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A report on a survey which investigated the use of Med resources by surviving veterans of the Spanish-Amer War (N= 1,678). The youngest R's were in their late 70's. A survey response rate of 92% was achieved. It is pointed out that a res'er need have no fear in embarking on a survey of aged persons if he knows them to be in reasonably good health, if the topic of res is one that touches them personally, & if he has no reason to believe that they are more mobile than aged persons are wont to be. After each survey, each of the 149 interviewers filled out a brief questionaire on which he on which he recorded his reactions to his particular assignment. 75% rated this survey easier than others on which they had worked, 14% found it no cliff, & only 11% thought it harder. On the whole, R's enjoyed the interview &/or were cooperative. A study of the interviewers provided personal & att'al data on 111 of the interviewers, which were cross-tabulated with selected items from the interviewers' responses to the 9 recording their reactions. Interviewer quality (N of yrs' experience, educ, & agreement that most people enjoy being interviewed) showed no clear relationship with positive response to the above study. The strongest relationship with a positive reaction to the study was found with 3 items describing an interviewer who sees herself as a religious, noncynical person, who enjoys engaging in verbal expression. A positive interview response was found to be related to the rate of activity or interaction among R's-the higher the rate of activity, the more likely a positive interview response. Most of the R's had a high rate of involvement in a range of normal soc roles. 1 Table. M. Maxfield.