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Show Them‘yourself FOR SEN. CHARLES PERCY,Illinois You seid “Our military food distribution system is inefficient, an- tiquaied, and wasteful.” Do you have a solution to improve the situation?—Mrs. Ross Roberts, Potosi, Wis. @ If the four recommendations made by the White House Conference on Food, Heat, and Nutrition were carried out, they could result in a yearly savings of at least $500 million and possibly as much as $1 billion. We have probably the most sophisticated and most modern military maghine in the world. And we have probably one of the most inefficient, antiquated, and wasteful military food distribution systems. There is no reason military food service should not be as efficient as the military it serves. It is ludicrous, for example, that at Fort Bragg alone, there are over 11 mess FOR JEAN NIDETCH, president of Weight Watchers When you have a dinner party at home, do you serve cocktails? What else?—Mrs. Ann Walsh, Grand Rapids, Mich. @ I serve cocktails 4 la Weight Watchers (without alcohol) and hors d’oeuvres such as rolled cabbage with mushroom stuffing. I might have a fruit cup, always a salad with wine vinegar and a lemon wedge (civilian dressings are offered onlyif a non-Weight Watcheris present), roast beef with asparagus, and yellow squash that comesouttasting like sweet potatoes, Dessert is always fresh fruit. FOR MICKEY SPILLANE,author Years ago you were considered the raciest writer in the popular market. Now women halls—each with its own staff and its like Jackie Susann cre own equipment. It is an example of unbelievable duplication of effort and glaring waste in terms of human andfinancial resources. I believe we should accept the conference recommendation that mess writing sexier books than you are. How doesthis hit you? —John Rogers, Austin, Texas @ I’ve been around little, too, And I’m halls can be consolidated. Other recommendations of the conference included corolidation of all food production facilities on each military base; studying the feasibility of purchasing foods now processed on military bases, including pastries and meats, and studying the feasibility of replacing some military per- sonnel with civilian workers. FOR DR. THEODORE LIDZ, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University How does one’s I. Q. now working on a couple of surprises to wipe out those sex-crazy broads who think they know all about guys. FOR JIM NABORS,actor Dic you win a talent coniest held for sever. al weeks over a Knoxville, Tenn., television station sometime during the 1950's? Pve never seen this mentioned in any articles Pve read about you.—Mrs. A. Parker, Surgoinsville, Tenn. affect the age at which @ It’s true, and thanks for the memory. he becomessenile and disoriented? — Ray I thought I was the only one who remembered it. Sanchez, Santa Ana, Calif. @ In general, a person’s I. Q. does not affect the age at which he may become senile and disoriented. Real senility has to do with the dropping out of brain cells due to the slewing of metabolic processes and to the diminishing blood supply caused by the closing off of small and large blood vessels in the brain. As far as I know, these matters are not influenced by the intelligence level. FOR MIILER FARR, sss Corner back, Houston Oilers Is Mel Farr of the Detroit Lions your brother? Who is the hardest gu man for you to cover in the AFL?-—Tim Hewitt, Elmira, N.Y. @ Mel Farr is my brother. And Lance FOR MARTHA MITCHELL, wife of the Attorney General of the U.S. dent. It is therefore his privilege to invite to his home whaiever guests he desires and if he decides to have group meetings where religion is discussed, this should also be his privilege. I think that it should be an encouragement to the nation to have a person in its highest office who has a deep religious and spiritual only blood type but the variousother fac. tors found in blood, one cannot prove that a given individual is the parent of a certain child because they happen to have similar factors in their blood. Blood groups are quite constant andthefact of adulthood would have no material effect concern. in making the determination moresure. FOR JAMES A. BEARD, culinary expert FOR LANA CANTRELL,singer I have heard different What was the hardest adjustment to make when you came to the ' ’ explanations of wha: makes an Irish stew. Can you help me?— U.S. from Australia five -. years ago?—D.L., Og- den, Utah @ The most difficult thing for me was forgetting that I had been a big star back home, but that in the U.S. nobody knew who I was, and so I had to start from the beginning. But fortunately, soon after my arrival, a talent booker heard some tapes that I had made and signed me immediately. FOR DR. DONALD A. DUKELOW, American Medical Association Is it possible to prove or disprove the paternity of a child by a study of the blood? Would the relationship be more revealing when adulthood is reached? —P.B., Biloxi, Miss. @ Certain characteristics of the blood are inherited. Among “these are the ABO factors usedin establishing blood groups, the RH factor, and certain other factors Jj. A. Russell, Niagara Falls, N.Y. @ Anauthentic Irish stew contains lamb, either the breast or the shoulder, sometimes carrots, potatoes, onions, and correctly prepared, it is cooked down, not thickened. Sometimes the potatoes are cut in paper thin slices, sometimes in dice so that they cook down and add a slight thickening to the stew. It is not browned and not gussied up in any way. FOR WALTER CRONKITE What was it you said when you denied that you wear a wig?—John Davis, Kokomo,ind. @ I said doubters are invited to ask themselves, “What nut would weara hair piece that looked like that?” FOR REX REED,aushor-critic Is it true that “Rex Reed”is a pseudonym? —Marie DiCorleto, > Bloomfield, Conn. that can be determined in the laboratory study of blood. It is possible to determine that the individual in question is not the child of a given person if he has blood factors that could not have been inherited from this person. On the other hand, when one deals with the fact that there are millions of people who have the same blood types and possibly thousands who would have the same combinations of not @ The nameis real. I don’t know where the Rex came from, but my middle name, Taylor, comes from Gen. Zachary Taylor, who was a reletive on my mother’s side. Whatdo you think is the biggest obstacle facly elected members of Want to ask a famous Person a question? 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