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Kojak cameo Cabbie with niece in wardrobe gets cab in movies

New York-In six days, Louis Remklfs Checker cab earned him 1690, even though he never ®ce threw the flag on his meter A 17-year veteran of las profession, Rernick was not giving rides to passengers "off-the-meter"-a popular though ilegal practice am®g some New York City cab drivers The money he made came from

his taxi's use in the television program '•Kojadt,’’ one of thirty-three movies and television shows he or hia-cab have appeared in. “I've got a niece in wardrobe," Rernick explained the other day, “and five years ago she got the cab into John and Mary’. Then I was in A New Leaf,' and after that I invested $215 to join the Actor's Guild "

Scientists squeezing out more protein

New York-Scientists in government, industry and academia are exploring a wide variety of resources--from squeeiing protein-rich juice out of green leaves to growing micro-organisms on manureto solve one of the most fundamental problems of the world’s widening food shor-tages-how to get more protein for more people The push for protein is a major part of the worldwide effort to fight the growing specter of hunger that has been aggravated in recent years by unbridled population growth in already food-poor countries, crop failures caused by droughts and floods, fertiliier shortages and the energy cruch. While carbohydrates and fats are more important as energy sources, protein is the core substance of the body's vital organs, including the brain. If a child's diet lacks sufficient protein during critical growth periods, body and mind may be permanently stunted. In adults, protein deficits prevent the proper rebuilding of body tissues Protein deficiency also increases susceptibility to infections which, combined with the stress of malnutrition, is the main cause of death of young children in developing countries. Thus, in laboratories and fields throughout the world, a growing cadre of scientists is seeking to improve the protein quantity and quality of conventional foods as well as to develop novel sources of protein nutrition. The United States, the world's major breadbasket, is the leading center for this research and the main source of funds for projects abroad. But the effort is worldwide The approaches include breeding crops with more and better protein, developing new foods from presently underutilitxed proteins, fortifying traditional foods, extracting protein from leaves and using protein-rich wastes

Proteins i named for the Greek word meaning “holding first place”) are constructed out of about 20 different chemical building blocks called amino acids, all of which contain nitrogen. The human body is able to manufacture 12 of these amino adds from various sources of nitrogen in the diet But eight of the building blocks, called essential amino adds, cannot be made by single-stomach animals and must be supplied in the diet. In addition, in order for, the body to make the proteins it needs, all the essential amino acids must be consumed in balanced amounts at approximately the same time. The most balanced proteins (that is, those that supply all eight essential amino acids in adequate amounts) come from animals-meat, fish and dairy products-which provide less than a third of the world's protein Plants, which supply about 60 percent of the protein for people in developing countries, are deficient in one or another essential amino add. In order to obtain usable protein from vegetarian sources then, two different kinds of plant proteins that make up for each other's deficiencies-say, cereals and beans-must be eaten in the same meal. Plant breeders, who by increasing productivity of crops have thus far kept the world from mass starvation, are now re-engineering some of the most fundamental characteristics of plants to improve their protein yield and quality. Breeding for better protein is one of the key efforts in the current protein thrust and one which is most likely to pay off in the near future. Plant breeding is the painstaking. prolonged and somewhat unpredictable task of attempting to change the genes of one kind of plant by crossing it with close-relatives that contain the desired genetic characteristics.

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The going rate for a taxi in a film shot inNew York is $12 an hour. If Reznick himself appears as an extra, he earns between $45 and $92 a day-” phis lunch, dinner, and overtime.” The filming of Kojack also required the use of a taxi in a crash scene, for which Retnick offered his cab, "But I wanted $12 an hour for ever hour it was in the shop, and they wouldn't go for it" Retnick said he wanted into the movies “just for enjoyment,” and his only expenses are an Ifea^ering service’and brochures' listing his credits and telephone numbers which he had printed for $90. Those credits include driving Michael (A1 Pacino) to see his wounded father in the hospital in Tne Godfather,” (he drove a vihtage cab instead of his own); nearly running over Sophia Loren in Sheridan Square in "Mortadella,” (“the picture was a dud but Sophie did the scene herself") and

chaoffering Dennis Weaver in “McCloud” as the star lassoed cnefaf 1W victims from the speUiniii jfaomobile. (“The laksoeing waxWone with trick photography-dten McCloud isn’t that good.”) Reznick is a-little annoyed that he is often seen in his movies but never heard. He came closest to speaking a line in “Thq War Between Men and Womeirr when he cursed Jack Lemmon for nearly stepping in the path of his cab. “You can read my lips, but you can’t hear what I’m saying,” he said. When he’s not filming movie, Reznick drives his cab five days a week, never grossing more than $8 an hour. But his life has changed since he put 12 pictpteS of himself, standing with his favorite stars, on the back of the front seat, under the legend "Taxi and Driver have been in the following motion pictures.” “It's a funny thing about the public,” said the 63 year-old cabbie who plans to retire in two years.

Man's cab is movie star

Louis Reznick, a taxi driver and member of the Screen Actors personalities he’s worked with on major motion pictures and Guild, pictured in his cab in New York, which photos of film television series. (New York Times photo).

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