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...Ginzburg imprisoned, says less about the magazine and more about the times (and the Times). As everyone now agrees, the 60s really began with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Vietnam protests, the ghetto uprisings, and of course sex, drugs and rock 'n roll cracked open, like a raptor from its egg. For the first years of that decade, we were, essentially, still in the 50s, with Doris Day reigning on the big screen and Father Knows Best on the small...
...choose either weapons of the future or those of the past, the Pentagon last year bought both. Rumsfeld has canceled only a single major weapons program in two years, the $11 billion Army Crusader artillery gun, while allowing such dubious programs as the Air Force's $200 million F22 Raptor fighter and the Navy's $2 billion Virginia-class submarines to move forward. Everyone knows there isn't enough money to pay for all these weapons (and others on the drafting board) unless defense budgets continue to rise dramatically--and almost no one thinks that will happen. "We have...
...ROLLED OUT. F/A-22 RAPTOR, the most sophisticated jet fighter ever made, after 23 years in production in the U.S.; at a Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta, Georgia. Designed at the height of the cold war, the fighter was finally built, after years of political infighting over cost and feasibility, with the help of 1,000 subcontractors in 43 states. The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 277 Raptors at a cost of $258 million each. The stealth fighter can fly 1,500 kilometers per hour without detection and engage enemy aircraft beyond the pilot's range of vision...
LUCKY, THE ROVING ROBO-RAPTOR...
...Klein masterfully laid out the explanation of why the worthwhile Teach for America organization was defunded by the Federal Government's AmeriCorps program [IN THE ARENA, Aug. 25]. Limited resources plague even the richest nation in the world. When we insist on funding items like the F-22 Raptor fighter jet and a missile-defense shield with billions upon billions of dollars, we crowd out money for valuable things like education and social programs. President Eisenhower, a five-star general, warned us to increase our scrutiny of defense spending. Nonetheless, we find ourselves with a $400 billion defense budget. Neither...