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Show Want the facts? Want to learn the truth about prominent personalities? Want informed opinion? Write Walter Scott, Parade, 733 3rd Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. Your full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail received makes personal replies impossible. Q. Why has the FBI been unable to solve the dislabor of leader James Hoffa and the appearance murders of Sam Giancana and John Roselli ? F.T.L, Q. Is King Hussein of Iordan a dwarf ? How tall is he ? Astrid Hansen, Salt Chicago. A. These are particularly difficult murders to unravel, involving as they probably do the expertise of the Mafia, an underworld organization sorely neglected by the late J. Edgar Hoover. Lake City. A. King Hussein stands five feet one inch tall. He is not a dwarf. Q. Beatle lohn Lennon had a very attractive first wife, Cynthia. They had a son named Julian. What are they doing, and where are they doing it? Cassie Q. Does Henry Kissinger own Marvin the sense that he Kalb of CBS in regularly manipulates him ? G.K., Los Angeles, Cal. A. Kissinger and Kalb are friends. But Kissinger is wise enough to realize that if Kalb loses his objectivity and independence, he will lose his credibility, and his worth to Kissinger will diminish. Kissinger tries to manipulate all newsmen who cover him. Sometimes he succeeds; other times he fails. What reporters like most about Kissinger are his sense of humor and accessibility. On occasion Kissinger can ooze charm. For the most part newsmen like Kissinger and are chary of him. Hartley, Madison, WiS. A. Cynthia and John Lennon were married in They met at the Liverpool College of Arts where both were students. They had a son, Julian, 13, and were divorced in 1969. A year later Cynthia fell in love and married Roberto Bassanini. They were divorced. Early this year Cynthia married John Twist, 30, a Lancashire engineer. At this writing her son Julian Lennon is visiting his father John in New York. 12. Q. How many black ambassadors does the US. have? Are there any on duty in primarily white countries? I - Flnraiirnurm 1 i"f MIKE AND (SIN DA THE WAY THEY WERE J Q. Is Michael Douglas, son of film star Kirk Douglas, still living with actress Brenda Vaccaro? Is it true that young Douglas will earn $10 million for producing "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ? Pete Homer, Oakland, Cal. A. Michael Douglas, who starred in the TV series "Streets of San Francisco," is no longer living with actress Vaccaro. Their affair lasted Five years. Prior to her affiliation with Douglas, Brenda was married to director Marty Fried for five years. Douglas, it is estimated, will earn $5 million for helping to package "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Temporarily, he has abandoned his acting career. Miss Vaccaro will star in "Airport 1977." In Texas is Gov. John Connally known as "The fastest draw in the West " or "The fastest jaw in the West?" And why? Is he a Republican or Democrat ? Vincent Williams, Providence, R. I. A. Former Gov. John Connally is a political adventurer, a Nixon Republican, an outstanding, charismatic campaigner who is jokingly referred to because of his oratorical skill as "The fastest jaw in the West." Q. Faye Pringle, Mobile, Ala. A. There are currently five black U.S. ambassadors: Terence Todman in Costa Rica; Theodore Britton in Barbados and Grenada; David Bolen in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland; Rudolph Aggrey in Senegal and Gambia; Beverly Carter in Liberia. Costa Rica is the only one of these countries that is primarily nonblack. Black men, however, have served as U.S. ambassadors to white countries in the recent past. Cad Rowan was ambassador to Finland. Jerome Holland was ambassador to Sweden. Clifton Wharton was ambassador to Norway. And Patricia Roberts Harris, first and only U.S. black woman ambassador, served in Luxembourg from 1965-67. Q. They say that Fred Astaire is the most crotchety interview in Hollywood. How old is he, and is it true he doesn't like interviews? Nancy McKee, Durham, N.C. A. Fred Astaire is 77. He is a difficult interview for probing reporters, dislikes discussing his origins, his deceased wife, and many phases of his brilliant and lengthy career. JACQUELINE ONASSiS AND THOMAS HOVtNG IN MOSCOW Tom Hoving, the guy Jackie Onassis went to Russia with this past summer single or married? Q. Anne Kahn, Atlantic City, N.. A. Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is happily married to Nancy Hoving who he(ps run the First Women's Bank in N.Y. He went to the Soviet Union to arrange an art exchange. Jackie went along to discuss a possible book tie-i-n. She is a part-tim- e editor with Viking Press. Q. Who Las is the mysterious named Zeudi Araja? Milton Schwartz, Needles, Cal. A. Zeudi Araja, 26, is an Ethiopian film actress. Franco Cristaldi, an Italian film producer once NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 19, CT. 1976 Please address editorial contributions i 1 mar- ried to actress Claudia Cardinale, took Miss Araja to Las Vegas several weeks ago and there quietly married her. The couple then flew back to Rome where Cristaldi has a son by his first marriage and a old son, Patrick, mother is Claudia Cardinale. editor, JESS GOKKIN chairman of (he board, ARTHUR H. MOTLEY publisher, WARREN president, JAMES McALLISTER HERBERT KUPFERBERG, DAVID PAIEY HEAD D. senior (AMES editors, editor at large, LLOYD SHEARER managing editor, art director, ANTHONY LA ROTONDA associate editors, IONATHAN BRAUN, LINDA CUTSTEIN, NOEL HUMPHREYS, PAM PROCTOR, JOHN G. ROGERS, ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN, ROBERT WALTERS, L H. 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