Letters
Letters Outrages Your item on our hiring a former Iranian energy official as our chief economist ["Tidbits & Outrages," February]'is an outrage. It's an outrage for you to engage in easy...
...Naturally we didn't really expect Kennedy's campaign manager to go into the book business...
...before, one of the finest resource economists in the world, and a humble, hard-working professional well-equipped to help the tribes-and the country-plan their energy future...
...We regret that you can't always leave 'em all laughing...
...It's an outrage to insinuate that a man is somehow not fit to live and work in the United States because he was once employed by the Ayatollah Khomeini...
...I have not seen a better synopsis anywhere...
...In initial drafts of the story, there was a reference to Gordon Cooper, a Mercury astronaut...
...The moon-race article was written by Hugo Young, Byron Silock, and Peter Dunn, three reporters for the London Sunday Times...
...Since I know he is capable of cogent analysis, I suspect his intention was to exploit the Fraser book and my own to strike at Senator Kennedy, which is regrettable...
...It appeared in April 1970...
...As for "Richard Cooper," Mr...
...The astronaut quoted is Richard Gordon, command module pilot for Apollo 12...
...THOMAS J. FRIELING Bainbridge, Georgia With great enjoyment and no little sense of sad concurrence, I have just read Easterbrook's article on the space shuttle...
...Somehow the remaining name got synthesized into "Richard Cooper...
...Most of all, it's an outrage not to even attempt to uncover the facts behind the energy-owning Indian tribes' hiring of Ahmed Kooros: that he is an American citizen who has lived and worked in the U.S...
...I don't know whether the author is an aerospace buff or just a good researcher, like the fellow in the ice-cream suit who wrote The Right Stuff, but he got it right...
...The editor replies: MICHAEL R. BESCH LOSS Boston, Massachusetts In neither of these instances did we intend to slur anyone...
...Charles Peters proposes ["Tilting," March] that Senator Kennedy's campaign manager should distribute copies of Antonia Fraser's Ro),al Charles because it purportedly argues that a "tireless womanizer" can still be a great king, and should suppress my Kennedy and Roosevelt because it purportedly depicts Joseph Kennedy as a "vicious anti-Semite...
...The author replies: (Name and address withheld at author's request) I wish I had...
...Easterbrook's style and accuracy make me wonder-did he write that too...
...ED GABRIEL Washington, D.C...
...It's an outrage for you to engage in easy nationalist slurs simply because being "anti-Iran" is in vogue...
...I know that, as your article claimed, if you wartt to get a big, expensive payload into precise orbit for the lowest toni mile cost, you should use a Titan III-the existing expendable rocket-instead of the space shuttle...
...April Better Than March If I am permitted to write to you about a disagreeable item, I hope that I might also thank you for your good word on my Kennedy and Roosevelt book in your April issue...
...We just thought both items were amusing...
...I've been in the aerospace business 40 years- 10 as a military pilot, and 30 designing planes and spacecraft...
...MICHAEL BESCH LOSS The Right Spruce Goose Stuff I just finished Gregg Easterbrook's article on the space shuttle ("The Spruce Goose of Outer Space," April...
...For the past 20 years I've worked for a company that is now a major contractor on the space shuttle project...
...Peters reads Kennedv and Roosevelt with care, he will discover it to be an extended treatment of two men evincing considerable complexities and contradictions...
...If Mr...
...I was left wondering, who is this "Richard ·Cooper" he quotes as a former Apollo astronaut?· A quick check of NASA's roster turns up no one with that name...
...Frieling is right-he doesn't exist...
...Perhaps we would have caught it if we'd made the opposite mistake, and called him "Gordon Gordon...
...I can no longer find my treasured copy of an earlier Washington Monthly gem about the moon race, "From the Bay of Pigs to the Sea of Tranquility...
...We saw humor in the news that an ex-employee of the Ayatollah would be advising CERT on how to exploit energy resources...
...Letters Outrages Your item on our hiring a former Iranian energy official as our chief economist ["Tidbits & Outrages," February]'is an outrage...
Vol. 12 • June 1980 • No. 4
