Dear Ann Landers, am the mother of two small children. I have a job outside my home. All of this keeps me extremely busy. I have never had the time or felt a real desire to write to you before today. An outraged reader recently wrote to you about global warming and the so-called greenhouse effect. Please read the enclosed story from the San Bernardino Sun in California. "University researchers will strap gas-measuring equipment to cows to find out how bovine belching might be contributing to the green-house effect. Washington State University researchers will get $70,000 a year for three years from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to determine how much methane cows and other cud-chewing animals make when they belch." I never would have believed it if someone just told me about this. It sounds like some of the sensational garbage that you might see in a su-permarket tabloid. Ann, please tell me this isn't true. I hate to think our Environmental Protection Agency is throwing away money on such an absurd re-search project. If they would like some suggestions for their $70,000, I'd like to remind them of the homeless and hungry people in our country. -Redlands, Calif.
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Dear Readers, , 1974. There, for all the world to see, was the advice goddess (literally in the flesh) luxuriating in a marble bathtub with nothing between her and all those bulging eyes but a zillion blue and pink bubbles. How did you find the nerve, Ann? Were you really naked? Was the photographer a female? Wfliat reaction did you get from the public? Did you receive many complaints? Dare you print this letter and re-spond to my questions? -Sightly Square in Newark Dear Slightly: That color photo by Elliott Erwitt on the cover of The New York Ti?nes Magazine section created quite a sensation. I was wearing a strapless bathing suit and used three bottles of bub-ble bath. The first reaction was from Clifton Wfliarton Jr., then presi-dent of Michigan State University in East Lansing, and his lovely wife, Delores. They thought the photo was smashing. My readers, family and friends were delighted, not only with the photo but the splendid interview by the late Judy Wax. The only neg-ative comment came from Father Ted Hesburgh, president of the Uni-versity of Notre Dame. My friend, the Reverend, considered it “out of character and inappropriate, but not indecent.” Once in a great while, something truly momentous happens in my life and I feel I must share it with you, my readers. You have been my loyal friends for forty years. Here are a few of the special columns where my personal and public life came together:
