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Knowing your flair for accurate reporting, I am writing to correct your Nov. 25 article concerning President Aramburu going supersonic in Argentina in "an F-102 fighter." This was accomplished in the F-100F, a North American two-place fighter. It is bad enough that we, in the fighter business, have to compete against electronic brains to hold our cockpit positions; please don't make it worse by confusing one of our last first-line fighters with an all-weather trainer. Let's not call a spade a Spad.
DONALD J. FERRIS Major, U.S.A.F. NelKs Air Force Base, Nellis, Nev.
Sir:
A Nov. 25 picture caption says the RC-121 Super Constellation "heads across Cape Cod, Mass, to offshore picket-line station over the Atlantic." Actually the plane is headed west. Astern lies surf-lined Nauset Beach.
DAVID A. KENNEDY Simsbury, Conn.
¶Actually, the pilot was circling for altitude.—ED.
Man of the Year
Sir:
To avoid naming Khrushchev—nominate Jules Verne.
G. R. DEWART
Providence
Sir:
I fail to see how you are going to keep that Russian scientist off your Jan. 6 cover. Khrushchev owes it all to Russia's scientists. (M/Scx) RAYMOND O. MUNN U.S.A.F. Washington, D.C.
Sir:
Stuart Symington—who warned us of the Soviet military threat long before Sputnik I.
WALTER W. APPLE University City, Mo.
Sir:
Because of Sputnik the Americans have developed an inferiority complex. Why, when we have a human guinea pig for space medicine? My nomination goes to Balloonist Major David G. Simons.
JOHN TAGGART
Canton, Ohio
Sir:
Who other than the anonymous scientist, educator, teacher in the U.S., where "the American Way of Life" pays him worse and considers him less than a garbage collector. WALTER CARL REIS Vienna, Austria
Sir:
General Douglas MacArthur—America's most needed but forgotten man.
PAUL B. SMITH
Columbus Junction, Iowa
Sir:
By all standards—moral or scientific—the man is Jonas Salk.
RAYMOND K. STIVERS Three Rivers, Calif.
Sir:
Bert and Harry Piel.
RAYMOND LOEWY
New York City
Sir:
Jim Turner.
JIM TURNER Baton Rouge The Blue Bell Wrangler
Sir:
I sure appreciate the story you ran about rodeo and me in the Nov. 18 issue. I thought the story was well written and accurate, except for one thing. You stated that I was wearing Levi's. I wasn't. I have worn and endorsed Blue Bell Wrangler jeans since 1949.
JIM SHOULDERS Henryetta, Okla.