Word: madmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They may be the last real madmen as well. Lyle Nelson, 34, devotes himself to exasperating events that combine grueling cross-country races with marksmanship. Biathletes ski a demanding course, periodically halting to fire a .22-cal. rifle from 50 meters at small metal discs. Trying to steady on a target with a heart beating 200 times a minute from skiing is, says former U.S. Coach Art Stegen, "like a high jumper running a 5,000-meter race as an approach...
Your double-headed Man of the Year is well chosen. Since both are reasonable men, not madmen in the Khomeini and Gaddafi image, no bombs have been dropped. After a century of Pax Britannica and a short period of Pax Americana, the world has entered the phase of Pax Atomica. The only danger is the so-called peace movement in the West, which imperils the balance of power. This can lead to nuclear war or to nuclear blackmail and surrender of the West. Andropov's side will not relinquish its strength...
AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS and weapons continue to flow to Duvalier, Marcos, and Pinochet in the name of protecting "U.S. interests." Opponents of these madmen who seek refuge in the U.S. seem unfortunately to forget that it was American troops who put the tyrants in power and that it is American business that benefits from the cheap labor and natural resources in Haiti, the Philippines and Chile. Above all, they seem to forget that certain countries can and do kill with impunity, even within the borders of the United States, so long as overall "U.S. interests are safeguarded...
...bonus: there are no penalties for wrong answers. The weight of the argument and the heat of the debate are what count now. And of all the people who have floated these questions into the cultural ozone?scientists and sociologists, computer freaks and microchip madmen, quick-buck artists and free-falling futurists?none has kept them aloft for so long, or turned them to such profitable purpose, as Steven Paul Jobs...
...decaying madmen who cannot keep alive...