Show oxcw thbti v In©) A YOURSELF sart W mm M Mfcatf to "Ask” Fanty Weekly 641 Lmnglon JWt New tok Wei pay U tor pubfcshai questions Sorry wo coni atswer ottos FOR HOMER B BOYNTON Ex- ecutive Assoc Director FBI ' Since your Most Wanted Uet was created in 1950 how many criminals have appeared on It and were caught? Were any of them women? What per centage of our country's crlminab am women and what b their most common crime? — Evan Jadulnger Gteensburg Pa As of Aug 15 1979 a total of 368 fugitives have appeared on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives fist since its inception Six of these have been women A total of V' V More and mom Mb cherchez la femme 342 fugitives who have been on the list have been captured Some 16 percent of the persons arrested in the U S In 1977 for all crimes other than traffic offenses were women The offense for which females am most often arrested is that of larceny-theI might point out that the number of women arrested in this country during the 1968 through 1977 increased some 576 percent yean ft N V 100?? FOR THE “ASK” EDITOR What sort of things do celebrities talk about among themselves? — VI Jennings Trenton NJ 9 Would you like to know what those lucky enough to be sitting next to Robert Redford hear — or discuss? Firewood! We kid you not Rona Jaffe had the good fortune to be seated alongside Redford on an LA— NY flight and she said he went on at length about firewood — which kind gave off the best aroma what produced the prettiest colored flames Conservationist-ecologis- t Redford is happiest when talking about Mother Nature Generally what stars like to talk about g most is their work their families Nothing Phyllis Diller is very subdued and quiet always wondering what the family back home is doing Lynn Redgrave's eyes light up when you talk about her kids Charlton Heston will only tab about his work Ed Asner delights in reporting on his cats mind-bogglin- off-sta- of Peter Paul FOR PETER YARROW composer-singe- r and Mary group Why did the three of you split up and what brought you back together again? — OM Amarillo Texas 9 We had different things to say and do Paul became a religious convert He wanted to live simply and do personal FOR CAROL KANE star of When a Stranger Calls Skies you have some awful experiences as a baby sitter in the movie Tm wondering If you ever baby-sa- t In real Ur and did you have any scary moments? — LW Steuben- - ministries I was deeply connected with political movements Mary turned solo Our focuses were no longer alike What caused us to reunite in 1978 after eight years was a need to resham all those things that had been so wonderful ville Ohio 9 I moved to New York at 15 to find work as an actress But g for my agent's child As it turns my first job was g out I made more money than I did acting in those early months I didn't have any times as I did in the film but I often wonder how I would have reacted FOR GLORIA MONTY producer FOR IRVING R LEVINE baby-sittin- baby-sittin- hair-raisi- General Hospital How realistic Is your program? — GO Salisbury Md 9 We at General Hospital realize that we do disseminate quite a lot of medical information and we take it as a very serious responsibility We research each cfinical episode down to the last action and word of dialogue On our staff we have medical advisers nurses doctors specialists Often these people are in the studio making sure that our dramas reflect medical practice in the most accurate way ABC-TV- s NBC-Tbroadcaster do show from never down on the waist the Why they you air? — Mrs Edith Pugh Rome NY 9 It might have startled TV viewers if I had been shown full length while reporting from a political summit meeting not long ago in the sunny island of Guadeloupe As usual I wore c a jacket shirt and bow tie — and swim trunks In surroundings there is another reason for being shown from the waist up: In conversation it is easier to communicate face to face — especially on a small TV screen less-exoti- FOR PETE ROZELLE commissioner National Football League b it true that Astro turf Is causing mors Injuries than grass fields? — Stan Castleberry Lufkin Texas 9 Independent studies have shown no appreciable difference in injuries on artificial surfaces and on regular grass fields There Is a tendency toward more Injuries of an abrasive nature — efcow and leg bums etc which can be minlirtized if the player is wearing equipment designed to protect against such hurts PRO Sm particularly as substitutes for gasoline wil help ease energy shortages Half the oil we consume is used In motor vehicles If we replace 10 percent of that oil with from coal tar sands oil shale municipal waste wood and grains we will far exceed the shortfall of od that triggered the shortages of last summer That Is why I support rapid synthetic fuel development However we must have more research Into the side effects of “lynfueb" to protect against environmental damage In addition to development of synthetic fuels we should not neglect the nonfossil and sources such as solar wind renewable alternative-energand hydroelectric fossil-base- d y You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What You say proverbs have dropped out of fashion Why is that? — BS Casper Wyo 9 Proverbs are out of fashion because they represent the d wisdom of the past Today die past is out of fashion What counts today is Instant I learned proverbs from my parents Today even parents are out of fashion The most humorous quality of today’s generation is their serious obsession with fun They take nothing seriously time-teste- PRO flflD Abraham RMooff Synthetic fuels FOR SAM LEVENSON author of con Should Synthetic Fuel Be Developed As An Alternate Energy Source ? CON Rep Richard L Otttngcr development of synthetic fuels (which are approximately twice the cost of imported oil) will aggravate Inflation not solve our energy crisis Preferable to reliance on experimental synfuel technologies a mere improvement in automobile fleet efficiency would save as much energy as 10 synfuel plants could produce! Synfuel projects also threaten critically scarce western water supplies and present other severe environmental risks Nonetheless the President proposes spending $88 billion to subsidize oil companies to develop synfueb Spending vastly less on synfuels and more on conservation mass transit and auto efficiency would rapidly save energy and be significantly less Inflationary (D-N- Excessive ) 1979 FAMILY WEEKLY INC All rights reserved |