CBS Evening News - 1982-08-14

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[0:01] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening

[0:03] News. Bob Schiffer reporting. House and

[0:05] Senate negotiators worked through the

[0:06] night, took a break this morning, then

[0:08] went back to work this afternoon to iron

[0:10] out final details of the new legislation

[0:12] to raise taxes by almost hundred billion

[0:15] dollars. Once the details are settled,

[0:17] both houses of Congress must still vote

[0:19] on the proposal, and the administration

[0:21] has mounted a major lobbying effort to

[0:22] get it passed. But so far, White House

[0:25] lobbyists say they still don't have the

[0:26] votes to win. Meanwhile, as Phil Jones

[0:29] reports from Capitol Hill, putting the

[0:30] legislation into final form has turned

[0:33] into an endurance contest. No, these are

[0:36] not some of the homeless, some of the

[0:37] derelcts in the nation's capital. These

[0:40] are those big-time Washington lobbyists

[0:42] you've heard about. Normally, they get

[0:44] paid to keep their eyes open for

[0:46] clients. But as the tax conference

[0:48] stretched through the night with

[0:49] blurryeyed senators and congressmen

[0:52] wheeling and dealing in another room

[0:53] behind closed doors, the lobbyist and

[0:56] reporters were left to snooze in the

[0:58] huge conference room.

[1:00] >> Do we have a show of hands on how the

[1:02] House feels about this provision and

[1:04] insist on our position?

[1:06] >> Public votes were made to formalize what

[1:08] had resulted from the private

[1:10] bargaining. The major agreements reached

[1:12] a 10% withholding on most interest and

[1:14] dividends, a tripling of telephone

[1:16] taxes, reductions in medical deductions

[1:19] that will cost taxpayers about $4

[1:20] billion, airline ticket tax up 3

[1:24] percentage points, plus a hefty increase

[1:26] in tax on aviation fuel, which will mean

[1:29] higher fairs for consumers. But attempts

[1:32] to eliminate half of the deduction for

[1:34] that so-called three martini business

[1:36] lunch failed. Instead, they imposed

[1:38] tougher tip reporting requirements to

[1:40] catch the estimated 85% of waiters,

[1:43] waitresses, and the like, not reporting

[1:46] tips. Senator Dole, who had proposed

[1:48] this before, but was beaten in the

[1:50] Senate, like the provision.

[1:52] >> We think it's

[1:55] a fair resolution of the problem. We're

[1:58] willing to live by this and now be able

[1:59] to go out and eat again.

[2:01] >> So did some of the lobbyists who had

[2:02] been on hand fighting to keep the

[2:04] business lunch deductions. There are

[2:06] legitimate entertainment expenses and um

[2:09] as an attorney who practices in

[2:11] Washington, I can assure you that uh

[2:13] every almost every meal I eat is

[2:15] business connected. So with the white

[2:18] collar folks happy again, the conferees

[2:20] reconvened late this afternoon to

[2:21] consider something that would have

[2:23] special impact on bluecollar voters. A

[2:25] proposal to double the cigarette tax.

[2:27] that has passed the Senate, but it is

[2:29] now in trouble, thanks in part to an

[2:31] influential lobbyist who has done favors

[2:33] for the current members of the committee

[2:35] in the past. He's the only lobbyist who

[2:37] has his portrait hanging on the

[2:38] committee room wall. Wilbur Mills, once

[2:41] powerful chairman of the Ways and Means

[2:43] Committee, he's been hired now to help

[2:45] kill the cigarette tax. So, this and

[2:47] other issues are yet to be resolved. And

[2:50] still in question is whether President

[2:51] Reagan can pick up more Republican votes

[2:54] through arm twisting and whether

[2:56] Democrats will help pass the bill once

[2:58] it makes it to the House and Senate

[3:00] floors. Phil Jones, CBS News, Capitol

[3:03] Hill. The White House is flying at least

[3:06] 30 congressmen to Camp David by

[3:08] helicopter tomorrow for lunch and a

[3:10] briefing by the president on why they

[3:11] ought to vote for the bill. And the

[3:13] president will make a speech to the

[3:14] nation about the bill on Monday night.

