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Show Page 9A Lakeside Review Thursday, January 8, 1981 From the Review Staff ratal Giant' By PHIL KIRKWOOD in situations like this. Dont hand me that bull, screamed the woman, now looking like shed have a seizure at any moment. I happen to know that you can fly that plane by computer and that it can land in any kind of weather including your socalled fog. You just want to keep us here so well spend more money in your Staff Writer I hadnt given it much thought during the past few weeks when the news reports read that Salt Lake City International was closed due to fog. But it was the only thing on my mind as I completed my 17th straight hour in L.A. International waiting for the fog to lift in Salt Lake so we could (as they say in the air travel business) bunny hop over there. But as time wore on, my chances looked slim., Long hours in an airport waiting for a plane you know is never taking off can be frustrating. Especially when the previous nine flights have been canceled and youre 212th on a waiting list for a plane that only holds 150 people in the first place. I just have to make it to Salt Lake, screamed a woman while shaking her fist at the ticket clerk. Im all alone with my four kids, one of them is sick and we have to meet my husband in time to reserve our ski lodge. Im sorry, but the fog hasnt lifted enough for us to land and besides the skiing is terrible in Utah right now, said the clerk with a sterm face. You and your kids will just have to wait it out like the rest of us." I guess ticket clerks learn to be cold -, terminal. The woman did have a point about spending money in the terminal. After all, when beer is $1.40 per glass and a cafeteria style lunch $7.40 without dessert, somebodys making a buck. The clerk, now visibly irritated, began . thumbing some through forms for their courtesy hotel room and free meal ticket. The woman was still complaining when we boarded the bus for the hotel, but the driver must have been used to this type of traveler because he just turned up his radio and motioned to her and the kids to sit toward the back. Now that Im home, (thats right, our flight did manage to make the bunny hop the next morning) and I hear the airport is fogged in, my heart goes out to those people waiting in terminals around the country. I can see them standing in endless lines, throwing carry-o- n luggage at each other in frustration and then spending their last dollars on a stale turkey sandwich garnished with limp celery sticks and withered lettuce. I can see them making frantic long distance phone calls to inform loved ones that they may not make it and that the fresh fruit they promised to bring home wont be all that fresh. paperwork on the counter. Id really love to sit here and discuss weather patterns and safety with you, he said firmly, trying not to explode. "But I have a ton of work to do. Put her on a plane to Denver and let her walk, bellowed a tall man standing toward the end of the line. Stuff it buddy, replied the woman. I guess airport crowds can get vicious I can see them making mad, dashes for stand-b- y when the ticket line stalls. seating on other airlines only to have those flights canceled just v Well thats it; the last flight was just canceled and now thousands of at boarding time. Yes, my heart goes stranded travelers (well it seemed that out to those weary travelers because way when the angry mob all started the Salt Lake fog is a brutal giant to all moving at once) began filling out the who plan to venture here. Look: Liz Taylors first marriage license! WINTERIZE YOUR went through great in an essay in the Washington Post to say that the conservatives new ideas arent new at all (Criticism of that sort is yet another form of flattery). Media moguls also are paying atas youll see if you flip tention Green recently By EDWIN FEULNER President of the Heritage Foundation Senator Edward Kennedy has just offered conservatives the sincerest form of flattery imitation. to Wall Street Journal, the According the Senator is thinking of starting a to generate new private think-tan- k ideas for liberal programs. One suspects the inspiration for this scheme comes from the success conservative think-tank- s have had in providing in- tellectual ammunition in the battle of ideas. Senator Kennedy isnt the only one who has noticed the conservative in- contortions through your favorite news magazine or newspaper, where youre likely to find at least one article on conservative think-tank- changed! It was only yesterday that the phrase conservative intellectual would have provoked derisive laughter in establishment political and academic circles. Now, the liberals envy us our think-tank- s and our thinkers. Whats going on? The answer is: nothing less than a revolution. For the past few decades, the intellectual tellectual revival. Senator Daniel Patrick Moyniham of New York laments that the best new ideas are coming from the right these days. Mark Nader understudy And Ralph Times certainly have s. establishment in this country was ' even exclusively predominantly liberal. So, for the most part, was the government. The liberals in academia and the liberals in government made an unhappy marriage (unhappy for the rest of us, that is). The academics thought up new programs for the government, and the government put those programs into effect in the process, creating grants and jobs for the academics, and usually, more problems. With nearly all the major institutions of American society in happy liberal accord, the liberal thinkers got lazy. They couldnt help it. Conservatives, however, had the incentive to try to propose constructive harder alternatives rather than merely attack liberal programs. Now, their worjjt is paying off. Im not bringing this up just to kick Letters to the Review Editor: An open Review Editor: letter to Utah Reston, residents. . Christmas. Merry These greetings were recently purveyed by the Governor and a Lame-Duc- k session of the legislature in the form of additional taxes. But dont be discouraged friends, thats exactly what you wanted last November. The votes you cast and (for those of you who didnt vote) the votes you didnt cast are now going to hit you square in the pocket-boo- k. state budget may be reduced, but you still gave the governor and the legislature a ' blank check. Oh yes, the unless . Rowen, Raspberry and Royko, plus Wicker, Kraft and a few others of the great liberal prognosticators, after being made fools of, on the voters by November 4, are now predicting,, if only by. inuendo, the country is in for a terrible four years k, morality tale for American SHOES! soles & heels Waterproofing Non-sli- p " Boot Is Repair Our Specialty" Zippers Vibram soles & heels (Waffl. Stomp.rs) Patch tears SthOjplpQ & cuts 2 LOCATIONS: con- servatives. This is not a particularly ideological country. Americans, a practical people, are interested in programs that work, not just those that sound good. If conservatives are to stay in power, they must remain as clear- - sighted and alert as they were when they were out of power. SUNSET LAYTON COBBLER SHOP DIAMOND T LEATHER 451 No. Main 300 W. 1300 N. Tel. Tel. 773-934- 2 OPEN: 11-- 6 OPEN: Doily Closed Sunday 766-130- 1 Mon.-Fri- . 9-- 6 9-- 4 Sat. 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