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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1978
New GI benefits available
Veterans attending Texas A&M on
the GI Bill can take advantage of ex
tended benefits if health problems
prevented them from receiving full
benefits before the 10-year deadline,
said campus VA officials.
The new program is available to
veterans, spouses or surviving
spouses whose elegibility for educa
tion benefits expired June 1, 1976 or
later, but who had not used all their
school entitlement because mental
or physical disability interfered.
Any extension approved will be for
the time the VA determines that the
veteran or spouse was prevented
from beginning or completing the
education program.
Medical evidence of the health
problems must be presented, noted
liaison officers.
The campus VA office is located in
Hart Hall.
Sweater designer’s move
to carpets consistent
CHICAGO — Oleg Cassini, who
takes credit for the popularity of the
turtle neck sweater, expects his
latest move into carpet design will be
as successful as his fashion world ex
periences.
Cassini, recently added to the staff
of designers for Galaxy Carpets Mills
Inc., said his move into a new
endeavor “is consistent with my phi
losophy — there’s no need to be a
specialist in one field.
“My work for Galaxy is a continua
tion of a complete cycle of fashions. It
can include cars, clothes, the home.
Carpets should not be a neglected
field.”
Cassini, who was Jacqueline Ken
nedy’s personal designer during her
years as the nation’s first lady, said he
recommended the turtle neck swea
ter to her brother-in-law, actor Peter
Lawford.
“I suggested it to him for a televi
sion appearance which called for him
to wear a dinner jacket. He forgot to
bring a shirt and tie and didn t have
time to buy them. The white turtle
neck was there. I suggested he wear
it.
The famed fashion master, in
Chicago for the first time as a carpet
designer for an industry exhibit, ad
mitted there were problems in his
new field.
“The most difficult was to con
vince the people that my designs are
a major undertaking. There’s a
peculiar paradox here. You need the
design plus the name. The design
alone won’t cut it, and the name
without the design is no good
either. ”
The limitations of the carpet loom
present a problem in terms of
creativity but Cassini said his techni
cal adviser had “discovered
capabilities in the loom that not even
the Galaxy people were aware of.
Cassini said he was hired “to ele
vate the standards of taste...They
expect originality from me and I ex
pect to provide it.”
Asked where he gets his ideas,
Cassini replied in loud Italian,
“Nella capocchia! That means ‘it
starts in the head.
Many of his ideas, he said, “come
from my days as a art student in Flor
ence, Italy, when I studied the old
masters of the Italian Renaissance.”
Cassini said he once lived in a ho-
gan, or dirt hut, on the Navajo Indian
Reservation near Gallup, N.M., for
more than three months.
“I was interested in their culture, ”
he said. “That was - nearly 30 years
ago, but I learned a lot about Indian
lore, about their colors, patterns,
many other things. I know more
about Indians than most Indians do.
“Their belts, for example, contain
designs that are of Moorish origin.
You need a trained eye to see it, but
it’s there. I even studied thei
dress of various tribes liketheS
Pawnee, Ojibwa, Apache. You
from many sources if you
eye for it and the imagination
Cassini said he was "thefc k as he
signer to put the American 11
concept in high fashion.”1
have been a natural follow t
for him because he admitted)
hood interest in the America p the a
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Thirty Aggies volunteer
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Thirty Texas A&M University pro
fessors volunteered to become
human guinea pigs in rigid diets re
search aimed at clearing up confu
sion about chloresterol in relation to
coronary heart disease.
Dr. Raymond Reiser, who heads
the project, said the tests basically
seek to determine effects of poultry
and fish versus red meat, and eggs
versus no eggs in human diets.
The tests are an outgrowth of what
Dr. Resier termed as “assumptions
rather than facts’ that the American
Heart Association (AHA) and other
special interest groups “sold” to the
Senate Select Committee on Nutri
tion and Human Needs.
The committee recommended last
year that people eat less red meat,
substituting it with fish and poultry.
This action triggered nationwide
criticism by the livestock industry.
Egg consumption was discouraged
earlier, because of their compara
tively high chloresterol content.
“This whole theory, or concept,
that fats and chloresterol cause coro
nary heart disease was based on in
complete research back in the 40s
and 50s,” explained Dr. Reiser, an
internationally-recognized lipid
biochemist. The “AHA and the Sen
ate Select Committee are based on
three assumptions. And they are all
wrong.”
