Show 3W S C O TT A L T E R ’ SC Personality Parade Q Is it a joke or is there any truth to the rumor that Imelda Marcos ofthe Philippines and Middle Duvalier of Haiti plan to open a boutique toJbe called FMO (For Millionaires Only) on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and to stock it with some of their loot? — Colley K Las Vegas Nev Q Qi Would you know the valueqftheestate that Rock Hudson left after he suc- Is it afad that the Vatican refuses to engage in normal diplomatic relations with Israel on die state?—CE grounds thatlsrael is a Sherman Odes Calif non-Christi-an cumbed to AIDS? I have readfigures ranging from V million to $100 million —NJl Reading Pa A The Vatican refuses to engage in normal diplomatic relations with Israel on the grounds that Israd’sgeographical borders are not dearly defined It does however send an apostolic delegate to the mayor of Jerusalem— which constitutes accordof Israel ing to some diplomats a A ballpark estimate would have it somewhere between $10 million and $20 million quasi-recogniti- on Q This is my third request for informal on about the prime ministers ofGreat Britain I would like to know if since the start of World War 11 every prime minister has been atrolled and educated Oxford University— LJ Fort Wayne Ind Qi Why do Arlene Dahl Liz Taylor and Lana Turner marry and divorce marry and divorce? Is it sex or money?— Barbara Monahan Portland Me at Mostly it is for companionship A Q After the tragic deaths of the space shuttle Challenger crew on Jan 28 President Reagan made a splendid poetic speech to the nation on radio and TV The last line of that beautiful speech is: “We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth' to ‘touch the face of Cod’ " fm told that the quotation in the last line comesJnm afamous Russian poem Is that so?—RJ La Jolla Calif A The weeds ire from die poem “High Flight” written by John Gillespie Magee Jr an American who was killed in December 1941 at age 19 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force The poem appeared in an anthology tided “Mae Items From the Forces" published in 1943 by George Roudedge & Sons Ltd and bearing the sentence "This volume is dedicated to the USSR” In an abbreviated version "High Flight” reads: - “Oh! I have slipped die surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on d wings And while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space Put out my hand and touched the face of God” laughter-silvere- THE SIMMY NEWSPAPER ARCH 3 1 Great Britain has had 10 prime ministers since the outbreak of World War II: Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Clement Attlee Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Hom- e Harold Wilson Edward Heath James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher Three were not educated at Oxford Chamberlain (prime minister 1937-4studied accountancy at Mason College Churchill (prime minister 194045 and 1951-5was considered so inept and unpromising by his fatherthat he was sent to Harrow and then Sandhurst to become an army officer Callaghan (prime minister 1976-7left school at 17 to work as a clerk then enlisted in the navy as an ordinary seaman 0) 5) 9) Q Is Isabella Rossellini the model and actress the granddaughter of die late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini?— L£ Bogota NJ Aj4o she is a twin daughter of the late screen star Ingrid Bergman and her second husband the late Italian film director Roberto Rossellini Qi Why is it that Gorbachev and the Soviets are infavor of a moratorium on nuclear-bom- b testing and we are not?—L Baldwin Santa Fe NM A One possible reason: Our nuclear bombs old and new must be constantly tested to see if they work A second possible reason: We don't trust the Soviets A think We may need a nuclear reaction to power our laser capability in the “Star Ware” project And lastly there may exist some insurmountable technological obstacles to a temporary or comprehensive test ban known only to the top personnel who run the federal weapons laboratories at Los Alamos NM and Livermore Calif omuaxorrim MACAZ1NE 1111 2 M2MSHUtMEHflGAZNE 3 -- |