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PAGE FOUR—Sapulpa (Okla.) Herald, Thursday, July 19, 1990
L. M. Boyd
Teachers of
psychology
Sloths snee/c slowly. This is not
only true, it’s hard to say.
IIUKKK'ANKS
(). Recall wltcti hurricanes were
named only after women? Mow’d that
gel started?
A. In 1941, a novelist named
George R. Stewart wrote “Storm”
wherein a fictional forecaster called a
hurricane “Maria.” Military' meteor
olocisis thought that nifty so made it
a practice m World War II.
In Ihis dodge, when all else fails,
you don’t read the directions, you
quote Ben Franklin: “The heart of a
fool is m his mouth, but the mouth of
a wise man is in his heart.”
Cows gel huge hair balls in their
stomachs. They wouldn’t if they
didn’t go around licking other cows
in search for salt.
PARAGUAY
Almost everybody in Paraguay is
bilingual. They speak Spanish. And
their native Guarani. What! You’ve
never heard of it? It’s the common
tongue. Paraguay, it’s said, will be
the world’s most bilingual country as
long as Quebec remains a part ol
Canada.
Barb Wire
The main qualification for Rep.
Watkins lor governor seems to Ik how-
much money lie has raised.
At the AIDS convention in San
Francisco, either people were discuss
ing it or lighting about it.
Japan will import more beef, but
only on a Big Mac.
Japan looks on the U S. as the
world’s largest supermarket.
A luxury car is one that is a luxury
on your income.
People are turning to second jobs to
support their hobbies such as eating, a
rtxii over their heads, etc.
Horse racing is for people who
don’t have a nag at home.
Gorbachev went on Russian TV and
was seen by the highest audience in
history, 10.
Raising cigarette taxes won’t work,
but they could cut the si/.c of a pack in
half.
A poll shows the U.S. still distrusts
Russians, also Democrats, Republi
cans anti polltakcrs.
They want to recycle phone b<x>ks
into toilet paper, but they’ve been
doing that in rural areas for years.
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OPINION
“Almost every man who teaches
psychology at the college level has a
female following of at least half a
dozen young women willing to spend
the night with him.” So writes a
University faculty member. Our Love
and War man will file this note in that
special folder with rock stars, quarter-
hacks and lottery winners.
No promise land
GOP plagued by setbacks
Q. What was the first best selling
rock-and-roll record?
A. “Crazy, Man, Crazy,” Bill
Haley, 1953.
Q. When did American men first
start wearing Jockey type underwear?
A. Early 1930’s. That’s when the
longjohn market bottomed out. Paja
mas came in around 1905.Night
gowns have been around forever,
pritnear.
LOS ANGELES (NEA) Califor-
nia was suppposed to be the promised
land for the Republican Party in 1990
It was to start the groundswell that
would eventually lead to GOI’ control
of the House, which in turn would
guarantee Republican dominance for
decades to come
However, with the year half over,
the OOP's big plans have suffered se-
vere setbacks. This is what's going on
As a result of the 1990 U S census.
California is expected to gel from six
to eight new House seats in 1992 The
GOP is counting on being able to con
trol. or at least prevent Democratic
control, of the redistrieting that must
take place alter the census Hcptihli
cans hope to pick up many ol the new
House seats and undo the Democratic
gerrymandering from the 1980 een
mis One internal GOP scenario called
lor picking up 15 House seats from
California in 1992
The key tor the GOP is getting Re-
publican Sen Pete Wilson elected
governor this November As gover
nor. he could veto any gerrymandered
plan from the legislature, which is
controlled bv the Democrats The
GOP would probably have sufficient
strength in the legislature to prevent
a veto override
However, former San Francisco
Mayor Dianne Kemstcm s win in the
Democratic gubernatorial primary is
a major obstacle Private polls taken
by the Wilson camp, and by the stale
GOP. show that Wilson could have
beaten Kcmslein's primary opponent
stall1 attorney general John Van de
Kamp However. Hit polls indicate
that Wilson is running behind
Keinstcm
Before the hitter primary between
Eeinstem and Van de Kamp. Republi
cans had hoped the Democrats would
emerge badly split and low on hinds
Instead, despite the nasty campaign,
the Democrats arc clearly united be-
Republicans had hoped the Democrats would
come out of the gubernatorial primary badly split and
low on funds. Instead, they are united.
