Flower Power on the March, Divesting in Los Angeles, Spelling in Court, and Other Matters. Just Asking
By DANIEL SELIGMAN REPORTER ASSOCIATE Wilton Woods

(FORTUNE Magazine) – In which your correspondent, egged on by hardly anybody, resumes his still unexplained habit of windily propounding questions guaranteed to remain unanswered. -- How could the mighty American media overlook the latest bombshells in the post-Campanis crusade for affirmative action at the major-league manager level, or was it rated non-newsworthy when Baseball Commissioner Pete Ueberroth said on ABC's middle-of-the-night Sportsnite program that he wants more Canadians working in franchises north of the border and Pete's new EEO consultant, sports sociologist Harry Edwards, casually indicated that the game plan also envisions women running things in the dugout? -- Now that TV is making household words out of numerous Washington names with a Central American connection, can it be long before Detroit Congressman George Crockett, 77, gets his turn, and what kind of instant analysis will the tubesters provide when they get around to confronting the slightly astonishing fact that the House foreign affairs subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere is now chaired by a guy (that would be George) who has had many connections to U.S. Communist party officials, once worked as a lawyer for the New York Communist Party, once (1974) organized a birthday celebration for party official James Jackson, and more recently has been active in promoting such causes as aid for the Marxist Salvadoran rebels, and how will Tom Brokaw vote when somebody impolitely asks about denying classified material to old George? -- Where were the media when the New York Racing Association elected not to give free passes to aides of State Representative Ivan C. Lafayette, Democrat of Queens, and why is the press only now reporting the ensuing bad blood between the NYRA and Ivan, and couldn't somebody have provided timely warning that their unfortunate lack of rapport would cause the scuttling, once again, of plans to reduce the state's infamous 17% ''takeout'' (the state tax) on winning bets at the race track, a tax reform rated a winner as recently as a month ago? -- If John F. Kennedy had miraculously witnessed the Seven Dwarfs debating in Houston recently, would he not have felt obliged to give the Profiles in Courage award to Jesse Jackson, who boldly defended the praise he once heaped on Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, especially since none of the other little men had the nerve to criticize Jesse's answer when given the opportunity? -- In trying to judge whether Ronald Reagan is becoming an ineffectual lame duck, is it not unreassuring, fellow neoconservatives, to note that the Prez not only failed to cackle derisively at the ''Peace Garden'' legislation that landed on his desk a while back but absent-mindedly went ahead and signed this cloying concept into law, causing the National Park Service to be now running around looking for some suitable site for flora believed to induce pacific thinking?