Letters: Dec. 29, 1967

Man of the Year

Sir: The boy of last year has become this year's Man of the Year. He is sloshing around in mud so that I'm free to write this letter. The soldier on the line in Viet Nam.

PETER K. BROS Alexandria, Va.

Sir: Wretched Humanity, terrorized in China, Southern Arabia and Yemen; dying of hunger in India and Palestine; beset by war in Nigeria, the Near East and North and South Viet Nam; stifling in slums and poverty the world over; and enslaved in East Germany and countless other nations.

(MRS.) EMILY...

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