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Show Ask Them Yourself If. HUMPHREY FOR HUBERT Could you give me tome tips on public speaking? Mrs. Letitia F. Palmat-er- . Water ford. N.Y. FOR RICHARD M. NIXON How many yenrs did you work in a Whiltier, Calif., grocery store? Myrtle Bolton, Villisca, Iowa Effective public speaking demands that you have faith in your message and understand it. Liking and trusting your audience is very important, too. An effective speaker also must be up to date in his reading. I read, a great deal, and I have a staff to help me keep informed. My four brothers and I took part in this venture, and I had some 14 years to my credit. Most of my time was spent slocking the shelves and in maintenance, but in my senior year in high school and in college I was the manager of the produce department. FOR JVNE WCKHART Is it really true that you are sympathetic to the FOR HENRY FOWLER, gjPCa "hippie" movement? A. fl. Helton, Swords Jjtsm. I treek, fa. I have always thought that a person is "hippie" if his or her bottom is wide! Since I've always been a little "hippie," 1 am very sympathetic to the "hippies." T""". m ' Philadelphia When V '76ers did you first ; 4 de- - that you wanted to pro baskelbaUf- Raymont Searehilli, cide play Poughkeepsie, N.Y. I had no idea of playing pro basketball when I was younger. I always thought of being a policeman. But I enjoyed basketball so much at Marshall College (Huntington, W. Va.) that I dey cided to give a try. pro-pla- FOR JOHN EISENHOWER What have you been do ing since you left the David Gutter- man, Durham, N.C. Army? JjL Since resigning from the Army in 1963, I have been writing. I helped on the two volumes of Dad's memoirs, "The White House Years," until 1964. Recently I finished a book on the Battle of the Bulge entitled, "The Bitter Woods," which will be published in January. Tor WORLD! Beautifkation What with solving the world's ills and writing home for money, today's college students are on motorBikes vs. Bats Teen-agebikes roared up the aisle of a church in Ludham, England, recently with the vicar s permission. Idea: scare off bats. Result: more bats. rs under tremendous strain. But the University of California at Santa Cruz offers a relaxant pot. Flower pot, that is. It has set up an outdoor recre- - Presidential Voices Do these camsound familiar? a) paign excerpts in the Democrats independent "Many South agree with the Republican party in all its main economic doctrines"; b) "America's present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy, not revolution but restoration"; c) ". . . an Administration which has been the most wasteful, extravagant, and incompetent in the history of the nation and, worst of all, one which has lost faith in itself and in the American people." These voices are from the past Secretary of the Treasury the marking on the base of President Kennedy's neck on the tS. half dollar actually a hammer and sickle? Lois Berry, Torrington, Wyo. 1 Is 9 No. Somehow an insidious rumor was started that this marking is a hammer No Communist symbol appears on any American coin. The device is a stylized presentation of the initials CR and indicates that the portrait was done by sculptor Cilroy Roberts. Mr. Roberts merely availed himself of the ancient right of identifying his work. and sickle. FOR HAL GREER, WHAT FOR CHARLES SCHROEDER, manager, San Diego Zoo What animal in your soo hag caused you the most trouble? Mrs. ClaRae Strand, Seattle, Wash. The male pigmy chimpanzee. Popularly called "Kakowet" (Little Peanut), he wss caught as a baby in a jungle area south of the Congo River. While in our Children's Zoo, he was exposed to and suffered many common children's diseases. Pediatricians from San Diego Naval Hospital, working with the zoo's veterinary clinician, succeeded in pulling him through a bout of encephalitis Extracurricular activity otionol activity which allows students to get at the roots of flower power by helping landscape their stark new campus. Students, puttering around between classes and on weekends, get no letter, but college gardener Alan Chadwick notes, "Gardening is a fine way to come back to common sense." FOR CAROL LAWRENCE What is your greatest pet I peeve about television? I V hf? I Helen P. Sullivan, Brigh- - ton, Mass. JOE NAMATH, " quarterback. New York Jets Do you wear a special type of football shoe, or is the coloi (while) the only difference? Russell Mink, Elisabethlon, Tenn. The right shoe has added elevation in IVjiH the heel and the clears are shorter. dancers, too. As a dancer, I get exasperated by dull choreography on tv. I cringe when I see the "Chiffon Number" a girl wearing a flowing chiffon costume and four male dancers flitting around her. Viewers deserve more than that and so do the famous person a question? Yoa can through this column, and we'll gel Want to ask the anetrer from the prominent person you designate. Send qneslion, preferably on a poal card, to Aak Then Yourself, family Weekly, 641 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. We ca aiiot acknowledge question, but IS will be paid for eacb one used. Howard Toft Color Us Cool Most pro football teams choose colorful uniforms for their home games. Not the New Orleans Saints, who let the weather decide what they wear. If it's hot, they com out in white, making the visitors suit up in darker colors. Reasoning: white is cooler; darker colors make the visitors more likely to become not present and you can hear them on a record album, "Campaigns and Candidates Presidents on the Presidency," available from your local telephone company. The speakers were a) William Howard Toft, 1908; b) War-re- n G. Harding, 1920; c) Thomas E. Dewey, 1940. History repeats itself so do heat-fatigue- End of i ii a 1" Marty fngefs and towel Family Veekfy a Chase te Iks Newspaper mooms 1 DAVIDOW Proident MORTON FRANK Pubtiehtr WALTER C DREYFUS Senior Conmhant W. PAGE THOMPSON Advertising Director JOSEPH R. INZERIUO farter Advrrtiting Maiwper RUSSELL L SPARKS Wtetem Advertising Manager LEONARD politicians! Comedian Marty Ingels has chase scene, clad only in a towel, in "The Silent Treatment," a new film reviving pretalkie techniques. They finished shooting at 8 a.m. in front of an old theater. Marty decided to take his break there. When he emerged, still clad only in the towel, it was 10 a.m., and the streets were crowded, but the crew had moved on to another location. The. police didn't buy Marty's explanation until hours later when the studio sent someone to bail him out. Lately Marty has taken a strong and abiding interest in men's fashions. a and a parasitic disease. TfLYn William Advertising Offices: Ml lavianlaa AwsaMs, Hem York 10011; 401 N. Michigan Ava., ChicofO 4011; S eral Melon llda., Detroit 4101; Suite 110 Daia Tewer, 1711 Aaaeles Mianeopeiis SS402; Beverly Siva., let M0; 110 Sutter St., San Francisco 4I04 November 3, 1968 ROBERT FtTZOIMON Editor-in-Chi- ef JACK RYAN Managing Editor MARIUS N. TRINOUE It MELANIE Art Director PROFT Food Editor Anociate Editor: Rotalyn Abrevaya, Themei Fey, Hal lane en, Terry tchaettelj Peer J. Oppsnhslsmr, West Coast. Editorial Office: 441 Lexington Aw New Terk, M. T. 10OT2 FAMILY WEEKLY, INC All right reserved 161, to mail your questions or comments about any article or advertisement that appears in Family Weekly. Your letter will receive a prompt answer. Write to Service Editor, Family Weekly, 641 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. You are invited |