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...sale of overpriced candy bars and other sugar-laden snacks as a fund-raising tool. There is seldom a time during the school year when some group is not selling some sugary treat. And obviously, if students buy it, they're going to eat it. Richard Lee Hunter Spiro, Oklahoma, U.S. World's Movers and Shakers I was truly saddened and disappointed that you omitted any mention of Aung San Suu Kyi in your selection of the 100 Most Influential People. I participated in the People Power Revolution of 1986 against Ferdinand Marcos and I know how important...
RICHARD LEE HUNTER Spiro, Okla...
...ailment as "smallpox," a reference to the holes left in its outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case, Columbia offers in its fashion a symbol not only of the Reagan Administration but of the U.S. as it rolls into the '80s--way behind schedule, well over budget, its hopes, as ever, riding on machines ... Unlike its predecessors, Columbia is not a one-shot deal...
Nixon and Spiro Agnew, below, are re-elected...
...inhibit a good ranter. But ranting is not always entertaining. Often it is embarrassing, even shaming. Sometimes, if it issues forth from a politician or religious zealot with ambitions, it becomes sinister. The U.S. has a fairly rich tradition of ranters, from Thomas Paine to Joseph McCarthy to Spiro Agnew (whose ranting was actually a satire on the form) to Louis Farrakhan. A citizen named Peter Muggins caught the essense of the rant in an intense if repetitious letter to Abraham Lincoln: "God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell...