Nuclear Tests

Sir: Your cover for the Sept. 8 issue hit me quite hard. One could almost hear the Soviet leader saying, "Your grandchildren will live under Communism ... or else !"

MARVIN EVERETT COBLE III

Winston-Salem, N.C.

Sir: The Soviet Union's resumption of nuclear testing has revealed, all too clearly, the following fact. A gangster (the Soviet Union) does not cease his bloody activities because society frowns upon his activities -- the extension and preservation of Communism through deceit, treachery, and barbarity when necessary. Since society employs armed policemen to protect itself from gangsters, by the same token a nation should use minimal adequate force to protect itself from international gangsters.

MICHAEL DRIVER

San Francisco

Sir: The American resumption of nuclear testing, while wholly justifiable, can scarcely be expected to help resolve any of the outstanding issues of the cold war. On the contrary, it adds to the nuclear momentum that impels us to war. In the past, balances of power have collapsed through accident or design. Alternatives to the balance of terror should now be considered in order.

CHARLES K. KRANTZ

Brooklyn

Sir: Well, it's about time! Mr. K. has finally resumed his nuclear arms testing. So now, perhaps, we too can once again get down to business without the amount of scorn we would have encountered before Khrushchev's announced intention of resuming nuclear weapons testing. Anyone who actually believed that he ever stopped nuclear testing, and I say this to all who did, is an idiot !

JAMES P. THOMAS

Oceanside, Calif.

Sir: I never saw a more inappropriate cover on TIME. People the world over know who has dropped such a bomb over a city. I do not take the position that it is always wrong to use the bomb. But it is wrong to support the image in the mind of a U.S. citizen that Khrushchev is the more inhuman.

Khrushchev actually reminds me of one of my grandparents, and I would like to remember him that way.

ELMER TREPTOW Baltimore Hard Facts

Sir: After reading the article "Underground Fortresses" [Aug. 25], I am again forced to realize that Russia need not spend thousands of dollars and take the risks of sending spies to find the defense secrets of the U.S. For a few dollars a year, the Russians can subscribe to magazines such as TIME and learn all the information they need.

ARLENE DIXON

Pensacola, Fla.

Sir: I am sure the heads of the Soviet Intelligence Agency are deeply grateful to you for publishing detail photos of secret defense installations.

When, indeed, will the American press wake up to the hard facts of life that freedom of the press should not permit them to publish what the American public -- out of patriotism -- would not want to see published, but what our opponents can use only too well?

FRANCIS G. A. DE MONTEREY

Woodbury Heights, N.J.

>Time's story on missile installations was cleared for publication by the Defense Department. -- ED.

Sign & Symbol Sir: The symbols for male and female [Sept. 1] struck a familiar note. The male symbol (cf) is the "trademark" of the Century 21 World's Fair in Seattle, beginning April 1962. Evidently, the theme of Man in Space is to be taken literally, and we women are to be left on this planet to cope with phone solicitors, spitting steam irons and TV!

M. W. ANDERSON

Seattle

Sir: It has sometimes been suggested that 71 represents the shield and spear of Mars, the god of war, and the mirror of Venus, the goddess of beauty.

W. W. KANZLER

Jersey City, N.J.

Sir:

The male symbol, with its arrowlike head, indicates mobility. The female, on the other hand, exhibits a "base," or stabilized factor.

BERNARD C. GREGORY

Baltimore

Carrots & Strategy

Sir

It's frightening to think that we send our well-chosen Congressmen to Washington --only to be pressured by Larry O'Brien [[Sept. 1]

MRS. CHARLES E. ANDERSON

Nashville, Tenn.

Sir: Amongst all them throat cutters at Washington that guy L. O'Brien is evidently the throat cutter de luxe.

R. P. THOMAS

San Diego

Sir:

What is the significance of the hanging carrot in the background of your Sept. 1 cover picture?

MICHAEL WOLF

Vineland, N. J.

> As any donkey knows, 'tis preferable to the stick. -- ED.

Sir:

Am I hopelessly naive politically ? Somehow, all these years, I have managed to hang on to the dream that our American Senators and Representatives are men of integrity who vote on congressional issues on the basis of what they believe is best for the American people. Apparently, Washington is a nauseating mixture of patronage, lobbying, threats and wheedling, as dealt out by the hand of O'Brien. What has happened to the golden dream of "government of the people, by the people, and for the people," as taught in our public schools?

(MRS.) JEANNIE RENZEL

San Jose, Calif.

Sir:

Congratulations on your cover story on Larry O'Brien. Your picturization of this very cool but colorful political mover was excellent.

Having worked with Larry during the long, grueling months before the 1960 Democratic convention as well as during and after, I can truly say that there is no finer, more dedicated professional in politics today.

JESSE M. UNRUH

Assemblyman

California Legislature

Sacramento

Sir:

The alleged conversation between Congressman Roman Pucinski and myself reported in TIME [Sept.1] is a complete falsehood.

MAYOR RICHARD J. DALEY

Chicago

Sir: Damon Runyon once wrote: "An irresponsible reporter at a typewriter is more dangerous than a drunk doctor in an operating room." I trust you agree with this observation.

ROMAN C. PUCINSKI

House of Representatives

Washington, D.C.

>Reliable sources give Mayor Daley full credit for changing Representative Pucinski's determination to kill the Administration's public school measure. -- ED.

Venom & Illusion

Sir:

To the stake with William F. Buckley Jr., whose various utterances ooze such venom [Sept. 1]! It is gratifying to note that the United States National Student Association's vice president received such overwhelming support from the association for his attack on the editor of the National Review and that the conservatives' feat of obtaining 15% of votes in a takeover bid still proves that the American student is not taken in by pernicious illusions.

PATRICK CZAJKOWSKI

London

Sir: Hooray for Harvard Senior Howard Phillips and Editor William F. Buckley Jr.! It's certainly refreshing to see that some students recognize the fact that there is a very active brainwashing society well organized in this country. I'm glad they are not afraid to speak up. Of course if they are in support of the House Un-American committee and against the Peace Corps and so-called Freedom Riders, and want to uphold Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, then they will probably be silenced by some federal court order.

MRS. V. MARSHALL

Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Sir:

Re your article "Liberal Control": cheers for National Student Association Veep Timothy Jenkins. His "extremism" may spotlight the hypocrisy of such as William F. Buckley Jr., who have subverted the cause of moderate conservatives by posturing us as udicrous figures somewhere between Adolf Hitler and George Babbitt.

RICHARD A. COURCHAINE

San Diego State College ('62)

San Diego

Necessary Ingredient

Sir:

According to TIME, the necessary ingredient of leadership must be "late to bed and early to rise." Aug. 25 --1) Estes and Gerrity "start work at 6:30 a.m., finish at 7 p.m. . . . and expect their staff to do the same." 2) "Ulbricht's formidable stamina kept his colleagues on an 18-hour day." 3) "In Washington, Cicognani began his day at 6 a.m. and expected his associates to do the same." Effective this week, I am setting my alarm clock for 5 a.m. and "expect my associates to do the same." What time does Time's editor arrive on the job? LEONARD L. LASNIK

Petaluma, Calif.

> Before everybody else. -- ED.

Full Ship

Sir:

Since the article appeared in your magazine [Aug. 4] telling the story of my work, I have received letters from eleven foreign countries and many of the states commending me.

Most of the letters from foreign countries stated that if I would visit their country and set up a similar program, it would do more to stop Communism than the money that is being spent.

I am sure that if you had told people to send an offering to help fill the ship, we would certainly have received enough money to do the job.

WALTER O. PARR

Executive Director

World Friendship, Inc.

Paducah, Ky.

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