Covering the Chairman
Sir:
If ever TIME earned and deserved the title "the Weekly Newsmagazine," it is in its reporting and interpreting of Khrushchev's visit. We are enlightened.
MORGAN T. RILEY
New York City
Sir:
The complete prejudice and bias of your reporting of the Khrushchev visit reminded me uncomfortably of the unanimous ridicule by the press of a recent visitor to our shores who also bragged of his system, his strength, his "secret weapon"--Ingemar Johansson.
J. SAM MEWHINNEY JR.
Alexandria, Va.
Sir:
I can no longer refrain from expressing my dismay at the treatment meted out to Mr. Khrushchev during his visit to your country. Here was America's chance to show the happiness and prosperity which comes with freedom. Why then was Mr. Khrushchev made to feel an unwelcome guest? The total effect has been damaging for America's onlooking friends, who had expected a more dignified show of strength.
OLIVE CARLISLE
Wokingham, England
Sir:
Conrad Hilton, resign! Or should the president of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel now be addressed as Comrade Hilton?
Khrushchev's having to crawl out of an elevator and walk up five flights is worth half-a-dozen successful U.S. satellite launchings in propaganda. It's bad enough not to be able to get to the moon, but when we fail to reach the 35th floor, it's terrible.
RENEE S. CUSHMAN
Phoenix, Ariz.
Sir:
If TIME and Miss Shirley MacLaine sought to present American movie morals and manners in a light calculated to encourage an alarming decadence of American values, both achieved that end with effectiveness.
WILLIAM W. TOMLINSON Vice President
Temple University Philadelphia
Sir:
Phonetically, what can one reply to Khrushchev except gesundheit.
JEFF SPRUNG
La Mesa, Calif.
The Sculptor
Sir:
I applaud your Sept. 21 article on Sculptor Henry Moore. The average person seems content to be ignorant in modern art, and still feels he is qualified to pass judgment on something of which he knows nothing.
MICKY MACENDREE
Lakewood, Ohio
Sir:
I fear I shall never understand why TIME, a superior and generally sane publication, should devote its front cover and its Art section to Henry Moore and his monstrous abortions. At best, they may be the flowering of a decadent and aborted civilization.
GEORGE EVERSON
Gualala, Calif.
Sir:
My colleague, Sculptor Grant Kenner, is singular among artists in his readiness to acknowledge a debt to a contemporary--Henry Moore. The cut shows Kenner at work on Vive et Vide IV.
ROLAND GRASS
Natchitoches, La.
Sir:
Henry Moore's massive, pinheaded women with gaping holes in their torsos are made only for the appreciation of a not so massive audience of pinheaded people with gaping holes in their heads.
A. E. SHERWOOD
St. Thomas, Ont.
"In Excellent Condition"
Sir:
For years I thought the press--particularly the "Pentagon" press--did a remarkably accurate job of reporting items of interest in Defense matters with which I have been associated.
However--unintentionally, I am sure--the article in the Sept. 28 issue unfortunately contained an inaccurate reason for my departure from the Department of Defense. Actually, we were proud to find that our son left his affairs in excellent condition, and made every provision for his wife and family that could possibly be expected of an officer of his rank.
W. J. MCNEIL Assistant Secretary of Defense
Washington, D.C.
Small World
Sir:
Your article on travel agencies [Aug. 31] gave four-line mention to the fact that I head a company which operates specialized tours for photographic hobbyists.
Knowing how widely TIME is read domestically, I was not surprised by the flood of letters from clients in 48 states. But I was surprised by the prompt reports from the conductors of three tours which were on the road at that time. One had read the article in Nairobi, British East Africa, the second in Zurich, Switzerland, the third in Pnompenh, Cambodia.
I am impressed.
ERIC L. ERGENBRIGHT President
Thru the Lens Tours, Inc. North Hollywood, Calif.
Alive & Kicking
Sir:
In TIME [Aug. 24] a number of inaccuracies concerning me appeared. The original incorporation of the city of Cabazon was commenced by me in 1949, many years before Mayor Tallent moved to Cabazon. In 1945 I commenced practice as a tax consultant in the city of Los Angeles and was so engaged all during the period referred to in your article. You refer to me as "a glib, Messianic promoter" and as "Bible-quoting . . ." At no time did I ever quote from or refer to the Bible. Obviously, the reference to my death is inaccurate.
JERRY KOSSEFF
Los Angeles
Sin & Psychology
Sir:
The trouble with most modern psychologists is that they are walking around with their heads in clouds of theory while we pitiful mere humans are living in a world of facts. Dr. Ellis' statement, "No human being should ever be blamed for anything he does," strikes me as the ultimate absurdity.
In any organized society, there has to be a clear recognition of the existence of right and wrong and provisions for punishment of wrongdoers and wrongdoing. Any blithe theory or theorist that does not recognize this is courting social and psychological disaster.
RICHARD HULLVERSON
London
Sir:
Re your Sept. 14 story on sin and psychology: if the psychiatrists are so chary of the word "sin," let them try the word "humility." Humility is the only cure for self-blame because once a person becomes truly humble, he forms a genuine desire to face life on its own terms and do his best in spite of the weaknesses in his nature.
ELOISE LANGE PHILLIPS
Baker, Ore.
Life in Laos
Sir:
I object to your description in your Sept. 21 issue of Vientiane's Constellation Hotel as "vermin-infested." It will give my friends the wrong idea about the kind of hotels I have been staying in. The Constellation is, in fact, the most expensive hotel I have stayed in but it and everything else in Laos is terrifically overpriced.
The only wildlife that I noted around the hotel was the lizards. It was fascinating to lie in bed at night and watch them chase each other across the ceiling.
It is too bad that your correspondent did not mention the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the hotel. But, then, perhaps the press invasion had displaced the habitues. Among those who stayed at but not in the Constellation were Georges, the French opium addict, and Monsieur the counterfeiter.
WILLIAM N. CASTOR
New Delhi
On Foreign Aid
Sir:
TIME [Sept. 28] unfortunately contains statements that incorrectly represent my views with regard to international financial assistance and the proposed International Development Association. You allege that I believe some of the less developed countries have had too much foreign assistance and that I oppose the establishment of the International Development Association. Neither of these statements has been made by me or on my behalf.
PER JACOBSSON Managing Director
International Monetary Fund Washington
> TIME erred. Director Jacobsson has called for "more effective application" of aid to underdeveloped countries "through sounder internal policies," but he has not said that those countries have had too much assistance. Of IDA, he has said "there are certain aspects many people are hesitant about," but he has not opposed it.--ED.
Sentry Duty
Sir:
As a repatriated prisoner of war, I was attached to the Philadelphia Naval Hospital for a short period following World War II. I was given the job of mustering Marine sentries in front of the office door of the hospital's commandant. These young lads-were allowed to sit on a chair, and each one served a four-hour stretch every other day.
At the end of a blustery winter, a well-known admiral turned into the hospital with a slight touch of the flu. Being a high-ranking officer, he also rated a Marine sentry. One mid-April afternoon, when one sentry was supposed to be on the job in front of the admiral's door, the chair was unoccupied and remained that way for the rest of the day. It seems that the admiral had invited the sentry to accompany him to the opening game of the major-league baseball season, providing his car, cigars and box seats for the occasion. "Bull" Halsey [Aug. 24] was violating the rules again.
FRANKLIN BOYER
Norfolk Island, Australian Territory
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