These assumptions are that every
body is alike, warranting the same
treatment for everybody; that the
risk of coronary heart disease is di
rectly related to blood chloresterol,
at any level; and that there is a direct
relationship between diet chlores
terol and blood chloresterol.
“You can’t measure people s phys
ical well-being as a statistic, because
everyone is an individual,” the scien
tist assured. “There’s no average
person. Not even an average, or typ
ical Aggie professor.”
Dr. Reiser said the objective of the
study is to test the recommendations
of the AHA and the Senate Select
Committee to see whether normal
people following the recom
mendations as they go about their
normal occupations will be bene-
fitted by significant changes in the
blood fat and blood chloresterol.
Dr. Barbara O’Brien, who is as
sociated with Dr. Reiser in the
project, said that participants volun
teered, and were selected only after
rigid physical examinations and per
sonal interviews about smoking and
other habits.
“The examinations revealed that
these participants lead what is gen
erally accepted as a normal lifestyle,
and with norman levels 200 milli
grams per 100 milliliters of blood
serum, or below - of chloresterol,”
Dr. OBrien explained.
Additional blood analysis just
prior to starting on their diets also
included blood sugar, triglycerines,
high density lipid proteins and
another test for chloresterol.
One volunteer was rejected be
cause of hypertension, and one of the
participants is a vegetarian, who Dr.
Reiser said should make “an interest
ing study, in relation to the meat
eaters.
Dr. O’Brien said the professors
are in four different diet groups.
While one group eats fish and poul
try and three visible eggs per day,
another group eats fish and poultry,
without visible eggs. A third group
eats red meat and three visible eggs
per day, and a fourth group eats red
meat, but no visible eggs.
She said that each group will re
main on their diet for six weeks, after
which they will rotate. This will
permit each participant to have
eaten each of the four diets during
the six-month study.
Complete physical examinations
will be made at the end of each phase
of the diets.
“We asked that their lifestyle not
be interrupted, with exception of
eating the prescribed foods,” - Dr.
O’Brien said. “However, should a
participant eat food at a friend’s
house or a banquet for instance.
that’s not on the recommendd
then he will record and report
She assured that second sei
of food are permitted, but
should a participant gain, or
pounds or more he will bei
ified. Physical examiniationsja
ing detailed blood analysis,*;
made at the end of each six
phase of the test.
“The bomb in this whole ell he end
terol versus coronary heart d ,
incident is that people assa
chloresterol with fats,” Dr. fi ie askec
said. “But lean meat contains
chloresterol than fat meat. So,
poultry and fish are lean theyra
as much chloresterol as dots
meat.
Dr. O’Brien assured that the
gie Profs Project” is designed!)
of the health conditions of
people before, during and after
have eaten red meat, fish, ps
and eggs.
“We realize that we won’t an
all the questions, but we do feel
we will find out how food affed
doesn’t affect, these individt
Dr. Reiser concluded.
The scientists said that the
will be unbiased, and thatiti
initial phase for a continuingsl
of diets and nutrition of hunrn
Yards lack
says A&M
variety,
instructo
People tend to be repetitive in the
trees they select for their yards
either because they stay with a few
kinds they see or because they are
unaware of the varieties that can be
grown successfully in the Brazos
County area, says Dr. Harlow Land-
phair, landscape architecture in
structor at Texas A&M University.
Availability of some trees may
have a bearing, he explains, but
other trees are easily obtained and
should be used more often.
One of his favorites is the river
birch, a slender, graceful tree that is
seldom used in this area but grows
wild along the Brazos River. The tree
has several trunks that grow away
from each other. The river birch is
also distinguished by a shaggy
cinnamon-colored bark. It makes a
desirable ornamental because it
transplants easily and grows quickly.
Oaks are also good ornamentals,
notes Landphair, and are abundant
in this part of Texas. Live, post,
water and pin oaks offer variety.
One tree people often overlook is
the mesquite because it is thought of
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shape.
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spruce or fir and can provide
contrast to more common rouni
shapes. One of a kind, it is thf
deciduous conifer known.
Since fall color is import)
planning a landscape, people
be aware of the variety of hues
able, says Landphair.
The eastern red bud and doj |
have attractive flowers, buto
the most beautiful is the j
tree, he notes. In the fall and*
it has unique clusters of sal
colored seedpods on its bran I
The pods are preceded by bri^
low flowers in the late spring,!
tree provides color much of the|
Other trees with colorful
foliage are the ginkgo, sweet
American holly and Chinesi
tache.
Landphair said people plan® [
plant trees should take time to
about the variety available.
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