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[4:25] There were several developments in the

[4:26] Middle East today. There was some

[4:28] sporadic gunfire, but for the most part,

[4:29] the latest ceasefire appears to be

[4:31] holding. The US negotiator Philip Hhabib

[4:33] returned to Israel tonight. And US

[4:35] officials seem fairly optimistic that

[4:37] he'll get final Israeli approval soon on

[4:40] the plan to get the PLO out of West

[4:42] Beirut. And Israeli Defense Minister

[4:44] Ariel Chiron, who has been roundly

[4:46] criticized for the massive raids that

[4:48] Israel launched on Beirut earlier this

[4:50] week, said tonight he does not intend to

[4:52] resign and that guerilla commanders were

[4:54] the targets of the raids. As Chiron

[4:56] spoke on Israeli radio, Mother Teresa,

[4:58] the Roman Catholic nun who received the

[5:00] Nobel Peace Prize for her work among the

[5:03] poor in India, began her new work among

[5:05] the ruins of West Beirut. We have a

[5:07] report on that from Bob Simon.

[5:11] >> Mother Teresa asked the Red Cross,

[5:13] "What's your most serious problem?" She

[5:15] was told, "Retarded children in a West

[5:17] Beirut asylum. Children who've been

[5:19] dying one or two every day because they

[5:22] cannot feed themselves and there's

[5:23] hardly anyone to look after them. Most

[5:25] of the staff fled after the building was

[5:27] bombed. Mother Teresa came to get the

[5:30] children today to take them to a convent

[5:32] in East Beirut where there's water and

[5:34] food and sisters of her order to care

[5:36] for them. She came with ambulances

[5:38] supplied by the Red Cross, Red Cross

[5:41] workers to help carry the children and a

[5:43] smile more infectious than the diseases

[5:45] which have been spreading through the

[5:46] filthy wars. Many people would be

[5:49] paralyzed in a situation like this. They

[5:51] wouldn't know where to begin. For Mother

[5:53] Teresa, the answer was clear.

[5:56] >> Children are the most helpless and most

[5:58] they are most unwanted and unloved. Left

[6:02] just like that. And I thought if we

[6:04] begin with the children, then gradually

[6:06] we'll be able to do more for the others.

[6:08] >> The convoy wound its way through the

[6:10] Armageddon of West Beirut, past the

[6:12] checkpoints where Mother Teresa waited

[6:14] patiently. I have no problem with

[6:16] controls or searches. She said, "I

[6:18] respect the authorities. I have only one

[6:21] condition, that they be fast. Mother

[6:24] Teresa has seen cyclones and floods and

[6:26] famine, but this was her first time in a

[6:28] war zone. Like any natural disaster, she

[6:31] said, it cannot be described by words.

[6:34] What did you think this morning when you

[6:35] were driving through West Beirut?

[6:38] >> I was only asking what do the people

[6:41] feel when they do that?

[6:44] Because we are all children of God. That

[6:47] it is evil. I have to say, but why? Why

[6:51] they do it, I don't know.

[6:53] >> Mother Teresa is inspired by St.

[6:55] Francis, said a Red Cross official. She

[6:58] works with the efficiency of an army

[6:59] chief of staff. She had everything under

[7:01] control. She'd already cabled one of her

[7:04] doctors now working in Yemen to come to

[7:06] Beirut immediately. She'd alerted the

[7:08] local mosque that she might need its

[7:10] services. "If the children die in my

[7:12] arms," she said, they must be buried

[7:14] according to their faith. Some of the

[7:16] children cannot survive very long, she

[7:18] believes. For the others, she has plans.

[7:21] What do you plan to do next?

[7:24] >> Give them love and tender love and care.

[7:28] >> That's all.

[7:30] >> Won't that be nice?

[7:31] >> There was nothing anyone could object to

[7:33] in today's mission because there was

[7:34] nothing political about it unless one

[7:37] cared to reflect that Mother Teresa had

[7:39] succeeded in carrying out the first

[7:41] peaceful evacuation of anyone from West

[7:44] Beirut. Bob Simon, CBS News, Beirut.

[7:49] >> The reports from the Middle East that a

[7:51] settlement of the crisis may come soon

[7:53] were reinforced by comments made today

[7:55] by the new Secretary of State in

[7:56] Washington. And we have more on that now

[7:58] from Nelson Benton.

