Frol's Frolic

Sir:

I'm doing a slow burn! Mr. Kozlov and his Commie friends are allowed to inspect our nuclear-powered merchant vessels under construction, and with their high-powered cameras take pictures of everything in sight [July 20]. Do we have to make it so easy for them?

MRS. EDWARD R. SETH Baltimore

Sir:

Hurrah for peaceful coexistence. This cultural exchange is wonderful. The country with the best ideas will win.

MARY LEARSON

Conway, N.H.

Sir:

From me, an American citizen, to Frol Kozlov, I say: take all your hot-air agents, sympathizers, and scram.

J. S. BURDETT Miami

Sir:

Your July 13 cover story on Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov's official visit to this country seems excessively cynical, sarcastic and vindictive--like the reaction of the fairy-tale witch whose mirror of truth began telling her that she was no longer the fairest in the land. It will do us no good to lie to ourselves. The Russians are gaining on us in all fields and will continue to do so, regardless of TIME'S neurotic reactions.

CHARLES H. McGuiRE

Brooklyn

The Long Long Trail

Sir:

I write to you to express my admiration for your July 13 article on Earl Long. It is an exceptionally fine piece of reporting, evoking all the seemingly unbelievable Faulknerian overtones of the situation.

EDWARD H. LE ZOTTE Frankfurt, West Germany

Sir:

As a citizen of the state of Louisiana, I respect the laws and my state, but the behavior of the Governor is appalling.

MRS. LEE ROY MORESI Maplewood, La.

Sir:

It is not Governor Earl Long who has disgraced the State of Louisiana, but rather the voters of that state who have continually re-elected him.

MRS. JOAN C. RUSSELL Bethesda, Md.

The Nature of Beauty

Sir:

Prelate Byrne's threatened denial of the sacraments of communion and confession to a Miss Universe contestant and her Catholic mother [July 20] is just another very good reason for being an American Protestant.

H. WILLIAM OHMAN Staten Island, N.Y.

Sir:

Methinks perhaps Archbishop Byrne has misconstrued an adjective or two. Since the issue concerns international beauty, and since beauty in its essence "pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit," can beauty and indecency possibly be related?

If sacraments would be denied should Sue Ingersoll appear in public, then what justifies their being administered should she appear to a smaller-sized public? Uncovered is uncovered, where'er it may be.

NADINE MARIE CALHOUN

Santa Rosa, Calif.

Sir:

Good for the archbishop! He is one of the few remaining individuals who realize that true beauty is enhanced by maidenly modesty and womanly dignity.

He sees through the vulgarity and flesh worship of the public parading of the body.

MRS. F. LAVELLE Pittsburgh

Case of the Chief Justice

Sir:

After reading your July 13 account of the Warren-Mazo explosion and Warren's 1957 petty blackballing of Nixon, I can only say there must be many today whose faith in Chief Justice Warren's considered judgment is now a thing of the past. That such a man is our Chief Justice must make "the lady in the harbor" wince.

ANCEL O. LEWIS Wichita, Kans.

Sir:

History will surely sweep away all the lies and confusions of the time and will show that Earl Warren is a truly great man in the beautiful tradition of American democracy, and that Richard Nixon is a conniving, cheap demagogue--a perfect totalitarian. HORACE SCHWARTZ Mill Valley, Calif.

"Only" v. "Lonely"

Sir:

As a descendant of the de Albas, I disagree with the so-called experts who would like to convince themselves that there was an adulterous relationship between the painter Goya and Dona Cayetana de Silva, one of the Duchesses of Alba [July 13].

Ignacio Zuloaga, the greatest Spanish painter of the recent past (one of whose El Grecos has recently gone to the Metropolitan Museum), was my godfather. Zuloaga was aware of the existence of the word "Solo" traced in the sand at the feet of the duchess, which has again come to light with the cleaning of the portrait. His interpretation of the word was "alone" or "lonely"--Lonely Goya--which would indicate the contrary of what the "experts" strive to prove with their translation "only" (which is, customarily, solamente).

In my case, what was and remains important between the painter and the lady has never been obscure or obscured; she was his friend and patroness. In that sense, there was, indeed, love between them. How juvenile to believe that the existence of love is proved by the incidence of sex.

