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THE COIUIEHJOIKIXAL, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1972 A 9 Rogers relaxes on trip back to U.S. despite 'drama surrounding his recall At Wit's End You can bank on it: new checks are intimate, but intimidating Ermfl Bombeclc MS Ah i'i i tmmtm I By ERMA BOMBECK It is hard to believe that my checkbook could be more Imaginative than it already is. (My husband calls it the greatest piece of fiction since "Alice in But it seems in California, there is a new trend not only to have checks in color, but to personalize them with pictures of the house, the kids, or the pets. One of the more daring users had a special check printed to be used for his alimony payments a picture of him kissing his new wife. I though the idea was sorta kicky and told my husband so.

"What picture do you think we could use?" I asked, shuffling through some old snaps I found in the desk "How about you with a pen in each hand and a caption underneath reading, 'HOWARD HUGHES "Okay, let's have it. You're still sore about the check I wrote to the bank to cover the overdraft." He sighed. "I am not sore about the check you wrote to the bank to cover the overdraft. I am sore because you forgot to record it," "Does that mean you want no part in helping me pick out a picture for our checks?" "How about the family picture we used on our Christmas cards?" he asked. "You're not serious," I said, holding the picture under a light.

"Are these the faces that you want to pass through the members of the official party in Bonn and told them to wait there for instructions. At one point in the flight, Rogers said the odds were 65 to 35 that he would return to Europe tonight or tomorrow to resume the tour. The trip has been, increasingly clouded by events in Vietnam. Some aides have expressed concern in private about what one of them called the "malignancy" of Vietnam, which is again threatening efforts to improve relations with Moscow and Peking. But Rogers has not shared their disquiet, and instead, has echoed Mr.

Nixon's contention that Vietnam marked a critical point at which the United States must take a decisive stand. He told the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels Friday that the U.S. commitment to Western Europe would be called into question if the Americans gave up on South Vietnam. He said the Russians had to "bear a responsibility" for the war because of their failure to restrain the North Vietnamese. Except for the British, the allied response has been largely mute, but Rogers feels the allies sympathize in general and would not oppose further American action in Vietnam.

portant, of Mr. Nixon's mood, has suggested strongly during the first five days of the trip to Iceland, Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg and West germany that Mr. Nixon was ready to risk his career and reputation to stem the North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam, and was ready to use everything short of nuclear weapons to do so. After going over the latest intelligence reports sent to him in Bonn yesterday morning, Rogers said there was nothing 'startling" happening on the ground in Vietnam to warrant a crisis reaction. But he said that the North Vietnamese were clearly regrouping and preparing for an all-out attack on Hue and other cities.

The purpose of the attacks, he believes, is to topple the South Vietnam government and Mr. Nixon has said he would not tolerate this passively. A major increase in American air attacks against North Vietnam such as renewed bombing of Hanoi or Haiphong could imperil the Moscow trip. Rogers said he did not know what would happen in coming days. Rogers took only Robert J.

McCloskey, the State Department's spokesman who is also a friend and confidant, back with him to Washington. He left the other By BERNARD GWERTZMAN New York Time Newt Service The mood aboard Secretary of State William P. Rogers' plane was surprisingly relaxed yesterday despite the sense of drama caused by President Nixon's decision yesterday morning to summon him home from Bonn, West Germany. Rogers sipped lemonade, joked with the crew, told the four newsmen aboard about his college boxing days, joined his wife, Adele, at bridge, and remarked how glad he was to hear that Bobby Fischer had agreed to play Boris Spassky in Iceland for the world chess championship. Rogers has been one of Mr.

Nixon's closest friends and advisers, and all signs suggest that the President is again at a crucial moment in his career and wants Bill Rogers' advice along with that of his other top aides. The brief message that ordered Rogers to interrupt his eight-country, eight-day trip, during which he was briefing allies about Mr. Nixon's forthcoming Moscow visit, did not say more than that the President wanted to discuss the situation in Southeast Asia. Rogers who has kept abreast both of the situation in Vietnam and more im hands of strangers? The kids look surly, I look fat, and you look like you couldn't be trusted to deposit your Mother's Social Security "Then, how about a picture of our house? The bank would like that since they own one-tenth of it anyway." "There you go again. Admit it.

You're sore about the check I wrote when I had lunch with the girls last week." "The check for the lunch did not bother me," he said evenly. "The check you wrote outside in the sum of 1 penny and threw into a fountain for good luck bothered me." "I knew you'd say I write too many checks and I forget to record them and I am sorry about it. But maybe if I had a distinctive, personalized check I would stop and think before I wrote it." "How about having them edged in black with a picture of F. Lee Bailey in the center?" I don't know about you, but I can't even talk to my husband about the checkbook anymore. Ever since the 35-cent check to the tooth fairy bounced Field Inc.

Jacoby on bridge By OSWALD JAMES JACOBY Oswald: "Artificial conventions are essential to good bridge. You should play some as a matter of course with Blackwood as a starter. On the other hand, you don't whip a good horse to death. You don't need, to use Blackwood in all your slam bidding." Jim: "The first thing to learn about Blackwood is that is primarily a method of keeping out the slams. Take the South hand as an example.

South is interested in a slam the moment his partner opens the bidding. When his partner's second bid is a jump raise in hearts, South knows that the material is there for a slam. All that matters is the number of aces held by his partner." Oswall: "Our example is a classic every mother NORTH (D) AQJ4 AJ73 2 AQJ98 WEST EAST A 10875 AA963 6 10 2 J10963 4A84 10 6 2 7 5 4 3 SOUTH A K2 KQ98 5 4 KQ75 North-South vulnerable -West North East South 1 Pass 1 Pass 3 Pass 4 N.T. Pass 5 Pass' Pass Pass Opening lead is different Suit seeking data on meat records lists Kentucky Blackwood hand. South has 16 points in high cards, plus a lot of distributional points.

He knows the total partnership count has to be in the grand-slam zone. More important, he knows that he can set the final contract the moment his partner tells him how many aces he holds." Jim: "He is mighty disappointed when the best North can do is bid five hearts in response to the Blackwood call. Not that North doesn't have a sound three-heart bid but, rather, that South expected North to show up with three or even four aces for his bid. He is also happy that Blackwood has kept him out of trouble." Whafs your bid? The bidding has been: West North East South 9 1 IV Associated Press WASHINGTON An attorney associated with Ralph Nader filed suit Saturday to gain access to government records on state meat-inspection programs in six states. The suit, filed in U.S.

District Court here, seeks the records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. It seeks access to records in Missouri, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Ohio and Texas. It was filed by Peter H. Schuck of the Center for Stuiy of Responsive Law, a research group associated with Nader.

Schuck said the reports sought are the basis on which USDA determines whether state meat-inspection programs are at least equal to federal standards and thus in compliance with the wholesome meat act. "The public has a right to know about the quality of state meat inspection without having to rely upon the self-serving assurance of state and federal officials who are afraid of embarrassment," Schuck said. "Only these inspection reports can provide the public with the information it needs to make its own judgment." Schuck said he has sought access to the document! since October 1971. You, South, hold: AA654 VK632 Q10754 What do you do now? A Bid one spade. You don't want to shut out your four card major.

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