Primary Politics

Sir: My first vote for President of the U.S. was for T. R. This man Rocky is the nearest thing to Theodore Roosevelt the Republicans can find. He has more brains, personality, and experience than any of the others. I hope I will have a chance to vote for him.

ANDREW FISHER Roxbury, Mass.

Sir: A state that elects Wayne Morse Senator is obviously loaded with screwballs. The results in Oregon [May 22] should not be used as a criterion for the rest of the country.

R. P. McLAURIN Kirkwood, Mo.

Sir: Even we bemused bystanders, the Oregon Democrats, gave a reluctant cheer for Rocky, who didn't know when he was licked--and so wasn't! It was his final days of furious persuasion that warmed the stony hearts of our Oregon Republicans, and disLodged them on election eve.

MONROE SWEETLAND Milwaukie, Ore.

Sir: You noted that Goldwater had no civil rights platform to offer. Did you ever stop to think that most of the people in this country who are working against a Socialist dictatorship are for individual rights and don't want to burn the barn down to get rid of the rats?

NORMAN E. McCAY Los Angeles

Sir: You reported that Senator Goldwater said, "You can't pass a law that will make me like you or you like me." For the Senator's information, there already are such laws on the statute books of man: "And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Lev. 19:18) and "Love ye therefore the stranger" (Deut. 10:19).

DR. GILBERT KLAPERMAN Rabbi

Congregation Beth Sholom Lawrence, N.Y.

Sir: TIME expresses surprise that Senator Barry Goldwater is beginning to show some signs of strain [May 15]. It is only natural that a man subjected to so much misinterpretation, misquotation and downright smear attacks should become irritable. We are not dismayed by the fact that the hoopla of a campaign is making our candidate irritable. The qualification for President is not the ability to slap backs or wear funny hats. The qualifications are honesty, integrity and loyalty. Goldwater has these qualifications.

(MRS.) H. SWEETWOOD

Elberon, N.J.

Marching Through Maryland

Sir: Your statements concerning Senator Brewster's campaign against Governor Wallace [May 29] were the most precise I have seen. Instead of appealing to the intelligence of the voters (the logical way to combat stupidity), Brewster relied solely on a name-calling campaign until it was too late. Surely the Maryland primary will not cause concern about the "Northern backlash."

BARBARA FISHER Baltimore

Sir: All smearing by the country's liberal press, TV and radio notwithstanding, thank goodness Governor Wallace made quite a showing! Would that more men had his guts and spoke the truth as he does about the vicious so-called "civil rights bill"! So many in the U.S. are willing to sell their traditions and their racial integrity for a mongrelized mess of pottage.

H. H. BURNS Columbia, Mo.

Sir: I find it shocking that the people of this good state of Maryland should give so much support, in such an important election, to a bigot like George Wallace. I sincerely hope that the people of the other states in the Union will show more sense and patriotism than those of my own.

BRUCE L. HELLER Baltimore

Blowing the Horn

Sir: Let us quickly assure Chairman Kappel [May 29] that we do not want to change our phone company. A.T. & T. is capitalism's proudest product: remarkable service, polite personnel, steady profit for investors, and a credit to our nation throughout the world. If the U.S. Post Office and all the American railroads were promptly turned over to the capable hands of A.T. & T., we could shortly expect two mail deliveries a day, clean post offices, well-mannered clerks, trains on time. And, whoopee, none of those dismal deficits!

ARTHUR HORNBLOW JR. New York City

Sir: Anyone who has dealings with the Bell System finds that he can only talk with computers, which have been programmed with few responses. It does no good to talk with supervisory personnel, as they have been programmed with the same responses. If there is a more impersonal and less cooperative corporation, then show it to me!

JIM PILES Hillcrest Heights, Md.

Sir: If the long-nosed engineers at A.T. & T. would devise a method to quickly trace anonymous telephone calls of an obscene or annoying nature, the need for unlisted numbers and requests for number changes would decrease materially.

BERTRAM J. ZOSLAW Abington, Pa.

