Fallout Fallout

Sir:

Your article on the nuclear test debate was excellent, especially in view of the publicity given to the "Ban the Bomb Boys." For the layman, there appears to be only one choice: Should he put his faith in Edward Teller, the "father of the H-bomb," or in Linus Pauling or Edward Condon, two scientists who have so long leaned toward the left (politically) that they are no longer able to discern what is right (militarily or morally)? I prefer to trust my nuclear future to Dr. Teller.

EDWIN McDOWELL

Philadelphia

Sir:

Should we end nuclear tests? No. If we have a weapon equal to that of our enemies, they will be afraid to use it, as Hitler was afraid to use gas in the last war.

ALEC M. EARLE

Charleston, W. Va.

Sir:

Surely the U.S. would be committing diplomatic suicide if it were to continue with plans for H-bomb tests in the Marshall Islands this spring, now that the Soviet Union has made a unilateral (if conditional) promise to quit.

MARIANNA PRICHARD

Hannibal, Ohio

Sir:

Does it matter to the uncommitted people of the world that they are faced with extinction at the hands of a clean bomb or a dirty bomb? Also what happens if Dr. Teller does develop a clean bomb? Will we throw out all of the dirty ones?

GENE RUNDELL

Summit, N.J.

Sir:

When a TV hawker tells the public to buy a new wonder pill, millions of Americans believe him and go buy--buy--buy. However, when a renowned scientist tells us that fallout danger from a bomb is less than living a normal life in Denver--these same millions disbelieve him.

W. C. HELLER

Flourtown, Pa.

On a Zoom & a Prayer

Sir:

If St. Christopher really helped your "devoted rocketmen" get the Vanguard into orbit [March 21], why don't we invite Bishop Sheen (or Billy Graham) down to Cape Canaveral to give our new satellites an extra boost? Solid fuels? Bah! All we will need is prayer and a skyhook.

RICHARD I. BRIGGS

Cleveland

Squeeze, Squeeze

Sir:

The recession will never end unless something is done to relieve the people of unfair taxation. It's too much of a load.

JOE SOLMONESE

Providence

Sir:

A fatal epidemic of pampering the unions and the farmer has left the middleman in a hell of a squeeze.

HARRY FARRIOP

Nogales, Ariz.

Sir:

Pity the poor taxpayer. He is caught between the Democrats, the Republicans and local politicians in their frantic political maneuvering to outdo each other in using his money to spend him out of the recession.

W. ELLIOTT CAMP

Rome, Ga.

Good Shape?

Sir:

Your April 7 report on General Norstad's "reception" by our Senate Foreign Relations Committee points up the tragical likelihood that the U.S. will lose further ground to nations with governments less hamstrung than ours in dealing with national or international problems by day-to-day dependence on unqualified legislators.

GEORGE H. FISH

Newburyport, Mass.

Sir:

If this is a typical example of the way matters of worldwide importance are disposed of, our upper legislative chamber is degenerating into a deluxe home for the aged.

LEO KUKURANOV

San Francisco

Sir:

I was amused to see your photograph of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and myself in such a striking pose. It is apparent that he is the champ. The Foreign Relations Committee heard me in a brief open session which was followed by a closed meeting that extended my time before the committee to a total of three hours. Six Senators listened attentively to my presentation, and all of them asked very good--I would say, penetrating--questions. I thought that my trip from SHAPE, Paris to support the vital Mutual Security Act served a useful purpose. The attitude of Chairman Green and the committee seemed to support this conclusion.

LAURIS NORSTAD

General, U.S.A.F.

Washington, D.C.

P:Total membership of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: 15.--ED.

The Shook-Up Generation

Sir:

When psychiatry became the vogue several years ago, we were told to handle the teenager with kid gloves--"he's a sensitive adolescent"-- ad nauseam. It's now grown to a frightening overemphasis via the movies and TV, which cater to the teen-age audience, and too often justify violence and sadism.

MARIAN L. GILBERT

Three Rivers, Mich.

