It Was a Friendly, Smiling Face We Saw, but It <i> Was </i> the Face of Racism
Dodger class was evident 25 years ago when they built a stadium with but one water fountain!
LES SCHULTZ
Seal Beach
Editor’s note: Viewpoint received slightly more than 175 letters in the wake of the Campanis affair , considerably more than on any other issue in recent years. The views expressed broke down roughly as follows: 54% deplored his remarks and applauded his forced resignation; 26% defended Campanis, the man, but not his remarks; 9% deplored his remarks but disagreed with his resignation; 6% defended his remarks (and in most of these cases went far beyond them); 3% blamed Ted Koppel for the whole incident; 1.7% saw it as a “free speech” issue. One writer called it a Communist plot.
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