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I Robots help teach students LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ? The twins who just moved here from California are making a big hit at the local elementary schools, even though they're a little funny-looking and have no last names. Or is it no first names? HTU 1 f - " ^ - - - tncy ic j-iuoi rooors, cacn caiiea topo, ana tney look something like R2D2 of "Star Wars" fame. The Lincoln school system brought them in to help teach youngsters the basics of computer science, and the pupils love it. "It is not a panacea for education," said McPhee principal Ralph Thorpe, "but it is a tool that can reach children." The children program Topo to perform a sort of boxy robot dance with instructions to walk forward and back, side to side, or make a square ("Walk two steps forward, turn 90 degrees; repeat three times"). The youngest pupils take to Topo with the greatest entKllclnrm IX : ~ J 1 ? ' ' * ' " ' luuoiaaiu, i iiui says, ivuiuci gcti icners asK lnimeuiaiciy 11 me robots, made in Sunnyvale, Calif., can talk. But the biggest thrill, said Thorpe, came when the school bought a printing machine that types out the youngsters' computer programs "because they had something in hand to take to their parents" - the way kids used to bring home crayon drawings of fall leaves. Shirtless fans spur objection TAMPA Flo _ Pa, inr?il\i/Am an . - mwmw V ?? / V/VUUVlinVlilUII A AVICI I V/1IUVVL W ail td a cover up at Tampa Stadium, demanding that if women must wear shirts, men should do likewise. "Sweaty, topless men are offensive," Chavez told council members last week in calling for a ban on allowing men to go shirtless at Tampa Stadium. ,4I resent that women would be arrested for going topless, while we have to put up with offensive, bare-chested, sweaty men," she said. Councilman Lee Duncan, the city's representative on the Tamna SnnrtQ Anthnritv cuirl ho u/ahIH tilu /""l-io ?>*?-?' s >%?%>>VI 11 v TTUUIU uuw V^IiaVtL LUSH" plaint to the authority and see if members want to mandate a cover up of male sports fans. Duncan, however, said, "I don't object to you women coming topless." Joe Zalupski, the authority's executive director, said he had never received complaints about shirtless fans, but "there's a first time for everything." Zalupski said the complaint probably will be brought up when Duncan presents it, but he wouldn't venture a guess on the outcome. "There's a solution for every kind of dilemma," he said. I or no of hrniAinio tn hn hniU LUI VjbOL UIUVVIIIC IU UC &JU1IL PEEKSKILL, N.Y. (AP) ? First they made the world's largest omelette, then the largest sandwich, largest cake, largest popcorn ball and largest lasagna. Now, folks here are trying for the largest brownie. At the sixth annuai Culinary Festival here Sunday, Louis DiRubba, president of the Westchester & Lower Connecticut Chefs' Association, will supervise 70 chefs and 30 cooking students in making this recipe: Mix 500 pounds of flour, sugar and cocoa with 350 eggs and 175 cups of oil. Put in 45-foot-long by 5-feet-4 inches wide ban and bake for an hour in a 46-by-6-foot oven. No nuts, because a lot of people don't care for them, said Pat Belth, the festival coordinator. The Guinness Book of World Records has already told the festival that the proposed brownie would be a record. Since 1978, this city and the Peekskill Area Health Center Inc., have Used OUtsized concoctions tn raise mnnpu anH clir#? bake and beat their way into the record books. The festival's omelette and sandwich of past years achieved listings in the Guinness book. The popcorn ball and lasagna, while certified the biggest, never got listed, festival officials said. EEF".".".".".' " Z _ outrage :. Banana :|SWgpgHj-Sl * Sc^^r^coupoN^^^j^ ^j Buy One mi uei une rree m 900 Main St. - " Uma oo? a?*on par cuafcwwr pn v(M Hon vakd w?fc Ufj o*w Sydal o? PwjmuWon No> nfrd whaw by b?w ^ *>1983 SwanMn'i PrtrtMd m U S A Offtr tx*r? ? 10 ! 