hind Feinstein. Further, she has
shown the ability to attract funds on a
national level and should have no
tr<iuble matching Wilson's sizable
war chest, which is currently over $.‘i
million
When the Dermx'ratic primary be
gan. the Wilson camp's perception
w as that they would have a much east
er time with Feinstein and her ultra
11Gera 1 San Francisco image than
with Van de ('amp s lough law-and or
der image as attorney general Rut
they watched in growing horror as
Feinstein out law and-ordered Van de
Kamp. effectively removing her past
liberal ness as a campaign issue
One issue that Wilson, a former
mayor ol San Diego, hoped to exploit
in November against Van de Kamp
was the growing hostility in ('alitor
ma between local and state govern
men! caused by lax and spending Imi
Italians Wilson had pledged to stop
the stale government from dumping
more and more funding rcsponsihihu
onto local government That issue
might have worked in a gubernatorial
race against Van de Kamp. a long
time stall' official But it is a non is
sue in lhe campaign against Fein
stein, a former San Francisco mayor
Abortion will not fie an issue in Hie
gubernatorial race since both Wilson
and Feinstein have similar pro-choice
positions Bill the issue could still hurl
Wilson because Ins running mate lor
lieutenant governor state Sen
Marian Bergeson is a conservative
with a strong anti abortion position
There may also he a gender gap
that will work against Wilson Ac
THE WAGMAN FILE
(). Who arc “the Cairocas”?
A. That’s what the people of Rio
dc Janeiro call themselves.
Q. What’s a “hippodromed”
contest?
A. One wherein the winner is
decided he lore the event. As in a
horse race lor a movie or circus. Or a
professional wrestling match.
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“Forewarned, forearmed” is a
Cervantes expression from "Don
Quixote.”
Lie taxes common-law couple
DEAR ABBY We need help with
a problem vve can't ask anyone else
about. and when I tell you w hat it is.
you will understand why.
Forty years ago. I became preg
mint and I wasn't married. My boy-
friend and I told our parents (and
everyone else 11 hat we were secret I v
married, and we have been living
this lie ever since.
We subsequently had more chil-
dren and now grandchildren
but vve never had any kind of mar-
riage ceremony because we didn't
want it known that we had never
married.
My husband and I were both born
and raised in Pennsylvania and have
never lived m any other state We
know that Pennsylvania recognizes
common-law marriages, hut here's
our question Does the IRS feel the
same way about common-law mar-
riages as the state of Pennsylvania?
We've been filing joint tax returns
all these years.
Gall it a mental block or what-
ever, hut we have never really faced
this problem. Can vou help us?
TWO FRIGHTENED
OSTRICHES
Dear Abby
just doesn't seem fair for them to
expect it Is there a nice hut firm way
to sav "no" to this nervy suggestion?
MOTHER OF THE BRIDE
concerned about how the IKS
feels about common-law mar-
riages, eonsult an attorney who
is familiar with tax law.
DEAR MOTHER: Yes. You
could politely say that birthdays
come every year, but a weeding
is a onee-in-a-lifetime celebra-
tion.
DEAR OSTRICHES: Have no
fear. Since the state in which
you have been living for 40 years
recognizes common-law mar-
riages, you are married for the
purposes of filing a joint federal
income tax return. If you are still
DEAR ABBY: ()ur only daughter
is being married soon. We have been
planning this wedding for nearly a
year. It will he a traditional wedding
in our church, and a lot of time and
money has gone into it to make it an
exceptionally lovely occasion. In the
basement of the church is a large
room tor such celebrations, and we
are having it professionally deco-
rated with flowers, balloons and
ribbons.
The problem: The groom's niece is
goi ng to he celehrat i ng her 1 Ot h hi rt h-
duy tin the day of the wedding, and
they (the groom’s family) want to
know if it would he all right to bring
a birthday cake to the wedding and
celebrate “Jennifer’s” 10th birthday
at the same time — since all the
flowers and decorations w ill be there
anyway! It was suggested, too, that
the hand play “Happy Birthday,” and
all the wedding guests could sing
“Happy Birthday to Jennifer."
Abby, I am not in favor of combin-
ing my daughter's wedding celebra-
tion with Jennifer’s 10th birthday. It
DEAR ABBY: A so-called friend
of mine talked me into doing some-
thing that I really didn’t want to do.
I didn't want to do it because I
knew we would get into a lot of trouble
if we were caught. I wanted to tell
him “no,” but I just didn’t have the
courage to. I regret it now, because
I'm m jail. 1 guess I just don’t know
how to say “no”!
Is there an easier way to say “no”
than just “no"?
IN JAIL IN ARIZONA
DEAR IN JAIL: The word “no”
is probably the easiest word to
pronounce and the most diffi-
cult to say in any language. For-
tunately, you know your limita-
tions. Since you lack the cour-
age to say “no,” in the future, you
would be wise to avoid the per-
son who would lead you into
temptation.
Today in History
Today is Thursday, July 19, the
200ih day of 1990. There arc 16S days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 19, 1848, a pioneer
women’s rights convention called by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia
C. Mott convened in Seneca Falls,
New York.
On this date:
In 1553, Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane
Orey was deposed as Queen of
England after claiming the crown for
nine days. King Henry the Eighth’s
daughter Mary was proclaimed
Queen.
