In Black & White

Sir:

On the cover of your June 21 issue you show a very good picture of just how the Government is run. The only thing that was left out was the marbles the two in the background are playing with.

JOSEPH A. CHARLEBOIS New Haven, Conn.

Sir:

It's wonderful to see that we have men like Governors Barnett, Faubus and Wallace who are not willing to lose what freedom there is left. The American people are so stupid. They are being sold down the river to buy a few lousy votes for some greedy and vote-hungry office seekers.

JAMES KILLEEN Gallup, N. Mex.

Sir:

If our Government gives in to the Negro pressure group, 15 years from now my children may be resorting to the same tactics of staging sitdown strikes, launching economic boycotts, and browbeating politicians with threats of violence because of inequality of opportunity for whites.

PAUL FORREST Lakewood, N.J.

Sir:

Perhaps you can appreciate the resulting confusion in the minds of many Africans upon their consideration of a nation of people that will allow such violations of human dignity and conscience as Birmingham and at the same time enthusiastically support such a program as the Peace Corps, which has sent thousands like myself throughout the world in the name of freedom, justice, and a deep respect for human rights. An African said to me this week in all sincerity, "What is all this nonsense about your country being the land of the free and home of the brave? America acts as if it were a land free only to whites, and the Negro must be brave to live there." I am inclined to agree with him. It certainly appears that way from this side of the world.

Jo ANN CANNON Peace Corps Volunteer Mlanje, Nyasaland

Sir:

Each night the American Negro should sink to his knees and thank God he is "nonwhite."

The death of Medgar Evers bears down on the consciences of so-called whites throughout the world.

BRUCE CHRISTIE Werribee, Australia

Sir:

The civil rights dilemma seems to cause people to look for someone to blame. The Negro blames the white. The Northern white blames the Southern white. The Southern white blames the Negro. Then everyone blames the President and his Administration. To me, this is not only useless but ridiculous. If we must blame any President, let us blame George Washington, and go right on down the list. If we must blame anyone, let us blame ourselves. It is our fault.

LINDA LOMBARDO Linden, N.J.

The Candidate's Wife

Sir:

Thank you for "This President Thing" [June 14]. Today's voter places considerable importance on the candidate's wife. Don't you think your readers would enjoy a picture of Mrs. Goldwater?

RAYMOND E. KING Hesston, Kans.

> Yes.--ED.

A Love Problem

Sir:

In regard to Rockefeller's eligibility for the Republican nomination for the presidency next year [June 14]: students of American history will remember that New York's Governor Cleveland also had love problems; he admitted them and was elected in 1884.

PETER D. COE Boston

>Ten days after Grover Cleveland was nominated for the presidency in 1884, the Buffalo Telegraph revealed in a lead article, headlined "A Terrible Tale," that Cleveland was the father of the nine-year-old son of Maria Crofts Hatpin, a widow. Cleveland did not deny it.--ED.

Distinguished Service

Sir:

With all your excellent coverage of the Keeler-Profumo extravaganza [June 14], how could your reporters possibly have missed getting her vital statistics? Deplorable!

LEONARD BUTCHER Seattle

> Not so deplorable: 36-24-36, tidily arranged at 5 ft. 6 in.--ED

The General's Diplomacy

Sir:

I appreciate your excellent coverage [June 7] of the support U.S. forces are giving the republic of Viet Nam in its struggle against the Viet Cong insurgents. However, despite my high regard for the capability of the UH-1B helicopters and the crews who fly them, I have never stated that they are the most essential unit in my command. This is a team effort, and every component of that team is considered equally essential. Our advisory personnel include members of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, all of whom are doing an outstanding job and deserve equal praise for such efforts.

I am also concerned about your statement that fixed-wing fighter bombers sometimes drop napalm on innocent civilians. These aircraft are flown by pilots of the Vietnamese air force being trained and advised by U.S. Air Force personnel. Both are just as concerned about safety of noncombatants as our U.S. Huey pilots. Investigations have failed to substantiate such reports, although obviously the Communist Viet Cong would like to perpetuate this canard.

PAUL D. HARKINS General, U.S.A. Military Assistance Command Viet Nam

> TIME appreciates General Harkins' diplomatic problems, applauds his confidence in his team, also has confidence in its own team of correspondents.--ED.

The Richest

Sir:

You mention [May 31] that the University of Chicago is the fourth richest endowed school in the country. I would like to know which three schools now have richer endowments.

LEWIS E. GUTHMAN Chevy Chase, Md.

> Harvard with more than $727 million; Yale, $398 million; the University of Texas, almost $397 million.--ED.

Education in Montana

Sir:

During the four-year period that I have served as president of this institution [June 7], Montana Power Co. officials have been most helpful in promoting the welfare of the university. In providing moral as well as financial support, they consistently have made clear their desire to help improve the university and its service to the state in every possible way without in any sense attempting to affect policy or practice on or off the campus. J. F. Corette realizes, as much as any man in the state, the importance of higher education to our society, and this understanding is reflected in his private as well as his corporate activities.

H. K. NEWBURN President

Montana State University Missoula, Mont.

What's Fit to Print

Sir:

I must say a few words on the hypocrisy that has led to the conviction of Ralph Ginzburg [June 21]. The chief criticism of Eros, from its inception, was that most of its material could be found and viewed and read in the public library and public museum. Why then so much fuss?

DAVID PASCAL WRAY New York City

Sir:

Not long before Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club opened, I received a telephone call from his secretary, asking me to translate a sentence into Latin for him. When she revealed his desire to emulate Horace and rear a lasting monument by putting on his door "If you don't swing, don't ring" in deathless Latin chased in metal, I explained in vain the impossibility of translating slang. So I came up with Si non oscillas noli tintinnare and forgot about it.

I take a wry satisfaction in having got into TIME'S columns by the back door, so to speak, via a bit of dog Latin and H.H.'s coattails!

GLENNYS HEINER* Chicago

Sir:

Unless the President puts a stop to Postmaster General Day's great smut hunt, the New Frontier may become known as "the New Inquisition."

RALPH GINZBURG Editor & Publisher Eros New York City

Back to the Farm

Sir:

Let's stop kidding the troops with these letters from readers re the previous week's covers. You're good and you do some remarkable things, but you do not control the U.S. mail delivery. I received TIME, June 21, with Bobby Kennedy on the cover June 19. I'll bet you a blackland farm that you cannot get this letter in next week's issue [June 28].

WINSTON M. ESTES Lieutenant Colonel, U.S.A.F. Maxwell A.F.B., Ala.

> How many acres?-- ED.

* An editor of Latin textbooks.

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