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Show 22 The Salt Lake Tribune SUNDAY Sunday, April 27, 1997 There’s Bad News, Mum — And Here’s Your Bill — CHESS BEGINNER'S CORNER LEAD STORIES @ The Times of Londonreported in Marchthat when an employ- ab defgh BLACK MATESIN 2 work(thus finding his body), plus about $500 for identifying the body for the coroner, plus about $250 to go to his mother's home, Hint: Sacrifice and mate. eeu CYN knock on her door, and tell her that her son was dead. (After unfavorablepublicity, the firm with- 4x8 °Z MOL UY “| uounjos Deep Blue Boots Up for A Rematch drew thebill.) @In April, commenting on the breakthroughs in cloning, Ann Northrop, a columnist for a New Yorklesbian and gay publication, argued that cloning could give women total control over reproduction:“Men are nowtotally irrelevant,” she wrote. “Men are BY SHELBY LYMAN going to have a very hard time It was a memorable momentin chess and computer history. The score was tied 2-2 as Garry Kasparoy and the IBM computer Deep Blue faced each other in gamefive of their historic match last year in Philadelphia's Convention Center. After his 23rd move, the human world champion proposed a draw in a position that seemed equal but wasin fact a difficult one for souiputers to analyze. Unwittingly, the machine’s team of scien- justifying their existence on the Los Angeles Times Vaughn Meader’s comedyalbum,a satire of the Kennedyscalled “The First Family,” sold 10 million copiesin the early ‘60s. But the gigs stopped after John F. Kennedy's death. Meader Once MadeMillions, But Now He Warms a Barstool BY DAVID LAMB future positions which Deep Blue neededto evaluate — to decide on its immediate moves — lay beyondits search horizon. Although accessible to Kasparov’s human intuition and judgment, they were beyond the reach of the computer’s considerable powersof calcu- lation. After the draw offer was turned down, Kasparov won with shock: ing ease as the computerfutilely flailed about looking for the cor- réet moves. Having inadvertently discovered Deep Blue's Achilles’ heel, Kasparov used whathe had ned to quickly reach a favorable position in the next and final game, He theneasily dispatched hig unhumanadversary. e good newsis that man and méchine are ee again at the i juitable Center in New York (May 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 and 11). The new version of Deep Blueis twice as fast and has moresophisticated chess “knowledge” than its predecessor. ‘Will the upgradesbe sufficient fect the result? you would like to see for yourself, tune in for pre-match postings and move-by-move coverage of the gamesin progress at IBM's web site: www.chess.ibrn.com, Below in gameoneoflast year’s mateh, Deep Blue lured his humay protagonist onto unfavorable and won an upsetvictory. ertheless have orgasms. One of thought of him as a JFK surrogate that one of his the researchers said it might thus be possible to induce orgasm chemically by stimylating the specific neurotransmitter. @ University of North Carolina law professor Barry Nakell, 53, a nationally known expert on death-penalty law, was fired in Februaryafter pleading guilty to shoplifting food and a book from orgies made Walter Winchell’s column. Vaughn astore in ChapelHill. He had also corporated a five-minute impersonation into his nightly routine. Word got around andthen camethe album and whata rideit was. “First Family” sold 10 million copies, becoming, at the time, the most successful album in history. He negie Hall booked him, and Belafonte asked him to openhis show.Sinatra called. He went to an awards banquet with Phyllis Diller. So many groupies that; his words shouted, the jokesrolling slurred and Meaderhadjust turned 27, “I dida't know howto handleit,”’ he recalls. “It wasa blur. I thought stars were supposed to do certain things,so I'd fly here, fly there, buy anything I fast off his tongue, his eyes dancing with mischief. liked in a store window. My ego and arrogance were Although hetries never to peak too early, he is indeed, at 5 in the afternoon, in danger of doing just “Abbott,” says Sheila, his fourth wife, a couple of bar stools away, “You're absolutely crazy. Why don't you come home and let me cook for you?” He'll have none of that. He much prefers being here among his friends, people who tolerate him and care about himand laugh with him, They are, after all, the only crowd Vaughn Meader — once the hottest name in the recording business — has left to work, er asked if he'd heard about Kennedyin Dallas. Thinking he was being set up for a joke, Meader said, ‘No, how's it go?” Whatnevercrossed his mind wasthat his career was over. The Kennedy stuff had been only a small out of every city in America, but Hallowell, it hasn’t told jokes. He had talent and he'd get a new routine. But everywhere he went, teary-eyed people ap- even tried. People are very accepting. ‘Tolerant’ is the word I'd use. There’s magic here and magic you can’t explain"No sleazebags, no phonies. That's why I cameback to Maine.” It's been 35 years since Meader, a young comedian playing the coffeehouses of SoHo for $7.50 a night, skyrocketed to fame and fortune with his album on the Cadencelabel, “First Family,” an impersonation of President Kennedy so close to perfect as to be eerie, And 34 years since his career died, at the momenta bullet struck down Kennedyin Dallas. “That wasit," Meader remembers. “One year, November to November. Then boom.It wasall over.” Lenny Brucewasplaying Carnegie Hall that night. He took the stage and, after a respectful silence, sighed, ‘Man, poor Vaughn Meader.” Piddied Away: Meader, whogoes nowbyhisfirst name, Abbott,lights another