HEADING REORGANIZATION RESEARCH
Flournoy appointed as assistant to Hubbard
University of Southern California
Volume LXVIII, Number 11	Los Angeles, California	Friday, July 25, 1975
Professor links blood pressure, heart disease
What do we know about cholesterol?
We know that it is a waxy substance found in the blood that can build up so thickly on the interior walls of arteries and veins that it blocks the flow of blood, causing a heart attack.
But how does it get in the blood? Why do some people have more than others? Does a low-cholesterol diet lessen the amount
This is the last of a two-part series on the cholesterol studies of Dr. Richard Bing, professor of medicine, who won the American Heart Association’s Research Achievement Award.
of cholesterol deposited? Why is it affected by blood pressure?
Answers to these questions are being sought by Dr. Richard Bing, professor of medicine, in his laboratories at Hunting-
ton Memorial Hospital, where he is chief of experimental cardiology.
Dr. Bing, assisted by Dr. J.S.M. Sarma. Dr. Renate Fiscner, and Dr. Shigeaki Ikeda, has been carrying out experiments to observe the use made of blood constituents by coronary arteries and by leg veins. Alter tnese blood vessels have been dissected and cleaned of all deposits, blood plasma is circulated through them under different conditions.
One of Dr. Bing’s experiments extends findings of other scientists on the link between high blooa pressure and heart disease.
To determine the effect on veins, Dr. Bing used specimens taken from the legs of patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery. He found that relatively little cholesterol was deposited on the walls of the veins under low pressure, but that the amount increased significantly under high pressure.
“There are several theories on the connection between high blood pressure and cholesterol deposit,” Dr. Bing said. “Some investigators believe that is is caused by the interaction-of elements in the blood under pressure; others that the
pressure widens the spaces between the cells of the arterial walls so that there is a better opportunity for cholesterol to fasten to the walls.”
Dr. Bing’s research also provides a tentative answer to another important question: “Do the arteries themselves form cholesterol or do they pick it up from the blood stream?”
In Dr. Bing’s experiments, the only cholesterol that appeared was present in the plasma originally. The fact that the arteries did not synthesize (firm) cholesterol did not seem to be due to laboratory conditions, because the plasma was able to synthesize other elements.
“This conclusion would appear to support the current medical recommendation that people with high cholesterol levels in their blood should attempt to bring the level down through diet or medication or both,” Dr. Bing said.
6 future Trojans in Shrine game
3Y MARK PATTON
Editor
Six USC-bound football players will get a preliminary taste of the Rose Bowl Saturday night—in the 24th Annual Shrine All-Star Football Classic in the Pasadena stadium.
Kickoff is at 7 p.m. and a crowd of approximately 40,000 has beer estimated. The game will feature high school all-stars of last season from the California Interscholastic Federation’s Southern Section.
Future Trojans playing for the South will be quarterback Dan Morovick, place kicker Art Sorce and center Scott Fraser. USC will also have running back Tony Olivarria, line backer Danilo Lozano and tackle Myron Lapka playing for the North.
Morovick, a tall 6-2 signal caller, has all the potential to make Trojan fans forget about Pat Haden. Last season he completed 121 of 210 pass attempts for 1,883 yards and 21 touchdowns for St. John Bosco High. He passed for 4,225 yards and 33 touchdowns in three years at Bosco and was named All-CIF 4-A Co-Player of the year last season.
He will start for the South.
Morovick, a 3.4 student, was highly recruited and considered Colorado, Arizona, San Jose State and Rice before deciding on USC. He lettered in three sports at Bosco, playing forward on the basketball team and running the high hurdles in track.
“My first year at USC will be a learning year, trying to make the traveling squad,” Morovick said. Coach John McKay reportedly has more important things planned for him.
Another South all-star who should figure in USC’s immediate plans
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IRANIAN TV—An aide to Ardeshir Zahedi, the Iranian ambassador to the United States, is interviewed Wednesday in front of Tommy Trojan for the national Iranian television network. Zahedi, a personal friend of John R.
Hubbard, paid the USC president an unexpected visit this week. The television crew was rented from NBC by the Iranian network. ST photo by Mike Ito.
Summer
Trojan
though he currently holds two positions, he will specifically deal with administrative matters during the summer. These include the Cope report (a study on university reorganization, compiled by a panel headed by Jackson I. Cope, professor of English) and the establishment of a provost.
Ever since he was hired. Flournoy’s future at the university has been the subject of much speculation. These rumors increased in the middle of the spring semester after the Los Angeles Times reported in its April 20 issue that Hubbard was thinking of resigning and that Flournoy was being considered by some campus sources as his successor.
Flournoy immediately denied that he had been approached about the position and he said that he knew nothing about a Hubbard resignation.
Hubbard denied the rumors himself a week later after returning from a trip to Iran, saying that he was not going to resign nor did he have any plans to do so in the future.
Flournoy’s future at the university is still difficult to predict. The agreement he made with the university when he was hired was that he would stay for a year. He has no plans yet as to what he will do after the fall semester.
Recently, the Los Angeles Times published a poll taken by the Field Research Corporation that showed Flournoy to be incumbent John Tunney’s main opposition in the 1976 senatorial election.
Out of a sampling of 506 Californians, he received 39 per cent of the vote to Tunney’s 46 per cent. A 15 per cent total was undecided. The sampling polled possible candidates individu ally against the Democratic senator.
Flournoy said that he is bound to show high on most political polls in California since he has just spent $3 million on a gubernatorial campaign. -
“As I’ve said before, I’m taking no specific action as to whether ] will run or not,” he said.
“I’m just watching it for now.’:
JOHN R. HUBBARD	HOUSTON I. FLOURNOY
BY LARRY HOFF
Houston I. Flournoy, former state controller, has been named as a special assistant to President John R. Hubbard.
Hubbard appointed Flournoy to work as an executive heading the research for the reorganization of the university’s adminis-
tration and overall structure. His appointment became effective this month.
After an unsuccessful campaign for governor as the Republican nominee, Flournoy was hired by the university between the fall and spring semesters last year as ° university nrofps-
sor. In that capacity, he is allowed to teach courses in all university departments.
He will retain his title as a university professor and will still teach a political science course on state politics in the fall.
Flournoy said that even