Man of the Year
Sir:
NATO's Lauris Norstad.
PETE SWITZER Los Angeles
Sir:
The man is the U.S. taxpayer.
WALTER RUTHERFORD Bronxville, N.Y.
Sir:
Prince Philip--who leads while walking behind.
TERRI O'SHAYE San Leandro, Calif.
Sir:
The original egghead: Adlai Stevenson.
ANN EINHORN Reading, Pa.
Sir:
Our vote goes to the best Vice President in the history of the U.S. (and probably the next Chief Executive), Richard Nixon. ROGER STANTON Detroit
Sir:
Boris Morros. He risked his life among Communist cutthroats and traitors as an FBI counterspy.
HOLLIS CORTELYOU Higgins, Texas
Sir:
"Old Nik" Khrushchev. The only possible contender for your title.
DONALD C. DE LA POER BERESFORD London
Sir: Above the hurly-burly of Sputniks, one man alone stands out. I'd give the nomination to Pope Pius XII.
FINBARR M. SLATTERY Asdee, Ireland
Sir:
Vice President Diosdado Macapagal of the Philippines.
JOAQUIN A. BARRETTO Manila, Philippines
Sir:
Provided he can keep his big mouth shut for the rest of the year, may I propose Mr. John Foster Dulles?
R. J. FABRI Athens
Sir:
Senator John Kennedy.
PATRICK G. HICKEY Buenos Aires
Sir:
I nominate Dag Hammarskjold--for his many contributions to peace throughout the world.
ERNIE SILVERIA San Leandro, Calif.
Sir:
Cuba's Fidel Castro.
St. Jerome, Que.
DON HUGHES
SIR:
ANTHONY EDEN--MISUNDERSTOOD AND ATTACKED BY ALL.
PETER FRANKEL RIO DE JANEIRO
Sir:
King Hussein of Jordan for outlasting the year--if he outlasts it--in spite of the warm friendship of his Arab allies and the well-meant advice of John Foster Dulles.
JOSEF SRYCK
Tel Aviv
Fifty-fifty in Sicily
Sir:
The Dec. 9 article "Success in Sicily" contained a statement that Gulf Oil (i.e., Gulf Italia Co.) gets from its Sicilian oil-production operations 80% of all profits, instead of the standard fifty-fifty split. The truth is that Gulf Italia Co., under its concession terms established in 1954, pays to the Sicilian government a royalty of one-eighth of the gross production, plus corporate taxes (i.e., income tax and tax on the capital and on the extra profits). The combined and aggregate payment to the government of royalty and taxes brings about a fair and equitable profit sharing, which is practically equivalent to a fifty-fifty split of the profits.
N. PIGNATELLI ARAGONA General Manager Gulf Italia Co. Rome
The Vice President
Sir:
May I congratulate you on the President-grooming job you did on Vice President Nixon in the Dec. 9 issue? You have whitewashed Tricky Dick so clean that I am sure his own mother wouldn't recognize him. I almost burst into tears about the modest 9-Ib. turkey (no 40-pounder for him) that Pat roasted on Thanksgiving.
HELEN SHELLEY New York City
Sir:
Congratulations on the excellent article about Richard Nixon -- the No. 1 man in our Government. As for the Demos in '60 --let's fix 'em with Nixon.
SUSAN CRABB Indianapolis
Sir: Your Dec. 9 cover: UGH!!!
R. J. HERZIG Los Angeles
Sir:
Here's one Republican who says nix on Nixon in '60. My vote goes to promising Jack Kennedy.
FRANK MERKATORIS St. Paul
Sir:
As a registered Democrat, may I say that the more I find out about Jack Kennedy the better I like Dick Nixon?
NILS ONGMAN Los Angeles
Sir:
A magnificent story. Am glad to see that credit is given when credit is due. He justly deserves it.
JOAN WILLIAMS Chicago
The Catholic Candidate
Sir:
I see TIME is aboard the Kennedy bandwagon. This free advertising for Senator John Kennedy is of great benefit to the Democrats and more important to the Catholic Church. If Kennedy is nominated by the "Damn-old-rats," I propose Paul Blanshard as Republican nominee.
SYDNEY GAUTHIER Swampscott, Mass.
Sir:
I wish to compliment TIME on its John Kennedy article. It could just as well have been titled "Away with Bigotry."
ARTHUR HOUGHTON Beverly Hills, Calif.
Sir:
This affable young man represents the Vatican's most vigorous attempt in recent years to penetrate the U.S. Government and subtly destroy our cherished tradition of separation of church and state.
JAMES O. BROWN Wichita Falls, Texas
Father & Son
Sir:
The great tribute you have paid my father, N. C. Wyeth [Nov. 18], is most heartily acknowledged by all of us here at Chadds Ford. The manner in which you reproduced and presented his work was as rich and full as his own personality.
ANDREW WYETH Chadds Ford, Pa.
Hollywood's Hearts of Gold
Sir:
I enjoyed your warm and moving review [Dec. 9] of Paths of Glory. It is gratifying to learn that Hollywood can again make films that portray war as something other than glorious and that do not have to show that under every officer's tunic there beats a heart of gold. If this movie leaves the spectator "confused," it may be because it has started him thinking of truths he would rather not face.
EDWIN KRAUSER West Lafayette, Ind.
SIR:
HAPPY YOU CONSIDER "PATHS OF GLORY" CURRENT & CHOICE. IF ANTI-WAR ATTITUDE IS "PASSION OUT OF FASHION," THEN PLEASE MAKE NOTE THAT I AM OLD FASHION.
KIRK DOUGLAS
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.
Rocket's Red Face
Sir:
Let's assign the armed forces publicity personnel to commanding men (if and when qualified) instead of commanding typewriters and mimeograph machines. The "old" Army fought and won two pretty good wars without having generals of publicity telling the enemy and the American people what they were going to do.
WILLIAM G. BREY Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.) Santa Rosa, Calif.
Sir:
Call your Vanguard failure a victory. It was a real demonstration to the Russians that freedom of information and liberty of the press exists in America. Neither your nation nor your people are responsible for exaggerated press deductions and calculations.
KARL JOHN WILSON
Santiago, Chile
Cow Power in India
Sir:
Re "The Flabby Giant" [Dec. 9]: it is true that India has more cattle than any other country, but those millions of sacred cows just don't produce sufficient cow dung to generate 75% of the electric power of India--furthermore, I'm sure Nehru never made such a flabby remark.
JERRY MASON Teheran, Iran
P: TIME erred.--ED.
Squares & Non-Squares
Sir:
Kenneth Rexroth's poem should have been left out of TIME, Dec. 2. You would have improved that issue by devoting more space to the sport of football.
J. M. GOODSON JR. Birmingham, Ala.
Sir:
Man, we just love that snow job article about the poets and jazzmen in San Francisco but don't dig the poem about the "bright-headed bird."
BARBARA KOSSYK CAROL STAIR Madison, NJ.
P: The "bright-headed bird" was Poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).--ED.
Sir:
Kenneth Rexroth as revealed by TIME:
Who killed him? Who killed the cool, cool Bard, With his foul, foul "poems?" You killed him?
Let me be the first to shake your hand! JANE KNOBLOCH Wheaton, Ill.
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