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Letters to the Editor: Is it really OK to say 'Merry Christmas' again? Dec. 24, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail illusGetty Images / EyeEm Thank you for Bob Gardner’s “Just Call It Christmas. Get Over It Folks” (Insight, Dec. 20). It’s about time someone fired a salvo against the “War on Christmas.” For some inexplicable reason in ultra politically correct San Francisco, it has become a faux pas to so much as mention the word Christmas. Apparently there are a growing number of people who are offended by the term. For what reason I have never figured out. It is manifested by people sendin...

The SR-71 Blackbird Could Out Run Missiles (But Collets Dust in a Museum) It was seriously fast.  Here's What You Need to Remember: The Blackbird could sustain speeds above Mach 3, with a so far unbroken manned-flight record of Mach 3.3 or 3.5.  Blackbirds also flew recon missions off the Russian coast—though not over Russia itself—evading all of the Mach 3 MiG-25 fighters sent after them. Soviet defector Victor Belenko wrote in his biography MiG Pilot, “They taunted and toyed with the MiG-25s sent up to intercept them, scooting up to altitudes the Soviet planes could not reach, and...

Is that possible at all? >> i don't know that we can. this may be very much like, you know, gary powers who was in the soviet russian detention for some period of time. i don't know that we can give the russians anything here that would be politically advisable. this may be just very unfortunate case for mr. whelan. eric: what does this say about if you want to travel to russia or china for that matter? if you're a tourist and want to visit moscow or st. petersburg, look at the museums, they have the power to snatch you off the street and plant evidence perhaps? >> that's a great point, eric. ...

Has a story, half of my stories are sitting in the barber's chair with mario as he got what little hair he had cut once a week, every week. but also, being in pakistan at the base that gary powers took off in that famous incident as we were looking at the pakistan/ afghan border and this man, 20 years my senior, looking less exhausted than i was, because he was used to taking that kind of treatment that it takes to just keep going. maria: he was just an incredible man. he really was but what he did for our country in terms of serving in the military and the patriot that he always was and his f...

If they are going to put you at war with them. and that is to dehumanize the other side. i suddenly saw this man as a human. >> the trip went well. there was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then on may 1, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers was shot down in the u-2. and that pretty much puts a halt to that relationship, it seemed, that your grandfather was building with khrushchev. >> yeah. what the u-2 allowed khrushchev to do, or forced him to do, was to really think hard about how much the soviets ...