Man And Woman Of The Year: Hitting Close to Home

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I won't come downtown after dark and neither will my friends. The city is deserted after dark. Everybody is afraid to walk on the streets. I think the Supreme Court is ruining the country with its decisions. Criminals are being released on technicalities. My husband is an oil-burner mechanic, and he used to be on call 24 hours a day. No more. He doesn't work after dark.

Mrs. Barbara Baisley, 34, the wife of a Glencoe, Ill., lawyer, worries about the America in which her four children are growing up: I want my children to live and grow up in an America as I knew it, where we were proud to be citizens of this country. I'm damned sick and tired of listening to all this nonsense about how awful America is. If you feel that way, why stay here? We were brought up to think that anything that is worthwhile in life is worth working for and sacrificing for. It's never going to be one big beautiful world, like some of the flower children seem to be demanding. Life isn't like that.