Letters: Jan. 31, 1983

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Bannockburn, Ill.

Cornelia Guest provides excellent reasons for increasing inheritance taxes on the revoltingly rich.

E. Stacy Creamer

Blue Bell, Pa.

Hooray for fun-loving, High School Dropout Cornelia Guest! However, it should be noted that many debutantes have gone on to become lawyers, journalists, educators, businesswomen and civic leaders. Let's not be too eager to sell the American debt short.

Barbara P. Grant

Chicago

Cornelia says she can add and subtract and read. So can a second-grader.

Rick White

Los Angeles

And I thought Marie Antoinette was insensitive!

Robert Seward

Endicott, N. Y.

Rubinstein Calling

One day the voice on the other end of the line said, "This is Arthur Rubinstein" [Jan. 3]. My husband, who was superintendent of the school district, was sure someone was pulling his leg. But no, the maestro was in the area and wondered if there was a school interested in a spur-of-the-moment program. Rubinstein's greatness was in his wanting to share his God-given talent with others.

June M. Larson

Harrison, Mich.

Meat Eaters

In the article "Prague's Sullen Winter" [Jan. 10] you say "a middle-level executive is responsible for overseeing the production of 2 million tons of canned meat a day." Two million tons is 4 billion lbs. With a global population of 4.585 billion this is almost 1 lb. of meat a day for every person in the world. No wonder the plant cannot meet its quota.

Emerson H. Virden Jr.

Norristown, Pa.

Out of Mothballs

The Navy assures us that the recommissioned battleship, the U.S.S. New Jersey [Jan. 10] would take ten hits by conventional Soviet cruise missiles before being put out of action. This is not very comforting when one contemplates that several battleships were sent to the bottom in World War II by aircraft and submarines that seem primitive today. For $326 million we are getting a floating flagpole to carry Old Glory to the world's ports.

John E. Borrego

Charlotte, N.C.

The U.S.S. New Jersey a sitting duck? Nonsense. As the last commanding officer of this great ship, I can tell you that a screaming eagle is far more appropriate.

Robert C. Peniston

Captain, U.S.N. (ret.)

Lexington, Va.