Robert Ettinger, Area Physics Teacher, Afichelson-Dashow
Offers the 'Prospect of Immortality' Betrothal Announced

By MARCY MILLER
Robert C. W. Ettinger, 45-year-
old physics teacher at Highland
Park Community College, found,
himself in a Battle Creek veterans
hospital after the war with a lot of
time to think.
A book by Frenchman Jean
Rostand of the Academie Francaise
captured his imagination when it
delved into the prospects of freez-
ing bodies, rather than burying
them, until such time as medical
science could revive and rejuvenate
them.
The idea intrigued him then,
found its way onto paper in 1962,
and has recently been published
by Doubleday in a volume called
"The Prospect of Immortality,"
which is coming out shortly in
French, English and German edi-
tions.
Ettinger, who lives at 24041
Stratford, Oak Park, with his wife
and two children, has received
varying responses to his unorthodox
ideas, including reviews in Cosmo-
politan, France-Soir and Der Spie-
gel, German newsmagazine.
After an appearance Wednes-
day morning on Channel 2's
Morning Show, in • which Bob
Murphy will interview him,
Ettinger will discuss his book on
the Steve Allen Show at 11:30
that night.
"The theoretical basis of my
plan is clear enough," Ettinger
stated. "The practical program pre-
sents various problems. This plan
affects every area of life in a very
profound way, and is of course
tremendously revolutionary."
Every aspect of the freezing pro-
gram brings up its own questions:
how much progress actually has
been made in freezing techniques?
What will be done with the popu-
lation problem that will arise
should corpses be brought back to
life in the future? What kind of
insurance plans can possibly cover
the cost of freezing? What sort of
rights does a corpse have?
Ettinger delves into these prob-
lems, as well as other aspects of
the scientific, social, economic and
legal attitudes toward the proposed
plan. He also tackles the vast ques-
tion of the religious significance
of his program, and the theological
objections_ that have arisen in its
wake.
Ettinger, a former chapter
president of the Zionist Organi-
zation of Detroit, said he has
found nothing in Jewish law
which could be interpreted as
repudiating the freezing pro-
gram. He stated, "It seems that
from the Jewish outlook one has
both the right and the duty to
prolong life as long as possible
and by any means possible."
Two main points are stressed in
the book. First, Ettinger insists,
"The freezing program should
begin immediately in spite of the
fact that the freezing methods have
not yet been perfected."

Second, he adds, "Money should
be set aside now so that research
programs, such as the one on
freezing animals conducted by the
Marquardt Co. in California, may
be continued and intensified, so
that everyone will be able to bene-
fit from the results."
How successful is the program?
"We can't guarantee that these
people will survive, at this point,"
Ettinger admitted. "But I have
written a book to show that the
odds for them are pretty good."

`Yiddle W /Fiddle'
Plays on Viewers'
Heart Strings

Films like this they don't make
any more.
Problem films we've got—race
hatred, delinquency, alcoholism,
dope addiction—take your pick.
But a film like "Yiddle With His
Fiddle." made back in the days
when Molly Picon was considered
a pretty young thing, is rare these
days.
The Surf opened the twin bill-
ing of Yiddish films "Yiddle" and
"Mamele" Wednesday night. Molly
Picon stars, completely, in both.
She could laugh, sing, cry, dance,
charm her way into her audience's
heart with as little effort as a
crooked smile on her rotund face.
In "Yiddle" she plays a moth-
erless girl who tramps the Polish
countryside with her aging fa-
ther, hoping to make a living as
musicians. To ward off annoy-
ances, she dresses as a boy. They
team up with another pair of
musicians, one a young man, and
Molly proceeds to fall in love.
The problems are obvious. What
man ever fell in love with a jun-
ior-sized Charlie Chaplin?
In "Mamele" she plays, again,
a motherless daughter—this time
the spiritual head of a house full
of ungrateful sisters, brothers and
a figurehead of a father. Naturally,
she sings her way through every
misfortune, always saving the
otherwise-overcast day.
Thanks to subtitles, the audience
is able to unscramble some of the
Yiddish. But, as is usual with non-
Yiddishists, there's always the
line without the subtitle that
everyone else is laughing at.
"Mamele" and "Yiddle" (pos-
sibly the better of the two) should
be seen by a generation that knows
Poland only from war novels and
postwar headlines. It was a good
life these Jews led. If they lived
in a ghetto, it was, at least, secure.
And it was happy.
With a girl like Molly around,
—C. H.
it's no wonder.

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Israel. Fisher also consulted with
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
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the Israel government, Fisher,
an oil industry executive, held
consultations with top officials
of the petro-chemical industries
in Haifa.

More than 2,000 delegates will
participate in the 50th national
convention of Hadassah at the
International Hotel in Los An-
geles Aug. 16 through 19.
The delegates will represent
Hadassah's more than 300,000
members in 1,320 chapters and
groups throughout the United
States and Puerto Rico.

Mrs. Max Schenk of New York,
Hadassah's national convention
chairman, announced that the con-
vention will concern itself "with
major problems affecting the Un-
ited States and Israel." She said
that the delegates also will re-
ceive a special report on condi-
tions of the Jews in the Soviet
Union.

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the engagement of their daughter
Barbara Jill to Rodger Stephen
Dashow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
E. Dashow of Huntington Rd.,
Huntington Woods.
Miss Michelson is attending
Boston University. Her fiance is
a senior at the University of Mich-
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Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity.
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