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...tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich." The President singled out as assailants the governments of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Cuba and Nicaragua. Strikingly absent from the list was any mention of Syria, a frequent U.S. nemesis...
...included a generous sprinkling of lighter quandaries (do you mention a friend's bad breath to him, do you tell another player you have seen his answer card?) and imaginary situations (you are a politician . . .). But even the picayune posers are intended to provoke. Says Makow: "The small decisions are very important. People love to talk about these everyday moral dilemmas...
...progress, and not just in the soft-drink business. Experts in the automobile industry decided a few years ago that people no longer wanted convertibles (which were dangerous, besides), so they stopped making them. They ignored charges that they were tampering with the American way of life, not to mention the birth rate, but they did not ignore the rising price of used convertibles. So they started making them again. There was a time, similarly, when wrinkle-free plastic fabrics were supposed to replace cotton shirts forever. But when enough people complained that the plastic didn't let much...
...some other deplorable changes in our lives be undone? Or, rather, why can't we make some changes in a different direction? If they can bring back the old Coke, why can't they bring back the double-decker bus? And strawberries that have a taste? Not to mention chickens and tomatoes and potatoes? And milk that still has the cream on top, so that you can whip it and slather it over the tasty strawberries...
TIME'S stories on the climax of the Beirut hostage crisis [NATION, July 8] were exceptional. But you failed to mention one possible method of preventing terrorist acts against Americans in the Middle East: travel to the region must be severely restricted, if not stopped altogether. David S. Draper Arcata, Calif...