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10 To Forget—
By Eugene J. McCarthy
Rappahannock News Special Writer
1984 was not a bad year. It went out just as it came in. The Presidential campaign was a minor disturbance, 1 more a distraction. Several irritating persons and issues, at least irritating to me, did fade from the news. I am hopeful that they, and s: .lar persons and related or comparable issues will not appear in 1985. My list of those who I am glad to have gone, and those who I hope will not surface, or re-surface, are these ten:
One: The case of Mary Cunningham and William Agee - a story of love and ambition in the world of corporate conglomerates and mergers. Mary’s book contributed significantly to the loss of interest in the couple’s troubles.
Two: Elizabeth Taylor’s weight problem. The fact that she by report has lost weight and is apparently ready to settle into another marriage should leave us at rest for at least another year, and save us from what 1 saw as threatening, namely, the inclusion of her weight statistics in the evening news statistical summaries, as up five ounces or down six, along with the variations in the Dow Jones Average, the temperature, and the barometric pressure.
Three: Any more of Barbara Walters’ special interviews, if consistent with her last of 1984, which must have come close to exhausting challenging
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