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Hearts could be losers in the game of squash
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Scottish
doctors have a warning for
squash players and others
undertaking vigorous exercise:
check with your doctor, especial
ly if you suffer chest pain or
other possible signs of heart dis
ease.
If you don’t take this precau
tion and you do have heart dis
ease, the researchers said, your
next match may be your last.
Of 27 people who died sud
denly between 1977 and 1983
after playing ash, 23 had coron
ary heart disease which they had
ignored or which had gone un
detected.
“CHD (coronary heart dis
ease) was the probable cause of
death in 23 cases,” the doctors
from the department of medical
cardiology at Victoria Infirmary
in Glasgow reported in the Brit
ish medical journal The Lancet.
Sixteen of those suffering
coronary heart disease were
found to have severely nar
rowed arteries leading to the
heart, a condition which can re
sult in sudden cut-off of blood
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supply to the heart muscle.
Seven had evidence of a heart
attack, although only one had
been diagnosed during life as
having suffered such an inci
dent.
A majority of the victims had
suffered warning signs well be
fore their fatal engagements on
the squash courts or were in
groups considered at high risk
for heart disease, the doctors
said.
Twenty-two suffered symp
toms before their final match,
including chest pain, heartburn
or gastrointestinal discomfort,
fatigue, excessive breathless
ness, dizziness and severe
headache.
In addition to the coronary
heart disease, 10 were found to
have suffered high blood press
ure, but only one had received
treatment for it. Three had high
blood cholesterol levels, also a
warning sign of heart disease.
Among the remaining play
ers, three had disease of the
heart valves, one had a disorder
known to be associated with sud
den death during exercise, one
died of a brain hemmorrhage
and two were believed to have
died of cardiac arrhythmia, in
which the heart beats wildly and
uncontrolledly.
These were not sedentary
people, the doctors said. Next of
kin described most of them as
ver
un
1.
fit. None was considered
Twelve of the victims had
been business executives, six
had worked in higher educa
tion, four had been civil ser
vants, two engineers, one a sales
man, one a student, one a police
man and three were in other
occupations.
“Only four of thi
vidua Is had sought
advice, and it is remarl
none of them tl
symptoms should interfc
their exercise," the
wrote. “Suchdenialofpi
al (warning) symptoms
noted by others and ns
characteristic to w
sive sportsmen are
Only six were considered
“competitive, ambitious, hard-
driving, perfectionistic.” Eleven
were considered very aggres
sive, two very competitive, and
one obsessive about fitness. Ten
were described as having no rec
ognizable traits.
“Squash is “a vigor#.!
able to raise heart rateto
cent of predicted ma
Both of these, effectsb
harmful in subjects alt
risk through CHD on
heart disease,” the rest
said.
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Humanities get welcome mat
Vol78Nc
United Press International
Jobs besides those of taxi driv
er, window washer and checkout
clerk are out there for English,
art, music, psychology, history
and other liberal arts majors.
That word comes from com
pany chieftians who huddled
with college officials at Prince
ton, N.J., cogitating about how
to get word around that corpo
rate America’s putting out the
welcome mat for liberal arts gra
duates.
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history, philosophy, compara
tive religion, ethics, and the his
tory, criticism and theory of the
arts can provide knowledge and
develop skills necessary for suc
cess in the business world,” a re
port on the conference said.
The conference was spon
sored by the Association of
American Colleges and the Na
tional Endowment for the
Humanities.
“There is a place and a cen-.
tral place — for the humanities
and the liberal arts graduate in
business,” said Charles L.
Brown, chairman of the board,
American Telephone and Tele
graph, opening the conference.
“That’s the good news. The
ximately a third of
bachelor’s degrees m;
the humanities ando<
thirds in liberal arts.
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Telegraph foundinasii
managers that humani
social science majorsm
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Hi aduates. After 20p y 1
percent of the liberalljti I
managers had achie; I
fourth level of manageml
sign of considerable sit iThe recent
compared with only S’] pining genei
of the business majors roubling soc
pet t ent of the engine ihe technolc
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found that attracting■fiial cont
ties graduates is in their#
interest. At Stanford
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“Students in the humanities are welladi
to acquire basic business skills — in
ing and finance, for example. But ns bn
educated graduates they are betterpre
for a lifeline of work than are students
have narrowed their studies to secure a
job.
bad news is that the good news is
not better known.”
To get word around, a copy of
proceedings of the conference
just has been sent to chief execu
tive officers of hundreds of cor
porations. The covering letter
was signed by Brown ancl James
L. ferguson, chairman and chief
executive, General Foods Corp.
In the letter, Ferguson and
Brown go to bat for liberal arts
graduates, long poor relatives
along the academic trail as a re
sult of heavy demand for
wizards in engineering, busi
ness, computers, math and sci
ence.
■ “We write to call your atten
tion to the. findings and recom
mendations of an important
conference on connections be
tween the study of the humani
ties. and careers in business,”
they said.
“Please read it. You will learn,
as we and some sixty corporate
and academic leaders did, how
much business and the humani
ties have to offer each other and
what you, as a business person,
can do to make more effective
relations possible.”
Among vignettes in the re
port:
• Chase Manhattan Bank dis
covered in a recent study of com
mercial banking trainees that
those with only bachelor’s de
grees developed stronger tech
nical banking skills than those
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