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Your article about my confirmation hearings, "Requiem for a 'Do-Gooder' " [June 15], touches briefly on the real issue, which was ideological. You then drop the subject and pick up the gossip. The point in question was President Carter's use of a rubber yardstick, which emphasized the human rights abuses by our friends more than the abuses by our adversaries...
Visually, the series was nearly always interesting, from its pictures of U.S. officeworkers wearing gas masks and rubber gloves while pecking away at typewriters during a chemical-warfare exercise to a shot of a live American MIRV (three nuclear warheads mounted on the nose cone of a Minuteman III missile). Understated ironies abounded. A fresh-faced American missileman exclaimed with Boy Scout enthusiasm that his task of getting ready to launch a Minuteman at a Soviet target gave him "more responsibility than I could obtain in a civilian world." Commenting on film showing a C-5A cargo plane losing...
...cause may be, prevail over other interests that may affect the well-being of far more people, even that of the whole country? The resource is molybdenum (moly, as friend and foe both call it), a strategic metal used not only to strengthen steel but to make fertilizer, rubber, lubricants, plastics and paints. Just three miles from Crested Butte's Main Street, deep inside 12,414-ft. Mount Emmons, lies buried what may be one of the richest molybdenum deposits in the world, worth some $4 billion...
...book's best chapter could stand alone in any anthology of humor. Back in the '40s, the untried Herriot attempts to test a bull for fertility. His instrument: a vulcanized rubber tube filled with warm water. The bull, eying a potential mate near by, is in no mood for experiments and furiously charges the young vet: "I met him with a backhanded slash. The elastic came off and the water fountained in the bull's eyes ... I have often wondered since that day if I am the only veterinary surgeon to have used an artificial vagina...
...outside the embassy building on Grosvenor Square. Inside, 60 employees process as many as 6,000 applications a day. At any moment, some 60,000 to 80,000 British passports are in the embassy's hands. Boxes and baskets overflow with applications. Harried staff give hurried glances before rubber-stamping approval. Applicants, once thronged inside, now wait mainly outside. Says Visa Unit Chief Diane Dillard: "We have a factory here. It's dehumanizing, demoralizing...