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Show Nostalgia, Parenthood, Vacations, Responsibility What others a re saying official sages continue to wonder why we're faced with hordes of insects." Murray Kempton: "The Central States (Conference of) Teamsters pension fund has been scandously managed by Teamster officials without either its employer co-trustees or the government manifasting any real degree of concern. In the past two years, $77 million of the loans of its j one-and-a-half billion dollar portfolio have had to be written off as worthless." Kevin Phillips: "John Kennedy was in some ways the American counterpart coun-terpart of Trajan, the emperor who presided over Home at the height of its imperial glory. We'd like to have those years, those circumstances, back again. Edward Kennedy can't bring them back, of course no one can -but nostalgia is a powerful force in politics.. .and I'm not surprised that even many conservatives find themselves oddly drawn to the Kennedy Ken-nedy name... I suspect it's an illusion. But I'm not surprised." Wallace Terry: "Each day tha' I have teen blessed by the joys of parenthood, I have been blessed by an attendant bill. Children, my parents told me, would get older; they never suggested they would become more expensive. So I would like to wish upon every American family at least one child who knows the value of money, and who may even want to work for it." Ellen Goodman: "Somehow the people in our society who are most clearly, indelibly labelled essential seem to get the most vacation. Moreover, they manage to get it all at the same time. Is this some sleight of hand or sleight of tongue?" Marianne Means: "A common fear of the draft mobilized young people a decade ago, but currently there is no similar national issue to unify them and propel them to vote.. .Their relative indifference to the political process may merely reflect the fact that their family and financial responsibilities have not yet given them the kind of permanent stake in society which has traditionally motivated adults to vote. I trust that they are still sufficiently . optimistic and idealistic to have escaped thus far that sense of alienation and frustration which troubles some of us who are older." M. Stanton Evans: "While there are no know deaths attributable to DDT, there are millions traceable to its absence. The Environmental Protection Agency, meantime, continues con-tinues to ban insecticides, and the |