[8:01] Secretary of State Schultz and other

[8:02] high administration officials helicopter

[8:04] to Camp David to meet with President

[8:06] Reagan on the crisis in Lebanon. After

[8:09] meeting with the president, Schulz

[8:10] indicated that special envoy Philip

[8:12] Habib's negotiations are maintaining

[8:14] momentum. Does

[8:16] >> Ambassador Habib have it nailed down,

[8:18] Mr. Secretary?

[8:19] >> Well, I wouldn't say that he has it

[8:21] nailed down, but he's getting closer and

[8:24] closer. Do you expect an agreement by

[8:26] next week? I would hope so. Yeah, we've

[8:29] all seen the pictures and been affected

[8:32] by it. And as the president has said

[8:36] many times, when you look at that and

[8:38] you see the symbol of this war is a baby

[8:40] with its arms shot off and you have to

[8:43] say to yourself, there's got to be

[8:44] something better in the Middle East. The

[8:46] White House said Schulz's meeting with

[8:48] the president also focused on the next

[8:50] steps in the Middle East beyond a hoped

[8:53] for settlement in the Beirut crisis.

[8:56] Nelson Benton, CBS News, the White

[8:58] House.

[9:07] Okay, everybody. What do you say we make

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[9:34] to any beer you like.

[9:57] Gentlemen, you never played like that

[10:00] before.

[10:01] >> We never played for a Michelob Light

[10:03] before.

[10:03] >> Michelob Light. Compare the taste.

[10:08] At least 200 people were reported

[10:10] arrested in yesterday's anti-government

[10:12] demonstrations in Poland. The

[10:13] demonstrations were reported in four

[10:15] cities including Gdansk where the

[10:17] solidarity movement was born. We have

[10:20] some pictures for the first time of the

[10:21] events there yesterday and Bert Quint

[10:23] reports.

[10:24] >> This was Gdansk but the response to

[10:27] attempts to demonstrate against the

[10:28] regime was the same in three other

[10:29] Polish cities yesterday. Warsaw, Kov,

[10:32] and Bratzsw. Massive police force, water

[10:35] cannons, tear gas and clubs. The

[10:37] situation throughout the country now is

[10:39] quiet, but there could be more

[10:41] demonstrations any day. For this is the

[10:43] anniversary month of the free union

[10:44] movement. Born two Augusts ago, died as

[10:48] far as the authorities are concerned

[10:49] last December. This is the time of

[10:52] another anniversary. The most important

[10:54] religious ceremony in this deeply Roman

[10:56] Catholic country. Celebration of the

[10:58] appearance of an icon of the Madonna at

[11:00] the monastery of Taho 600 years ago.

[11:04] Usually, it's a joyous occasion. For the

[11:06] hundreds of thousands of Poles who

[11:08] walked there from throughout the

[11:09] country, it seems as though the joy has

[11:12] gone. Several of the pilgrims said the

[11:14] same thing. Under the present

[11:15] circumstances, all we can do is pray for

[11:18] the motherland. The police action in

[11:21] Warsaw was directed against the people,

[11:23] most of them women, who day after day

[11:25] gathered at a cross of flowers which had

[11:27] come to be a symbol of resistance. After

[11:29] the water cannons and clubs, only a bare

[11:32] outline of black where votive candles

[11:34] had burned beside the flowers remained.

[11:37] But a few hours later, a new cross of

[11:40] flowers appeared nearby. Smaller, but

[11:42] with an added touch, a floral V for

[11:45] victory. And within 24 hours, the old

[11:48] cross at Victory Square was back with

[11:50] people singing and praying as though

[11:52] nothing had happened. B Quinn, CBS News,

[11:55] Warsaw.

[11:58] On May 15th, the liner Queen Elizabeth

[12:00] II left Southampton, England for the

[12:02] Faulland Islands as a troop ship. Well,

[12:04] today, three months later, the QE2 left

[12:07] Southampton again. This time though, as

[12:09] a luxury liner she was meant to be. Mark

[12:11] Phillips reports. When the Queen

[12:14] Elizabeth 2 came back from the Faulland,

[12:16] she looked like a troop ship with

[12:17] helicopter pads where her swimming pools

[12:19] used to be. Now the pools are pools

[12:22] again, but it's taken an average of a

[12:24] thousand workers a day and at least $12

[12:26] million to do the job. The British

[12:28] government has put in a large part of

[12:30] the bill and will compensate the Kunard

[12:32] shipping lines for lost revenue. And

[12:34] Kunard has made its own improvements as

[12:36] well. So that by the time the 1700

[12:38] passengers came on board today for the

[12:40] trip to New York, the QE2 was once again

[12:43] into its role as the last of the great

[12:45] ocean liners.

