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l ife made easier
Book helps blind
lighting, use color contrast, rear
range furniture, organize drawers
and closets and place tape in con
trasting colors the width of steps to
improve visibility.
The author says many older peo
ple have vision problems that cut
them off from essential information,
such as food and medicine labels, So
cial Security and Medicare-Medicaid
notices, personal correspondence
and bills.
Organization is the key to safety
with medication, he said.
For example, always keep medi
cines in alphabetical order in the
same place on a shelf or in the medi
cine cabinet.
If you cannot identify bottles or
packages by size, shape or color,
mark them in individual patterns
with one, two or three strips of adhe
sive tape, vertically, horizontally or
diagnonally, or with varying num
bers of rubber bands.
In the kitchen, develop the habit
of turning off range top burners and
ovens before you remove food.
Glare is a major problem for older
people, Dickman said. Light, airy
lounges in nursing homes may be
unoccupied on sunny days because
the bright light that looks cheerful to
youthful architects, designers and
the staff can be painful and disturb
ing to the elderly.
The $5 price of “Making Life
More Livable” includes postage and
handling. Order by title and catalog
number PALI 15 from: American
Foundation for the Blind, 15 West
16th St., New York, N.Y. 10011.
Cutting torch adjustments
Kelley Adamson, graduate civil engineering major from
Houston, Monday afternoon adjusts the tip of a cuting torch
which is used to cut metal plates. The plates will be used to
fabricate model connections, which are used in the Houston
Convention Center, for engineering analysis. Adamson uses
one of the fabrication labs in the Engineering Laboratory
Center.
United Press International
NEW YORK — Humorist Clar
ence Day once suggested that con
tracts for architects require them to
break their legs before designing
buildings so they would understand
the need for entrances accessible to
the disabled.
A new book called “Making Life
More Livable” addresses a related
problem: How to help the blind and
visually impaired cope with homes,
home furnishings, utensils and ap
pliances designed for the sighted.
Many of the author’s suggestions
are simple adaptations requiring
little or no effort or expense — per
haps placing a chair in a different
position or painting a wall white or
using a stronger light bulb in a lamp.
Many older people create one
problem in solving another, says au
thor Irving R. Dickman.
Because they’re afraid of falling,
they look at the floor as they walk
and sometimes run into a door left
ajar. He suggests either converting
hinged doors to sliding ones or re
placing doors with curtains or re
membering to open or close doors
all the way — and reminding visitors
to follow suit.
Dickman’s $5 paperback is
printed in large type and published
by the American Foundation for the
Blind, a non-profit organization
serving the blind and visually im
paired in cooperation with more
than 700 agencies, organizations and
schools nationwide.
Dickman’s copy and photo illus
trations are arranged on a room-by-
room basis, showing how to improve
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
Tiddlywinks returns
United Press International
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The
next time you get down in the
dumps and need some perspective,
just think of tiddlywinks, the Rodney
Dangerfleld of games.
Much maligned by the masses as a
silly diversion for children, the game
that like Dangerfield “don’t get no
respect,” is taken very seriously by a
chosen few adults in Great Britain
and the United States, including
members of the North American
Tiddlywinks Association.
“People think of tiddlywinks and
they think of the kids’ game,” said
Larry Kahn of Gaithersburg, head
of the association and the world’s
reigning singles and doubles tiddly
winks champion.
“But,” he said, “it involves a very
high level of strategy. It’s a combina
tion of chess and billiards. There’s a
lot of thinking and a lot of physical
shots you have to make.”
Why, then, does the general pub
lic think of tiddlywinks as simply a
kids’ game?
“Because it is a kids’ game,” Kahn
said.
Indeed, tiddlywinks was invented
in the late 1800s as a game in which
children shot winks — small round
discs — into a cup.
It wasn’t until 1954 that tourna
ment tiddlywinks was developed by
two Cambridge University students
who, it has been written, were not
athletic and thought it would be
good for their resumes to have com
peted at something — particularly
against Oxford.
The tournament game came to
the United States in the mid-liKQ |
when schools such as Harvard, Mu
sachusetts Institute of Technolop
and Cornell formed teams.
Today, Kahn said, there are||
“serious types ... tournament-tyn
players” who might participatec
the annual Continentals Teat
Championships, held in February.
“In this country most of the pe,
pie who play are very mathemat
cally oriented ... probably beaus
we’ve recruited players in thus
(type) schools,” said Kahn, 30, as
MIT graduate and an ocean et|
neer in the Washington, D.C.,area
Like most games, tiddlywinks-o:
winks, as winkers call it — hasdevd
oped a lingo all its own.
“Potting” is to put a wink in lit
cup. “Potting out” is to put all you
winks in the cup, one way to w
“Squopping” is shooting a winko:
top of an opponents’ wink, anodic
way to score points and win.
Finally, a “squidger” is the ph;
disc a winker uses to shoot. Tit
come in different sizes, dependut
on the shot desired — “like goi
clubs,” Kahn said.
“There’s no tiddly,” he said.
And, to this day, there isnogrea
interest in tiddlywinks.
Kahn and his American com
terparts are hoping they will gel:
publicity boost like their friendsr
Britain got when tiddlywinks w
coupled with Prince Philipinasatir
cal news article — but they’re i
holding their collective breath.
“People just don’t take us*
riously,” Kahn said.
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Fee; $17
Meets: Tues/Thurs 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Begins: June 12, 1984
Weeks: Six
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