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Because of the bad manners and rudeness of many of our American tourists abroad, we have already become the laughingstock of Europeans. The State Department issues with each U.S. passport a complete booklet with instructions on how to behave abroad. Now, your Dec. 15 picture of our Secretary of State shows so adroitly what's wrong with American diplomacy. As Mr. Dulles dunks his cracker in a glass of milk in public, what about the manners of his underlings? Is it possible, with all his complacency and bombastic oratory, Mr. Dulles does not practice what his department preaches? Must we be classified as the nation with barbaric habits?
RICHARD A. HELLER Flushing, N.Y.
Flying Low
Sir:
TIME, Dec. 8 mentioned numerous times the $45,000 salary that P.A.A. pilots demand. You make it sound like $45,000 or else. I'm a P.A.A. pilot, and in my fourth year with P.A.A., my average salary has been $6,360. THOMAS WEINGARTEN Redwood City, Calif.
Sir:
Why not give the true picture of a pilot's pay structure? Only a top few senior pilots make in excess of $22,000 a year.
ROBERT J. CHRISTEN Pan Am copilot Los Angeles
Sir:
The fact that the gluttonous wage demands by the airline mechanics and pilots will push the cost of flying still further from my personal reach is inconsequential. What is important is that the entire public is to pay part of the bill without most of them leaving the ground. Uncle Sam is indirectly picking up travel fare.
N. L. KAUTSKY Littleton, Colo.
The Quare Fellow
Sir:
I enjoyed reading about myself and my wife in TIME [Dec. 8], and indeed it was very generous of you, but the nicest thing of all happened when a foreign citizen turned around from looking at my picture and said, "I did not realize you were Jewish." "I am not," I said, "but Our Blessed Lord is—I hope I've caught a little of the contagion."
BRENDAN BEHAN
Dublin