[12:47] After 6 weeks of hard work, some of it

[12:49] still going on and a lot of money, the

[12:51] QE2 is ready for sailing. And in fact,

[12:54] despite the disruption of having been

[12:55] off to war, Kunard says the added

[12:58] romance of a great ship having been to

[13:00] the Faullands and returned covered in

[13:01] glory may actually be good for business.

[13:05] >> The world's most luxurious ship has been

[13:07] restored to her full glory. And from

[13:10] August 14th, she's going on her

[13:11] holidays.

[13:14] I think that the the glamour of knowing

[13:17] where the ship's been and and the

[13:19] soldiers that were on here, it it it

[13:22] will add a little plus to it.

[13:28] In honor of her Faulland's role, there

[13:29] was a military band on hand to send the

[13:31] QE2 off. And because of her recent

[13:34] history, many passengers said they felt

[13:36] a special sense of occasion.

[13:38] >> I think it's marvelous. The ship came

[13:39] back undamaged really. I think

[13:42] everyone's so excited because of this.

[13:45] Just wonderful and so glad to have her

[13:47] back again.

[13:48] >> Everything done and the war over and I

[13:52] just want to be in it.

[13:55] >> The hull, which was black before the

[13:57] war, has now been painted what Kunard

[13:59] calls pebble gray. The dock workers call

[14:02] it battleship gray. Yet now the

[14:04] bittersweet farewells have to do with

[14:06] loved ones simply going away for a

[14:08] while, but not off to war. Mark

[14:10] Phillips, CBS News, Southampton.

[14:14] >> Saudi Guts Bazada, who was Iran's

[14:16] foreign minister during the height of

[14:18] the American hostage crisis, went on

[14:20] trial in Thrron today. He denied to a

[14:22] military tribunal that he tried to kill

[14:24] the Ayatollah Omeni, but he admitted

[14:26] trying to overthrow the Omeni

[14:27] government, which he helped to bring to

[14:29] power.

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[15:40] >> An organization of conservative lawyers

[15:42] has become so concerned about lenient

[15:44] sentences that it has launched a court

[15:46] watch project. The organization based in

[15:48] Washington has asked its 80,000 members

[15:51] to monitor judges across the country and

[15:53] provide examples where public pressure

[15:55] might be brought to bear. Likely to hear

[15:57] from the court watch is a New Jersey

[15:59] judge whose ruling this week outraged

[16:01] some. He freed a sex offender who had

[16:03] served only one week of a 15-year

[16:06] sentence. Chris Kelly has the story.

[16:09] >> Joseph Georgiani is unusually large. He

[16:11] weighs more than 500 lb and doctors say

[16:14] he suffers numerous medical problems

[16:16] because of his obesity. Georgiani owns

[16:19] his sandwich shop where authorities

[16:21] claim he and another man sexually

[16:23] molested a 14-year-old girl more than 4

[16:26] years ago. Both men were convicted and

[16:28] sentenced to 15 years in prison. After

[16:31] their appeals were denied, the two men

[16:33] were sent to jail last month. But

[16:35] Georgiani served only one week because a

[16:37] prison doctor said his incarceration

[16:40] would be life-threatening. So, the

[16:42] sentencing judge instead ordered

[16:43] Georgiani's release and put him on 3

[16:46] years probation.

[16:47] >> The prosecutor's office feels that the

[16:48] judge did not have all of the pertinent

[16:50] facts both as to the Department of

[16:52] Corrections ability to care for him and

[16:54] as to Mr. Georgiani's condition.

[16:57] That ruling shocked Trenton. Legal

[17:00] authorities said they have been

[17:01] inundated with angry phone calls and

[17:03] letters over Georgiani's release.

