Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1981. július-december (35. évfolyam, 27-50. szám)

1981-11-26 / 45. szám

Thursday, Nov. 26. 1981. AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ 9. PRESS DIGEST mm [Dim Intensive study in Hungarian Language Six weeks of intensive study in Hungarian Lan­guage and East European Affairs was held on the campus of Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, recently. The program provided students who came from all parts of the US with a rich variety of cour­ses including Hungarian Folklore, Hungarian Litera­ture , Hungarian History, the Politics of East Central Europe as well as weekly social events and Hungari­an movies. Those who participated are: bottom row, Laura Forker (Cornell University), middle row: Mrs. Irene Heller (Ada), Adam Nagy (Holden, Mass.), Diane Tar (Coral Gables, Fla.), Mary Harsch (Indiana Uni­versity), Blount Stewart (American University), Ro­bert Lakos (Tufts University),' top row, Mary and Andrew Boros-Kazai (Indiana University staff), ; Christine Layton (New Fairfield, Conn.), Alexandra Shelley (Yale University), Andrew Ludanyi with Anikó and Julie Ludanyi with Csilla (Ohio Nor­thern University). For information about next summer’s program please write to: Professor Andrew Ludanyi, P.O.B. 112, Ada, Ohio, 45810. Railroad Retirement Cut Despite Reagan Promise Having been bom in Hungary, it is nice to read your articles about Hungary, its heritage, its villa­ges, its towns, and cities. You have many good news items in the paper and described with a little different feeling and with a little more meaning and zeal than other papers, but it came to me as somewhat of a surprise /or did I miss the news item or article/ that I did not see anything hi it concerning the large reduction or cut in Railroad Pensions. I did read all about “Sad Thursday”, Oct. 1st, 1981 and “The 30 days that shook the world”, but no mention of that unjustified and discriminatory cut made by the President and Congress that affec­ted over 400.000 retired railroaders in spite of all their promises and assurances that no pensions would be reduced or affected in such manner. News headlines are: “Social Security Cutbacks Braked”, “Social Security pensions’ support gains momentum”. Millions will receive the minimum of $ 122.- per month, but did not pay in one dime to the fund, while the railroaders pension reduction is still on, for a pension that was rightfully earned and legally paid for from hard earned wages for ma­ny years. The President and Congress should rescind the horrendous act of reducing the railroad retire­ment pensions and restore full pensions again. Sure­ly there must be many retired railroaders among the readers of the Hungarian Word affected by the re­duced pensions. Here’s hoping all railroaders will fall in line and speak up for their rights. Steven Borovich, Naples, Fla. How Long Will You Live? The following life-expectancy quiz is one of many health question­naires now used by doctors, medi­cal centers and insurance groups. While quizzes can hardly be pre­cise. they do give a more realistic picture of probable longevity than old-fashioned actuarial tables, which relied almost exclusively on the subject’s heredity patterns and medical history. Current computa­tions try to measure risk in relation to environment, stress and general behavior, though statisti­cians and experts do not always agree on how to weigh the com­ponents. A high salary may not be as detrimental to longevity— because of competitive stress—as many quizzes suggest. On the other hand, marriage or living together, usually assumed to in­crease one's chances of living longer, may actually increase stress, especially for notably embattled partners. National av­erage life spans: 703 for white males. 653for all other males: 78.1 for white females. 74 for all other females. Personal Facts: If you are male, subtract 3. If female, add 4. If you live in an urban area with a population over 2 million, subtract 2. If you live in a town under 10,000 or on a farm, add 2. If any grandparent lived to 85, add 2. If all four grandparents lived to 80, add 6. If either parent died of a stroke or heart attack before the age of 50, subtract 4. If any parent, brother or sister under 50 has (or had) cancer or a heart condition, or has had diabetes since childhood, subtract 3. Do you earn over $50,000 a year? Subtract 2. If you finished college, add 1. If you have a graduate or pro­fessional degree, add 2 more. If you are 65 or over and still working, add 3. If you live with a spouse or friend, add 5. If not, subtract 1 for every ten years alone since age 25. ________________________________Running Total_____ If you work behind a desk, subtract 3. If your work requires regular, heavy physical labor, add 3. If you exercise strenuously (tennis, running, swimming, etc.) five times a week for at least a half-hour, add 4. Two or three times a week, add 2. Do you sleep more than ten hours each night? Subtract 4. Are you intense, aggressive, easily angered? Subtract 3. Are you easygoing and relaxed? Add 3. Are you happy? Add 1. Unhappy? Subtract 2. Have you had a speeding ticket in the past year? Subtract 1. Do you smoke more than two packs a day? Subtract 8. One to two packs? Subtract 6. One-half to one? Subtract 3. Do you drink the equivalent of 11 oz. of liquor a day? Subtract 1. Are you overweight by 50 lbs. or more? Subtract 8. By 30 to 50 lbs.? Subtract 4. By 10 to 30 pounds? Subtract 2. If you are a man over 40 and have annual checkups, add 2. If you are a woman and see a gynecologist once a year, add 2. _______________________________Running Total______ If you are between 30 and 40, add 2. If you are between 40 and 50, add 3. If you are between 50 and 70, add 4. If you are over 70, add 5. ADD UP YOUR SCORE * TO GET YOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY. From ihe book Lifegain. by Robert F. Allen. Ph D . with Shirley Linde Appleton Books (a division of Prentice-Hall. Inc.1. P.S. Enclosed is an article from our local paper printed Oct. 26, 1981. We also sent letters to the President, members of Senate and the . House Ways & Means Committee and other newspapers. Hope it will help! Dear Mr. Deak: " Having been in Italy for some time, I have not been able to write to you recently. I have read all back issues of the Magyar Szo that I found in my mail, and I find that substantial improvements have taken place, in particular, the broader coverage of news from other countries, including East European ones, is very welcome. The use of English articles is also good, in that it ought to increase your reader- ship among second/third generation Hungarians, whose Hungarian reading ability may be somewhat lacking, as is my own. I have enclosed several ar­ticles that might give you some information that may have been overlooked, In particular, the article about Edward Teller is very revealing. Please send my copy of the Anniversary Year­book when available and find enclosed my rene­wal. Bert S. mmhhmbs8®w * RÉTESHÁZ ÉS CUKRÁSZDA 1437 TNIR» AVE., NEW YORK,N.Y. (A 81-ik Street sarkán) — Telefon: LE 5-8484. Mignonok, születésnapi torták, lakodalmi, Bar Mitzvah-torták. Este 7.30-ig nyitva. Postán szállítunk ■NHWaHUWMHHRHHMHWRHEEW^^H Hungary has allocated four protected areas for use as “biospheric reserves” in a Unesco project. The international organization has accepted Hungary’s recommendation, and so the Hortobágy National Park, the Aggtelek Cave, the Lake Fertő area, a section of the Kiskunság National Park have become part of the proiect.

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