The Next President
Sir:
The next U.S. President, be he Republican or Democrat, faces the most important challenge of our time. Many countries are groping for the means to alleviate humanity's miseries and make man's life better. The West must help if it is to win the economic war that the Soviets have launched upon the free world.
ANTHONY GEMAYEL, Beirut
Sir:
Not only has Vice President Nixon shown his ample abilities through the Eisenhower Administration, including the "kitchen debate" in Moscow, but also through the fourth TV debate on the foreign policies that would decide the ways, successful or fallible, of the U.S. internationally in the days ahead.
KIWON KANG
Atlanta
Sir:
Win or lose, let's give Senator Kennedy credit for arousing the Republican Party. Had they been as busy for the past 7 years as they have been since the convention, our President wouldn't be out campaigning for this highly experienced, more mature, widely traveled Vice President who in all of his good-will travels hasn't created a lasting friend for our country or frightened any of its enemies.
M. UNDERWOOD Youngstown, Ohio '
Sir:
I am curious to know how Kennedy plans to make America "first class" again. Thanks to his constant haranguing, and an efficient world press, other nations are becoming convinced that we are far down the list. It will take a great deal of undoing.
ARTHUR FAIRMAN London
Sir:
I voted for Eisenhower twice, but am voting for Kennedy. Our need, and that of the free world, is for men who are naturally and professionally capable leaders, leaders who are dynamic, recognize that we are in a new age, and analyze and act on all of our problems—domestic and foreign.
JAMES W. OWENS Beloit, Wis.
One-Mcm Exhibition
Sir:
I would like to express to you my pleasure in the recent article in TIME on my current one-man exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. The information given to your writer and researcher has been sensitively handled and you have my thanks and congratulations. In the four-hour period one Sunday, almost three thousand people attended the exhibition, and I am told that this equals the attendance at Lenin's tomb in Moscow.
YOUSUF KARSH Ottawa
The Land of Nod
Sir:
"I dreamed I went swimming in my Maidenform bra." A tip of the hat to Ida Rosenthal . . . It's about time!
MRS. P. FITZGERALD Toronto
Sir:
This ad suggests that since the '80s copy-dreamers working on Mrs. Rosenthal's line of drygoods really haven't changed their sights much.
JOHN F. PHOENIX Davenport, Iowa
Neutralism Revisited
Sir:
Your article on neutralism certainly did present a "new look," and one that suggests that the editor badly needs glasses.
Norway and Thailand have been members of NATO and SEATO respectively from the very beginning of these two organizations.
K. BECKER RASMUSSEN
Karachi, Pakistan
¶ Thailand is a "full and equal partner" in SEATO. Norway is a NATO partner, but has always refused to allow foreign forces and military equipment, including missile-launchers and atomic weapons, on its territory.—ED.
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