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...about American society struck us during President Reagan's recent hospitalization [NATION, July 22]. Unlike citizens of some countries, we know exactly what illness our President suffers from. It was not kept from the public, nor was it disguised as a "bad cold." Charlotte and Jeff Blair Fort Valley, Ga...
...range planning. With new Administrations come policy shifts, fluctuations in funding and changes in attitude toward the U.S.S.R. If we were not able to go to the Olympics with the Soviets, how will we ever be able to join with them to go to Mars? Thomas P. Garmon Riverdale, Ga. Pens and Pampers...
...mastermind Kevin Barnes daydreams of here is considerably more recent than usual. These two minutes hearkens more than anything—more, even, than the “Age of Aquarius”—to the period in the late ’90s when the Athens, Ga.-based Elephant 6 collective produced some of the more trippy retro-psych this side of “Hair.” When, for a moment, it seemed as if the Beatles and the Beach Boys had never come down from their mid-century heights, but merely taken up residence...
These mementos belong to the president of GA Technologies Inc., a company described in its brochure as one of "diverse interests and programs, ranging from the development of advanced energy conversions systems to the production of nuclear instrumentation and radiation monitoring equipment." "They still give me an office to play in," says Agnew, suggesting that his days of hands-on running the company are over. GA Technologies is a very big thing to run: 1984 sales of $160 million and 1,800 employees. Filling 350 well-tended acres behind a high wire gate near La Jolla, Calif., the company resembles...
...fact, GA Technologies looks a good deal like the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, of which Agnew was once the director, succeeding Norris Bradbury, who succeeded Los Alamos' first director, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "Oppie" of the story about the swiped films. The "Groves" is General Leslie Groves, military commander of the Manhattan Project. The films Groves was chasing were the only ones taken of the Hiroshima bomb at the moment it went off. Agnew's Great Artiste was one of the planes seen by the boys in Yoshitaka Kawamoto's schoolyard when assembly was held the morning...