4 I T?l?I ? I* tXu u ii gi ii ?I WlrE JBB ' JBSHBBSgf|B|r: ;': fi The champ Sen. Howard Baker (left) and Sen. Strom at the State Fairgrounds' Cantey Building I Sex education t (AP) ? A new series of videotapes on sex education will be premiering in seventh grade classrooms across South Carolina this fall with the message that "Getting the facts right is an important part of growing up." "I think a great majority of parents would not have a problem with the tapes, particularly since they will have the option of witholdinp thpir rnn. sent," said Beverly Enwall, chief curriculum supervisor at the state Department of Education. The tapes were made by the department and the South Carolina Medical Association, and carry the endorsements of both. NEARLY A third of the state's 93 school districts sent teachers to Columbia recently to be trained in presenting :he videotapes, which are intended for Falwell pets vote ^0 MONGOMERY, ALA. (AP) ? The Re audiences in three Alabama cities that his conservative voters was something of a c< registration efforts by the Rev. Jesse Jac Falwell, joined Monday by Alaban Jeremiah Denton in Dothan, Montgome urged Alabama preachers and members o to register conservative voters. "We're not out to elect all whites < Falwell, "Just those who best support 01 Falwell, who spoke to an all-white cr Montgomery, said he hopes Jackson "i ments and clean up his act." It I f 1 f 1 IIII II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ous Split I ?-v > J Thurmond (right) hold up President Ronald Reagan's I ast night. Reagan spoke at the fund raiser for Thur apes to premier ir use in middle schools. "We were very pleased at the positive response," Enwall said. She said some school district may seek school board approval before they add the tapes to their curriculum. "I think most of the districts will bring it to the school board - and perhaps additionally to the community - and offer parents a chance to view whatever they want to view," she said. The exception, she said, might be where "they already have this kind of program in place and are just using the tapes as a supplement." THE MEDICAL association is recommending that the six-tape series be shown to boys and girls separately. Enwall said the 168 teachers who received training in presenting the tape were an evenly divided group of men srs to renistpr tn ni -W W, v. Jerry Falwell told Falwell said Jacksc campaign to register ficials exclusively and Dunter to black voter "that kind of racist p kson. la Republican Sen. The Moral Majority ry and Birmingham, was a "non-partisan" f his Moral Majority at bringing more tha voters to the polls by Dr all blacks," said He said the campaig iir viewpoints." sion and radio spots owd nf snmp 1 (V) in minict<?re \unnM , . w ill atiitiuivi J nvutu Ul I hvill read these com- sign up voters on Sun sermon. i I.I 1.1 i.I I,I I.I I.I g We Make All Our k Fresh Daily * We make it in small Fresh. Right in our \ It's more time and 1 But we think it's wi SBMBpWHjjBBBB nlff.. _%l * ?n ipl i ? JHK Photo by Jo? Jackson lands victoriously during a fund raiser mond, R-S.C. I i S.C. schools and women. "What we stressed was that the teacher be one who has good professional ability and good rapport with students, and who could deal wisely with sensitive issues," she said. Topics in the tapes were selected by the South Carolina physicians who donated their time to the project. THE FIRST two tapes deal with the relationship of the child to his family and his friends, the next two cover the physical changes that occur in the male and female body during puberty, and the final tape discusses the emotional, physical and social problems of puberty. "Don't do anything foolish," one doctor concludes in the tapes. "The family is there to help take care of each other. They love you very much and care what happens to you." ipose Jackson )n had urged blacks to elect black oft that Moral Majority did not condone erspective." r leader said his voter registration drive project, covering all 50 states and aimed in 2 million "new and conservative" the fall of 1984. ;n will include direct mail efforts, televiand door-to-door canvassing. He said ged to get deputized voter registrars to days as they leave the church after the J.tm.n :e Cream > J batches. ' J store. , *4 trouble. "j orth it. , H ni nJMMAjLJU