The Peace Corps Sir: I was impressed by your article [July 5] which enunciated the tributes and the discrepancies of Shriver's Peace Corps.

Your very excellent rendition of the obstacles imposed on the not-so-glory-ridden Peace Corpsmen surely helped to straighten out many thwarted images held by many reposing onlookers on many "front porches of the U.S." WALLY PARHAM Stillwater, Okla.

Sir: According to some returning Peace Corps volunteers flying with me from Manila the other day, they look back with great satisfaction on their last two years.

Among the matters they were most critical of were press stories about them, which were "Madison Avenue-like, full of goodies. Trying to sell someone the moon."

Your sober but positive evaluation of their work seems to be just the right kind of graduation present.

AVIK GILBOA Hong Kong Sir: Missing in your otherwise excellent story on the Peace Corps' success was adequate coverage of the universities that trained corpsmen in the languages and customs of the host countries. Georgetown is particularly proud to have conducted the largest Peace Corps training program at an American university, our "alumni" being those 276 schoolteachers in Ethiopia.

WILLIAM J. RARENTE Department of Government Georgetown University Washington, D.C.

Sir: I accompanied the first Peace Corps team to Ghana. I spent a month in Ghana last year while the second team was "settling in," and was able to observe them. The people received them with warmth and the government with dignified "correctness."

ST. CLAIR DRAKE Professor of Sociology Roosevelt University Chicago

Sir: I gasped when I read in the July 5 issue of TIME a quotation allegedly coming from me that my family is nicer than the Kennedys. That quotation not only misrepresents me, but it does great harm to a distinguished family and to my son, whom I admire and love. I don't think that way.

It is contrary to my life and to my convictions. My sincere appreciation of each of them is of the highest quality. They are intelligent, with sound convictions, a great desire to help their fellow man, and they are way ahead of most American families I know or know about. Certainly they have many admirable qualities that most of us lack.

HILDA SHRIVER New York City > TIME'S reporter understood Mrs. Shriver, the justifiably proud mother of Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., to say: "We're nicer than the Kennedys. We've been here since the 1600s. We're rooted in the land in Maryland. The Kennedys like to be around people who are in the news. They are flamboyant."--ED.

The Human Factor Sir: The articles "Sighted Sub, Surfaced Same" and "The Whizziest Kid," which appeared June 28, bring up a real question: Is Mr. Enthoven able to translate into figures or code to be fed into one of his machines the very human factors of ingenuity, perseverance and judgment to be found in the crew of a ship like the U.S.S. Charles P. Cecil? I, for one, think not. 1984, here we come! (MRS.) ELIZABETH F. MCCLANE Bayside, Va.

Sir: I was very pleased to read your story on Dr. Alain Enthoven, since he exemplifies the top talent we seek in our quest for quality careerists to meet the many demands for excellence in Government today. I wish the story had mentioned that Dr. Enthoven was one of five recent (June 12) recipients of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service --the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a career civil servant. At age 32, Dr. Enthoven is the youngest of the 31 careerists who have received this high honor to date.

JOHN W. MACY JR. Chairman U.S. Civil Service Commission Washington, D.C.

Paul & John Sir: The [June 28] story you wrote on Pope Paul VI deserves congratulations. KEVIN BOONE Gary, Ind.

Sir: The editors of TIME continue to exaggerate the role of Christianity in the events of the world. This is especially true of Catholicism. Apparently the petty-bourgeois mentality of the editors is incapable of comprehending the fact that Christianity, along with all the other major religions of the world, is in the process of dying a pitiful and ungraceful death.

ROBERT D. MCCRACKEN Tonopah, Nev.

Sir: It is significant that you should make the strong analogy between the personalities and liberal outlooks of John XXIII and Paul VI.

On June 26 the church celebrated the feast of the martyr brothers Sts. John and Paul, secretly put to death by order of Julian the Apostate. Their glorious end became public, tradition says, "through the many wonders wrought at their tomb." It will be interesting to see the many wonders which will fructify from the works of these two modern "brothers" in Christ.

VINCENT A. CORSALL Oswego, N.Y.

Sir: Please explain how Pope Paul III had a son! RUDOLPH SAMUELS Wilmette, 111.

> Alessandro Farnese (Pope Paul 111) was made a cardinal when only 25, led the worldly life of a Renaissance nobleman, and had at least two illegitimate children whom he recognized. Elected Pope in 1534, he appointed a son, Pier Luigi, cardinal and secretary of state.--ED.

Mount Athos Sir: Your article, "The State of the Faith," July 5, was well timed, well put, and to the point. The magnificent and deeply meaningful photos of the holy mountain, Mount Athos, comprise a precious book of unwritten words--a treasure in itself.

