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14 RUTLAND DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1980 Pat. Pending Testing Diseases Blood Scientists at RCA Laboratory in Princeton. N.J.. are working on a color television receiver 40 inches wide, 30 inches high and 4 inches thick, to be hung on the wall like a picture.

This is four times the area of the largest TV color receiver now available. Although the company has said that it may be a decade before the display receiver can be manufactured at a price home consumers would pay, two members of the team got patents this week on features of the invention. Thomas L. Credelle was granted patent 4.234,815 for improvements to the guides that direct the electron beams to create the red, blue and green colors on the screen. Patent 4,234,825, issued to Robert A.

Gange, covers a system for maintaining uniform brightness in the display. Texas Instruments, the electronics company based in Dallas, which has devised various instruments for creating synthetic speech, received a patent this week on improved methods of transmission and storage of the data. Patent 4,234,761 was granted Richard H. Wiggins and George Li Brantingham, staff engineers. Their invention improves the capacity of the memory so that the storage required for a given vocabulary is reduced by as much as 50 percent.

Fifty sets of data are supplied to the memory every second. The quantity of data required for a given speech output is reduced, so the capacity of the transmission link to synthesizer can be less. The company's half-dozen synthetic speech products include learning aides called Speak and Read and Speak and Math, as well as a translation aid trademarked Language Tutor. It is disclosed that several related patents are pending covering suw matters as learning-games, digital to analog converters'an integrated circuits for speech synthesis. A cot, a tent and a frame to carry them on a person's back are intended for campers.

Patent 4,234,005 was granted this week in the name of Edward L. Taylor III of Van Nuys, who died while it was pending. A prototype, made of aluminum tubing, is reported to weigh 25 pounds. In behalf of Taylor's widow, the Inventors Licensing and Marketing Agency, Tarzana. Calif is offering rights to manufacturers.

By STACY V.JONES Timet News Service WASHINGTON A method of testing a patient's blood serum for disease makes use of the presence in the scrum of the nucleic acid known as DNA. A patent for the process was received this week by the American Hospital Supply Evanston) III. The inventor. Delfin F. Rippe, applied for patent 4.234.563 while he was on the staff of the company's branch in Miami.

Fla. As an example of disease testing, it is explained that the process can be used to determined whether a patient has a connective tissue disorder called lupus. In the test, an insoluble component of bovine blood is added to the patient's blood serum, as well as fluorescent antibodies. The DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) becomes insoluble and reacts with the antibodies, disclosing their presence. The fluorescence of the mixture indicates the relative concentration of the antibodies.

DNA, the active genetic material in all living things, has drawn wide attention to what is known as recombinant DNA or gene splicing. Several years ago the patent and trademark office accelerated the processing of such inventions but this was discontinued. More than 100 million slide calculators made of paper or light cardboard have been distributed by national magazines as advertising inserts. A user may be able, by pulling a slide, to determine such things as who were the vice presidents in all the administrations from George Washington's to Jimmy Carter's. Howard M.

Bromberg, general manager of the Flexi Group, in New York, received patent 4,233,768 this week on many forms of the calculators. One example given translates pounds, feet and inches into their metric equivalents. Flexi Group, which Bromberg founded five years ago, licenses production of the calculators, trademarked Slide-Serts. The hundreds of formats include calorie counters, horoscopes, emergency telephone lists and city street guides. Besides magazine distribution, some uses have been in direct mail offers and as premiums inserted in breakfast cereal packages.

Rutland Daily Herald OV TCtf Xt ii THl VON 1 0 Uli-MTs i TMt Uraw'M rt i.n 1c tuncM' pi. i0 t.im ROBERT W. MITCHELL Senior Editor tod Publisher KENDALL WILD STEPHEN C. TERRY Editor Hanging Editor Saturday, November 22. 1980 A 'Non-Incident' at School The lot of school department officials and employees these days is not an enviable one.

