Man of the Year (Contd.)

Sir / Although I admire tremendously every man and woman connected with uncovering the Watergate scandal. I would have to say that Senator Lowell P. Weicker stands out in the crowd. He is so truthful and unafraid of criticism. Therefore, I hereby nominate him as TIME'S Man of the Year for 1973.

BLANCHE L. PARKER

New York City

Sir / Man of the Year? President Richard M. Nixon! The most courageous President the United States has ever had. A man whose country comes first. A man who has not been intimidated by the irresponsible news media. He is a great man, and the greatest President.

M.C. GORDON

Washington, D.C.

Sir / I would like to nominate a man who had the decency to refuse an award that he felt he did not deserve. The award was the Nobel Peace Prize, and my nomination is Le Due Tho.

RONALD GRAY

Greenville, Texas

Sir / I nominate the incomparable evangelist, Billy Graham.

MARK WATSON

Virginia Beach, Va.

Sir / Alistair Cooke: he's kept our other eye on the grandeur and glory.

MRS. K.L. DREYER

York. Pa.

Sir / Jacques Cousteau. a beautiful human being.

MILDRED G. RADANOVICH

Los Angeles

Truckers' Blackmail?

Sir / The truckers' demonstrations [Dec. 17] are base blackmail. There are dozens of other professional groups and thousands of industrial workers who have had their income cut off entirely, instead of just reduced a bit, as a result of the energy crunch. Most have clenched their teeth, pulled in their belts, put on sweaters, and are working a little harder.

HORATIO NEWHALL JR.

South Norwalk, Conn.

Sir / The display of the Ohio state troopers moving on the trucks reminded me of films showing Adolf Hitler's storm troopers. The truckers are having to fight for their very existence.

RUTH M. GILBERT

Tucson, Ariz.

Sir / Three years ago young people blocked a few highways to demonstrate their feelings about a war. They got gassed, gagged, beaten up and locked up--and the highways reopened.

Today a group of truck drivers block a few highways to demonstrate their financial woes. They win governmental concessions--and maybe the highway reopens.

WILLIAM SHAKAL

Pocomoke City, Md.

Nixon's Taxes

Sir / Nixon is going to let Congress decide if he should pay additional back taxes [Dec. 17]. Why not prosecute him as I would be prosecuted? The way I see it, if Congress lets him get by with this, they might just as well go home.

MRS. ROY S. KIRBY

Grantsville, W. Va.

Sir / Please do not let Mr. Nixon give us San Clemente! We cannot afford it.

MAY BRADLEY

Castro Valley. Calif.

Slap Flap

Sir / Re your article "The Great Slap Flap" [Dec. 3]: I am disgusted and angered by the press and its apparent personal feud with President Nixon. What gall TIME has to say that the White House attempt to use this story to discredit press criticism seems heavyhanded to most newsmen.

It seems to me a clear case of the press syndrome in this country, which is never to admit it is wrong or to apologize, and in this case it seems to me that the press members involved feel it is a question of whose word the people will accept--theirs or the President's--no matter what the truth is.

JOANNE B. WEST

Albuquerque

Sir / I'm so glad Nixon did not kiss that baby he was holding. It would have been reported that he bit the kid.

ISABEL CONNOR

Long Beach, Calif.

Fig Leaf and Vest

Sir / I wonder what the Supreme Court's attire will be for pleading their case before their final court [Dec. 10]. A conservative fig leaf, with vest if possible? At what cost do we purchase wisdom and receive such trivia?

JON HAMAN

Grand Canyon, Ariz.

Sir / Despite my personal aversion to dress codes, a uniform dress code for attorneys appearing before the Supreme Court might well be in order, in the interest of justice. Ancient Jewish traditions were particularly sensitive to the possibility and dangers of partiality in juridical proceedings. Thus Rabbi Ishmael said, "If before a judge two men appear for judgment, one rich and another poor, the judge should say to the rich man, 'Either dress in the same manner as he is dressed, or clothe him as you are dressed' " (Deut. R. Shofetim V, 6).

If justice is to be impartial, perhaps attorneys should dress alike. How about blue jeans?

ROY BOWEN WARD

Chairman

Department of Religion

Miami University

Oxford, Ohio

Sir / Yes, I definitely think that "nine old men" wearing long black dresses should object to a woman appearing before them wearing a pantsuit. It makes perfect sense.

MILDRED KAVANAUGH

Yakima, Wash.

Streakers' Olympics

Sir / Your short piece on the streaking fad, the practice of prancing nude in public, [Dec. 10] outraged me. You gave the impression that Southern California has again found something new. Let it be known that streakers have plagued the campus police at Notre Dame for the past decade. Last year, in our first year of coeducation, some elements of the student body even sponsored a Streakers' Olympics. This place may be better known for its other sports, but streakers deserve exposure too.

JOHN E. CAREY

Notre Dame, Ind.

Sir / While I was a student at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., proper streakers were found at large only during the months of January and February, and then only if the temperature ranged between 0DEGF. and --30DEGF. Actually the term streaking derives its meaning from the fact that unless one appeared as a streak against the landscape, the Minnesota winter was triumphant and streaker became statue.

RICHARD A. HULL III

Portland. Me.

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