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Tuesday, August 25, i38i L.M. Boyd HUSBAND VOTES Among the married, If one of the two totes but the other doesn't, chances are four to one the voter is the husband. The law of ancient Rome prohibited a bachelor from delivering an oration. Not everybody can gpess the whereabouts of the world's largest wine cellars. Research reveals they're in South Africa.

Blood is thicker than water. That's frequently said. How much thicker? Six times. The real name of the great Italian poetDante was Durance. SWIFT HAIRCUT Q.

How long does it take a good barber to grre a man a good haircut? Can only report that 29 seconds was the record 1 established some yean back by a national magazine that tested the matter in an oldtimey short-haircut contest: Only scissors were allowed. Clearly, it's not fair to rite today's stylists by such statistics. And styles differ so that it might be difficult to repeat the competition. Wouldn't 20 be about right? Q. Little argument here: Is the Sailor's Horn Pipe musical instrument or a dance? A.

The instrument is railed i horn pipe, the dance is the Sailor's Horn Pipe. But the dance was named after the instrument Incidentally, that particular dance was the forerunner of tap dancing in general. Q. How small does that rock hare to be before you can classify it as a pebble? A. Less than two inches in diameter.

If it's more than 10 inches in diameter, it's called a boulder, please note. Takes 72 muscles to utter one syllable. Moslem religious laws require the husband with more than one wife to spend equal tune, day and night, with each. Concubines don't count in this mandate. Just wives.

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And she uses several different kinds. I have suggested that she should see a doctor but she says it is just too much acid and the doctors would just give her an expensive prescription for the same thing she can buy herself. Is there any danger from taking all those antacids, even if you can buy them without a prescription? Is there a difference in the pills and if so what one is best? DEAR READER There hasn't been a pill invented yet that is safe for everybody on all occasions. The biggest danger here is the same you have with many pills people can buy for themselves the patient may be self-treating the wrong thing. Anyone who requires the regular use of antacids to prevent complaints of indigestion deserves a medical examination.

She may have a hia- tal hernia or even a cancer of the stomach. Fortunately these are more rare today. She could even have gallbladder disease. There are a lot of problems associated with antacids. Some authorities have been concerned about the possible relationship of aluminum (found in aluminum cookware) and possible brain cell changes of the type seen with aging, but you will absorb much more aluminum from antacids that are made with aluminum preparations and a major portion of them are.

Magnesium in antacids can be a real problem. After age 50 people don't eliminate magnesium as easily from the kidneys and they may accumulate a high blood level which causes magnesium toxicity. The symptoms are those of con- fusion and senility. Because many older people are the very ones who get overloaded with magnesium in antacids and laxatives, the danger is that someone will be thought to be senile when in magnesium toxicity is present I am sending you The Health Letter number 10-4, Use and Abuse of Antacids, which you might want your mother to read. Others who want this issue can send 75 cents with a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope for it to me, in care of this newspaper, P.O.

Box 1551, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019. It includes a list of the ingredients in commonly available preparations and their effects. DEAR DR. LAMB Can an eight-hour open heart surgery cause a complete personality change in a person? The surgery was done 10 years ago on my husband at age 40. There wasn't a sweeter and nicer husband or father on this earth before that time.

Then five years ago at age 45, he had a complete change in his personality, morals, habits and everything. He became a non-caring, non-feeling, heavy drinker and started dating very young girls. Four men had the same surgery about the same time. Two have died and one has been in the hospital for a nervous breakdown. They were all about the same age.

DEAR READER Don't blame it on the surgery. It is true that many patients do develop a postoperative psychosis after major surgery. That can be open heart surgery or other operations. But that change would have been immediate and not five years later. Your husband may be reacting to his life stresses or be in need of psychiatric counseling.

Depending on which came first, the alcohol may be a cause or a result of his problem. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN) Days Of Apathy On Campus Gone, Educator Says INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The days of educational apathy are over, Indiana's Commissioner for Higher Education believes. "I sense a kind of rededication to academic excellence," said George Weathersby, when asked if the United States had entered an era of academic inferiority. "We've experienced the whole pendulum swing. Higher education went through a period of lower standards, lower expectations.

The reports I hear now are of a kind of increased seriousness on college campuses." In recent years, educators Weathersby included have expressed alarm about declining averages on Scholastic Aptitude Tests taken by high school seniors. During the 1971-72 school year, Hoosier seniors an average of 435 out 'of 800 possible points on the SAT verbal examination and 471 on the math portion. Both averages were more than 10 points below the national median. By the 1979-80 school year, the average had dropped to 407 on the verbal test and 450 orrthe math. Colleges, meanwhile, began offering less rigorous course loads with easier grade options.

Some schools, Weathersby said, implemented grade option plans that left it up to the student to decide if he wanted to try for an A or settle for a pass-fail P. "It is true test scores have been declining," said Weathersby. "It's a consequence, not a cause, of the same acceptance of lower standards that colleges themselves have manifested. "The foundation on which colleges build has gotten weaker and their resources are being spent oh remedial CLASSES BEGIN AUGUST 31 IVY TECH work." The bad news declining test scores and lower standards to make A grades not all that dismal, Weathersby believes. "Probably the very best are as good or better than they've ever Weathersby said.

He said grade averages have declined as a result of more mediocre students joining the world of academia. Every year higher percentages of high school graduates are opting to go to college, whereas in the past college was considered a place for only the better students. In addition. Weathersby said the bulk of Indiana's college enrollment growth has been at vocational schools and regional campuses where students are older and consider studying a second priority to work. As the swing toward 'academic inferiority begins to reverse itself.

Weathersby said he looks forward to new trends and challenges during the next three decades He said most of the children from the 1950s "baby boom" have passed through the educational system and entered the job market, and colleges are now preparing for decreasing numbers of college graduates every year for the next 10 to 15 years. The major challenge, he said, will be filling half the faculty positions in the state's colleges where increasing numbers of tenured professors are Hearing retirement. "We'll experience a shortage of youth in the next two decades," Weathersby said. In 1978, about 100,000 Hoosiers received high school diplomas. By 1984, the number will be closer the 75,000 mark, Weathersby said.

Fortunately, the faculty- decline veil! occur naturally as -students grow fewer, so the colleges will not have to make forced reductions in staff. "Starting about 1990 until 2000, we'll see something like half of our faculty retire, resign or die, even with a 70- year retirement age," eairt.