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...complains. A programmer in Los Angeles will not feed blue cards into his computer-he feels she deserves pink. Seymour Greenfield, a research manager for the military DRC-44 computer program at Dynamics Research Corp. near Boston, complicates the matter further, " I hired everyone building the computer by the zodiac signs under which they were born," he says. As a Leo, he has prejudices. "I hired two Cancer men and they both ended up with ulcers...
...opium of the people nowadays seems to be astrology. Just about every U.S. newspaper and women's magazine runs a horoscope column, so eventually the zodiac was bound to cloud over the TV screen. WPIX-TV became the first to capitalize on the astral preoccupation when it began inserting horoscopes into station breaks last January. That feature became so popular that WPIX hired Harper's Bazaar Horoscoper Xavora Pové to turn out a weekly 30-minute series. Miss Pove, an astrology devotee since her days at Sandusky High in Ohio (where she was known as Rosemary Schultz...
...format is similar to What's My Line? and all the other TV guessing games. A panel of four zodiac buffs query a celebrity guest on his personal traits and then try to divine the element and sign under which he was born.* Panelists are on their honor to disqualify themselves if they know the birth date of a guest. The questions run from "Do you like money?" to "What one thing would you change about your husband?" The answers are generally guarded. Asked to describe themselves in a word or two, Guests Ed Sullivan and Jack Benny coyly...
...South Korea sent 46,000 men to fight its Communist allies in Viet Nam. And at 57, Kim is desperately anxious to see unification of North and South Korea realized before he reaches 61, the all-important year in a man's life cycle according to the Korean zodiac...
...size, has risen roundly in Los Angeles. Manhattan Importer Edward Weiss has completely sold out his stock of Viennese fortunetelling Tarot cards. Across the nation, the sale of Ouija boards has tripled in the past year, even the Harvard University Co-op sells out whenever it stocks them. Zodiac sign guessing has become part of the social chitchat, and fashion magazines, such as Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country, have yielded to the fad, started regular monthly horoscope columns...