After the Polls
Sir:
Kennedy for President in '64. Of course I mean Teddy. With more youth and looks than Jack--and a prettier wife than Jackie--and just as much money--what more could you want?
(MRS.) Lois CRAYTON
Buffalo
Sir:
Rockefeller's improved position within the Republican Party can only be ascribed to Nixon's defeat.
CARL B. WEISBROD ('65) Cornell University Ithaca, N.Y.
Sir:
What a tragedy that the capable political career of Richard Nixon must now come to an end. Mr. Nixon would have brought greatness to the governorship of California--and it would have given us another chance to vote him into the presidency of the U.S. This man has more patriotism, more devotion to his fellow Americans, per square inch, than most of us have to our own egos.
(MRS.) SUSAN CAMPBELL JELINEK La Grange Park, Ill.
Sir:
There has always been something vicious about the methods of the press as far as Nixon is concerned. Can you imagine the press reaction if he had cheated at Harvard?
THOMAS R. FAWCETT
Marblehead, Mass.
Sir:
Here is one more Republican happy to see Brown in office.
I am convinced that Nixon cannot make a statement admitting a fault or defeat without a pack of excuses. We Californians don't want a crybaby in public office.
ANNEXE CROFT Daggett, Calif.
Sir:
Your article on George W. Romney [Nov. 16] was an invitation to write.
First, he is far above politics in the usual sense, a gentleman of integrity and Christian ideals, yet with business acumen.
These are rare essentials these days and badly needed in Washington.
We shall be fortunate indeed if he becomes our next President, for he is a man who would steer this nation back to its proper place and would bring back the cherished principles on which it was founded.
F. J. WORRALL Brooklyn
Sir:
You left many things unsaid about Romney. You did not mention that the Democratic Party won every other state position.
Even the two staunch Republican papers in Detroit agreed that it was a "protest" victory, because Governor Swainson had the courage to veto the Bowman bill, thus forcing suburbanites to pay city taxes in Detroit.
The last election proved that the Republican Party in Michigan is dead. The next two years will prove that St. George, the Anointed One, is the biggest phony in American politics.
RAMON LAVALLE
Detroit
Sir:
With all the space you've given to Massachusetts politics, you might have mentioned that we did elect Ed Brooke attorney general. This Negro Republican is a man to keep your eye on. He just might wind up being the first Negro governor anywhere.
HARDY L. NATHAN
Northampton, Mass.
Sir:
We know at least one comforting fact about our new Governor-elect, "Chub" Peabody. He can certainly play football!
MRS. WILLIAM F. TRASK West Boylston, Mass.
India Fights the Dragon
Sir:
India's predicament today is not so much the fault of Menon as it is Nehru's.
As unfortunate as it is, I am glad India was invaded. This, I hope, will put an end to the fence-sitting that in the present context of world affairs is national cowardice.
I only trust that Nehru has learned his lesson well enough not to be appeased with anything short of complete recovery of all Indian territory.
J. B. SERABJIT-SINGH Kingston, Jamaica
Sir:
Mr. Nehru's stand on nonalignment is not merely a matter of philosophical sophistication. It is part of a deliberate and practical policy to avoid a global war.
While we will gratefully accept the aid given to us by our friends, we will not do it at the cost of mortgaging our pacifically won freedom. We refuse to be a party to the Kennedy-Khrushchev game of checkers.
TEROO B. ICHAPORIA Bombay
Sir:
It gave me a feeling of confidence when I saw last Saturday, in the lobby of a Calcutta hotel, a group of American airmen who had just arrived with the first contingent of American military aid to India.
We here in India have realized, unfortunately a trifle late, who our friends really are.
MALCOLM H. SOOKIAS Calcutta
Khrush
Sir:
Who says nobody is qualified to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace for this year ? After his retreat from Cuba, Khrushchev certainly deserves it, and if given to him, he might even start living up to his new reputation.
H. NASER Purdue University Lafayette, Ind.
Sir:
Every American family should frame the cover picture of Premier Khrushchev [Nov. 9] with his insidious grin. It should be hung in a prominent place to remind us constantly of the threat of Communism and what it could do to this country.
SHIRLEY SUTTON Princeton, N.J.
Sir:
Mr. Khrushchev's eleventh appearance on your cover impresses me. How many times did Hitler score?
D. CLIFTON CANFIELD Rossford, Ohio > Six.--Eo.
Baptist Feud
Sir:
Thanks for your clear reporting of Professor Ralph Elliott's dismissal from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary [Nov. 9].
Redneck radicals are more vocal, more vociferous in the Southern Baptist Convention than are the moderate majority.
I know I speak for many thousands when I say that the incident at Midwestern Seminary has set us back 50 years and has made meaningless the Baptist principle of the right of every individual to private judgment in religious matters without coercion from any source.
(THE REV.) JACK GLEASON
Southside Baptist Chapel Brunswick, Ga.
Sir:
Thank you for reporting the un-Christian action taken against one of today's most Christian men, Dr. Ralph Elliott.
JOYCE J. BANDY Director
Baptist Student Union Radford, Va.
Sir:
Being a member of the board of trustees of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, I read with interest your report "Baptist Split." Under the picture of Dr. Elliott, there is the statement "A professor needs somewhere to stand." May I suggest a place? He might try standing firmly upon Christ, "the sure Foundation," and the Holy Bible.
(THE REV.) W. Ross EDWARDS Swope Park Baptist Church Kansas City, Mo.
Kinship
Sir:
Whether or not Catherine de' Medici was a pupil of Machiavelli's (she was only eight when he died), he would hardly have advised her to marry her own son, Francis II of France [Nov. 16].
As TIME knows only too well, her husband was Henri II of France, and Francis II was married to the young Mary, Queen of Scots.
(MRS.) FRAN S. GROENHOFF Miami Beach, Fla.
Eleanor
Sir:
Permit me to say that your story "She Was Eleanor" in the Nov. 16 issue of TIME was one of the finest eulogies the magazine has carried in some time.
ALLAN E. BOVEY Marion, Ohio
Sir:
A true queen.
W. F. GLEESON JR.
Brooklyn
Sir:
Mrs. Roosevelt truly grew more beautiful as she grew older--an example on the positive side of what John Mason Brown is credited with saying: "As women grow older, there is written on their faces, beyond assistance from all artifice, not only what life has brought to them but what they have brought to life."
MRS. HARRY S. MYERS JR. Covina, Calif.
Stand Up for Stanford
Sir:
As director of the newly established Stan ford Center for Chinese Studies in Taipei, one of the branch campuses of Stanford University mentioned Nov. 9, may I say that the intensive 20-class-hours-per-week training in the speaking, reading and writing of Chinese, supplemented by additional hours in language lab and many hours of preparation, is hardly to be described as "untaxing" or "inane." The students' reaction to your description, written in on a copy of the article posted on our bulletin board, was "Ha!"
ALBERT E. DIEN
Taipei, Formosa
B.V.D.
Sir:
The most intriguing part of the B.V.D. Co. story [Nov. 9] was deleted. What happens to the left-over lint that B.V.D. sells?
SARA JANE CORMIER Aurora, N.Y.
It is used to stuff toy animals.--ED.
Sir:
I have always worn B.V.D.s and they are a byword around our house. We named our first child Billy. Then Vicki came along. When the third child was born, my wife and I agreed that the name must start with the letter D. So we picked David.
WILLIAM P. STERNE Tulsa, Okla.
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