Sir:

When ten-and twelve-year-old boys see adults repairing pistols in open-air markets, hour after hour of gunplay on TV and in the movies, how can people such as those in Woodward, Okla. be "astonished" and ask each other "how such a thing could happen" when the boys steal guns and shoot people?

WESLEY P. CALLENDER JR.

Tuckahoe, N.Y.

Calling Detroit

Sir:

According to the United Auto Workers' latest demands, nothing much remains for them but to take over the auto industry by holdup. Reuther should be put to hard labor in jail for endangering the welfare of the nation. Communists all over the world are now entitled to be highly amused to see this exhibition of what we still call Free Enterprise.

D. CURRIE

Toronto

Sir:

Is there not one Kohler among the automakers in Detroit with the guts to tell Reuther to go fly his socialistic kite?

CHARLES W. MOORE

Anaheim, Calif

Sir:

So Chrysler's strategy "to combat sales slump" is splashier trim and more chrome. How unrealistic can they get? What they ought to do is rip the nasty stuff off their monsters and cut prices.

HOMER ALLISON

Omaha

Sir:

We are in a lower-income bracket, and we purchased our Renault for economy. For those who object to the small car, my husband is 6 ft. tall, weighs 175 Ibs. and has plenty of room; our two children prefer it to their grandfather's cars (Buick and a Cadillac). A large number of Americans don't want an overinflated Detroit Leviathan--just economical transportation.

JOAN DAVENPORT

Joplin, Mo.

Thoughts on Stone

Sir:

Architect Edward D. Stone's beautiful grilles are but one aspect of his total contribution to modern architecture. The qualities of elegance, richness and refinement inherent in his work suggest a high degree of maturity that seems sadly lacking in the purely utilitarian design of many of our present-day buildings.

JOHN G. WILLIAMS

Chairman

Department of Architecture

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Ark.

Sir:

While the pierced screen is a rich and subtle architectural form perfectly suited to certain climes and functions, I am utterly appalled at the suggestion of "hiding" slums, or other bad building, behind a screen. How false can we get ? If there is bad building or misplaced structures, tear them down and rebuild with correct architecture, but above all, avoid sham--even in the beautiful form of pierced screens.

MAYNARD W. MEYER

Architect

Milwaukee

Giving a Tinker's Dam

Sir:

TIME, April 7, seeking to cure the curse of triteness in the expression "not worth a tinker's dam," substituted "tinker's curse." Tinkers of olden times were a sober, industrious lot, little given to damning and cursing things. They repaired pots and pans, making a tiny mud dam about the hole to keep molten metal in place.

ROY E. RODDY

Philadelphia

P: TIME cannot go bail with Reader Roddy for the purity of tinkers' talk.--ED.

Meeting Mr. Protestant

Sir:

Thanks for your April 7 story of Dr. Franklin Fry and his ecclesiastical machinery. I was not aware that we Lutherans are so well oiled--in spite of "Mr. Protestant's" legendary lubrications.

(THE REV.) JAMES B. HUNTLEY

Bethany English Lutheran Church

Cleveland

Sir:

There are quite a few of us Lutherans from within the snug, smug, mighty fortress who think you hit the nail on our theological heads.

MRS. J. M. BELLAN

St. Louis

Sir:

There are some in the U.L.C.A. who prefer Lutheranism to "Fryism" and refuse to confer upon any person a kind of implied ''Mr. Protestant" or "Mr. Lutheran" though that person be known the world over. These refuse to pay homage to but one head of the church--Jesus Christ.

JOHN CAUGHMAN

Spartanburg, S.C.

Sir:

Of course, the great difference between Catholicism and Lutheranism is that one was founded by Jesus Christ, while the other was founded by Martin Luther.

CARLO MARIA FLUMIANI

Newton Center, Mass.

Sir:

In regard to Dr. Fry's politics: I'd like to suggest him for President in '60--and sit back and watch him battle it out with Jack Kennedy.

FRANK H. REISNER

Allentown, Pa.

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