European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes May comments today crossword Lack of permanence is grave problem by Russell Baker some things should be yet so few Perma permanence above permanence the human race requires not in All of and not in too Many but in a few things human philosophical or religious soda base without a few things that endure forever Jimmu life becomes a Savage interchange among aim less this is Why sensitive people aware of How closer each Day brings us to the end of took the news from coca cola the coca cola flavor being abandoned was one of the few experiences we had in common with our i9lh Century to be a soda pop that connects us to the 19th Century is scarcely a taste link to but in a world where resurrected for scientific would be unable to identify the taste of anything that crossed his the old coca cola brought the modern american palate into com Munion with the someone will you mentioned resurrecting great is that and if would he be eligible to subject to Legal proceedings by an insurance company that May have paid death benefits to his and How could i obtain exclusive to and movie rights to his Story someone will say for we no longer have permanent values with which to Cope with death and the birth which once seemed As permanent As anything was Likely Ever to can now be replaced by a Laboratory can the resurrecting of great grandma ther be far off when it becomes we will do of we surely because not to do what it is possible to do is not what we do Here at the butt end of the 20th few things excite us More than news that it is possible to do something that could wipe out All the permanence in the or something that was just amusingly Mons like resurrecting there would be the usual the same people who wanted coca cola to go on tasting the Way it had always the people too Foge fied to move to change with the  trends these people raise the usual for example civil rights quibble resurrecting great grandma ther without his consent would be a violation of his bleeding heart nonsense resurrecting great grand father would be cruel unless you restore him to the Beautiful farm where he lived his entire first which is now the Asphalt covered parking lot for the Gigantic new great grandchildren shopping mall and consumption philosophical lint once we destroy the permanence of death by resurrecting All tradition Al values May collapse with such results As adoption of the designated hitter Rule by the National league and the reformulation of Pepsi cola to taste More like 7 any one of these or three dozen other objections would be persuasive in a society so anchored to Perma nent values that it was prepared to mourn instead of celebrate when one of its ancient Sod pop flavors was when the Art of creating homemade Root Beer was callously abandoned or when that venerable ins Titu the american was converted into a sub stance tasting of Balsa packaged like an oversized Salami and marketed As Turkey we do not inhabit such a we inhabit a society in which Good Are already it would be  to see the old boy gagging on some of that Turkey Roll or sweating like a hog on 60 minutes while Mike Wallace grills him about life in the something in us urges us to destroy what Little permanence the world still though we know How desperately we need it was news of the so called tax Reform Bill in Washington that turned my mind into these gloomy for it deals with the one permanent forever of american the usual it Are being cooked for the Well heeled capita gains these marvelous Waxbill improvements always begin to decay this a few concessions to the fattest hogs at the then panic political better do something for the the end is always another Hundred Mil lion Dollar opportunities for that is the one permanence of american the one forever we can always count i should alas its c 1985 new York times Syndicate where were you when fhe come came new York a Ever since the Tail of valleys Comet swept across the Earth 75 years witnesses have been spinning tall tales about How they lived through it despite the talk of As astronomers prepare for november and the comets first visit to these parts since a Man with a burning interest in the passing phenomenon is collecting the stories of those who Hope to see it for the second Joseph an associate Dean at Burlington Community in says he gets 10 to 20 answers a Day to solicitations in several National Many respondents say they remember being held by their parents to watch the Comet in Laufer we were told that the Tail of the Comet consisted of Poison gases and that it was possible that life on Earth would be wiped out if we passed through the Tail of the wrote Oliver Johnson of who was 10 at the we Are still who Hopes to compile his research into a said he found that Coal miners in re fused to go into the shafts while the Comet was around for fear of dying Down in they were Selling Comet he they said if you took those nothing would happen to so people were gorging themselves on sugar for it was an occasion for on May Laufer guests at one elegant Chicago hotel quaffed 50 bottles of Champagne on the then held the empties aloft to collect Comet Laufer said most accounts by astronomers describe the 1910 Comet As a big Star with a Wisp of a a far More modest sight than that reported in Many of the one from 87yearold Carl Wheaton of described the Comet As about the size of a full with a Long Tail stretching Miles toward the Laufer publishes a valleys Comet watch for those who share his and teaches a course on the Comet at his the Comet will become visible to the naked Eye near the end of 1985 and the Best areas for viewing Are expected to be in the Southern because of its relative position to the Sun and it is Likely to appear a lot less spectacular than it did in american author Mark who was born in the year of an appearance by the died 75 years on april the Day after the comets Peri he the Point at which it was closest to the he had predicted that two freaks will go out Laufer an by Eugene Sheffer acbos8 1 French Painter 4 Start for Nail or Nob 7 Correct 11 uprising 13 Indian 14 israeli dance 15 the Man in Black 16 wire measure 17 redact 18 Sandman gift 20 cabbage salad 22 Kentucky Bluegrass 24 Beer mugs 28 Pecan confection 32 offspring 33 Etna output 34 tax exempt 36 Young children 37 egg shaped 39 globes 41 confined 43 High play 44 skiers wish 46 folklore Dwarf 50 desirable Job 53 Pinch 55 theater 56 Verdi opera 57 sided uneven 58 san Italy 59 unskilled worker 60 colleague 61 author Anais Down 1 Circle segments 2 Coin of Iran 3 work As a Model 4 Buzz 5 elevator Man 6 Chimes 7 Gary Cooper role 8 anglers need 9 Swiss Canton 10 have a snack solution time 27 min 527 to saturdays 12 Gary Cooper role 19 Luau dish 21 Philip Pine 23 cuckoo 25 River to the Danube 26 unadorned 27 soap Frame bar 28 drop suddenly 29 rant 30 English River 31 hesitation sounds 35 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