In 1870, the Franco-Prussian war
began.
In 1918, during World War I,
German armies began a retreat across
the Marne River in France following
the failure of their last big offensive on
French soil.
In 1941, British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill launched his “ V
for Victory" campaign in Europe.
In 1943, allied air forces raided
Rome during the World War □.
In 197S, the Apollo and Soyuz
space capsules that were linked in
orbit for two days separated.
In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of
Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas,
two days after President Anastasio
Somoza resigned and fled the country.
In 1984, U.S. Rep. Geraldine A.
FctTaro, D-New York^ won the Demo-
cratic nomination for vice president by
acclamation at the party’s convention
in San Francisco.
In 1986, Csroline Kennedy, daught-
er of President Kennedy, married
Bigger rigs just
keep on truckin’
cording to scvi'ral exit polls. 20 per-
cent of those who voted for Bergeson
in the primary mostly women
said they would support Feinstein in
November
The bottom line is that polls are
showing that a very wide cross sec-
tion of California voters men and
women, liberals to moderate conser-
vatives simply like Dianne Fein-
stein Some commentators have taken
to calling her 1990 s “teflon"
candidate
The GOI’ also had hopes for their
reapportionment fall-back positions.
On th*' June primary ballot there
were two different measures that
would have taken final approval for
reapportionment out of the hands of
the legislature in one case by re-
quiring a referendum on the final
plan, and in the other by creating a
commission to do the redistrieting
Either scheme favored the GOP.
which supported both measures The
GOP. however, was opposed by Demo-
crats and a wide cross section of in
I crest groups Both measures were
defeated handily
OLYMPIA, Wash (NEA) - No-
where in the nation are there more
double-trailer trucks - massive rigs
55 to 70 feet long - than on Interstate
5, the West Coast's new “Main Street"
stretching from north of Seattle to
south of San Diego
Although a 1982 federal law opened
certain roads in every state to double-
trailer trucks, the names of the most
often used combinations — Western
Doubles and Rocky Mountain Doubles
identify their region of preference.
(A Western Double is a tractor
hauling two trailers of the same size
Each is typically 28 feet long but
some are up to 35 feet long A Rocky
Mountain Double includes a tractor
followed by a long trailer, usually 40
feet long, and another shorter trailer
For years, those rigs have terrified
motorists throughout the West as the
trucks veered across mountain
passes, swayed around curves and
lurched through urban traffic Now.
the trucking industry is poised to
launch a campaign for government
approval of even heavier, wider and
longer trucks
When Congress begins fashioning
new highway legislation late this year
or early next year, the industry will
bo pressing for federal approval of
• The Turnpike Double, a 110-foot-
long. nine-axle, 34 wheel behemoth
that consists of a tractor pulling a
pair of full-length trailers, each 48
feet long Current law allows only the
tractor and one such trailer
• The Triple Tractor, an expanded
version (about 100 feet long) ol the
Western Double in which a tractor
pulls throe trailers, each 28 feet long
Current law allows only the tractor
and two such trailers
Such mega trucks, their proponents
claim, will increase productivity and
reduce costs because shippers can use
fewer cabs and drivers to haul more
goods Moreover, the industry argues
that replacing the trucks now in use
with fewer but larger vehicles will re-
duce energy consumption, air pollu
lion and highway congestion
But railroad shipment of freight
consumes even less energy, produces
less pollution and occupies no valu
able highway space Moreover, there
is evidence that larger multi-unit
trucks pose unacceptably high safety
risks on the nation's roads
A relatively recent study conducted
in the state of Washington found that
double-trailer trucks are especially
prone to accidents. That study's
conclusion
“When the crash involvement o|
doubles was compared to that of (sin
gle) tractor-trailers operating under
similar conditions, doubles were in
volved in crashes two to three times
more often
“If the use of doubles becomes
more widespread throughout the in
terstate highway system and connect
ing roads, an inevitable result will be
increased numbers of truck crashes
That study, conducted for the Insur
ance Institute for Highway Safety, did
not even consider the potential dan
ger posed by the bigger doubles or
huge triples being proposed
Published in the American Journal
ol Public Health, it relied upon it
ports tiled by officers of the Washing
ton State Patrol following their mves
ligations ol accidents on Interstates a
and 90 in which trucks were involved
during a two-year period in the mid
I98(ls Among the findings ot other
studies il cited
"Relatively small traetoi steering
movements fsuch as in a lane change
maneuver) are magnified by the see
ond trailer and can reach unmanage
able levels, producing exaggerated
sway and subsequent rollover of the
rearmost trailer
The increased trailer sway and
rollover potential of doubles is also
