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The Miami Newsi
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I-B THE MIAMI NEWS March 1 1, 1971 Telecult guaranteed to warm up in 10 seconds This the last time, so help me, JOHHKEASLER most of my thoughts at least a great many of them should stay right at home where they belong. One way to send out thoughts, however, is by "subvocalization" which is "slight vibrations of the throat, altered by movements of the tongue." These will be picked up by sensitive persons, it says. Frankly, I have been sitting here waggling my tongue, subvocalization-ing to beat the band, broadcasting thoughts to my wife that the reason I am so late is that I have been doing a lot of creative endeavor here in the literary endeavor. Either I am not broadcasting right or she is pretty insensitive, because I could tell the way she hung up that this Telecult bit is not yet the full answer I mean, you call home late and say, "Well, I'll be a little late as I am polishing up the last paragraph and you know how us perfectionists are." "How much did you lose?" she says. other hands.

(It is only 95 cents, which is hardly enough to keep the Telecult Riff-Raff out.) But here the way it works, and the minute I get 10 seconds ahead I am going to give it a whirl and report back. You will be among the first to know! The interest in supernatural, occult, ESP and all like that is really sweeping the country, I keep reading in everything, and I am glad some has finally been swept my way. As the reason things haven't been very prosperous, obviously, is that I did not get in on the Telecult sooner. "Every thought you think," it states on page 11, "is reproduced exactly in the electron atmosphere around you. What it spins off are sound waves and visual images.

Not only do you generate and send out thought-forms, but you also act as a magnet that draws to you the thoughts of others." It is small wonder, then, that less If you just hang on long enough, the big break will come. I'm now a Tel-ecultist! For some reason I have found a paperback book on my desk titled "Telecult Power," In which the author, Reese P. Dubin, says "Within 10 seconds you can start to draw riches, love, fine possessions, friends, power, secret knowledge and much more into your life." I can also presumably within the same 10 seconds "read minds, broadcast silent commands that must be obeyed," and lots of other good things like that It's just my luck that I didn't find this book until shortly after leaving a poker game which stripped me of my mad money, but they better watch me from here on out as I am a teleeulting, mind-reading terror. I don't know where this book came from. (Kismet, one assumes.) The only thing that worries me about my newfound power is that it might fall into that I stay married 21 years to a redheaded reporter.

It makes me think my thoughts are already visible. "With practice you can develop a mental earphone you can carry around with you," says this book. Well. What I want is a book that Jams the frequency on the mental earphones wives already carry around with them. And sh8 hasn't even read the book.

"Fill your empty purse with telecommand" says one chapter, heading. I'll do my level best. If it works in the 20 minutes it takes me to get home this dawn, fine. Somehow, I don't feel like a Telecult Thinker. I feel like a husband who just busted out trying to buy the last big pot of the night.

I still have a few minutes before facing the music. I'm going to concentrate on "Levitation." Somebody's going through the roof. I might as well be good at it. than two hours hence, some idiot called my otherwise magnificent bluff, on a lousy pair of sevens. I had been spinning off this thought: "I've only got two sixes." Well.tio more.

Think aces! I now have the directions for a "Mental Earphone That Lets You Hear the Thoughts of Others." And the best part is you learn "To Broadcast Tele-Commands that must be obeyed with the amazing hypno-phone." As nearly as I can determine, the way this works is you merely send out thoughts on a faster frequency than you ordinarily might. Would you believe that I have been stumbling along through life not even trying to send out thoughts? In fact, LARRY KING HERB RAU A Looking back on THE fight How the Greeks see us next to Eddie Arcaro, surely one THE FIGHT POSTMOR of the finest athletes ever produced in America. Eddie was a very vocal Frazier supporter and thought Joe had obviously won the fight. But then he added something very interesting. "You know Larry," Eddie said, "While I was for Frazier all the way, and while I know he won this tonight, I have no doubt that if they have a rematch Ali would win.

I think this was an absolutely amazing performance by Ali. I know what it's like for an athlete to take a long time off and try to comeback, and frankly I never thought he'd be in this fight. Yet, he fought him great and slugged with him and held up and went 15 and never looked beat. This was like a tuneup. I'm telling you if and when they TODAY'S HEARTBURN Overheard this from a local ad exec: "Last night I was talking to my wife.

You know how it is when the TV set's broken." Miami confidential This is how the Greeks view Miami and Miami Beach (at least, it's a view from a Greco-American, Connie Soloyanis, who lives in Athens and writes a column for an English-language newspaper in that city. He visited here last month): "Playboy magazine has always been for the 'real' thing, so it is somewhat disconcerting to discover that all the flowers at the Playboy Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach are fake, fake, fake. And that despite the $50 a day minimum room rate. But the bunnies are worth it all, even if they won't come up to your room" Sailing and boating in Greece is a lot of fun, but so it is in Miami Beach waters, The Miami News aiiani in ''frV'' fin b- i -mm- i jLzJi- nv7 FRAZIER ALI nude on wall of the Gilded Surrey in the Sheraton Four Ambassadors. Except the face doesn't match the body.

