Carol Foreback

Mr. Richard H. NolteThe Alicia Patterson Fund535 Fifth AvenueNew York, New York Dear Dick, Now that I am back at Newsweek, Tina and I want to express our thanks to the directors and staff of APF for making the past year possible. To say that our sabbatical was unique, unparalleled, idyllic would slight the experience. We fell into the pace, peace and pleasure of continental European life fairly precipitously and now that we are back we are experiencing the normal re-entry problems. Tina nearly passed out when she visited her first supermarket since our return. I allowed my driver’s license to expire and have been trying to register a VW we bought in Holland: this process has convinced me that the lines in the Prague police station moved fairly fast and that bureaucracies are the case everywhere. But these are piddling points. The year abroad has changed our perspective in a number of ways. It was a fascinating experience to view our homeland from an ocean away, and unsettling in light of last year’s tumultuous