The Grits & Fritz Hominy Ticket

To the Editors:

Jimmy Carter has brought hominy to the divided ranks of the Democratic Party [July 26]. He is the man to restore our lost faith in peanut butter.

Nolan Nix

Denver

When I was a lad, people said anyone can be President. How true!

Frank O. Klapp

Tiffin, Ohio

Jimmy Carter is an inspiration to every salesman in America. Unknown and starting from a town of 600 people, he packed his bag, hit the road, talked to people and had the convention locked up before it opened.

Jason Hurley

Chicago

Before the convention, I was a Georgian who hung onto grits as my only vestige of "pride." I was ashamed of the rest and hopelessly poisoned by the bitterness I felt toward the society that segregated me from blacks.

Thanks to Jimmy, my faith in America has been restored and my pride in Georgia includes more than grits. I am also learning to smile, and it feels great.

Clyde L. Goodrich

Savannah, Ga.

Poor Senator Mondale--making "only" $44,600 a year, plus $1,000 for each speaking appearance. Maybe we should have a special collection to support our new vice-presidential candidate.

Madalyn Tremaroli Fitzpatrick

San Mateo, Calif.

It seems ironic that, with even more inflationary and socialistic programs, two "hometown, ail-American boys" like Jimmy and Fritz could make the country's economic problems worse ... but they could.

Kimberly Rutledge

Loves Park, Ill.

Mondale for V.P. assures that a shoo-in election will become a cliffhanger.

Hal Troeger Grand

Marais, Mich.

Shouldn't the grandson of the Democratic candidate be wearing a shirt with donkeys--not elephants--on it?

Nancy C. Marshall

Flushing, N. Y.

Taking the Heat

The kidnapers of the 26 Chowchilla children [July 26] should be imprisoned in a buried moving van in 90DEG heat just as the children were.

Tracy Revels

Madison, Fla.

Political Trifles

The exquisite beauty of the performances of Nadia Comaneci and Nelli Kim, coupled with the awesome courage of Japan's Fujimoto, exemplify the true Olympic spirit and put political trifles into the background [July 26].

Patrick Albino

Budd Lake, N.J.

Politics scores a 10.00 this year in Montreal.

(Mrs.) Dorothy Tolley

Jacksonville

It's about time this overgrown circus is cut down to size, to give the IOC the possibility of managing it successfully and the athlete of competing without interference. Maybe we should forget about the Olympics altogether, until we are old enough to know what mutual respect is all about.

Henry F. Hofmanner

Glen Head, N. Y.

The incident concerning Olympic athletes from Taiwan is the sort of action we have come to expect from tin-pot Third World dictatorships. For the first time in my life I feel truly ashamed to be a Canadian.

B. Cameron Reed

Toronto

God's Prescription

Two years ago I stumbled across a nut brown man and my life was transformed. Now I find this man, Baba Muktananda, in the pages of TIME [July 26]. Thank you for introducing him to your readers.

Ted Mullennix

Denver

Maybe Swami Muktananda is God's prescription for what the world needs.

Thomas G. Warsinske

Ann Arbor, Mich.

India's unique gift to the world is her meditative tradition and the holy men the Vedic culture has produced throughout history.

Figures such as Buddha and Gandhi have been removed from us, but now one is palpably among us, and the opportunity is thrilling.

Douglas Broyles

Oakland, Calif.

Why Me?

The annual physical [July 26] may not be cost-effective, but I prefer to know that my wife and I are being checked on a regular basis for the conditions that could most likely cause our deaths, disability or disfigurement.

William R. Faurot

Milwaukee

Many people look upon a checkup as a license to proceed with another year of overeating, overdrinking, oversmoking and overfornicating in an overanxious environment.

Then when disaster strikes, we say, "Why did this happen to me?"

Joseph F. Smiddy, M.D.

Kingsport, Tenn.

Smog, Good Buddy

An FCC attempt to cure the CB pollution of the air waves by allotting more channels [July 26] has the same chance for success as a scheme to cure smog by building more roads.

Paul Kirley

Auburndale, Mass.

No Hard-Liner

TIME'S coverage of the OPEC conference in Bali [June 7] brought to mind an old professor who, year after year, lectured from his old notes without any effort to update them.

It is absolutely wrong to say that I led a bloc of OPEC hardliners, since Iran played a neutral role during the meeting.

If the accuracy of this article is an example of all TIME'S reports, then God save TIME'S readers and rescue its editor.

Jamshid Amouzegar

Minister of Interior

Tehran, Iran

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