cigarette and pauses to let pass a cough that comes from deep in his lungs. He nibblesa pretzel, rolling it over toothless gums. Heorders a margarita, just a touch oftriple sec, salt on the rim, please, and Christ, oh yeah, he says, the $1 million or so he earned from “First Family” was piddled awayyears and years ago, on coke binges, on booze and wives and fancy living, and now he’s lucky if Sheila gives him a sawbuck ortwo for a few drinks but, you know, here on a cold Maine spring day made warm bytheglow of friends and a welcoming tavern, life's OK, it reallyis. “In a way,” he says, “I'm better off than I've ever been. When I had the album, all those lowlifes around mewhosaid they were friends, what I didn't proached with an extended handandthe words, “I’m sorry,” as though he himself were part of thefirst family. Peéple saw Meaderandthoughtof the bloodied Kennedy. He could never live that down; his comeback attempts were haunted by a ghost. Meader began to drink heavily, and by 1965 had blownthelast of the 10 million dimes he had earned — one for each album. In 1967, he gave away his Grammy, his gold record, his suits — all the trappings of the Camelot he had shared — and hoppedin a van in New York with two women,headedfor San Francisco and its summerof drugs and flowers.It was, he wrotein a song the other week, the summer he can’t rememberand one he'll never forget: “That wasthelast time I ever had to pack.” Meader, settled now in a drafty farmhousein his native Maine, is 61 and graying. He wears glasses, a short beard and cowboyboots. He dreamsof being a racetrack degenerate,living in a sleazy motel aud measuring life’s successes in furlongs, and when he wakes up depressed, hefights the demons by writing songs. He has wanderedthis day from the River Cafe to the Wharf, a nearby tavern where friends look at their watchesandsay, “You're late, Abbott,” then on to Slates for something to eat and Irish coffee, and now he is crossing Water Street on wobbly legs, holding up the cars with an outstretched hand and mar- veling at the golden sunsetstretched across the Kennebec River. “IT want you to see this,” Meader says. “Look at that ----ing sky. Beautiful. Is that America or what?” realize was they were in it for the business. Now the funny thing is I'm a bum and find people whoreally In the small farmhousehe rents, the refrigerator is empty. Novels borrowed from thelibrary arepiled care. I have a wife who cares, friends who care. I look at Elizabeth Taylor at the Academy Awards or wherever, and I say, ‘She any better off than me?’ and I doubtsheis,” on the kitchen table. In one corner is an upright piano, tuned only yesterday, and on the wall behind Meader found the Kennedy voice quite by acci- dent, mimicking the president offhandedly one day with friends in New York. They laughed andhein- it hangs a silken dove and the word “peace.” Hesits down to play and suddenly the eyes are clear, the voice steady, the fingers in control, and Abbott Vaughn Meaderlooksout over his audience of one and with a soft smile asks: “Requests?” One-Room Schools Not Just a Memory, But Thriving BY TAMARA HENRY The one-room schoolisn't disappearing, but it is changing, a new study shows. About 1,636 one-room schools operate in the United States, and ie Kh $7. Rxh7ch. Black resigns (a) Xa) After . Kg6 38. Qg8ch KfS 39. ‘Nxf3, Kasparov's position is Hevelent. | KASPAROV RESIGNS a after 37, Rxh7ch they are increasingly private and religious rather than public, says researcher Mark W. Dewalt, an associate professor of education at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, $.C. His study debunks the widely held perception that such schools GPennsylvania has the most with 325, followed by Nebraska's 133 and Montana's 122 The schools typically are in ru- ral areas, Dewalt says, Religious groups often allowed their chil- dren to attend nearby public schools until districts united to save money and began to “bus students to consolidated elementary, middle or high schools," says the study. Dewalt notes a “dramatic impact on the proliferation of these schools" after a 1972 Supreme Court decision guaranteed the Amish the right to form their own schools for first through eighth grades. Others inclined to such arrangements are Hutterites, Seventh-day Adventists, Episcopalians and Lutherans, he says. Schoolsize ranges from five students to about 36, Dewalt says. a w @ 3} 4} mem 4 4 Rt ft rHrt 2} ia & ‘a x| them violent or repeat offenders, haveescapedin the last two years from a lackadaisically run workrelease program of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. In mostcases, inmates were merely asked if they preferred workrelease, with no examination of their criminal records. Gin a September statement, Joseph Sniezek, an official of the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Injury Prevention, lamented the serious inju- ries suffered by rodeo bull riders and suggested a solution might be to require helmets. Bln November, as part of a growing trend to micromanage school curricula, the New York legislature required that all public school students age 8 and above receive formalinstruction in the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. That follows a requirement that students be given instruction weekly on how animals fit into the economyof nature.” (New Jersey already requires instruction on the potato famine, via amendmentto its law requiring instruction on the Holocaust.) @ In January in an experiment to exercise better crowd control overopposition-party demonstrations in Jakarta, Indonesia,the lo- Union,ruled in February that de- spite a six-century tradition, wooden shoes manufactured