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I WAS REFERRING ID MY IMTEUJSEMCE By Be mice Bede Oso l . Newspaper Enterpr ise A s s o c i a t i o n Efforts will raise your status %ur 'Birthday Aug. 26,1985 Much of your time and effort in the year ahead will be dedicated to advancement in your chosen field. A rise in status, as well as increased earnings, are likely. VIRQO (Aug. 23-8ept. 22) Social activi ties will work out more pleasantly today if there aren't too many people involved. Plan something with just a few friends with whom you feel comfortable. Trying to patch up a romance? The Matchmak er set can help you understand what it might take to make the relationship work. To get yours, mail $2 to Astro- Graph, c/o this newspaper. Box 1846, Cincinnati. OH 45201. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) You'll be adept today at getting good mileage from every dollar you spend, especially when shopping for family or household needs. Be bargain-conscious. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-NOV.22 ) This is a good day to spend appropriate time on putting your serious affairs in order. You'll feel better after clearing up ne glected responsibilities. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Your greatest successes are likely to come today from situations that contribute to your material well being. Look for ways to strengthen your financial footholds. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today you have two powerful factors going for you -- a harmonious blend of hopeful ness and practicality. Dreams can be come realities. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) For best results in fulfilling your ambitious inten tions today, do what needs to be done without calling too much attention to yourself. Keep a low profile. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 19) Something you are presently striving for may ap pear to be a pipe dream to the casual observer, but if you maintain your pre sent course, you'll succeed. ARIES (March 21-April 19) You will fare better today if you involve yourself with people who are ambitions and materially motivated. Something profitable can be developed. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) If you be lieve a position you've recently taken is the right one, stand firm on your deci sion. Let the facts and time attest to its correctness. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You will be adequately compensated for services you are presently rendering. Don't worry about what you are going to get. instead think only of doing a good job. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Measures can be taken today to solidify a relation ship that's important to you. Don't wait for the other party to make the initial gestures. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Tasks you've been postponing because you thought they were a trifle too difficult can be ac complished today if you set your mind to them. HEALTH By Dr . Lawrence E . Lamb, M .D . . News Amer ica Serv ice Doctors can give exercise tips DEAR DR. LAMB: After extensive tests, X-rays and a treadmill electrocardiogram I was told I am a diabetic and have degenerative heart disease. I am 74. As a child I had rheumatic fever. The cardiologist says I must walk every day. He did not say how far. Can you suggest an appropriate distance? DEAR READER: I wish had asked your doctor that question, as he knows what medicines you are taking, and some medicines do affect how you Judge your exercise capacity. He also knows what your resting heart rate is and how much exercise you can do for a given heart rate that is safe for you. That is one of the purposes of an exercise test, to find out such things before you advise a patient to exercise. I also wish that every doctor who does an exercise test would write down exactly what his patient can and should do for his exercise program -- what we call an exercise prescription. I would like to urge all my readers who have an exercise test to request a written exercise prescription after the test. Assuming that you are not taking any medicines such as beta-blockers that affect your heart rate, and you *don't have heart block that causes a slow heart rate, your pulse rate is your best guide that you can use regularly to determine how much work your heart is doing. You certainly don't want to overwork your heart. So take your heart rate before you start walking and don't walk so fast or so far that is exceeds 100. If you were younger and had no heart disease, that rate could be higher. You will find you can walk farther and farther and still be at a heart rate of 100 or less as your walking program progresses. Stay within this limit unless you get an OK