Letters: Dec. 23, 1966

The Name Game

Sir: For TIME'S Man of the Year I nominate Mr. Average, the taxpaying, vote-casting citizen. He may be bemused, bothered and bewildered, but he's more powerful than ever, and is exchanging apathy for a strength he didn't even know he had.

MRS. TERRY HIERS JR.

Nashville

Sir: The 1966 college student everywhere, from China's Red Guards to Berkeley.

ANN SCOLNICK

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

Sir: General de Gaulle, the only world leader today who has any idea what it is to be a statesman.

PHILIP G. CERNY

Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio

Sir: Ralph...

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