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NASA's geezer-in-space program starring Senator John Glenn holds many benefits for American society [SPACE, Jan. 26]. The ultimate political junket, this program could entice Senators such as Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms to leave terra firma, giving us respite from their earthly resistance to progress. C. "JACK" BEECHER West Swanzey...
Older mothers disagree, of course. People live longer nowadays, they argue, and stay healthy and strong well into their 70s and 80s. Besides, when an elderly man fathers a child--Strom Thurmond or Tony Randall, to name just two recent examples--many applaud his virility. When an older woman bears a child, she is seen as some sort of freak. Yet sexist as it may seem, most experts agree that the mother is usually the more crucial parent...
...argue with the mock "Peninsula Woman Presidents of the United States Watch" or "The Peninsula Strom Thurmond Three Bullets Away From the Presidency Watch?" How can you argue with an item in the fake Gazette titled "Loker Commons to Add Customers"? Maybe the Lampoon, if it was responsible, went too far last week by sending dozens of first-years to the Hasty Pudding for a punch event at which they weren't welcome. The prank displayed a callousness and an unmitigated deviousness that cannot be condoned. It was also one of the funniest things to happen on campus...
...when it comes to unwarranted public interest in a subject. Not surprisingly, many more Roswell books will be hitting the shelves just in time to capitalize on the Incident's anniversary. The most notorious is Pocket Books' The Day After Roswell, the volume that features a foreword by Strom Thurmond that the Senator disavowed two weeks ago when he learned what the book was actually about. Written by Philip J. Corso, a retired Army-intelligence officer and former member of Thurmond's staff, The Day After Roswell numbers among its many revelations the claim that ever since 1947, when...
Oops. Strom Thurmond became Storm Thurmond after finding he'd penned the foreword to a book that says the government covered up a 1947 UFO landing at Roswell, N.M. The book was written by a former Thurmond aide and Army intelligence officer. The Senator said he thought it was to be a memoir...