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2 Section 2 Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, October 10. 1973 1 1 Carol Kleiman Feature writer CPR rescuers are our 1 'I Z)i-Jj latter-day Samaritans i BN THE GOOD old days, there were knlhts in shining armor who rode around the countryside saving damsels in distress. More recently, there were Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts who delighted id and got credit for good deeds. These days, people who want to do good don't have as many options as they did before the advent of women's liberation and electronically tontrolled traffic signals. But people who once felt good about helping the elderly in their early 40s.

His parents took the course, too, reasoning that if a child could learn it, they could, too. CPR requires mouuvto-mouth contact, and one woman aid she took the course in hopes that she someday has a chance to save Robert Redford. A junior executive said he took the course because he wants the choice of not saving his boss. But they are kidding. What they are really saying is they now have a new power and they like it.

Any CPR graduate, for Instance, knows that if the Good Samaritan came across a Pharisee lying in the road today, the first thing he would do is check his carotid pulse, which CPRers know is in the neck and indicates If the heart is beating. Good Samaritans today have CPR decals in their cars or sewn on their jackets. PEOPLE WHO TAKE CPR often wonder if they should register their seat number at the box office at ball parks and theaters. Just In case their help is needed. CPRers who also learn the Heimlich maneuver, which helps persons choking on food, are no longer the same in a restaurant: They sit and look around very carefully, watching other diners to make sure they're not having any problems swallowing.

CPRers do not enjoy out in the same way they used to. But most do enjoy that new feeling of responsibility. Not all CPR courses teach the Heimlich maneuver, however, and those who have learned it are the elite of the CPR elite. They even have a secret signal to let other CPRers know they know: When they pass each other, they clutch their throats with their hands, the universal sign of choking they learned in class. But still, not all CPR graduates find the knowledge all fun and games.

"I thought twice before I went to my first football cam across the street now have a new avenue of satisfaction. They are enrolling, by the thousands, in courses ia Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). CPR is the tech nique that allows a trained rescuer to maintain the breathing and heartbeat of a heart attack or drowning victim by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and cardiac, compressions. People who sign up for the course, which ranges in duration from 4 to 12 hours and in location from a local police station to a corporate meeting room, do so for one purpose only: to help others. For the last several years, friends and colleagues have politely listened to the self-righteousness of people giving up smoking or going on diets, both of which are difficult to do and deserve encouragement.

But CPR rescuers are in a totally different class because of their altruism. Because Of this important difference no one has to take the course there is an emerging feeling of elitism among CPR graduates, more of confidence than snobbery, but still endemic to those who have taken the course. THE CHICAGO HEART Association has graduated 5,000 CPR instructors. The association estimates that there are 80,000 CPR practitioners in the Chicago area. At the Mid America chapter of the American Red Cross, 3,287 people were certified in its 13-hour course last year.

Most CPR graduates take the course to help someone they know, generally someone the family with a heart prob- lem. A 13-year-old. boy took the at his school because he wanted to save his aging parents if necessary. They are want to That's why I took the course. But what if I have to?" But he reasoned that if there were a large crowd, there would most likely be doctors in the audience and he wouldn't be called upon to use basic life support techniques.

Just as knights of old had to endure weighty armor, heavy also is the head that wears a CPR crown. "I have a friend I took the CPR course with," a woman explained. "I always kind of like to be around where she is: Two-person CPR is so much easier than when just one person does it." Although there are CPRers who do not have delusions ot grandeur about their life-saving abilities, others cannot help but view themselves as another Dr. Christiaan Barnard or Joan of Arc. Even CB chivalry can't beat mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

"The need to help is basic," says Dr. Francois Alouf, a psychiatrist with Northwestern University. "Motivation is very diverse and unique." Still, there are those who can't understand what the fuss about CPR is all about. "It can't possibly be that important," a friend of a CPR graduate suggested. "Obviously," the graduate replied, "you haven't taken the course." Gregory Peck is the Infamous Nazi geneticist Dr.

Josef Mengele in "The Boys From 'Boys' doesn't make the Grade By Gene Siskel Movie critic BN THE NAME of entertainment "The Boyi from Brazil" trivializes the life ot Nazi-hunter Simon Wicsenthal as well as the threat of neo-Nazism itself. "Boys" is yet another multistar spectacular produced by Sir Lew Grade, the British entertainment mogul who, it has been suggested, should be redubbed "Sir Low Grade." Grade is responsible for such turgid melodramas tas "The Cassandra Crossing" and "Voyage of the Damned," films that have much in common with "Boys." Each offers an international cast of old-time stars in a World War II-related script. Where would Lew Grade be without the Nazis to cast as villains? Based on the best-selling novel by Ira Levin, "Boys" tells of a plot by a Nazi doctor-in-hiding to create a Fourth Reich. after I was certified," says one CPRer. "I kept thinking what If something happens.

Ill have to help! I mean, 1 1 TRIBUNE MINI-REVIEW: Juvenile The mad doctor is none other than Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), a real-life character infamous for his vicious experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. Peck plays Mengele by imitating Oscar Homolka's voice hThr wnvs pram BRAZIL" Nrseted by Franklin J. Bchtttner: I. crMflpWy by Heywood Gould dssm mXA' and by wearing black shoe niehcnto tno sunby a aotn polish in his hair. Piece and outlying thsstsrs.

Rated R. Peek's plan involves or jos iJfllogory clonin8 leaders for a new En LMmwi Lwrtnc cxMtr Nazi movement; first he Jt: must kiU 94 men aged 65. iitf-r Limn urn p.imw The film doesn't explain m.iJLfcat' Prauoormg noMmryHri the murders until the very cuny Ann. Mum. last reel, which is smart ir because once we under- 11- stand the plan there is no' reason to remain in the theater.

WHAT IS MOST objectionable about "Boys" is that it uses the real name of Mengele while taking the roman a clef route on his principal adversary. Xausence Olivier stars as Ezra Lieberman, a famous Nazi hunter "who works alone and was responsible for bringing Eichmann to trial." Those phrases, of course, describe Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. So here is a film that uses the reputations of two real people; yet it is one of the phoniest stories you can imagine. Peck operates out of Paraguay and hungers 'cor Jf 4w(Mii I 111 mmm jt'ivpi "Nf II Ilia If mi A 1' fill II" i9wiiw8vrirTryy It offers 5 interchangeable cooktop units. Char-grill, griddle, deep-fry, shish-kebab and nothing.

He has a staff of seven assassins. He regularly Nazi parties complete with a Nazi ca-tering service and dance band. Olivier has only ai overwrought accent. This is not one of Olivier's 1 greatest moments. Why, you ask, do two distinguished actors appear In such ridiculous film? Would you believe money? 1 After a dumber of lean years.

Peck has seen his salary blossom ever since he participated in "The Omen," another low-rent thriller. Olivier simply s'wants to make money to help the English theater; i that also explains his Polaroid television commer- cials. '1 TYPICAL OF an international production about World War II, the script of "Boys" balances every issue; no one wants to offend any movie-going nation: There is the good Nazi (James Mason) who abhors Dr. Mengele's methods, as well as the Jew (Olivier) who refuses to kill in the face of being killed himself. Films like "Boys" want to be thrillers, but their scripts are afraid of confronting any issue directly.

Hostility, racism, danger, pain each is trivialized in "Boys." This is old-fashioned filmmaking at its worst. FILM NOTE: The advertising hype for "Superman The Movie" has begun. A current automobile TV ad features Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson, and Clark Kent with his cape sticking out from under his suit. Inside movie theaters, "Superman" coming attraction ads have begun with the cast's names soaring across the screen as if they were space ships in "Star Wars." opens here Dec. 14.

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