Letters, Jun. 18, 1956

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    Your article indicates poor taste concerning the way in which the whole matter is treated. Spanish students have to face a tremendous competition when they want to get into the university. Vacancies are scarce and some boys try four or five years before they can get in. Thus the chuleta becomes a necessity. Having studied in Spain, I know what it is like.

    JAIME ZOBEL DE AYALA Harvard College Cambridge, Mass.

    Yorkton's Pride

    Sir:

    In a fine story about Sardinia [May 21] you state the anopheles mosquito was driven out of the island and the war against malaria was successful, but you do not name the man who did this. In charge was Dr. John Logan, working with the Rockefeller Foundation. Here in his home town of Yorkton, Sask., we are rather proud of him, for at one time he was mentioned as Nobel Health Award winner for his great work in Sardinia.

    STAN OBODIAC Yorkton, Sask.

    Whomogemzed, Indeed

    Sir:

    I suffered an abrupt jolt to find, in your May 28 review of Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins, an example of whomcgenized

    English such as it would have given me no pause to encounter in a less flaw-free publication. I do not know whom wrote that review, but I feel that him should be disabused of the notion that anyone's "daughter hops in and out of bed with whomever strikes her fancy." Even the most licentious young lady would limit herself to going to bed only with whoever struck her fancy.

    MURRAY GRUMETTE

    Hollywood

    The mystery of the whim for whom

    remains a whomdunit.—ED.

    Re-Enlistment Blues

    Sir:

    Your May 28 article aptly illustrates the fact that our armed forces are continuously losing the skilled specialists and trained personnel needed for an efficient, effective military organization. Low pay for highly specialized personnel, poor living conditions, and undue, unnecessary harassment of the rank and file are but a few of the conditions which make it impossible for military life to compete with civilian life for the cream of our nation's youth.

    (Sp. 3) HOWARD N. SILVERMAN

    U.S. Army Fort Lewis, Wash.

    Sir:

    As the wife of a serviceman, I would suggest the proposed bigger bonus, longer enlistment brain wave be buried in some dark hole. Granted that better pay is a stellar attraction of private industry, it is the living and working conditions the serviceman and his family must endure that make for the low re-enlistment rates. Few of us are born nomads; yet in five years of marriage, I have set up and torn down a household seven times. Five of these times were transfers to other stations.

    REGINA S. MILLER Detroit

    Measuring Stick

    Sir:

    The May 28 issue of TIME carried the obit of Dr. Leo Spears, who was described as a "high flying quack" and an "anomaly." For a quack, Spears did some remarkably good work at his hospital despite his flamboyant methods. As one who knew him and had grown to understand the man, I bristle at this ridiculous measuring stick which prompts Spears to be called a quack.

    Louis GARRETT, D.C.

    Canton, Ohio

    Sir:

    Your harsh account is a brutal slap to the thousands who owe their health to this -man and his "glassy" institution.

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