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Show Ask Them Yourself FOR REP. SEYMOUR HALPERN * of New York Is the campaign to put a Secretary of Peace in the President's cabinet mak+ ing any progress?—Tom Muller, Culver City, Calif. FOR J. EDGAR HOOVER, @ Fifty-nine Congressmenjoined mein in- @ It is most important for parents to troducing the Peace Act Bill, which would put a Secretary of Peace at the head of provide children with firm guidance and the influe: example of law-abiding, a Department of Peace. It would also es- Director, FBI How can parents help stem the growing crime problem in this country? —Haroid Power, Doroville, Ga. responsible citizenship. tablish a joint committee on peace and international cooperation in the Congress. As proposed, a new Departmentof Peace would take jurisdiction over the Agency for International Development, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Peace Corps—now under the jurisdiction of the Department of State. FOR ROMY SCHNEIDER,actress i As a chic dresser, what do you think about the current pants rage?— D.N., Lancaster, Pa. @ The majority of my daytime clothes are pants outfits. I also have an evening sequined tuxedo. I like to accessorize a pants outfit as much as a dress ora skirt. FOR OTTO J. SCHERSCHLICT, a Chief of Parks, South Dakota Whose idea sasit originally to carve four Presidents’ faces on Mt. Rushmore?—Mrs. Clara Strand, Osnabrock, N.D. @ Doane Robinson, South Dakota histo- rian, first proposed sculpturing figures of local heroes in the granite of Custer State Park. Iu 1925 sculptor Gutzum Borglum conceived the project as of national sig- nificance and chose Mt. Rushmore for the figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. FOR GOV. ROBERT DOCKING of Kansas Why does Kansas have FOR JOHN SHAFFER, “Adolf Hitler, Jan. 24, 1966.” John time?—Beatrice Teeple, Toledo, Ohio @ It is impossible to count the number of aircraft. Our best estimate is about 10,000. In addition to the 2,000 or so flights under constant surveillance from the ground—those flying under instrumentflight rules (IFR) according to predetermined flight plans—there are about 8,000 other aircraft flying on a see-andbe-seen basis, through Birmingham.Since usually there were none within a hundred miles of Birmingham,I interviewed myself. FOR BOWIE KUHN, Baseball Commissioner FOR JERRY LEWIS How does it feel to have @ son coming up in the entertainment field?— Pat Davis, Carriere, Miss. jected for mental and moral reasons ically fit but are better educated and have fewer convictions for criminal of- fenses than draftees of other states. 1966.” Long John’s “determined dis- belief’ weakened ¢ little. Too Many Cooks Imagine cooking three hearty meals for $1.45 per person per day! The Navy doesatits Great Lakes Training Center with 77 cooks turning out 17,000 hamburgers - © ham, Ala., and that it was there that you developed many of your celebrity impersona-* tions. What prompted you to concentrate in this area?—T. L., Lancaster. Pa. @ The format of the show called for me to interview well-known people passing ways played to a decision, barring rain. than the national average. Therefore, Kansans perhaps are not quite as phys- captioned “Adolf Hitler, Buenos Aires, FOR FANNIE FLAGG,comedienne I understand that at one time you had your own tv talk show in Birming- @ An individual must meet prescribed age, but fewer Kansans have been re- plainsit in his book (coauthored with Sanford M. Teller) “The Psychic World Around Us,” but relates: In the summer of 1966, a listener revealed that he'd found himself astrally projected into CIA vau!ts, where he saw photosof an old man in a wheel chair, captioned wasskeptical. Then, a couple of years later, “one of America’s most prominent authors” related to Nebel that a retired genercl showed a magazine editor CIA photos of a sickly whitehaired old man in a wheel chair, minimum standards in physical (medical), mental, and moral areas to be drafted. The statistics report more Kanmedical standards than the national aver- projection.” Long John Nebel (NBC allnight radio show) notonly further ex- Administor, Federal Aviation tance rate (79.4 percent)? 4 —Mrs. Byrae George, Seagle, Wash. sans have been rejected for not meeting Classified Photos Some believe that since we all have two bodies—physical and astral—we can be in two places at once. The theory is called “astral Administration About how many planes are there in the air over the U.S. at any given In most sports, no over-— time is played to break a tie score. Why is it done in baseball?—H.E. Gillman, Glendale, Calif. @ Baseball has no time clock. It is al- the highest draft accep- WHAT1: WORLD! @ Some “show folk” don’t like the idea of their children in the business, but I'm not one of them. Gary is a very talented performer, and I’m sure he'll do very well, indeed. Want to ask a famous person a question? You can through this column, and we'll get the answer from the prominent person you designate. Send question, preferably on a post card, to Ask Them Yourself, Family Weekly, 641 Lexingion Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022, We cannot acknowledge questions, but $5 will be paid for each one used. Soup forsailors and 3,800 pounds of French fries, while 100 pies are baking away. Chow over, the 30-foot-long dishwasher goes into action—helped, of course, by indispensible K.P. humans, Skating Star This is the Ice Follies 7-feet-4-inch Commander Robot, made by the show'slighting supervisor, Dave Colman, of aluminum and plexiglass— and a few things. The robot's skating talents (derived from two 50-hp motors driving spring-ten- Commander Robot and the real thing. bed = sion sprockets) consists of daredevil spins, “It took two years to make,” says Colman. “| thoughtof giving the Commander more of a costume, but so many spectators ‘just knew’ there was really a person inside runningit, | decided on a see-through body.” Lough-Out “Our society is one in which adult interest in the coming generation is very low and exploitation very high, resulting in mutual hostility and distrust,” says Dr. George Sheviakoy, author of “Anger in Children.” “The angry child must see the helping adult not as another ‘enemy’ but as a person who calmly accepts his feelings, which are genuine atthe moment.” Reasoning is futile until ofter a cooling-off period. Also recommended are opportunities for working off anger through sports, debates, games—and conversation. The psychologist warns parents against sarcasm and encourages laughing together: “The mere physical process of laughing automatically neutralizes anger.” MyFriend, the Scientist Singer Peggy Lee has hadto live with the tragedy of cancer most of herlife, she told Family Weekly. “Mylittle sister and my father died ofit. And many friends—one just recently.” It happensthat Peggy is an old friend of a cousin of Dr. Jonas Salk and asked to meet him. (“Some of my favorite people are scientists; their sense of humor is really wild, and they have a great, quietstrength about them.”) The result was that Peggy became “Tree of Life” chairman for Salk’s cancer me researchinstitute in La Jolla, Calif. Family Weekly the Newspaper Mogazine Peggy Lee | i i June 1, 1969 LEONARD S$. DAVIDOW President ROBERT FITZGIBBON Eéitor-in-Chiec/ MORTON FRANK Publisher JACK RYAN Managing Editor | MARIUS N. TRINQUE Art Director W. PAGE THOMPSON Advertising Director MELANIE DE PROFT Food Editor DOHALD M. 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