MERCEDES DE ACOSTA (Y DE ALBA) New York City

Public Show

Sir:

In tolerating Fidel Castro, the big powers repeat their 1932 mistake of tolerating Hitler. Castro, Somoza and Trujillo all justify their crimes with the claim of defending the people. Castro openly murders (official word: executes) hundreds of those who dare to have different opinions, but strangely, everybody sees only the villainies of the other two. Is it because when they kill, they do not make a public show out of it?

HUITT YARDLEY Sao Paulo, Brazil

Sir:

Fidel Castro merely wants what is best for his own country: prosperity and as much freedom as is compatible with the required social and economic reform. American meddling and support of men like Batista have prevented the Cubans from realizing these goals ever since the Spanish-American War.

WILLIAM L. SHACKLEFORD New Haven, Conn.

A Matter of Taste

Sir:

You say that the nudibranch chromodoris has no known enemies despite size, bright coloration, and lack of shell or protection [July 6]. Sir, have you ever eaten a nudibranch chromodoris?

JOHN L. BERGLOF Gothenburg, Sweden

¶ No. Has Reader Berglof?--ED.

Swing to Rome?

SIR:

MANY YEARS TIME READER. ENJOY OBJECTIVE SUCCINCT REPORTS. INCREASINGLY OBSERVE RELIGION SECTION SWINGING TOWARD ROME. ALLOWING FATHERLY ATTRIBUTES TO POPE JOHN [JULY 13], I CAST MY BALLOT FOR TIME TO REMAIN NEWSMAGAZINE, NOT ROMAN PROPAGANDA MILL.

(THE REV.) P. H. GIBSON

VILLAGE CHURCH BURBANK, CALIF.

Sir:

If he is so interested in man's wellbeing, in unity and truth, why doesn't the Pope do something about the oppression of Protestants in Spain, the persecution of Protestants in Italy, and stop the vicious campaign against Protestant missions in South America? The Vatican, like Communist leaders, doesn't care a tinker's cuss for the individual; it is interested only in extending its tyranny over the minds of men.

G. H. LINDSEY Brooklyn

Reviews of Review

Sir:

I can't commend you too highly on even surpassing Richard Rovere in his spite campaign against the late Senator Joseph McCarthy [July 13]. Your brilliant review of Senator Joe McCarthy recalls that "there was tragedy in the McCarthy era." Yes, there was tragedy all right, in the fact that Joe died before he could completely rid our Government of the Communist menace.

JOHN B. CROLL Bloomington, Ind.

Sir:

Author Rovere's ire at publications that resort to "straight reporting" is easily understood. From the days that he was staff writer for the Communist-lining New Masses through his recent biography of Senator McCarthy, he has shown a remarkable resistance to that antediluvian practice.

(SGT.) BRIAN M. CUNNINGHAM U.S.M.C.

Beaufort, S.C.

Sick, Sick, Sick

Sir:

Re your July 13th article concerning the "sickniks": one essential of humor is that there be something real to rebel against. Let's face it, when the sickniks strike out at home, mother, religion, they're beating a dead horse. For society (yea, even the prunes-and-prisms middle class of suburbia) no longer has the sincere belief in these things that it had 50 years ago.

JOAN GUERIN

Wyncote, Pa.

Sir:

The sickniks might be sick, but people who pay good money to see them are even sicker. MRS. ROY SCHROEDER

Chicago

Sir:

The psychical makeup of this generation is such that laughter is induced by their momentary realization that human beings are far from infallible, and in his fallibility, man has produced some funny moments.

JOSEPH B. CICERO Chicago

Sir:

I find the sickniks to be amusing and refreshing. I am "sick" of hearing all those other comedians telling their tired old jokes about their loudmouthed, spendthrift wives, their bratty children, and, of course, their mothers-in-law.

TONI DI LILLO Brooklyn

The Golden Road

Sir:

Thank you for the excellent article in the July 13 issue on the remarkable growth of industry on Massachusetts' Route 128. The description of the vast and rapid expansion of industry along the "Golden Semi-Circle" of Route 128 graphically illustrates the business climate in the Commonwealth.

FOSTER FURCOLO Governor

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Boston

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