[17:06] >> I really think he should go back to

[17:07] jail.

[17:08] >> I don't think it's right. I don't think

[17:10] it's fair.

[17:11] >> A local newspaper pled its readers on

[17:14] the issue and in 2 days more than 800

[17:16] ballots came in demanding Georgiani be

[17:19] returned to prison. Also outraged is the

[17:22] mother of the girl who was molested.

[17:24] >> There's certainly no justice here. There

[17:26] isn't. I mean, for for the All right.

[17:29] Georgiana was sentenced for 15 years.

[17:31] Good behavior. He'd get five. He'd be

[17:33] out again. My daughter is going to be

[17:36] suffering for the rest of her life

[17:38] mentally.

[17:40] And I don't even think 15 years is

[17:42] enough.

[17:43] >> I don't think that he should be in a

[17:44] prison. I think it's a life-threatening

[17:46] situation for him. Giorgian's lawyer,

[17:48] John Wary.

[17:49] >> I think that my client should be at

[17:51] liberty because to be sentenced to jail,

[17:53] to to go to jail will in effect kill

[17:54] him. Uh, and I don't think that that

[17:56] serves the ends of justice.

[17:57] >> We don't put people in jail to try to

[17:59] kill them. We have information that Mr.

[18:01] Georgiani lives as normal a life as is

[18:04] possible given uh his size. We have

[18:07] information that he has been seen at the

[18:10] casinos in Atlantic City, that he has

[18:12] been seen at uh sporting events, and

[18:14] that he lives a basically normal life.

[18:16] That is why we feel that he could

[18:18] withstand the rigors of a prison term.

[18:21] >> And the corrections department now

[18:22] agrees. it would be impossible for us to

[18:26] um allow him to have air conditioning in

[18:28] his cell and oxygen within his cell.

[18:31] However, um it does not preclude the

[18:34] department from placing Giojani in a in

[18:36] a medical facility um where we could

[18:39] make a medical program for the man.

[18:42] >> The prosecutors are appealing the case,

[18:44] claiming, among other things, that the

[18:46] judge abused his discretion. They want

[18:48] the 15-year sentence reinstated and

[18:51] another court hearing in an attempt to

[18:53] prove that Gioani's health and his

[18:55] obesity should not prevent him from

[18:57] going to prison. Chris Kelly, CBS News,

[19:00] Trenton, New Jersey.

[19:03] Los Angeles has a new professional

[19:05] football team. It used to be the Oakland

[19:07] Raiders. And this afternoon, the Raiders

[19:08] played an exhibition game in San

[19:10] Francisco where their old cross bay

[19:12] rivals the 49ers. The Raiders defeated

[19:14] the 49ers 17 to 14. But no matter the

[19:17] outcome, Barry Peterson found the old

[19:19] Oakland fans had other things on their

[19:21] minds.

[19:23] There they were. But what were they?

[19:27] They had been the Oakland Raiders for

[19:28] two decades until an ongoing court

[19:30] battle that for the moment makes them

[19:32] the Los Angeles Raiders. Trust

[19:35] California to field a schizophrenic

[19:37] football team.

[19:39] >> Los Angeles radio station K&X was busy

[19:42] broadcasting the game back to the NEW

[19:44] HOME FOLKS.

[19:46] TOUCHDOWN RAIDERS.

[19:48] >> WHILE IN the bars around Oakland, where

[19:50] they had cheered the Raiders through two

[19:52] Super Bowl victories, the few who cared

[19:54] watch their foot loose once home team

[19:57] with mixed emotions.

[20:00] >> No matter who they play, I hope they

[20:01] lose.

[20:02] >> You can't believe uh how let down we

[20:05] are. How

[20:07] it just breaks our heart. Really broke

[20:08] our heart. So now when you when you're

[20:11] jilted, you're you hate easily the the

[20:16] one you love.

[20:17] >> It just doesn't sound right for him to

[20:19] be the LA Raiders.

[20:21] >> They've been Oakland Raiders for too

[20:22] long.

[20:23] >> For Oakland, it's a tough call to

[20:25] swallow. City officials say losing the

[20:27] Raiders will cost $36 million in direct

[20:30] losses, another 180 million in indirect

[20:33] revenue. Plus, the city has lost that

[20:36] big league team spirit.