in the Netherlands would no longer be permitted in the workplace unless they could meet the same standards as steel-toed safety shoes. Shoe manufacturers warn that Dutch clogs might soon disappear altogether. As one shoe executive said, ‘It would belike Paris without the Eiffel Tower.” In December, the Canadian Defence Departmentissued a 17page set of guidelines for manufacturers who wish to compete for new ee to supply underwear to the military. Among the most chatlengiog requirements are that one pair must be able to be worn forsix-month stints in the field and that the garment must be invisible to night-vision goggles so that a skivvy-clad soldier does not offer a target to snipers. o SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION Sunday Times of London reported in December that 300 tons of humanitarian aid from Western countries was sitting in Bosnian warehouses be- cause it is useless. Included were birth control pills with an expiration date of 1986, weight-reduction tablets from Britain, mouth- wash from the United States, and chemical waste from Germany. According to the Times, some war-zonedrivers have beenkilied transporting these supplies, and the German chemicals by law cannot be returned, thus creating a hazardous waste disposal problem for Bosnians. @The Associated Press report- ed in February on Ms. Myassar Abul-Hawa, 52, the first female taxicab driver in Jordan. Her business is brisk, in part because some devout Muslim men ask for her by name to chauffeur their wives and daughters so they won't be alone with male drivers.(As is sometimes the case in the United States, Abul-Hawaturnedto taxidriving whenshe could notputte, use her degree in English literature.) @ Inthelast six months, several reports have surfaced from the old Soviet Union countries that nearly bankrupt factories have been forced to pay their workers merchandise instead ofcash. Included were eggs paid to farm workers in Klyuchi, Siberia; old train cars given to railroad workers in Ukraine;salaries of from 33 to 42 brassieres a month by an underwear factory in Volgograd, Russia; and, from another Volgograd factory, rubber dildos (which are in surplus, according to The Economist magazine, because the market has turned to electronic vibrators). yourWeird News to ChuckShepherd, P.O. Box 8306, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33738, or Weird@compuserve.com. cal police chief put seven cobras in a glass casein front of the main police station and said they would be usedtoi protesters. Hesaid police would wavethecobras at the crowd, but it was not clear whether officers relished handling the snakes in the first place or that such crowds would allow the officers to get close enough for the snakestostrike. ™ The National Wilderness Institute charged in January that the Department of the Interior has failed to remove severalplant and wildlife ares from the government's endangered list despite the common knowledge that they (such as the ‘Maguire daisy") do not exist. The governmentresists becauseit says it costs $37,000 to remove a name from thelist but meanwhile has added hundreds of new ones in recent years, |The governing commercial body of Europe, the European ogers! Tiffanie & Kent Tiffanie Elise Plouzek and Kent Carter Emerson will married 2, 1997 in the Jordan River Temple followed a yaeacicn bepaken at the Marquee 50 Golden Years eriakD Tiffanie, @The number of one-room public schools has dropped, from 6 2,000 criminals, “hundreds” of | Ralph & Ethel are a thing of the past: 7 GOVERNMENTIN ACTION E The Los Angeles Times reported in December that nearly Then, on Nov. 22, 1963, he gotinto a taxi in Milwaukee, wherehe was performing, and the cab driv- part of his night-club act. He playedthe piano,sang, been charged with shoplifting in 1991, but the charge was dismissed after he performed community service. oO way out of control. Playing the president was easy, but playing God wasa bitch.” “T love this place,” Meader says of Hallowell, an old mill town, population 2,500, “I've been thrown reported confirming thatan altercervix to the neck to the brain, thus accounting for why somespinal-cord-injured people can nev- played the Sahara in Vegas for $22,000 a week. Car- LOS ANGELES TIMES HALLOWELL, Maine —The hard part of the day — waking up, staring at TV, waiting for someone to comeandvisit — is over and Abbott Vaughn Meader is back in his element, at the River Cafe on Water Street, nursing 2 rum and Coke through a straw planet.” And a week later, two Rutgers University researchers native nerveus-system route to sexual arousal exists, from the Comic’s Stardom Died With JFK tists and chess experts refused the offer. It was a fateful decision. The NEWSOF THE bt ee of the James Beauchamp law firm in Edgbaston, England, recently killed himself, the firm billed his mother about $20,000 for the expense of settling his officework. Included was bill for about $2,300 to go to his home to find out why he didn’t show up at iter of Mr, & Mrs. David 749 in 1985 to 675 by 1987 and 447 in the 1995-06 school year, Twenty-four states report at least one. @ Private one-room schools, often sponsored by religious groups, are increasing, Amish or in computer science. He is a se niot consultant with Andersen Consult Ing and is currently on assignment at The Old Order Mennonite groups 0) ereted 467 such schools in 1965 and now have 706, The aumber of other private one-room schools rose from 91 in 1986 to 461 last year { They were married at St. Edmund's Church, in Emneth, England April 5, 1947 ‘ um Company in Atlanta, Georgia Congratulations WE LOVE YOU! 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