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Sphinx in big trouble The lions body of the Sphinx is firm but the human face of the majestic monument is showing the effects of 5000 years of howling sandstorms scorching desert days and chilling nights The Sphinx is sick the daily newspaper Al Akhbar in Cairo Egypt reports The newspaper is also kick ing off public campaign for urgent measures to protect one of Egypts prime attractions AP Photo Alcoholism among US nuns about same rate as average NEW YORK tAPi Sister Elizabeth joined the convent when she was 17 just out of high school She had never had asocialdrink in herlife That was 34 years ago To day shes recovering alcoholic whose last drink was Nov 11 1974 precise marker that only an alcoholic would keep Like cancer diabetes or heart trouble convent walls cannot keep out her disease It is one society has trouble recognizing as disease and becomes even more unrecognizable when ac companied by religious habit good works and mother superior who believes prayer will makeitgoaway Her case is not unusual Ex perts say the alcoholism rate among nuns is about the same as in the public at large The US National Council on Alcoholism estimates one of nine persons who drink are alcoholics Sister Elizabeth not her real name began drinking in 1959 She was in her midthirties at the time and had been transfer red to convent where liquor was readily accessible In many convents liquor is available for social occasions It was time when Sister Elizabeth had lot of pressures Family illnesses an alcoholic brother and eventual ly her parents deaths AT ST began to use all the in cidents around me she said Strangely could recognize my brothers alcoholism but not mine She couldnt even stand the taste of alcohol She mixed Scotch with milk and ice cubes to get it downweven at the end of her drinking period when she would drink as much as two quarts day if she could get it Most of this time she was productive member of her order teaching every day was good teacher too she said had tremendous rap port with the children never struck child She would usually start drinking at pm At dinner she would remain withdrawn If so meone suggested she had alcohol on her breath she would nastin deny it The Irish have wit and could use it to cut them down and did she said was nasty person LSES lNllERlTANtE Sister Elizabeth was left some money by her father It was intended for vacations It was used for daily vacations in to oblivion In reflection she says she manipulated her world to con tinue drinking won twoyear scholar ship and managed to get put in charge of social activities she said After the parties would be over Jesuit and would sit there and talk and drink more Scotch Its very funny to see sister drink Its cute per formed for them She did the same with some lay teachers She was out of the habit and they would have few drinks together after the days classes It sort of sanc tioned it for them too she said They had the feeling that if sister could do it they could doit too 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experiment but we feel it went really well0Neilsa The showpiece of the Cana dian contingent was DC3 fly ing laboratory stocked with $15million worth of computing and scanning equi ment in cluding laser fuorosensor which the centre hopes will soon be ready for commercial production Convair 580 carried another $1million worth of computers and scanning devices COMPARE EQUIPMENT The goal of the overall ex periment was to see how the Pulls farmers reply to city drag races NASHVILLE Tenn AP They huff and they puff and they blow their competition down in display of mechanical muscle seldom seen in any farm field Theyre farm tractors modified for use in pulls the farmers answer to the city drag race David Grimm executive director of the National Tractor Pullers Association of per Sandusky Ohio says ut 2000 persons from the United States and Canada are involved in the effort to standardize competition and build interest in the sport Its unique Grimm said in telephone interview Farm folks have been interested in tractor pulling for years but now city people are beginning to relate to it We scheduled 53 pulls on the national circuit for 1978 Well wind up drawing about million people and pay ing out nearly slmillion in purse money before the year is out Thats more than twice what wesaw five years ago The contest involves moving your tractor farther and faster along 300foot dirt track than the other guy while hitched to sled weighing anywhere from 40000 to 65000 pounds The pull gets tougher as the tractors advance because the sleds movable weight box is adjusted to slide closer to the tractor increasing resistance on the tractors rear axle AN STALL Its not uncommon for trac tor to stall before making the full300feet The sport generally involves four divisions in various weight stock classessuper modifieds minimodifieds and fourwheeldrive trucks Super stocks are your typical farm tractors only they carry about $20000 worth of highperformance engine and drivetrain parts Grimm says Many of them develop to times their factoryrated horsepower and in the heavier weight classes 1200to 1500 horsepower outputs arent on common Just about anything goes in the modified classes from 12 cylinder aircraft engines to three automobile engines ar ranged in stepladder fashion hesays The minimodifieds are swpcdup garden tractors and fourwheeldrive trucks are becoming an increasingly popular phase of the activity Grimm says One leading participant is Gary Cook drag racer turned Christmas tractor puller Cook 36 runs 317acre grain and beefcattle operation near Springfield Tenn He says when he isnt plowing hes pulling Ive taken in about $13000 in purse money this year from the 40 to 50 events entered In the summer generally compete in two to three pulls week In the winter go to couple of the big ones Ilouston and In dianapolis for example kick is president of the Ten nessee Tractor Iullers Association and director of the national body About 75 per cent of our members are farmers or are somehow associated with agriculture Pulling takes some commitment because youre talking about some expensive specialpurpOse equipment Modified superstock tractors will cost about $50000 Youre not going to risk that kind of in vestment in farm field for that Special Christmas When you cook With Jun lhl LOSl iruriik grrOtwstr rwln erv IuH lm lilrt pm lit vii rrl irllr lirft ii lvs yHhl rir rriu Sample value ii iii tr wt iii flrlrii ll Il llit saga VHl lgt Sample value in You cant find better volult gt5 on such wrde selection of home brow homo oppiionces thon oi the Gr 13 Cornpdriy Store The Gas Compor ry Store otters full ronge of gos ond electric opplionces with on um torched choice ofoll gos oppliorrries inorrcing is available to all residents in or ir service oreo No poyrncnts Lililll obruory l97Q Mostcr Chorge onct Chorgex $313900 the examiner Thursday Doc 1978 13 different stems compared with each at er under standard conditions ONeil says What was valuable from our own point of view was that we had an oil spill arranged so we could do the work in methodical fashion ONeil says that while the US model is more research oriented there is more difficul ty in interpreting the data pro duced By comparison Canadian equipment was simpler and was good success The Canadian device projects light from laser on to the water below the aircraft and analyses the reflection to deter mine whether there is oil The trick is to make the amwer as simple as possible says ONeil The perfect system he says would boil down all the in formation and allow someone to look at the screen and say everything that is black is water and everything that is white is oil CHECK FOR RCTK The fluorosensor is being developed under federal fisheries and environment development contract with the centre for possible detection of Arctic oil spills The goal is to demonstrate that Canada has good thing and to help get Canadian in dustry into position where they can market it overseas hesays Canada has one 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