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Subject: Re: Who says religion isn't important in America?
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 16:48:27 EST
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> The results of the 1985 Good Housekeeping Most Admired Men Poll are
> as follows:
> 
> 1.  Ronald Reagan
> 2.  Jerry Falwell
> 3.  Billy Graham
> 4.  Pope John Paul II
> 5.  Bob Hope
> 6.  Lech Walesa
> 7.  Lee Iacocca
> 8.  Alan Alda
> 9.  Tom Selleck
> 10. Norman Vincent Peale
> 
> Richard Nixon was thirteenth, George Bush fifteenth and Barry Goldwater
> twentieth.  Any comments?
> 
You bet I have comments!  (here are some of them:)

These may be the most admired men but they are not the most
financially rewarded men.  I doubt that accomplished, refined
people would even answer a poll like this -- so the results
are indicative of a lower class troglydyte (sp.?) subculture
anyway.  These people (I notice not a single scientist or
engineer/technologist with the possible exception of Iacocca)
have little to do with advance of society through technology,
which is the most significant accomplishment of our times.
That's because the average man in the street isn't capable of
understanding calculus or anything about science or technology.
It's one thing to become a preacher or political leader, and
another thing entirely to become a Richard P. Feynman, A. Einstein,
etc.

--J. Abeles
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