A Handshake for McGovern
Sir / Now in the election year of 1972 I know there is a man I do support 100% --George McGovern. His picture is taped to my refrigerator. He is a man whose hand I would like to shake and say, "I believe in you and in all the things for which you stand." If he is elected President, I will once again be proud to raise the American flag.
FERN MARIE YOUNG
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Sir / The American voters, it appears, finally have the chance to turn America around. A chance to use our energies and resources for cleaning up our environment, providing health care at a decent price for all, improving mass transit, rebuilding our cities, and achieving peace--rather than for destruction and waste, such as Viet Nam, adventures to the moon and space shuttles.
JOHN L. PELOQUIN
Coon Rapids, Minn.
Sir / I have been a diehard Democrat all my life, but until our party is returned to the true Democrats, I will fight vehemently to defeat any candidate who would run under McGovern's banner.
His idiotic platform makes me sick.
THOMAS B. ABERNATHY
Clinton, Ind.
Sir / George McGovern and his legions have deeply moved this 30-year-old, city-bred (Los Angeles), Irish Catholic female. The traditional Democrat. Yes, they have moved me completely and passionately to the party of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.
(MRS.)JERI MILLER
Rock Island, Ill.
Sir / While McGovern's campaign theme appears to be "Come home, America," the middle-class American wonders whether he will still have a home after he finishes paying increased taxes for the inevitable social-welfare programs that would be sure to follow McGovern's election.
AUDREY LESKO KELLEJAN
Cinnaminson, N.J.
The Greatest
Sir / Robert Hughes' Essay on the Rolling Stones [luly 17] was an incredible piece of pseudointellectual, nonsensical verbiage. I stood in line for 17 hours and fought brutal crowds for three more not to see a "butterfly for sexual lepidopterists," but simply to hear what has consistently been for the past eight years the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
LEO S. MATKINS
Jenkintown, Pa.
Sir / It is not true, as you said, that "Jagger is a 28-year-old playing to kids of 15."
However, I have to share your reporter's opinion that rock concerts are no longer "events of ecstatic mass communion but uncomfortable affairs, jammed and hot." Only for the Stones will I allow myself to be smothered by a bunch of animals.
MAUREEN PETERS
Hatfield, Pa.
Why Boys Only?
Sir / Could you please explain to me why the National Youth Science Camp, where 100 of the nation's brightest male students gather [July 17], is for boys only? If West Virginia really wants to improve its backward image, it had better start preparing an answer to that question.
N. ELAINE GRYNKEWICH
New York City
Sir / Such stubborn silent bias as shown in your story "Having Fun at Camp IQ" must cease. Is it believed that only boys are capable of perceiving the intricacies of micropaleontology? Perhaps the science camp ought to switch its intellectual concern for UFOs to some of the nation's brightest unidentified breathing objects: girls.
CHRISTIANNE ZULAUF
Bloomington, Ind.
No Liberties Taken
Sir / Your review of Norman Cousins' new magazine World indicts an article by me as "coverage" of the recent U.N. Stockholm conference "written well before the fact" [June 26].
My article was wholly concerned with an episode that took place during the preparations for the conference, in November and December of last year, several months before I wrote about it.
The only postdating I did was in the lead paragraph, where I referred to the conference--in the most general terms--in the past tense, by way of introduction. The only liberty I took was to assume that the conference would take place at all.
ANTHONY WOLFF
New York City
Rarer Avis Cavett
Sir / Bravo to TIME for "The Cavett Crusade" [July 17]. It accurately expressed the agony of Cavett watchers in the face of the ABC brass. We are waging a crusade, but I fear it is hopeless. ABC persists in counting the faceless Nielsen families, while hundreds of thousands of people throughout the country watch Cavett avidly and go unpolled.
Dick Cavett is a rara avis on TV today. If he goes. ABC's late-night audience will most certainly dwindle, because most Cavett watchers will just turn off the TV. The networks should realize that viewers don't watch networks, we watch Cavett.
BARBARA NOVACK
Laurelton, N.Y.
Quartz Watches
Sir / I just recently read your Business story about electronic quartz watches [June 19]. Let me point to one erroneous statement that concerns specifically the price of Girard Perregaux electronic quartz watches. Your article states that they retail at prices starting at $495. The fact is that with the exception of one 18-karat-gold model, all of the others retail for under $400, down to $250.
OSCAR KAMMERMAN
President
Girard Perregaux Corp.
New York City
Regular Hours
Sir / Marshall Loeb, in commenting on the life expectancy of persons in certain professions [July 10], said. "Clergy, scientists and teachers live longer because their jobs offer regular hours with a minimum of pressure and tension." I contest this assumption --unless by regular hours Mr. Loeb means from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. six'days a week plus Sunday morning services with never a weekend off.
And as to the absence of pressure and tension, has Mr. Loeb ever tried to please 1,000 church members on the matter of a sermon, music selections, financial concerns and social issues?
RUTH I. YODER
Saline, Mich.
Sir / Teachers experience a minimum of pressure and tension? In few other jobs is the pressure and tension so constant. The other factors affecting life expectancy offset the tension. The competitive type doesn't tend to go into teaching. We teachers do have a sense of purpose and direction in our work. We don't overdrink, overeat and generally live it up because we're too tired, too poor or too busy moonlighting.
(MRS.) JEAN GREGORY
Leawood, Kans.
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