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I FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1979
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United Press International
DALLAS — After today, this will
joft pet rocks, the Dallas Cowboys
Ceerleaders and $1 airline fares to
Is Vegas as stories to be only reluc-
fltly written about, but:
On today and Saturday, three
udents at Dallas Baptist College
ill twiddle their thumbs for 26
burs.
“We’re going to start at 4 o’clock
n Friday and go until 6 o’clock
iaturday,’’ said Ben Sheeran, who
rounded serious. "We’re going to
twiddle our thumbs — you know,
twiddle our thumbs — for 26 hours.
“We’re raising money for our
pledge class, Sigma Chi Delta. ”
Sheeran, 19, from Palacios,
Texas; Layton Hein, 21, of Great
Bend, Kan., and Bryan Fewell, 19,
of Las Vegas think they can rotate
their thumbs into the Guinness
Book of Records.
“No, there isn’t a Guinness rec
ord on thumb twiddling — yet,”
said Sheeran. “We’ve talked with
them and they said if we can provide
newspaper clippings and film,
they’ll put us in.”
Sheeran, the spokesman for the
other two, said they had been prac
ticing thumb twiddling in prepara
tion for the big event.
Certainly we’ve been practic
ing,” he said, “in some boring
classes, but we’ve never done it pro
fessionally.”
Sheeran still isn’t going to do it
professionally.
The three students have been col
lecting sponsors who will pay 5
cents each hour they last. The pro
ceeds will go to their fraternity.
“They are giving us a nickel for
Sty f: every hour we can go,” said
Sheeran. “And we ll have a fish bowl
there for contributions.”
The event takes place at the Dal
las Baptist College student union.
Since there are no current rules
nmissii f° r thumb twiddling, Sheeran and
the others have made their own.
We ll twiddle for one hour and
then have a five minute break,”
Sheeran said. “No, it doesn’t matter
(how fast we twiddle, as long as our
thumbs are in constant motion.”
Sheeran said he and the others
expect sore hands after what could
be a modern form of self-sacrifice,
but that’s the price they bear for
STUDY h e '
ai| S ca • t ^ urn fc ) muscles get a little
light, but that’s expected,” he said.
^ ^'Popping them helps. Writing helps
j a lot, and believe me we’ve been
j doing a good deal of that.”
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N - NEW ORLEANS — A military
I'-'™ Ldoctor failed to make an adequate
SCIflf case study prior to prescribing tran-
__ quihzers for an airman and can be
113 blamed for his patient’s car wreck.
The federal government is liable for
tion P'* damages, a federal court ruled.
A three-court panel of the 5th
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iarem s-, staff doctor at the Redstone Arsenal
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