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Sir: Not all Vassar girls are overjoyed at the prospect of moving to New Haven [Dec. 30]. Many of us are happily enjoy ing our "unnatural," all-female education and do not wish to go stale at Yale.
NANCY FALCIONE, '70 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Sir: It would be safe to assume that the Yale man does not share Vassar's enthusiasm for the proposed "intellectual marriage of convenience." Several years ago, spurred by rumors of a similar merger, John E. Robson, a distraught member of the class of '52, wrote:
Can it be true what people say— That Yale's admitting girls? Will floors of campus barbershops Be littered now with curls? Will all Yale's ivy-covered peaks Soon echo with their strident shrieks? And chapel bells forever after Compete with screams of distaff laughter? Will windows now in future springs Be hung with dainty underthings? "Bright College Years" three octaves higher? Our fiscal need is not that dire! Will not our manly intellects Be clouded o'er with thoughts of sex? And possibly, in future years, The football team will wear brassieres? Oh, comfort me and reassure That Yale will not become impure! If so, this vow I leave you with— I'll surely send my son to Smith.
NANCY GREENBERG Metuchen, N.J.
The Real Scoop
Sir: Fie on TIME for calling astrology the "pseudoscientific 5,000-year-old Babylonian art of prediction" [Dec. 30]. Had your staff read my articles in Horoscope magazine, they might have learned something.
I don't see peace in Viet Nam just yet. North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam, Thailand, the U.S.—all have planets from 19 to 26 degrees Pisces, Virgo, Gemini and Sagittarius. These have been afflicted by Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. When these planets stop afflicting, pressures will ease. I doubt China will come in; the stars don't seem that bad. Yet. The station of Pluto at 20 Virgo December 23 walloped Johnson's Pluto, Kennedy's Mercury, and Manchester's Mars and Mercury. But Kennedy was not eclipsed by the recent election. He hasn't peaked out yet. 1967 is mixed.
Man and a nation is a machine; the horoscope is the blueprint of that machine. Oversimplified, of course. But if your staff knew astrology, you could scoop both Walter Lippmann and Joseph Alsop.
DALE RICHARDSON Astrological Research Foundation Los Angeles