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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1977
Autos, fast meals help diners
By JEANNE LESEM
United Press International
Would you believe the au
tomobile as a meal preparation
appliance?
That’s what a supermarket indus
try magazine calls cars because they
carry people to places where other
hands “will do the marketing, the
cooking, the serving and the clean
ing up.”
Robert Dietrich writes in two re
cent issues of “Progressive Grocer”
that:
“Over a one-week period, the av
erage American shows the following
predisposition to belly-up to a din
ing table or counter other than his
“Two-thirds eat at least one meal
out — 73 percent of men compared
to 63 percent of women.
“A substantial one-fifth eat out
five or more times.”
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Dietrich found 65 per cent eating
in regular restaurants, 55 percent in
fast-food outlets, 13 percent at work
and 12 percent at other unspecified
places.
His statistics are from an exclu
sive nationwide survey of more than
men and women. It was made
by Trendex in cooperation with the
magazine.
Grocers who see fast-food
operators as major threats to their
business are only partly right, the
study showed.
“...for every two meals eaten out
at a fast-food outlet, three are
claimed by regular restaurants.
“The real alternative to eating at
home will, increasingly, be sit-down
restaurants,” the study indicated.
The main reasons: household in
come and education.
People below the $20,000 a year
level eat fewer than three meals a
week away from home. Even for
them, restaurant meals are about 30
per cent more frequent than the
fast-food variety.
Above that level, "the taste for
glass, silver and linen instead of pa
per, plastic and Formica holds
sway.”
As income rises, the number of
weekly meals out passes four, and
fast-food operators’ share of the
market drops to 25 percent.
Diners’ start to kick the burger
habit at about 25 years of age, but
their loyalty to other purveyors of
food away from home remains stably
close to 1.3 meals a week over sev
eral decades.
Restaurant meals have their
greatest appeal to 45-to 54-year-
olds, who have the money to sup
port the habit.
The drop-off in meals eaten out
occurs after that age not so much
from choice as from limited income,
the survey suggests; eating in all
tvpes of restaurants decreases after
54.
FilVer up
The annual fall Aggie Blood Drive is in full
swing. John O’Donnell, freshman nuclear en
gineering major, was one of the students
donating a pint of blood to the Wadley Blood
Bank Tuesday. The drive is a joint project of
Alpha Phi Omega, Omega Phi Alpha and Stu
dent Government. Wadley will provide for
the blood needs of any Aggie for the coming
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Aggies hang glide with kite
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‘Birdseed’
investigated
at Utah city
United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — The old
woman’s bird died when it ate the
seeds she gave it, so she planted the
rest of them in her garden.
They came up looking like to
matoes, hut bore no fruit.
Suspicious, the 85-year-old Salt
Lake City lady called police. They
confiscated the plants, which were
identified as marijuana stalks.
Officers said they are investigat
ing to see how the pot seed got sub
stituted for the bird seed.
By DEB KILGORE
Hang gliding literally means just
that—hanging from a large kite and
gliding by using the body, and 52
Aggies insist it is the only way to fly.
The 52 are members of Texas
A6cM University's Hang Gliding
Club and are learning to hang glide
in the field near Mount Aggie
Thursday afternoons from 2 to 5.
They strap on wings and rush
head-on into the wind hoping to get
the feel of the kite. Once they know
how to handle a 35 to 40-pound kite,
the club goes to Junction, a town
100 miles west of Austin, to glide off
a 280-foot cliff.
Hang gliding began at A6cM three
years ago when senior corps cadet
Mark Hill decided to start the Hang
Gliding Club on campus for the
Corps. Jim Matush, senior geology
major, and Rick Buttle, senior in
engineering technology, took over
the club and opened it to all Aggies.
“Jim and I went out and taught
ourselves to hang glide at Bryan’s
Park Lake. It took us less than a
semester to leani the basics, said
Rattle in a recent interview.
The cluli owns three kites: two
standard ones costing $300 to $4(X)
and a high performance kite worth
$7(X). To pay for the kites, each
member has a $10 semester fee.
Buttle said. The Memorial Student
Center also gives the club about
$350 a semester.
“The kite itself was invented by
Francis Rogallo, an aeronautical en
gineer for NASA, Buttle said. “His
idea was for the re-entry wings of a
spacecraft. He didn't get along with
NASA, so he designed the first hang
glider for the public."
For the 15,000 Americans who
literally go fly a kite on a weekly
basis, hang gliding has immense ap
peal. Buttle said the sport’s main at
traction is the thrill of soaring, al
though the danger is also part of its
appeal.
When you re standing on the
edge of a cliff that is 280 feet high
and run light off of it, you get the
great thrill of being fluid," Buttle
explained.
Most people who glide make
short flights close to the ground only
vyhen the wind is right. Buttle said.
When you re learning to glide you
never jump off higher than you want
to fall, he said. “We ve never had
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anyone get more than a
bruises.”
However, a June 1975"ChaM
Times’ reports hang gliding is
coming one of the worlds«
hazardous sports. The U.S.
Gliding Association (USHGA
39 people nationwide were HE)UST0N -
flying hang gliders and many nAck Darrell
were injured in 1974. The USiB the Unive
also found the more expeiiencedEd on NCAA
pilot, the more likely he is toco
to a tragic end since he takes nt
risks.
“The FA A doesn’t say a m
against hang gliding except pit
wear a helmet, don t go up »
than 500 feet and he careful
“Changing Times said.
Despite grim statistics and wK
ings, hang gliding has hoomedtt
the last three years nationwide®
at A6vM. Buttle said he expects®
have between 60 and 70 inembersK
the Hang Gliding Club by the»B
of this fall. | '
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physics talk
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Western Reserve University, M 1
nationally famous for his research
the physics of music, will M
seminar at Texas A&M Univers
next xveek.
Thursday Oct. 20 Benade®
present “The Good Temper
Woodwind” at 4 p.m. in Roonil
of the Physics Building.
Benade is the author ofthevfl
popular text “Horns, Strings,
Harmony.
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