[20:38] The psychological loss is perhaps the

[20:41] greatest of all because here Oakland

[20:43] suddenly is on the upurge on on the

[20:45] upswing and uh we lose a professional

[20:48] football team. That doesn't look very

[20:50] good

[20:50] >> for the players. It was a week of

[20:52] workouts at their usual Bay Area

[20:54] training camp, but a season to look to

[20:57] the sunny south.

[20:58] >> I don't like to see that for the Raider

[20:59] fans, for the people in Oakland, but the

[21:02] people of Los Angeles. They need a team

[21:04] and uh so we're going to go down there

[21:06] and try to bring them a world

[21:07] championship. A lot of the hostility is

[21:09] aimed at Raiders managing partner, Al

[21:11] Davis, who masterminded the move. At the

[21:13] tailgate parties, they couldn't say

[21:15] goodbye fast enough to Davis or his

[21:18] team. Would you believe the Los Angeles

[21:20] Traders?

[21:22] >> To be a Raiders fan here was to be

[21:24] obscure. The t-shirt said Los Angeles,

[21:26] but the penants didn't list a city. Even

[21:28] the ticket simply said the Raiders.

[21:31] >> But loyalty runs deep and so does hurt.

[21:34] >> But you're disrupting the players.

[21:36] You're disrupting the families. You're

[21:37] disrupting the the fans. Oakland Raider

[21:39] fans are the most incredible fans there

[21:41] are.

[21:42] >> Oakland is waging a legal battle to get

[21:43] the team back. A battle that could go on

[21:46] for months to settle the matter of the

[21:48] Oakland. Make that the Los Angeles

[21:50] Raiders tale of two cities. Barry

[21:53] Peterson, CBS News, San Francisco.

[21:56] >> A footnote, Phil Jones in his report a

[21:59] moment ago on the proposed increase in

[22:01] some taxes referred to an increase in a

[22:03] tax on aviation fuel. We should make

[22:05] clear that tax would only apply to fuel

[22:07] for private aircraft and would not

[22:08] affect commercial airline fairs. Former

[22:12] senator and Republican National Chairman

[22:13] Threwston Morton died today in

[22:15] Louisville, Kentucky. Morton was 74.

[22:26] Digel tops planet acids. We proved it in

[22:29] recent laboratory tests. Cutting the

[22:31] yellow top off a digel tablet

[22:34] illustrates the results. Without its top

[22:36] layer, digel consumes as much heartburn

[22:39] producing acid as plain add acids like

[22:41] roades. What's more, digel has the

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[22:47] calming action of syimethylone.

[22:49] Conclusion, when you want more than

[22:52] plane relief, digel tops plain ant

[22:54] acids.

[23:00] It tastes so fine.

[23:03] Reality pure and natural wine

[23:06] are nice. Reality taste so

[23:12] reflection.

[23:17] So nice.

[23:20] >> It's riani iceare time. Right now is

[23:23] twice as nice because it's specially

[23:25] priced.

[23:27] You can't disguise the quality of this

[23:29] car. It could be a BMW, but it isn't.

[23:33] It's thousands of dollars less. And with

[23:35] standard features like these, it could

[23:37] be a Honda Accord, but it isn't. It's

[23:40] still priced less. This is Chevrolet

[23:44] Cavalier.

[23:46] It should be an expensive car,

[23:49] but it isn't. During Chevy's factory

[23:52] authorized clearance, special allowances

[23:53] to dealers make possible savings of

[23:55] hundreds of dollars.

[23:59] We don't get many stories about hammer

[24:01] handles here at CBS News, but we have

[24:03] one tonight about a new kind of handle

[24:05] that not only makes hammering easier,

[24:07] but also just about everything else

[24:09] apparently, except maybe filling out

[24:10] your income tax. Frank Courier has our

[24:12] report.

[24:16] Water skiers who have tried it on the

[24:18] Illinois River say they can maneuver

[24:20] with more control and stamina. Butchers

[24:23] at a Minnesota packing house say they

[24:25] can dress meat with less strain and more

[24:28] precision.

