Show Americans who take advantage of space first or will it be POTPOURRI To open today here are a few odds and ends from some other nation?” En- cyclopedia Browns Record Book of Weird and Wonderful Facts by Donald Sobol —If all the people in the US were as crowded together as those in Manhattan they would fit easily into the state of Delaware —If a cockroach touches a human being it runs off to safety and cleanses itself STORING Rx now turns out the traditional place to store medications — the bathroom medi It cluding endocrine disorders cardiovascular disease and gastrointestinal ailments Inin 46 of the deed patients the physical illness had either caused the psychiatric disorder or at least contributed to it and 28 of the 46 showed rapid and dramatic psychiatric improvement after their underlying physical illnesses were treated —On the average a child asks 437 questions a day —Ever wonder where paper clips go? Lloyd’s of London once kept track of 100000 of them of which only 20000 were used to clip papers together Another 14163 were twisted during phone calls 19143 were used as card-gam- 7200 5423 e chips held clothing together were used to pick teeth or scratch ears 5308 cleaned fingernails 3916 unplugged tobacco pipes and the remaining 25000 or so fell on the floor and were swept away with the trash —Americans eat 18 billion hot dogs a year —In January 1978 Ben Rogers Lee a champion caller went out to practice his craft in the woods near his Coffeyville Ala home Turns out he was so good he got hit with 16 rounds of buckshot from the gun of a turkey hunter wild-turke- LOVE ME LOVE MY DOG You wouldn’t think this woman should have trouble getting dates but Connie von Hundertmark a stewardess insists it’s so But one day she got an idea She remembered back to her teens when boys would come courting It seems her pet dog could instantly identify the winners and the clunkers by a growl or an enthusiastic “woof” So three years ago von Hundertmark founded Single Pet Lovers a dating service designed to bring together single men and women who love pets because she says “Only pet lovers have that poetry in FAMILY WEEKLY July 12 1981 more information For write: PO Single Pet Lovers Box 487 Dept FW LaGuardia NY 11371 And with good reason He was speaking to the Toy Manufacturers of America 2081 : A SPACE ODYSSEY Contrary to the doomsday scenarios of many futurists physicist Gerard O’Neill foresees a dazzling century ahead In his new book 2081 a scientific forecast of the next 100 years O’Neill predicts a world in which we’ll travel in underground vacuums at 800 miles an hour a world of household robots and enclosed cities medicine cabinet — usually located above the sink in an often steamy bathroom — can ruin them Instead Connors suggests you put them on the top Sunday — Cheryl Ladd 30 Milton Berle 73 Monday — Dave Garroway 68 Tuesday — Gerald Ford 68 John Chancellor 54 Wednesday — Linda Ronstadt 35 Thursday — Ginger (All Cancer) Bill Cosby 44 Is the two-payche- family ck helping kids make out like bandits? In a recent speech advertising executive Harold Levine theorized that parents with little time to spend at home and more money at “working-paren- guilt” t They’ll try to do this by bringing home more and more presents and surprises And not just at Christmas either — they’ll be buying toys all year round Levine’s audience was plainly delighted that special romanticism and sensitivity” So far 600 people have joined each dishing out $4995 annually to list descriptions of themselves (and their pets) in the catalog von Hundertmark publishes the BIRTHDAYS disposal will overindulge their children in an effort to assuage their own souls sin So keeping your drugs in —Eliot Kaplan their their cine chest — is actually one of the worst possible spots Heat moisture and light can all cause drugs to decompose explains Kenneth Connors a pharmacy professor at the University of Wiscon- shelf of a hallway linen closet where it’s dry cool dark — and of course out of children’s reach 34-year-o- ld ILLS 22 New Year’s Date” AFFECTIONS D Disturbed patients admitted to mental hospitals may actually be suffering from undetected physical ailments — not mental problems — says a report in the American Journal of Psychiatry Investigators using sophisticated tests examined 100 patients admitted to a state mental hospital They found 80 had previously undiscovered physical illnesses in “Single Pet Lovers has brought my love life to a complete standstill” she says “Paperwork is taking up all my spare time Things better pick up soon or this will be my eighth straight year without a TOYING WITH y ILL-DEFINE- No matings yet but von Hundertmark reports several favorable responses It’s still the dog days for her though ncpEKiy The Newspaper Magazine 6 41 Lexington Ave New York NY 10022 Chairman and Publisher Morton Frank President and Assoc Publisher Patrick M Lmskey and Genl Mgr Jonathan Thompson Executive Editor Arthur Cooper Vice-Preside- with Hawaiian climates a world finally in which more Americans will live in small space colonies than on the earth itself In fact O’Neill likens the coming space age to the settlement of the Old West “Americans in particular being descendents of people who came from other lands will flock into space” he told us “However there are already five countries with orbital capabilities and the potential for manned flight by the end of this decade So the real question is will it be self-sufficie- nt Hal Landon Kate White Food Editor Marilyn Hansen Assoc Editor Eliot Kaplan: Asst Editor Mary Ellin Barrett Photo Editor Gail Gitlitz Art Director Richard valdati Asst Art Director Susan Pereira Art Barbara Jabion Mindy Stanton Roving Editor Peer Oppenheimer Contributing Writers Shirley Sloan Fader John Gibson Norman Lobsenz Anita Summer paMr!ftSn: fc'Wp Prod Mgr Christine kraemer Michael Montemurro Typographer Debra Rose Manager Gerald S Wroe Mgr Joe Frazer Jr Eastern Mgr James B Powers Assoc Eastern Mgr Richard K Carroll Planning VP-A- d n Managing Editor Senior Editors Tim Rosaiyn Mulligan Abrevaya Rogers 70 Barbara Stanwyck 74 Friday — Phyllis Diller 64 Diahann Carroll Gerald Ford Ginger Rogers 46 James Cagney 82 Donald Sutherland 47 Art Linkletter 69 Saturday — Red Skelton 68 Harriet Nelson 67 John Glenn 60 Detroit Mgr Lawrence M Finn Perkins Stephens von der Lieth and Hayward Dir Stanley Rosenfeld: Marketing Mgr Kent D'Alessandro Mdslng Mgr Margaret Alexander Newspaper Relations: VP Lee Ellis: Services Robert J Christian Newspaper Rel Mgrs James G Baher Robert H Marriott Josepn C Wise Transportation Mgr Jim McCann Distribution Mgr Phyllis Piliero Promotion Dir John Brown circulation Promotion Robert Banker Consumer Services Linda Mount Admin Asst Barbara Allan Raoino-witShapiro Controller James Enright Calif g e z Cover Photo by David Attie |