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Those Who Remember Washington's Cold War Culture In The 1980s Will Recall The Shocked Reactions To Reagan's Intervention. People Interested In Foreign Policy Were Astonished When In 1985 He Met Alone At Geneva - Alone, Not A Single Strategic Thinker At His Elbow! - With The Soviet Communist Master Gorbachev.

A $10 Million Windfall? At Today's Prices, I'd Feel Almost As Rich As I Did One Day In 1936 When I Found A Dime On The Sidewalk And Blew The Whole Wad On 20 Mary Jane Candy Bars, A Box Of Jujubes, And A Double Feature.

We Honor Ambition, We Reward Greed, We Celebrate Materialism, We Worship Acquisitiveness, We Commercialize Art, We Cherish Success And Then We Bark At The Young About The Gentle Arts Of The Spirit. The Kids Know That If We Really Valued Learning, We Would Pay Our Teachers What We Pay Our Lawyers And Stockbrokers. If We Valued Art, We Would Not Measure It By Its Capacity To Produce Profits. If We Regarded Literature As Important, We Would Remove It From The Celebrity Sweepstakes And Spend A Little Money On Our Libraries.

Unpleasant Questions Are Being Raised About Mother's Day. Is This Day Necessary? . . . Isn't It Bad Public Policy? . . . No Politician With Half His Senses, Which A Majority Of Politicians Have, Is Likely To Vote For Its Abolition, However. As A Class, Mothers Are Tender And Loving, But As A Voting Bloc They Would Not Hesitate For An Instant To Pull The Seat Out From Under Any Congressman Who Suggests That Mother Is Not Entitled To A Box Of Chocolates Each Year In The Middle Of May.

What Sweeter Words Can Fall On The Human Ear? It's Going To Be May All Week Long.