evident in crash data that indicate
significantly higher proportions ol
rollover in latal crashes involving
double or triple combination
vehicles,"
Multi-unit rigs also are more prone
to jack knifing than conventional
trucks Of the approximately 5.000
people who die every year in truck in
volved crashes, almost three-fourths
arc in other vehicles Allowing bigger
trucks on the road almost certainly
will increase the carnage
Tennis wins sports
contest with soccer
There is a meaning to most things
That, at least, is the ground rule of the
columnist business
Because I spent a weekend watch-
ing athletes sweat on a screen in my
family room, readers of this space are
in luck We begin another contest'
The tournament has a flashy title
“The Modern Metaphor" Its purpose
is to judge what institution, event,
personality, trend, condition, situa
tion, product or whatever, best illumi-
nates what's now going on in the
world
There are several rules The first
entry in the new contest is mine I
nominate "Tennis" 1 am the judge,
but I profess to open-mindedness,
with only one exception. “Soccer" is
not an acceptable entry because it is
dumb
My case for tennis
Upward mobility The world is up-
mobilizing Lots of people are doing
what only well-to-do people used to
do The two most obvious items are
divorce and tennis ("Divorce" would
be an acceptable entry in the new
contest)
Globalization It is one of the few
modern cliches that holds up, and ten-
nis qualifies. The recent Wimbledon
tournament was broadcast to 76 coun-
tries. Professional tennis competitors
come from more than 80 countries
High-tech Just hit a few balls with
one of those new wide body rackets
made out Kryptonite. Zoom' There
are purists who think the new Space
Age racket materials are ruining the
game. Not me I hit aces with it.
American universality. People are
now here from everywhere Tennis
proves it Whoever thought that the
top two American tennis players
would be named Ivan and Martina’’
Or that, in what was once a spiffy and
Waspy country club sport, other lead-
ing American players would be of
Chinese. African. Iranian and Jewish
ancestry (Michael Chang, Zina Garri-
son, Andre Agassi, Aaron Krickstein)?
Or that Steffi Graf, the No. 1 ranked
woman player, is thinking about mov-
ing from West Germany to New Jer-
sey’ (A sensible choice, given the
alternatives.)
Fitness. An estimated 18 million
Americans now play tennis
Specialization. Players travel with
personal coaches Soon they will have
several coaches, one each for fore-
hand, backhand, serving and
volleying
Feminism It's been a long time
since Gussie Moran became famous
because she wore visible ruffled pant
ies beneath her tennis dress Profes
sional tennis has taught the world that
woman can be great athletes, just as
they can be great at anything else
they do Feminism based on merit is a
great achievement of our time
(Anyway, it is more enjoyable and
instructive to watch professional
women's tennis than men's The
males are supermen who hit too hard
with Kryptonite rackets and rush the
net too much Bang bang, point over
The woman's game has more finesse )
Thus, a metaphor of modernity
globalizing, up-scaling, feminizing,
specializing, universalizing, fit and
technical
Obviously, soccer doesn't qualify
especially not the World Cup stuff
that showed up in my house Does any
one believe that what happens in the
world can be even vaguely similar to
the extended boredom of a 1-0 final
score, where the 1 comes on a penalty,
and half of the best players from one
team arc prohibited from playing'1
West Germany won the World Cup
but West Germans (Graf and Boris
Becker) lost at Wimbledon “Germa
ny" is an acceptable entry Italy lost
tlie World Cup In Italy Italy' is not
an acceptable entry this year.
Entries, no longer than 400 words,
should bo sent to me. cither care of
this newspaper, or to United Media
200 Park Ave. New York. NY 10166
Enclose a dipping of this column,
with the name of the paper in which
appeared
Constant readers will know that
this is our second contest The ear her
one. recall, was to choose a replace
ment for the word "superpower” now
that the Soviets have pooped and
America is the only serious country
left in the whole world
A winner will be announced soon A
clue the best suggestions had Latin
prefixes. Rome wins something
BEN
WATTENBERG
Edwin A. Schlossbcrg in Centerville,
Massachusetts.
Ten years ago: The Moscow
Summer Olympics began, minus
dozens of nations who had boycotted
the games because of the Soviet mili-
tary intervention in Afghanistan.
Walter Polovchalt, a 12-year-old
Ukrainian living in Chicago, sought
political asylum in the United States
after his parents decided to return to
the Soviet Union.
Five years ago: Christa McAuliffe
of New Hampshire was chosen out of
more than 11,000 applicants to be the
first school teacher to ride aboard the
space shuttle.
One year ago: 112 people were
killed when a United Airlines DC-10
that suffered hydraulic failure crashed
while attempting to make an emergen-
cy landing at Sioux City, Iowa. There
were 184 survivors.
Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen.
George McGovern is 68. Actress
Helen Gallagher ia 64. Singer Vikki
Cur is 49. Actor Dennis Cole is 47.
Actor Peter Barton is 31.
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