JOHN D. RESSETOR Cleveland Sir: Your piece on the Eastern Orthodox Churches was expertly handled. At long last, proper credit was given to the Mother of Christianity. She has been denied recognition all these years. In spirit and in truth, Greek Orthodoxy is worlds apart from Roman Catholicity, as your article clearly points out.

THEODORE VRETTOS Peabody, Mass.

Wraysbury Weathers It Sir: Your June 28 article on Christine Keeler was to the point, but inaccurate in its description of Wraysbury as a "dingy town," though you may be forgiven for noting that some of our 700-year-old buildings have lost their first freshness! You see, for more than a thousand years Wraysbury has never been anything but a village.

We can claim other distinguished people and events too: King John signed the Magna Carta within the parish boundary, and King Henry VIII courted Second Wife Anne Boleyn in the yard of one of the Thames-side houses--that caused a rumpus too.

R. P. RIGG Wraysbury, England Sir: Lest anyone feel self-righteous about his country's morality status upon reading about Keeler & Co., let him ponder the moral issues contained in your cover story on civil rights, or the column on Tony Pro, or "Two Definitions of Obscenity" in the Press section [June 21].

JAMES N. WRIGHT Brasilia, Brazil Cool & Brassy

Sir: As a college-age jazz lover who was raised on Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton and plenty of joyful foot tapping, and who right now has Pee Wee Russell and John Coltrane stacked on the same record changer, I feel that TIME has quietly scored a real triumph in its recent jazz reporting [June 28]. Congratulations on exposing the hippies and the pretensions of John Lewis, Paul Winter and the rest of the "concert jazz" set. NEIL STILLINGS Appleton, Wis.

Sir:

You have misunderstood my proposal for jazz in cultural exchange. "The Jazz Corps" was a suggested name for a foundation that would arrange privately sponsored tours. Our belief is that cultural exchange is one of the great hopes of the free world and that in this context jazz is a particularly effective medium.

PAUL WINTER New York City

Sir:

The article was great. But let's not listen to Winter. We should send money to needy countries, not jazz.

DOUG MCLEAN Montreal, Que.

Banks & Bankers

Sir:

The June 21 story on banking immediately opened by mentioning a savings and loan association and went on to state that a savings and loan association would dispatch a "bank officer."

This type of editorial comment disturbs us very much because savings and loan associations are not banks and their officers are not bankers. This is established by law, not by the commercial banking industry.

ROGERS R. WOODS JR. Executive Director Foundation for Commercial Banks Philadelphia

Surest Cure

Sir: Could it be possible that Elsa Maxwell [May 31] might have held an average of one party every two days for approximately 50 years? If this figure is correct, could you inform my friends and myself as to her cure for hangovers? LORRAINE HERNAN Perth, Australia > "To avoid making tiresome explanations," Miss Maxwell says, "1 take a glass of champagne or a cocktail when I'm in a group of drinkers, but I nurse it all night.

It's not that I have any scruples against drinking. I simply have never felt the need for it."--ED.

Room at the Top

Sir:

I think that ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo is right about the "Alianza" [June 28]. We need a bigger name (or names) on the job. The good neighbor policy was successful because Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Nelson Rockefeller, among others, worked hard to make it a success.

The Alliance for Progress, properly guided, can be equally effective. Latin America is enormously important to us, and I believe that a careful investment now (not indiscriminate handouts) will pay big dividends. But let's put someone big at the top to get things moving.

JOHN H. M. SCRIBNER Panama, R. P.

The Woods Hole Beast

Sir:

As one of many participants in the Thresher search, I appreciated your well-balanced account [June 28] of its progress up to the recent dive of the bathyscaphe Trieste. However, you are in error about the design of "The Beast," used on Atlantis II. Its framework was constructed at Woods Hole to mount an echo-ranging apparatus developed in our department by Willard Dow and others, cameras designed by Harold Edgeton of M.I.T. for general use in the deep sea, and an instrument developed by the Schlumberger Well Surveying Co. for measuring the voltage set up by dissimilar metals immersed in a liquid.

"The Beast," despite its name, typifies the cooperative spirit characteristic of the teamwork of scientists, engineers and naval officers throughout the search for the Thresher.

J. B. HERSEY

Chairman, Geophysics Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, Mass.

Philanthropist Mott

Sir:

Congratulations on your [June 28] profile of Charles S. Mott, Flint, Mich., philanthropist. It pays deserved tribute to a man whose activities and charities could fill a volume.

However, the American Automobile Association believes your writer omitted a colorful sidelight on Mr. Mott's varied career. He is one of two survivors of the nine motor club representatives who met in Chicago in March 1902 to found the organization that has come to be known by its more than 8,000,000 members as the Triple-A.

GEORGE F. KACHLEIN JR. President American Automobile Association Washington, D.C.

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