A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 18, 1961

TIME," a reader wrote last week, "is a very positive magazine." Being positive is a responsibility that TIME assumes as part of its aim to tell the reader what is so and to alert him to what is not so. Toward this end, TIME'S researchers, correspondents and editors dig as deep and roam as wide as they can to establish the facts—large and small—for every story. But as each issue is going to press, the editors always find that in the interest of accuracy and completeness and curiosity they want more details—very often small but nonetheless important.

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