Beset by faculty demands for ever higher salaries, public resistance to higher school taxes and criticism from parents about disciplinary problems, school administrations and their boards arc hard-pressed to handle all their problems equitably and economically. In Rutland, the school fund shortage has been complicated by the refusal of the voters to approve additional taxation at the city election last March, followed in the fall by a reduction in number of tuition students that further curtailed prospective revenue. At the same time, school authorities were investigating complaints about a breakdown of discipline in junior high and high school. School commissioners hoped the problem would be alleviated this year by a return to regular scheduling of classes. The Board of School Commissioners has been planning a special election to attempt to get voter-approval of additional taxes to improve the budget outlook.

This is the background for a recent incident at junior high school involving a pupil and teacher which was described in a column of commentary in this newspaper by a Herald writer and had been reported to him by three junior high girls who witnessed the affair. The reaction of school authorities to the story was, first, it probably never happened and, second, if it did happen, the account of it was grossly distorted and exaggerated. In either case, the less said about it the better. Following investigation, the authorities faced another choice. By this time the affair was taken out of the hands of the school administration by the School Board.

First choice: The three little girls who went to the Herald with the story could be administered 40 lashes for spilling the beans. But no, that would not be a good-will builder with the public: Second choice: This is the best alternative to blame the Herald for "factual misrepresentations" and "distortions" regarding the matter. No one could object to castigating the newspaper for reporting the bad news. Newspapers are under fire in that area all the time. That method of disposing of the incident should have closed the book on it so that the public would be left with the impression that the Herald had erred again and that what had happened was virtually a non-incident, or would have been if the Herald hadn't meddled.

As it turned out, this solution was unsatisfactory to the mother of the boy who was involved in the incident. She thought an agreement had been reached among all concerned "to let the matter drop," although she said at a meeting with school authorities it was admitted a "human error" had occurred and that her son had actually been "physically abused." But she agreed with school officials that there shouldn't be anything more in the newspapers about the matter. The coverup seemed to be well arranged. When school commissioners violated that agreement and addressed a letter with a stern reprimand to the Herald a letter later withdrawn on advice of counsel blaming the Herald for all the commotion, the boy's mother "went through the roof." "The fact is that my son was physically abused by a teacher and Martin's (Martin Ralbovsky who wrote the original story about the incident) reporting was honest and accurate," said the boy's mother. That seems to settle that.

Nevertheless, all of us can expect to see messengers who bring ill tidings continue to get shot down. The Game Goes On After he lost his World Boxing Council welterweight title to Roberto Duran in Montreal last June, Sugar Ray Leonard gave thought to retiring from the ring. At age 24, he obviously could have afforded to do so, solely on the basis of that one fight. Leonard's share of the purse ($30 million gross, $13 million net), was $9.5 million not bad for 15 rounds of admittedly grueling work. But Leonard decided not to hang up his gloves and will meet Duran in a rematch at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans Tuesday, Nov.

25. This time his earnings, win or lose, will be $7 million. The bout's promoters are hoping that total receipts will top those in Montreal. Their hopes are based more on closed-circuit television revenue than on gate receipts. Ticket prices at arenas showing the telecast of the first fight ranged from $15 to $30.

For the rematch, Madison Square Garden in New York is charging $40 apiece for pairs of tickets and $50 for singles; the Capital Centre in Landovcr, is charging $40 for tickets bought in advance and $50 for those bought on theday of the fight. No wonder, then, that sports executives view pay television with longing. It is widely believed that National Football League games eventually will be transmitted by cable to fee-paying subscribers rather than over the air and "for free" by the networks. Teams in the largest metropolitan areas stand to gain enormous profits from such an arrangement. But a word of caution is in order.

During the 1964 NFL season, the Baltimore Colts, New York Giants, Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions showed selected home games in local movie houses via closed-circuit TV. The results were mixed, but sufficiently disappointing overall that the experiment was abandoned In a Nutshell Food nutrients are easily perishable if the foods are improperly stored. Riboflavin, an important nutrient in milk, is destroyed by exposure to either sunlight or artificial light, say those who ought to know the nutritionists. vitamins in meat, poultry and fish arc lost when juices and drippings are thrown away. A large public utilities corporation reports sharply increased use of home insulation and other means by its customers to save on the expense of heating homes.

