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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: Re "The Moon and Middle America" [Aug. 1] and your statement: "He chatted on and on with somewhat feeble witticisms . . . its triviality was strongly at odds with the solemnity of what had been accomplished...
...Sir: Remember when trying to "go to the moon" was a synonym for forget it? Well, we did it. We went to the moon. And your "middle America" was just the flagwaving contingent for 200 million people who were all, in their ways, flying just as high as NASA's Columbia, because maybe, just maybe, they all of a sudden realized that hunger and poverty and ghettos and education weren't all problems whose solutions were as distant as the moon...
...Sir: Yes, Apollo 11 was indeed a triumph of middle America. It showed what we and our values can create. That's one reason some of our liberal-radical detractors hate and fear the space program. They regard us of middle America as so many cows, to be milked without limit for their social programs. To keep us docile, they try to make us feel guilty for crimes we didn't commit, racial hatreds we don't feel (some of us are black too), poverty we didn't create. Apollo 11 smashed through that unearned guilt...
...Sir: Your new section, Environment, is not only an achievement in itself, but it has also spotlighted the men of the year, Senators Muskie and Jackson...
...Sir: When pesticides and weed killers were first introduced, I, like most laymen, accepted the verdict of those who claimed to know, and took for granted that it was in keeping with the age of miracle drugs. Now I feel that the actual conditions are much more grim than you in your steel-and-concrete towers know...