Ethnics All Around

Sir: Your proud reputation for accuracy is going to pot in a hurry unless you hire some researchers more wide-awake. You state that Candidate William Haddad [May 22] was a World War II Merchant Marine officer. You also state that he is 35. That means that when the war ended, he was only 16. I think your readers are entitled to an explanation.

REID JORGENSEN St. Thomas, V.I.

> At the age of 14, Haddad enlisted in the Army Air Forces, had advanced to cadet squadron commander before discovery and discharge. He tried unsuccessfully to enlist in the Army and Marine Corps before signing up in the Merchant Marine, which commissioned him an ensign at 16.--ED.

Sir: As a Jew, I was shocked to read of the scandalous stories being spread by Congressman Farbstein about Democratic Candidate William Haddad. Farbstein obviously thinks that any man who is born in an anti-Semitic country is an anti-Semite. If this were true, what stories should we start telling about Moses?

I. STEVEN SIMON Lawrence, N.Y.

Rally Round

Sir: If Quebec "gives" Canada that new heraldic nonentity that is being waved around--mostly by the Prime Minister [May 29], at least the problem (if there is one) of a new national anthem will be solved automatically: why, the Maple Leaf Rag, naturally! They will make the perfect couple.

ROY S. CUYLER Ottawa

Nasser's Dam

Sir: I would like to bring up to date your Nile map [May 22]. Khashm el Girba dam is not any more "abuilding" but is "existing." On April 13, the bottom gates were closed and storage was started. On May 20, water impounded in the reservoir went for the first time into the main irrigation canal. The new lake will be full next August.

SAVERIO C. FABOZZI Project Manager of the Main Contractor Giuseppe Torno & Co., Sudan Branch Khartoum, Egypt

Sir: You cannot imagine how pleasant it is to read a nice story about Egypt once in a while. For years I have hunted for reports of the kind you have written about the Aswan Dam.

M. ABOU-SABE Pittsburgh

Mutual Interests

Sir: Your story about the retirement of Americans in Mexico [May 22] is the kind of constructive reporting that fosters one of the interests of Mexico and the U.S., and makes a real contribution to better understanding and friendship.

ANTONIO CARRILLO-FLORES Ambassador of Mexico Washington, D.C.

Still the Greatest

Sir: Pale, sick, exhausted Judy Garland should never have been forced to undergo the ordeal of the Melbourne concert [May 29]. Superb in Sydney, sick in Melbourne --in any shape, size or condition she is still the greatest entertainer alive.

RODNEY FISHER Melbourne

Mow Those Lawns, Pull Dem Weeds

Sir: After reading your review of Max Gunther's The Weekenders [May 22], I feel compelled to tell Gunther that all is not lost! Why, our weekends are filled with meaningful things like hanging clothes, doing dishes, writing reports, mowing lawns, changing diapers, answering mail, hollering at children, pulling weeds, charcoaling hamburgers, dashing to church and watching TV (with snide comments, so people will know we're really too intelligent for TV). If Mr. Gunther knows of any place here in Ohio where some of that deplorable sin and dreary, hollow fun is going on, could he please let us know--soon? If possible, before next weekend.

(MRS.) JANICE C. GALVIN Piqua, Ohio

Q. & Aw!

Sir: To add to your collection of whatsits [May 29], I offer the following:

Q. What was purple and conquered the world?

A. Alexander the Grape.

Q. What is yellow and found under water?

A. Mao Tse Sunk.

STEVEN L. HIRSH Philadelphia

Sir: Q. What is green and dances?

A. Fred Asparagus.

Q. What weighs six tons and sings calypso?

A. Harry Elephante.

Q. What is green and yellow and lies in a gutter surrounded by cookie crumbs?

A. A dead Girl Scout.

Q. What is yellow and points north?

A. A magnetic banana.

CARROLL KROIS

Port Chester, N.Y.

Sir: What is green, wears a red cape and flies?

A. Super Pickle.

RUDY ERTIS

Toledo

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