Man of the Year
Sir: If TIME'S Man of the Year is the man who most dominated the news, then Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, will have to agree that that man is Barry Goldwater.
ARTHUR STAWINSKI
Stanford, Calif.
Sir: Gutsy, brainy Secretary of Defense McNamara. May his kind live forever!
DANIEL L. AUBRY
New York City
Sir: L.B.J., who outtalked, outshook, outran and out-White-Housed them all.
CRAIG A. STARKEY
San Diego
Sir: Damn, damn, damn, damn! You've grown accustomed to his y'alls, his doags, his coarn! L.B.J. will be your Man of the Year, but rightly, it should be J.F.K., our brilliant young President to whom we owe so much. It was his presidency that set our lives on fire with love and pride for America. In years to come, American greatness will prevail because John Kennedy so deeply inspired all of us.
BROTHER DOMINIC
Passionist Monastery
Chicago
Sir: Robert F. Kennedy. He showed his courage at a time when ordinary men would have faltered.
PAUL H. ZAREFSKY
Bellaire, Texas
Sir: California's George Murphy, the only man ever to beat the Kennedy image.
HUGH SCARAMELLA
Fresno, Calif.
Sir: The Beatles (Yeah! Yeah!)
KATHY MANCUSO
Schenectady, N.Y.
Sir: Pablo Casals, whose artfulness in intertwining freedom, music and even politics is beyond contemporary comparison.
BARTLETT COURTEEN
Pompano Beach, Fla.
Sir: Moise Tshombe, El Cid of the 20th century.
(MRS.) MARGARET SULLIVAN
Chicago
Sir: Major Michael Hoare and his mercenaries in the Congo.
GERALD D. MURPHY
Haddonfield, NJ.
Sir: Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis, the most forward-looking church leader in America.
WILLIAM J. CONWAY
Dallas
Sir: Pope Paul VI, for pioneering papal travel, trying to "reconcile Christian revelation with contemporary culture."
RAJA GAVANKAR
Chicago
The Way-Out Middle
Sir: Your very interesting article on Buddhism with the picture on the cover of the Dai Butsu of Kamakura [Dec. 11] reminds me of an unforgettable notice inside the stomach of the Buddha (which one can climb into, like the Statue of Liberty). It read: "American soldier beware. You are entering the womb of the cosmic forces of Universe." This was in September 1945, and doubtless was a reaction to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
CLARENCE W. BARTOW
Tuxedo Park, N.Y.