, the ATA pointed
out. And when these body
clocks get out of whack, so does
your circadian rhythm. (The
word comes from the Latin
“circa,” which means “about”
and “dia” which means
“day.”)
And when that happens, you
may get a bad case of
dysrhythmia.
Jet travel by itself doesn’t
upset these human body clocks,
says ATA. But a combination of
ultrafast speed and the ten
dency of human beings to keep
charging ahead full speed in
defiance to the time zone in
which your biological clocks
are set will cause trouble.
For instance, when you fly to
an overseas destination, your
stomach clock may tell you it’s
time for breakfast, but the local
time may indicate it’s the
cocktail hour. If you ignore
your stomach clock and hoist a
martini instead, it upsets your
circadian rhythm.
The ATA assures us
.POOR SOUL—This guy’s sick. He’s suffering from
dysrhythmia, a malady common to jet setters who zip
through a score of time zones without giving their body
clocks time to adjust Even his trusty houndass wotft help
him figure out when to or sleep.
dysrhythmia isn’t a dread
disease. The term only
describes all of the real,
potential and imaginary upsets
of the body’s biological clocks
caused by moving at jet speeds
across several time zones.
But if you’ve got it, you still
feel feeble.
The Air Transport
Association says there are
some things you can do to
minimize the ill effects of the
rapid time change.
First, be sure you get normal
sleep the nights before your
trip begins. Eat your ac
customed food at normal meal
hours and avoid a last-minute
rush to catch your plane. Start
the trip well rested.
If you want to sleep on the
flight, eat and drink sparingly
on the plane. Be wary of
sleeping pills, ATA advises.
Just as a psychological crutch,
put a pillow behind your bead
—if you are used to sleeping on
a pillow at home.
And as a physiological aid,
use a blanket. Body tem
perature tends to go down when
you are sleeping. You might
catch a cold uncovered. (Ac
tually, says ATA, if your life
runs on a rather regular
schedule, the body clock that
operates your temperature will
automatically turn it down
when your regular sleeping
time comes around.)
If you’re going to be overseas
for just a couple of days or so,
you might use the “time
capsule” technique to ad
vantage. Keep your watch set
on home time and eat when the
hands tell you it’s time and
sleep when you can. You may
come home tired, but you
probably won’t have a bad case
of dysrhythmia.
But for tourists who plan to
spend several days in a foreign
country or countries, the “time
capsule” plan won’t work.
About all you can do in this
case is to take it easy upon
arrival at your destination —
even go to bed for a few hours,
no matter what time it is. Then
move slowly into the swing of
activity in the country you’re
visiting.