(Anyway, the garlic-flavored meatballs at cocktail hour are a better attraction) Hank Frosch of Winston Advertising here bet somebody $1,000 he'd lay off cigarets for a full year Mr. Casual, a men's hair salon in Philadelphia, sells eyelashes at $2.98 a pair for men with weak eyelashes. (But they don't have anything at $2.98 for men with weak morals) Jockey Club mailed March calendar to members, listing events each day. But on two of those days (the next one's Mar. 19) the only event scheduled is "Do your thing." If some members I know will do their thing on the 19th I shall be in a front pew with camera and tape recorder Edna McLin, the gorgeous and gracious matron-type model at the Gulfstream Restaurant at Jordan Marsh, fell off a bike and broke her wrist.

But still modeling longsleeve outfits to hide the bandages. Raudeo show Kirk Kerkorian, the Las Vegas millionaire, and actress Yvette Mimieux, a coosome-two-some at Haiti's Le Chateau Hotel, owned by Miamian Frank Magliore Milton Fisher, president of Miami's Panelfab International off to San Juan for discussions about expansion of his company's pre-en-gineered housing facilities Dick Elterman of Bahamas Cruise Lines reports the line's M-V Freeport has broken all records for passenger loads carried during any 12-month period. Freeport carried 190,653 Bahamas-bound travelers, a figure substantiated by port taxes paid by each embarking passenger Latest Japanese Steak House operation, based on the Miami Springs Villas prototype, in Columbus, Ohio Florida's only electrically-powered public transit system the Lincoln Road Tramlines, has transported more than 1 1 million passengers during its first decade of operation Today's Calorie-Carbohydrate Counter: 3y2 ounces baked muskrat, 154 calories and 0 grams carbohydrate. TEM For openers, the judge who scored it 1 1 rounds to 8 had to be watching another contest. It was surely a close battle between two superb athletes.

Having picked Joe Frazier to win, the opportunity to gloat is blunted by my respect and liking for Muhammad Ali. Last week I wrote that "both fighters would bring great honor to their sport." There as no doubt about that. The closed circuit TV coverage was superb. Don Dunphy proved again he is head and shoulders above anybody who ever did blow-by-blow boxing. His comments were concise, factual and objective.

Burt Lancaster and Archie Moore never overdid their commentary. The opening film which preceded the fight and which was narrated by Lancaster was better suited to home television and didn't come off in a large arena. The color was excellent, at least at the Miami Beach Convention Hall where I saw the struggle. The scoring Scoring a fight is not an easy thing, as this one proved. The yardsticks are too wide.

The leeway too great. Does the aggressor automatically get points for aggression if the counter-puncher scores more blows? Beats me. I would gather that UPI's final assessment of seven rounds apiece with one even was probably as close as you could come to hitting it on the head. It felt like a draw. Forgetting the 1 1 to 4 judge, the scoring of the referee and the judge who had it 9 rounds to 6 was also tainted since the two of them didn't agree.

The ref, who had it 8 to 6 for Frazier gave the 13th and 14th rounds to Frazier while the 9 and 6 judge scored those same rounds to Ali. If this is all confusing, so was much of the evening. Why did Ali fight the way he fought? How come, in view of the way he fought, was Frazier unable to put him away? (Fven the destructive knockdown punch in the 15th saw Ali up on his feet instantly with Joe unable to' do any further punishment the rest cf the round.) Why was Ali unable to take advantage of Frazier's rapidly closing eye? Such are the imponderables of sport. Arcaro's comments I had the pleasure of sitting C.Z ELTERMAN MCLIN fight again Ali will win it and easy too." More food for thought in a hungry mind. So, it is now history and few would say they didn't get their money's worth.

There would appear to be no avenues of conquest left for Frazier who has done it all, and has the funds never to worry again the rest of his life. If he were to give the rematch it would be more a sporting gesture than anything else. After all Frazier is not exactly crazy about the sport and he would have everything to lose and nothing to gain by it. But, such is sports (remember Majestic Prince did start in the Belmont) that he will probably be induced to go it again in 1972. It would be well worth seeing.

As for Ali, finally beaten as a professional, he surely lost nothing in defeat. He was every inch a champion. Those who felt joy in his losing purely for losing's sake demean both the sport and talents of Joe Frazier. To both men, congratulations for an evening away from Laos and Saigon and the national economy and whether or not Kissinger or Rogers is the key man at the White House. Champions both.

