Mixed Doubles

To the Editors:

Your article on sex and tennis [Sept. 6] supports my girl friend's conviction that love is nothing to tennis players.

Ernie Gumprecht

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

I have yet to decide whether heaven or hell will be paved with tennis courts.

M. Morgan Hostetter

Tucumcari, N. Mex.

I think your generalization that women who play tennis want the "big serve" is exaggerated. It is more likely to assume that the males who serve softly to women are looking for the "big return."

Elizabeth Grimm

Los Angeles

Sex is a substitute for tennis!

Jerry Wiseman

Newport, Ky.

I don't know of a man out here who plays mixed doubles with his wife or old lady. We Westerners think too much of sex and tennis to risk combining them.

Page Smith

Santa Cruz, Calif.

Mixed doubles? I also avoid heroin, soap operas, junk food and bridge.

William P. Hodges

Birmingham

Tennis! The greatest thing that has happened to golf in 30 years.

Fred Gregware

Barrington, R.I.

To Take a Life

If the majority of our citizens really approve of the murder of unborn children, then let them admit it out loud and stop crying foul when they are reminded that it is just that. There is no way around it.

Marilyn Mercier

Lincoln, Neb.

According to the bishops, "It is not the church's business to draft legislation but to protect human life."

Were these bishops so up in arms over the Viet Nam War? If a woman cannot "take the life" of her unborn child, she should then be able to decide if her already living son should possibly have his life taken in war.

Judith Diane Starace

Bayville, N. Y.

The Republican platform endorses "the right to life for unborn children," but also favors more and better weaponry to destroy those already born. It's obvious they're not prolife, just anti-women's choice.

Katharine Cady

Christchurch, New Zealand

Jimmy Carter believes abortion to be morally wrong and opposes it. He also refuses to support a constitutional amendment that would ban abortions. Trying to get votes from both sides, we assume.

What a phony!

Fred S. Mott

Cincinnati

Color me Catholic. I am for better birth control methods that are readily available to any who want them, help with adoption procedures and teaching respect for all life.

I am against a constitutional amendment to ban all abortions. No government should ever wield such control over its citizens.

Mary Clare Freeman

Wausau, Wis.

A group of bishops (male) confer with presidential candidates (male) to decide on laws to govern women's bodies. Sad, sad, sad.

Candace De Puy

North Hollywood, Calif.

Raping the Public

It is preposterous that a famous singer gets $2.5 million for rape damages from a hotel [Sept. 6]. Enormous awards such as this are causing soaring insurance charges that are passed on to all of us. The legal system has gone berserk and is raping the public.

Glenn T. Wilson

Edwardsville, Ill.

Sue the universities, police, etc. for crimes perpetrated within their jurisdictions? Nonsense! Why not eliminate the middlemen and just sue the Supreme Court which has made it so difficult to apprehend and prosecute the perpetrator of the crime and so easy for the criminal to become a "repeater."

Sally Harper

Mundelein, Ill.

The Detroit Wall Detroit [Sept. 6] needs something similar to the Berlin Wall, only around the city instead of through it. I am a recent escapee.

Charles A. Poppelreiter

New Port Rickey, Fla.

Detroit, like all big cities, has a crime problem, but to compare Detroit to Belfast is unfair.

The percent of "hoods" in Detroit is small. You just helped the city die.

Shirley Butt

South Lyon, Mich.

After reading the article, I found it sad and ironic to receive a phone call minutes later to say an old friend would not be coming. He had been robbed and murdered -- in Detroit.

Marian C. Popp

Ionia, Mich.

Nibbling Nader

Ralph Nader [Sept. 6] paranoid about his enemies? Who can blame him, when hundreds of heads of companies would like to see his head on a platter.

The point is that he has saved people money and sometimes thier lives by pointing the finger at shoddy and defective merchandise. We need more people like him.

Linda Fennessy

Freeland. Md.

Don't nibble at the Nader myth --bite!

Eugen Koffmann

Santa Barbara, Calif.

Maybe Mr. Nader is more of a hazard than the so-called hazards he crusades against. The catalytic converter is more of a hazard than the cars themselves ever were. Which is going to get us first, the cars or the safety devices?

David Aultman

Hattiesburg, Miss.

Space would prevent a catalogue of all the avoidable errors of fact and misjudgment that laced your article on me. For the future, if TIME would ask the subject of the assertions about these assertions, such articles would be more accurate and more fair, even granted the predetermined theme selected by your editor. I was interviewed briefly but on none of the erroneous points so uncritically reproduced by TIME in its piece.

Ralph Nader

Washington, D.C.

McCarthy's Mission

Will McCarthy matter [Sept. 13]? As Walter Lippmann said, "Eugene McCarthy's mission is to do whatever a gifted and honest man can do to stop the rot in the American political system." McCarthy will always matter.

Phyllis J. Paine

Omaha

As Harold Stassen fades into the sunset, Eugene McCarthy comes up over the horizon as the new ego tripper gathering snickers and sneers quadrennially.

Bill Laverick

Chula Vista, Calif.

Speaking of Lockheed

Before we run all the Kings and Prime Ministers out of the world, perhaps TIME and other periodicals should speak more of Lockheed [Sept. 13]. If it must bribe to get foreign countries to accept its planes, is Lockheed above bribing U.S. officials to accept the same planes?

Dan P. McVay

Lahaina, Hawaii

Should Americans be reminded that it is Lockheed, not Watergate, that has shaken the free world?

Pedro Segui Pons

Barcelona

Paying Kissinger's Bill

Can you give me one good reason why American taxpayers should feel obligated to spend so much as a penny upon Kissinger's "Rhodesian solution" [Sept. 13]?

The Rhodesian whites are of British origin, and the white investments there have been British. Britain should pay the full $2 billion.

William Wiseley

Henley-on-Thames

Is it not more reasonable to compensate the blacks for the many years of exploitation and racial oppression by the whites?

Oge Ohadugha

Boston

One is entitled to wonder if Prime Minister Vorster, in his conversation with Secretary Kissinger, has suggested giving America back to the Indians. Or if he has mentioned that Americans, in the past, dealt very efficiently with the native population in order to ensure that majority rule on their part would never become a problem.

Harold Hesse

Colebrook, Conn.

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