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By RICHARD OLIVER
Staff Writer
v The Texas A&M University Col
lege Bowl champions took a big
psychological step toward a national
ournament berth Tuesday by de
feating the Rice champions two
games to one in a challenge match.
“The great thing about our victory
is Rice has already qualified for na-
imals,” said Ted Hoef, staff adviser
for Temas A&M’s College Bowl
|am. “They qualified over a CBS
Idio network contest.’’
The Texas A&M team lost the first
game, 185-155, but won the last two
270-240 and 225-210. Hoef said each
game’s outcome hinged on the final
question.
College Bowl is a question and
answer game played by two teams of
four players. Toss-up questions are
asked, and the team that responds
first gets a chance at a bonus ques
tion. The questions are worth points
to the team that correctly answers
them, and the team with the highest
score after two seven-minute halves
is the winner.
Mike Smith, Camellia Pratt, Ruth
Walters, and Ruvane Marvit make
up the Texas A&M team. Mark
Smith is the alternate.
The team won the Texas A&M
College Bowl competition on Thurs
day, and will compete in the regional
competition at TCU in Fort Worth
Feb. 22-23.
“Some of the people at Rice were
very impressed with our team,”
Hoef said. “We should do pretty well
at regionals. They (Rice) say we’ve
got a good chance.”
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CINCINNATI —Abie Ingber and
49 other Cincinnatians didn’t eat
Tuesday.
Another 50 residnts will go with
out food today.
And, for every succeeding day 50
Americans are held hostage in Iran,
50 more Cincinnati residents will
fast.
“It began bothering me that I was
able to go about my daily routine so
casually, while those 50 were being
held captive,” said Ingber, 29, a rab
bi who originated the Cincinnati
Fast for Freedom.
“The first 30 days of captivity, the
hostages were our main topic of dis
cussion. The next 30 days, some
times it was brought up, sometimes
not. And the last 30 days, it’s really
become a back pages issue.
“I want our fast to make it a per
sonal, front-page issue for everyone
involved. I hope other communities
pick up the idea.”
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ATLANTA — Nuclear-powered
icemakers — once hailed as the
ng-term answer to the needs of
people with heartbeat irregularities
have not lived ip to their initial
filing, says a heart surgeon who has
he said, "theai t implanted hundreds of pacemakers,
not in Mars, butp | Introduced in 1970, pacemakers
powered by tiny nuclear generators
-were praised because of the expecta-
i tion they would last for the lifetime of
pe patient. The problem is the nuc
lear batteries last even longer.
| Dr. Kamal Mansour, associate
iprofessor of cardio-thoracic surgery
Ijtf the Emory School of Medicine,
^ fj says the plutonium-238 that provides
Jt J. the long-term energy raises the pos-
(_7 Sibility of radiation problems from
nuclear pacemakers that have be-
'eome “lost” after the death of the
tient.
He said, however, there have
en no reports in the medical litera-
re of radiation leakage from nuc-
ar pacemakers inside the body.
Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 87
ears. It is highly toxic when not
roperly shielded and it also is the
material from which atomic bombs
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nd enjoyed for79; I “ You J ust don 1 bur y Wlth the
patient,” he said. “You get control of
it and send it back to the manufactur
er. You always keep track of it.”
Nuclear pacemakers, according to
Mansour, have never achieved more
than a fraction of 1 percent of the
world pacemaker market. They are
now used mostly in teen-age patients
who have achieved most of their
growth and have a long life expec
tancy.
Pacemakers are surgically im
planted in patients whose heart
rhythm is disturbed by disease or
birth defects.
Mansour and his associates have
installed 415 conventional battery-
powered pacemakers in operations
in Emory-affiliated hospitals in the
last 10 years and average about 120
annually.
The first pacemaker was im
planted in 1960. Today, more than
100,000 are in use in this country,
Mansour said. He described the one-
hour surgical procedure as a
“routine, well standardized, safe
operation.”
Mansour is considered a pioneer
in the us of the sutureless, screw-in
electrode for pacemakers and says a
non-nuclear, lithium-powered de
vice has proved to be highly satisfac
tory in his patients. He said the
lithium type is much less expensive
than the nuclear, $2,300 compared
with $6,000, and is good for an esti-
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