Frazier still. Ali yesterday. But, both for all seasons too. But the latter has the big difference. It's usually done with all participants in the nude, especially the many stewardesses who are based in the area" Coral Gables is known as 'stew heaven' because of the acres and acres of them living here Baby alligators are for sale at souvenir shops in Miami Beach, as are sea horses.

An apple costs 30 cents each in Florida. But oranges are a little cheaper." Soloyanis is a long-time newspaperman. Worked with the late Danton Walker on the N.Y. Daily News. Among other things, he puts out a weekly tourist guide in Athens and Rhodes, represents Epirotiki Lines, which operates cruise ships in the Caribbean and in the Aegean.

If you don't like his comments on the local scene, his address is 2 Bouboulinas Piraeus, Greece. Miami mishmash Great oil painting of a blonde Miami News Photo by JOE RIMKUS Clean-up time No, this man isn't swabbing the decks, he's cleaning one of the big Delta fuel trucks out at Miami International Airport. The truck is being filled from the tank in the President Nixon not shocked by profanity Is he trying to knock her off? BYIEEORGE Q. There was a big uproar about President Nixon's enjoyment of the war movie "Patton." Doesn't he also like pictures such as "Love ASK HY GARDNER LSI DEAR ABBY PlXiCSS byWoM his voice and I don't much care for it Elvis Presley? I worked in a picture with him recently and still can't understand his popularity. But who am I to question 200 million people? Actually," Rudy ruminates, "the public always wants somebody to rally around to star, to idolize, to make important For real greatness, give me Crosby, Como, Vic Damone, Gordon MacRae, and Allan Jones' son Jack though I encede he doesn't have very much personality." FONT flEfc (Write to George.

Somebody's got to use up those stamps in the drawer or they'll get all gummy.) DEAR ABBY: I am 39, and. Edwin is 40. We've been married for 19 years, and I'm not saying our marriage has been a bed of roses, but then, whose has? About a year ago Edwin tried to run me down with his car but I was too quick for him. Of course he denied it said the brakes didn't hold, but he was lying. A few months ago Edwin was on the roof fixing a leak and I was down below turning on the garden hose when he tried to drop a heavy metal tool box on my head.

It missed me by a hair. I just don't know what he will pull next, Abby. I have heard rumors about him and a neighbor lady whose husband is gone for months at a time working on a ship. If Edwin wants to be rid of me, why doesn't he say so? If I didn't have 9 kids 1 would leave him tomorrow. Story?" George Volker, Miami.

Screened at the White House, gome of "Love Story's" language offended Tri-cia and Julie. But dad found some of the spice nice. "I am not shocked," the President commented. "It seems rather the in-thing today." However, like most of us, Mr. Nixon believes that profanity, while it has its function, is destroyed by over-use.

crop like Engelbert Hum-perdinck, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley? Eloise O'Connell, St. Louis. Vailee doesn't vacillate calls 'em as he sees 'em. About Engelbert and Tom Jones: "I don't honestly think they deserve all the furor that attends them. They are fairly manufactured.

The Humperdinck voice is pretty good, but there is a case of a crazy name, good looks, and sex appeaL Same with Jones. I think most of his popularity is exaggerated and manufactured Johnny Cash doesn't do anything to me. He has a fast vibrato a slightly tremulous effect) in DEAR SUSPICIOUS: If you suspect Edwin is trying to get rid of you, beat him to the punch and get rid of HIM. If you can't afford a lawyer, see your local legal aid society. Better to be suspicious and alive, than the dead "victim" of an "accident" (P.S.

If he asks you to go hunting, fishing, boating, or mountain climbing with him, don't go.) DEAR ABBY: Once again I've had an argument about this business of children sleeping over at the homes of friends. The ages of mine are 13 and 16. I always have wanted my children In their own beds at night, and for tliat reason I seem to be waging a constant battle with my children, and worse yet with the mothers of their friends. Am I such an oddball to think that I am right? MRS. J.

R. DLAR MRS. J. You're no oddball. Most mothers prefer to have their children in their own beds at night But the sleeping over experience is a part of growing up.

It's an exciting, maturing adventure for all kids, and it's fun. So don't deprive yours of it after you've checked out everything and are satisfied that there is nothing to worry about DEAR TOM: I just finished your wonderful course on "How To Improve Your Memory" and, truly, Bill, I think it's the best course ever. My memory has improved 500 percent! S.R. DEAR S. See what happens once you learn Sideways Thinking and stick to it? About the saying, "He's as old as Methusalah," just how old was Methusalah? Leon T.

Far Rockaway, N.Y. 969 years Is the extreme Biblical claim. 4 Q. Rudy Vailee (the Ed Sullivan of radio) discovered lot of new talent in his day. How does he rate today's 0M.

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