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...Airs Above the Ground, Stewart...
...Kennedy Administration's goal of balancing the ability to mete out massive (nuclear) retaliation with the troop strength, versatility and mobility needed to fight limited actions. Five years ago, the U.S. could have blown up much of the world, but it could not have put a relatively small ground force into Southeast Asia without undermining its strength elsewhere. Today the U.S. is able to honor its worldwide commit ments while fighting in South Viet Nam. For some of the very reasons that he is under attack in Congress, McNamara has been able to keep the defense budget from growing...
...high school get its brain-busting math and science courses off the ground and make them soar through the students' minds? The Atlanta public schools have blue-skied a wingding answer: they are teaching the kids to fly airplanes. Last week the most advanced of 45 boys and seven girls in the courses offered by three Atlanta high schools began flying a new Piper Cherokee 140 lent to the schools by the manufacturer...
Hazelwood leased a plane at his own expense, took his students aloft. Then he taught a second class two nights a week to 18 teachers so they could qualify to teach ground-school courses. He also found three other flying instructors in the school system and two already qualified ground teachers. The pilot-instructors include two Negro teachers (a third of the students are Negro) plus Mrs. Georgia Eidson, an energetic history teacher and former Women's Air Force pilot. With that nucleus, school officials made the course a regular part of the curriculum this year. It includes instruction...
...There were 37 million amateur musicians in the U.S. last year, up from 19 million in 1950. Mostly they played the piano (22.3 million), the guitar (7,500,000) and the organ (3,600,000). The ukulele and the accordion, fortunately, lost ground. In 1950 one of every 7.8 Americans played a musical instrument; today the ratio is one of every 4.8, making self-made music second only to reading as the nation's most popular leisure-time activity...