Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congratulations on your coverage of Jesse Jackson and his attempt to mobilize black voters for the presidential election of 1984 [Aug. 22]. Jackson represents a rallying point for all voters disillusioned with the status quo of American politics. His dedication to fulfilling the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. should remind Americans of their obligation to ensure equality of representation for everyone, regardless of color or station in life...
...excellent firsthand account "Inside Castro's Prisons" [Aug. 15] by Armando Valladares is a rewarding sign of the strength of true democracy and a free press. The inhuman conditions of Castro's jails either have not been permitted to be reported objectively in the American news media or have been shouted down by the well-oiled and lavishly financed international Marxist left. You have shown bravery and independence in publishing this touching narration...
Richard N. Ostling's article on the sixth assembly of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver, B.C. [Aug. 22], sized up the situation exactly. I attended, and it was good to see the W.C.C.'s decidedly anticapitalist bent exposed with the use of solid facts...
...baseball fan for half a century, I dispute Tom Callahan's contention that we all depreciate present-day stars in favor of those from our youth [Aug. 22]. I rate Johnny Bench ahead of Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey and Roy Campanella. I rate Strikeout Artist Nolan Ryan above Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean and Sandy Koufax. And I rate Callahan's pithy, disciplined but delicious piece on the waning golden age above any single article I have ever read by Grantland Rice or Red Smith. So, Tom, don't go around prejudging us as prejudgers! Hear...
Some 675,000 telephone workers will be back on the job this week, ending their strike that began Aug. 7. Aside from the workers, not too many people are likely to notice. So automated is the Bell System that it handles 561 million calls a day with fewer employees than ever. As a result, most U.S. phone communications hummed along during the strike without so much as an interfering bleep, although callers had to wait a little longer for directory and operator assistance from substituting supervisory people or from what Harley Shaiken, a labor analyst at the Massachusetts Institute...