from your cardiologist to do more. I suspect you will be surprised how short your walk is at first. You will get some more tips on exercise from The Health Letter 15-12, "Exercise Wise," which I am sending you. Others who want this issue can so>d 75 cents with a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope, P.O. Box 19622, Irvine, CA 92713. If you get tired or develop chest pain, stop exercising at once. Try to respect your leg muscles, too, by not walking so much that you develop muscle soreness. Sore muscles mean too much exercise, which slows your program rather than helping. D E A R D R . L A M B : I ' m a vegetarian, but not in the strict sense. Basically, I stay away from all pork and beef with the exception of beef or calves liver. I do eat poultry of all kinds, fish, eggs, and dairy products. I do not eat white bread. I eat mostly w h o l e - g r a i n b r e a d . A l s o , I n e v e r f r y c foods. My relatives think I'm crazy. They think the vegetarian diet I feed my family is not healthy Just because my four-year-old Is slim instead of chubby. They think that the child is really missing out on the good things in life Just because there no hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, french fries, soft drinks, Kool-Aid or candy. I tell them we're better off without them. Tell us what you think about this diet. Is there anything wrong with it? DEAR READER: You are certainly not a vegetarian. Eliminating beef and pork from your diet will not be important, health-wise, if you get sufficient complete protein from chicken and fish. In fact, from a point of view of having a diet low in saturated fat, yours is superior to what most people eat If you want to limit ' cholesterol intake, though, you will need to limit the eggs, which would be fine too. A good time to estah"<sN j lifelong eating habits is during • childhood. Chubby is not healthy. \ CROSSWORD BARBS A- ACROSS 3 Pelvic bor By Dave Graue Alley Oop ... IF WE'RE \YES, BUT WONT LUCKY,THEY'LL I THEY FINP THE PASS RIGHT i BOAT? BY BOY.' ARE THOSE/ I'LL 1 WHO TH' GUYS UGLY! _A SAY.' / HECK ARE rp GUESS IT'S A PATROL FROM TH' CASTLE/ By Warner Bros Bugs Bunny WHAT >OU NBBD IS A Smaller- CAU SBR. opponent, doc. Bv Lvnn Johnston For Better or Worse® ftfleVbOOONNR coMe right into TBe-RooM1? 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Bat anless you're very quick on yoar feet, don't teach him to roll over. A Q & A 37 Far (pref.) 41 Liquefied by heat 42 Tavern 44 Baksheesh 47 Wipes with tongue 48 Dregs 49 Rather than (poeL) 51 Egyptian deity 53 Blackthorn fruit 55 601, Roman 56 Even (poet) 57 Silkworm 59 Edible tuber 1. Who is the artist of a painting enti tled "Out for the Christmas Trees"? a. Grandma Moses b. Andy Warhol c. 4 Georgia O'Keefe ,•* 2. What is the name of the attorney ^ general who resigned during the Nixon administration? a. William Ruckel- 0 shaus b. Archibald Cox c. Elliot v Richardson 3. Eva Peron was president of what * country? a. Argentina b. Spain c. o Venezuela ANSWERS B 'J 3 i B I By Jim Berry Berry's World (C)1985 by NEA. Inc By James Jacoby Newspaper Enterpr ise Assoc ia t ion Odds getting better Any declarer should be happy to reach a slam that will make better than 80 percent of the time. That was the story of today's six-heart contract, which would make if either the spade king or the club queen was in the West hand. Without the opening lead of a spade, there was the further chance that clubs would split 3-3, even if the club queen was wrong. With a spade lead, there would be no choice except to try the immediate finesse; if that lost, the club finesse would still be left. However, the opening lead was the king of diamonds, and now an expert declarer does not have to settle for better than an 80 percent play -- as the cards lie, he can make the con tract 100 percent of the time. Because the defenders' diamonds split 4-4, the declarer can make an ^unusual end play. Declarer won the ace of diamonds and trumped a diamond high, led a low heart to the eight, trumped anoth er diamond high and led to dummy's nine of hearts. Now the last diamond was ruffed, both opponents following. Declarer played a low club, intending to insert the seven, but West played the eight. Dummy's ace won the trick, a heart was played to the South hand, and another club was led. West had to play the 10, which was covered by dummy's jack, and East won the queen. But now poor East had to play into the club A-7 or the spade A-Q. Curtains for the defense! NORTH 8-26-85 • A Q • 9 8 2 • A 9 7 4 • A K J 7 WEST EAST • J 9 5 4 2 • K 1 0 8 7 * 7 3 * 5 • K Q J 3 9 1 0 8 5 2 + 1 0 8 + Q 9 4 3 SOUTH 4 6 3 V A K O J 1 0 6 4 • o + 6 5 2 Vulnerable: North-So;)^ Dealer: South Wes 'ortfc \ Pass Pass 6* I Opening lead: +K