[24:30] A South Carolina tennis pro says it

[24:33] cured his tendinitis while delivering

[24:35] 30% more racket speed on serves. They

[24:39] are all describing the advantages of

[24:40] what has come to be known as Bennett's

[24:42] bend. The invention of John Bennett, an

[24:45] East Poria, Illinois businessman who has

[24:47] patented a simple handle that curves at

[24:50] a 19° angle. What has been called the

[24:53] most significant improvement in hand

[24:55] tools since cavemen put a stick on a

[24:58] rock.

[24:59] >> This is an invention that will generate

[25:02] a lot of change.

[25:04] John Bennett came up with the idea 10

[25:06] years ago while sweeping his basement

[25:08] with a conventional broom. He didn't

[25:10] like having to bend his wrists. Applying

[25:13] a little common sense, he reasoned that

[25:15] a bent handle would conform to the

[25:16] natural curve of the hand, serving as a

[25:19] natural shock absorber, eliminating the

[25:21] transfer of strain to the upper body. He

[25:24] began converting all of his straight

[25:26] handled tools to the 19° angle and

[25:29] shared his discovery with carpenters and

[25:31] athletes plagued by arthritis and other

[25:33] problems like tennis elbow. I know how

[25:36] this handle works and I know it sounds

[25:38] egotistical or or too prideful, but um I

[25:43] put it in the hands of people who were

[25:45] in pain and seen the look and you'll see

[25:49] it. Uh

[25:51] it works. It seems to work for retired

[25:54] Power Company lineman Don Barlo, whose

[25:56] hands were severely burned in an

[25:58] accident, but who can still drive a golf

[26:00] ball 150 yards with specially designed

[26:03] Bennett's bend golf clubs.

[26:05] >> Regular golf club with a regular handle

[26:07] is so small that you you cannot grip it

[26:09] when you have about only 40% use of your

[26:12] one hand and about 10% of the other one.

[26:15] So basically, that's it. You can hold on

[26:17] to it and you can swing it. Bradley

[26:19] University engineering professor Joe

[26:20] Emanuel believes strongly in the

[26:22] dynamics of Bennett's bend.

[26:24] >> I see it as being so universally

[26:26] applicable

[26:28] uh that uh I find myself looking now at

[26:32] anything with a handle and saying could

[26:35] we do better with a bent handle? I mean

[26:38] literally anything. Already, Bennett has

[26:40] licensed his patent to at least nine

[26:42] companies nationwide, specializing in

[26:44] everything from softball bats to cutlery

[26:47] to a full line of household cookware

[26:49] that'll be introduced this fall.

[26:51] >> Down the road, it may not be in my

[26:53] lifetime, you're going to see everything

[26:55] go into that crooked Bennett's ben

[26:58] handle from toothbrushes

[27:01] to back scratchers to wheelbarls to

[27:04] shovels, everything we put in our hand

[27:06] because it makes man more efficient.

[27:09] While perhaps not as revolutionary as

[27:11] the invention of the wheel, John Bennett

[27:13] remains confident or in his words bent

[27:16] on changing the world. Frank Courier,

[27:19] CBS News, East Poria, Illinois.

[27:23] >> That's the news. I'm Bob Schaefer, CBS

[27:25] News, New York. Good night.

[27:31] >> Mr. Columbus traveling far

[27:33] >> to the new world,

[27:34] >> loaded with gold, huh?

[27:35] >> Too risky. We carry Bank America

[27:37] travelers checks, world management.

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[27:41] >> Bank America in leading world currencies

[27:44] accepted in over 160 countries.

[27:47] >> And if they're lost,

[27:48] >> lost.

[27:48] >> Never say lost. Besides, they're

[27:50] refundable in 40,000 places around the

[27:52] world. It is round, you know.

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[28:01] >> How do the vitamins in these cereals

[28:03] compare with totals?

[28:04] >> I don't know. This shield shows total

[28:06] has 100% of a day's allowance of nine

[28:08] vitamins and iron.

[28:10] >> Okay.

[28:10] >> Put total shield on your cereal to

[28:12] compare vitamins. I eat grape nuts.

[28:17] >> 25%. Total's a lot higher. But how's it

[28:20] taste?

[28:21] >> Crisp flakes of whole grain wheat

[28:24] >> AND

[28:27] 100% of nine vitamins. That's the total

[28:30] difference.

[28:43] There is a magic in the pageantry, the

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