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Originally Posted by Chris O'Carroll
I took "building missiles instead of baking bread" to be a righteous American's denunciation of the Commies who couldn't even feed their own people decently, but poured money into military technology. (Wasn't that how we thought of space exploration back then, as essentially a military venture?)
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Yes, exactly.
I'd be tempted to change:
My father says the Russians have leapt ahead
to:
My father says the Russkies leapt ahead
for the sake of the terminology of the time and the metre.
Enjoyed
David