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Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 26,1972
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picture, “They Only Kill Their Masters.” In right photo,
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Lawford and June Allyson as they appeared in “The Best
Things in Life.”
Lawford sitting
out campaign
By NANCY ANDERSON
Copley News Service
HOLLYWOOD - Peter
Lawford would like to make
one thing perfectly clear.
Despite his onetime enthu
siasm for politics (and most
especially that of Camelot),
he’s not campaigning for his
former brother-in-law for vice
president of the United States.
Actor Lawford and vice
presidential candidate Sar
gent Shriver were brothers-in
law while the star was mar
ried to Pat Kennedy, one of
THE Kennedys and sister of
Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
And, as a member-by-mar
riage of the Kennedy clan,
Lawford seemed as politics
minded as any of his in-laws.
As a matter of fact, a bust and
a handsome, colored photo
graph of his late brother-in
law, President John Kennedy,
continue to adorn positions of
honor in his living room.
Nevertheless, in this presi
dential election year of 1972
with his ex-wife’s sister’s hus
band running for the high
place of vice president, Law
ford says he’s sitting the cam
paign out.
“I’ve always been con
cerned with politics,” he said
on a recent afternoon as he re
laxed barefooted in his spa
cious, old-fashioned apart
ment below the Sunset Strip.
“But I’m out of it now. I’m not
campaigning for anyone, be
cause I’m disenchanted.
Tornado detector
is possible
By FRANK MACOMBER
Copley News Service
If you live in tornado coun
try, a University of Chicago
researcher has some encour
aging news for you.
Dr. T. Theodore Fujita has
developed what he calls a
“tornado machine” that may
help scientists detect and
eventually prevent devastat
ing tornadoes.
Dr. Fujita’s research under
a federal space agency grant
for the study of cloud behavior
is aimed also at making more
effective use of weather pho
tographs gathered by earth
orbiting satellite cameras.
The geophysicist became
interested in tornadoes when
Japan's Kyushu Island, where
he was born, was struck by a
funnel cloud in 1948. After he
came to the United States in
1953, Fujita began a study of
tornadoes, with their winds up
to 300 miles per hour in the
Midwest and 200 miles per
hour in mountainous regions.
Fujita built his tornado ma
chine so the characteristics of
tornado-producing clouds
could be studied firsthand.
While all thunderstorms ap
pear to rotate, he says, only
one in a hundred actually trig
gers a tornado. His chief mis
sion is to identify those rare
exceptions so people would
have advance warning of ap
proaching twisters.
Observing a thunderstorm
from a high-flying jet air
plane, Fujita discovered evi
dence that overturns the con
ventional theory of how torna
does are born.
Most scientists believed
they were produced as rapidly
expanding thunderclouds. But
Fujita says now tornadoes
seem to be created during a
pause in the growth of the
thundercloud.
He also has developed a new
theory to explain why torna
does often destroy one house
and leave neighboring build
ings unscathed.
Within each major tornado
funnel, Fujita says, are sever
al smaller funnels which spin
★★★★★★★★
FOLLOWS RULES
LONDON (UPl)—Mrs. Sally
Oppenheim is sending a case of
overripe and foul-smelling mus
sels to a fellow member of
Parliament.
It’s not that she has any
quarrel with Eric Heffer, but
Mrs. Oppenheim—a champion
of the housewives’ causes—
received the mussels from a
Liverpool housewife.
“The rules are—and I intend
to stick to them—that if any
member of Parliament receives
a communication from another
constituency, he must forward
it to the MP concerned. That is
what I am doing.”
★★★★★★★★
“I’m not proud of my atti
tude, but there it is.”
As he talked, his young, sec
ond wife, Mary Rowan,
daughter of “Laugh-In” star
Dan Rowan, sat quietly facing
him across a massive coffee
table made from a boat hatch.
Occasionally she whispered
something to another pretty
girl beside her, a Metro Gold
wyn Mayer publicist on hand
to steer conversation toward
Lawford’s latest picture,
“They Only Kill Their
Masters,” for MGM.
The publicist had done her
best, but, for the most part,
the talk ranged elsewhere.
“Personally I could never
run for public office,” the
gray-haired actor who was
once a sunny-topped, teen-age
idol continued, “because I
couldn’t cope with the extra
ordinary dishonesty you have
to live with every day. ...”
Lawford began training for
his chosen career as a child,
making his acting debut in
London when he was 7 years
old in the picture “Old Bill.”
However, as the only son of
globe-trotting parents, Gen.
Sir Sidney Lawford and Lady
Lawford, he wasn’t settled
enough at that period to follow
through as the British Jackie
Cooper. In fact, he wasn’t
even settled enough to attend
school but, rather, was edu
cated by private tutors.
World War II caught the
rambling Lawfords in Florida
with much greater force.
These "suction vortices”
dance about the base of the
main funnel, creating an er
ratic path of destruction, he
says.
Using his tornado machine
and testing his theories
against real tornadoes and
thunderclouds, Fujita says it
soon may become possible to
predict the onset of a tornado
two hours before it descends
from a cloud. That much
warning time could save
countless lives.
Once scientists can predict
tornadoes in advance, they
might be able to prevent
them, Fujita believes. He
says that within 10 years
methods to diffuse a thunder
storm or break up a tornado
after it is under way may be
possible as a result of current
research.
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Big government often is ac
cused of having no imagina
tion. The Federal Aviation
Administration is trying to
change all that.
The agency has put up funds
to help finance a plan to trans
form an abandoned strip mine
site near Hazard, Ky., into a
general aviation airport.
The aim is not only to im
prove air service to Hazard
but the environment as well.
Ecologists call strip mines
one of the real environmental
villains.
Strip mining for coal near
Hazard leveled the top of a
mountain. Only grading of the
site is necessary to build a
runway which could be ex
tended to 7,000 feet.
Presently Hazard is served
by a small airport in a narrow
valley blocked by a mountain
at one end.
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with their funds frozen in En
gland, presenting them with
such a financial crisis that
young Peter went to work as a
parking lot attendant for a
hotel wherein he’d previously
been a pampered guest.
He saved his money and, as
soon as he had enough for a
one-way ticket to California,
left for Los Angeles where he
got a job as an usher at the
Westwood Theater near the
University of California at
Los Angeles.
Operating from that base,
he gradually gained a foothold
in American films to become
in time a very hot item with
teen-age moviegoers.
“You could say I was a teen
age idol,” Lawford conceded,
not displeased by the recollec
tion. “But then teen-agers
were called ‘bobby-soxers.’
“When an actor gets adula
tion as a fringe benefit, he
finds it very helpful. But, if
the adulation comes too
quickly, he must work harder
than ever to prove that he
wasn’t just a fad.”
Throughout its compara
tively brief lifetime, Lawford
was a leading member of one
of Hollywood’s most glamor
ous groups. “The Clan,” sec
ond only in renown to the fa
bled “Rat Pack.”
Neither was an official or
ganization with a charter,
membership roll, treasury,
etc. Instead, each was a knot
of friends operating as a unit
within the Hollywood social
structure and attracting con
siderable attention in the pro
cess.
“The Rat Pack,” the earlier
of the two groups, was headed
by Humphrey Bogart, while
Frank Sinatra was kingpin of
the “The Clan.”
‘“The Clan’ was a splinter
group of The Rat Pack,’”
Lawford explained. “Sinatra,
Dean Martin, Sammy Davis
and I were members.
“1 still see Sammy often but
not the others. Dean and I
were never close, and I
haven’t seen Frank in seven
years.”
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