As one born in '45, the residuals of the McCarthy era were definitely a part of my upbringing. My senior year of high school found me trying to pass a required course in "Americanism VS Communism" in the Florida school system. To put some flavor to the era, this was just months after the "Cuban Missle Crisis" where we were scarily close to nuclear war. With 40yrs of hind sight, I see myself then as just about as brainwashed as a Russian kid. The whole era had many crimes committed by those who thought in absolute, black and white, patterns. One of the things I like about the media these days, is the clear evidence that every day is a "Slow News Day" by the standards I grew up with. There aren't nearly the number of atrocities being committed these days by "Our Good Guys" against "Their Bad Guys". JWSmith