The General Public Utilities Corp. said the percentage is much higher for homes constructed during the past twn vrars Save The Bloody Mary The oversized Bloody Mary has also resulted in a decrease in the proportion of vodka to tomato juice. The original proportions were a bracing half and half two ounces of vodka to two ounces of tomato juice. Barring considerations of dishonest establishments that add no vodka to the spicy drink or merely float a teaspoonful on top, standard proportions around town are about one and a half ounces of vodka to five and a half or six ounces of tomato juice a combination that can cost, for example, $4 plus tax. Trying to discover when and how the lime replaced the lemon as the standard in the Bloody Mary, I consulted not only the manuals but also the tenders of several well-known bars in New York, the Tabasco which has a vested interest in the Bloody Mary since its hot pepper sauce has become a fairly standard ingredient, and Jo Anne Caruso, the great-niece of the drink's inventor.

None seemed to know when the switch occurred, but all seem to agree it began after World War II, perhaps in the mid or late 50s. My own recollection is that about 10 years ago this switch really took hold, and now to get a lemon in the drink or to have it straight up requires a specific request; even then the Bloody Mary is likely to be tepid. Asked how her uncle prepared his most famous drink for the family, Mrs. Caruso said, "Uncle Fred never liked that drink and almost never made it for us. He liked Manhattans." Further intelligence came from Joseph Scialom, a native of Venice who retired to Fort Lauderdale, after having spent many years as the head bartender at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, and as the maitre d'hotel at the Four Seasons and Windows on the World.

An acknowledged authority on all matters pertaining to the operation of bars, Scialom said, "Everyone thinks Petiot invented the Bloody Mary. Actually, the true name is Bloody Meyer and the inventer was Vladimir." Who was Meyer? Who was Vladimir? "Vladimir had a small bar on First Avenue in New York during Prohibition," Scialom said, "and he made up this drink that he called Vladimir's Special, probably as a way to disguise the vodka in the tomato juice. Well, you know how Americans like to play around with the sound of words. Pretty soon, 'Vladimir' became 'Bloody Meyer' and from that came Bloody Mary. Maybe Petiot's invention was a coincidence but Vladimir's was first." By MIMI SHERATON Times News Service NEW YORK Among the things "they" don't make the way "they" used to, count the Bloody Mary, the tomato juice and vodka- eye-opener that is one of few inspired and wholly desirable mixed drinks.

At its best, this cheerful red, icy-cold, pepper-spiked concoction can revive and sharpen the palate and the spirits, and can give at least a temporary boost to a flagging metabolism and sluggish gastric juices. But the Bloody Mary is rarely at its best these days, when it usually arrives with ice in a large glass, and almost certainly finished off with lime. Thereby has the bartender committed three transgressions not only against authenticity but, even more important, against quality and class. The original rules for a Bloody Mary still endure in respected bar manuals such as the The Savoy Cocktail Book and The Official Mixers Manual. What these manuals call for is a blend of tomato juice, vodka, salt and black pepper, Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice.

Cayenne pepper is the only additional ingredient included by Fernand Petiot, the French bartender who invented this drink at Harry's New York Bar in Paris in 1924. Petiot later brought his invention with him to the King Cole Bar of the St. Regis Hotel, where it was renamed the red snapper and where the original formula is followed by Jimmy Cullen, who turns out the best version. As conceived, the Bloody Mary was a short drink a cocktail served in a four- or five-ounce sour glass. It was to be shaken with chopped ice, then strained off.

The only juice added was that of the lemon. There is a world of taste difference between the aromatic, bittersweet, complex pungency of the lime and the clear, sharp, sunny astringency of the lemon. In very few instances can these citrus cousins be considered interchangeable. Each has its place, but the lemon reigns supreme where tomato juice is involved. It is, furthermore, sheer madness to leave ice in tomato juice, since it will melt and cause the juice to separate resulting in what looks like a glassful of plasma.

The third flaw is to make the drink so large that it could not remain cold simply by having been shaken with ice, and so ice cubes, dear to American hearts anyway, became essential. jmmr csl MllWlf The time tenpe. Copley Newi Servic.