TROUBLE IN FLORIDA
Sir:
As a lifetime Florida resident, I am truly grateful for your attention to my state's environmental dilemma. Your articles There's Trouble in Paradise (Feb. 9, 1981) and Special Report: Anatomy of a Man-made Drought (March 15) echo an occasional warning about the threat to Florida's water supply sounded by responsible newspapers around the state. Unfortunately those who issue such warnings are lightly regarded Cassandras to land developers who make big bucks by luring more residents to Florida while further complicating our water problems. Perhaps further exposure is what is needed to awaken a state filling with new residents to the perils at hand.
ROBERT DRESCHER JR.
Silver Springs, Fla.
Sir:
Your special report on the water situation in Florida was excellent. We are annual visitors to Florida and are dismayed by the lack of appreciation for environmental issues by the natives. My son did a college paper in 1970 on the water problem in Florida. A lot of this information has been available for 12 to 15 years.
Stupid politicians and greedy land developers have raped Florida of its most valuable natural resource: water.
JOHN E. MILLER
Hutchinson, Minn.
Sir:
What do droughts have to do with sports? I expected to read about Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the New York Islanders and the grueling Ironman World Triathlon.
CHRISTOPHER CHICHESTER
Lake Grove, N.Y.
GEORGE ALLEN IN MONTREAL
Sir:
Hiring George Allen (For Allen, This Is Alien Territory, March 15) to make the Montreal Alouettes cost effective is the same as appointing an arsonist as fire chief. Allen is nonpareil as a coach, but as a guardian of the pocketbook he's terribly miscast.
ANDREA MEDICI
Corpus Christi, Texas
Sir:
In your article George Allen expresses a wish for a translation into French of the motto "To win without peril is to triumph without glory." He need only refer to Corneille's great play, Le Cid, Act II, Scene 2. The passage reads: "A vaincre sans p�ril, on triomphe sans gloire."
However, his other wish, the one for a Grey Cup, will not be granted. The Canadian Football League champions will be Ottawa's beloved Rough Riders.
GILLES RENAUD
Ottawa
Sir:
I read with pleasure your article on George Allen. It might be of interest to your readers to know that in addition to running and reading, he has been serving with distinction, and in his usual hardworking style, as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
HOWARD F. FLETCHER
Special Advisor
President's Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports
Atherton, Calif.
WIFFLERS
Sir:
Talk about memories! The Wiffle Ball story by Franz Lidz (FIRST PERSON. March 22) made me feel half my age. We weren't as organized as the Herman Wiffle Ball Four, but we had a six-man league in Merion Park. Pa., just a few home runs east of Penn Valley, that predated the Herman league by several years. Our games were all played at "Myers Field," which was split between the pitcher's mound and home plate by our street. Our star pitcher, Joe Reichman, had a knuckle curve that was utterly predictable—somewhere in the strike zone above or below your bat.
Oh, that we could continue our competition! But we six now live in five different states. However, if we ever all come home, Lidz, Herman and company had better be prepared for a challenge match.
LUIS R. DORFMAN
Gulfport, Miss.
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