Echoes of Testing Sir: TIME'S May 4 cover story giving in depth background on the need for the U.S. to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere was brilliant.

It sums up and gives world-wide circulation to the mostly unspoken convictions of many of us, that those who want freedom, and are willing and able to fight for it, will keep it--without a fight.

T. V. O'GRADY Buffalo

Sir: Your article was a sickly effort to justify the nuclear tests, an effort that exuded your own sense of guilt and tragic error.

(THE REV.) JOHN W. PARRISH Ferndale, Mich.

Sir:

After reading Ogle's statement that the world is a scary place, I feel that perhaps it would be better to end it with a bang rather than with a whimper.

ROBERT F. HALLIGAN Wellesley, Mass.

Sir:

I wholeheartedly agree with U.S. resumption of atmospheric nuclear testing. The only sad thing is that this testing did not come about much sooner.

MARIS CIRULIS Glendale, Mo.

Sir:

TIME'S report was an apologia for an act of immorality. To forswear responsibility for resumption of testing by saying we had no choice is a calculated and shrewdly executed move in gross self-deception. Do we take our lead from Soviet treachery ?

ROBERT L. HOLMES Austin, Texas

Sir:

In your story on nuclear testing, you tell how when the first atomic bomb was tested in 1945, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was reminded of a passage from the Hindus' sacred Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One."

Oppenheimer, a Sanskrit scholar, was struck a moment later by another passage from the same sacred writing: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."

CHRISTOPHER Z. HOBSON Cambridge, Mass.

Shooting at Sparrows

Sir:

Like many who have had the opportunity of knowing him well over a period of time, I was very grateful for your cover story on Karl Earth [April 20]. I felt that your coverage, the appreciation, the attacks, the comparisons with Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr--the two theologians of Earth's stature in America--were good and fair and just. But there was one thing. When I was doing my doctoral dissertation on Calvin under Earth, I once decided to use the power of Calvin's mind to destroy a petty modern critic. Earth put his hand on my sleeve and said, "Do not use a cannon to kill a sparrow!" And so I left the sparrow, the minor critic, out of my study. It is somewhat regrettable that TIME gave so much space to the many American sparrows who enjoy camping on Earth's front lawn.

CHARLES A. M. HALL Dean of the Chapel Wellesley College Wellesley, Mass.

Sir:

It is obvious that Dr. Karl Earth has advanced and progressive thoughts regarding God's relation to man and man's relation to God.

Thinking men and women want religion redefined, and this demand is compelling religion to re-evaluate itself, slowly but surely.

ALFRED LEVERENZ Chicago

Who's on Third

Sir:

If, as you say, Charles W. Eliot and William Greenleaf Eliot were first cousins [April 27], their grandsons, Thomas Hopkinson Eliot and T. S. Eliot, would be third cousins, not fifth cousins, wouldn't they ?

HARRY H. PIERSON Bangkok

> Yes, but no. The fact is that Charles W. and William Greenleaf were third cousins, so Thomas Hopkinson and T. S. are fifth cousins. Oh, brother.--ED.

SANE

Sir:

Your account of SANE's history [April 27] surprises me. When did the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee publicly denounce SANE's board? Though Senator Dodd criticized us, we were never "denounced" by any congressional committee.

SANE was never slow to criticize the Soviet Union. From its beginning in 1957, SANE has protested on behalf of people everywhere against tests anywhere--in East or West.

We welcome TIME'S certification of our respectability. We continue to reject the "realism" of security through preparation for war and in our respectable way applaud the President's efforts at Geneva to break out of the grisly arms race.

FRANK MCCALLISTER Co-Chairman SANE Chicago

Sir:

I deplore your condescending and superior attitude toward SANE and Dr. Spock. As a psychiatrist who has worked with children for many years, I feel that Dr. Spock presents a very honest and realistic attitude toward this insane business of atomic testing. He does not go far enough. Psychiatrists recognize that this constant living in fear, which we are all doing, is having a tremendous emotional impact upon our children. The constant talk about the nuclear threat and the threat of war is not conducive to happiness in our children. If more courageous and thoughtful Americans would speak up, as has Dr. Spock, perhaps we could overcome the madness which our nation is now involved in.

CARL L. KLINE, M.D. Wausau, Wis.

Sir:

Instead of "Give me liberty or give me death," SANE's cry is "Liberty is expendable. Don't let me die."

JUSTIN MCCARTHY JR. Park Ridge, Ill.

Drop the Kleenex

Sir:

In your March 16 issue, you credit Saul Bass with designing the new color-drop Kleenex package. Taint so. I designed that box, and it took lots of doing.

MORTON GOLDSHOLL Morton Goldsholl Design Associates Northfield, Ill.

>TIME picked up the wrong box. Hollywood Titlist Saul Bass designed another award-winning Kleenex box, now being marketed in the West.--ED.

Bah! Bah! Bah!

Sir:

"New Haven for Women" indeed [April 27]. You know, of course, what will happen: sopranos in the Whiffenpoofs and a 98-lb. nymphet in the Yale crew. I am advising my son to give up his hopes of being a Yaleman and concentrate on the Daisy Chain at Vassar.

RICHARD F. PRENTIS Des Moines

Sir:

Harvard's craven, if piecemeal, capitulation to latter-day feminism, culminating in the recent decision to grant Radcliffe girls Harvard degrees, should hardly be taken as an example by intellectually more mature institutions of higher learning.

CHARLES A. MOSER Yale '56 New Haven, Conn.

Duelers or Peace Marchers?

Sir:

The revival of dueling in German universities [April 27] is more admirable than rioting on Florida beaches or picketing against proper military preparedness.

I wish we had 1,000 Alte Herren at Harvard instead of 1,000 peace marchers. They'd be considerably more practical.

BILL DAVIDSON Tucson, Ariz.

Sir:

The permanent damage from saber fighting--aside from ugly-looking scars--cannot compete with the knocked-out brains and teeth in boxing and college football.

HANS J. RAAB Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Sir:

One of the most outstanding German-Americans, Carl Schurz, was a member and later an Alter Herr of the Deutsche Burschenschaft [dueling fraternity]. And I am certain that he was just as proud to have been a member as I am.

HANS C. MISKA College Point, N.Y.

Sir:

Have the Germans really learned the lessons of World War I and World War II?

MRS. GEORGE JANISCH Seattle

Sir:

I am glad to see the primitive and ridiculous flesh-slashing exercises of some German Burschenschaften spotlighted by a foreign newsmagazine.

REINER HUNDERTMARK Aachen, Germany

Gold-Plate Special

Sir:

Ever since you reported that the Shah of Iran served pheasant a la perigourdine to the President and Mrs. Kennedy [April 20], I've been searching for the recipe. The least you can do is print it for me.

LEONARD J. LOCASCIO Silver Spring, Md.

> Remove the wings from 12 pheasants, and braise birds in a 350DEG oven for 15 min.

Add "enough" vegetables--shallots, parsley, carrots, onions, bay leaves and assorted herbs --several veal bones, and the pheasant wings.

Continue to braise for 75 min. Remove the pheasants and vegetables from the pan. Add 3 qts. of chicken stock, and "a little less than a fifth" of dry sherry and simmer for several hours. Add truffles Julienne (sliced into thin disks and then crosswise into slivers).

Remove the wings and bones from the sauce.

Pour sauce over vegetables and pheasants.

It's a dish fit for a Shah.--ED.

Man of Steel

Sir:

And now when we want to ask what we can do for our country, we damn well know whom to ask.

WALT MULLINS Norman, Okla.

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