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Sir: Mustang, Shmustang, isn't it time we banned not the Bomb but the Auto? Autos kill more people than the Bomb. Two cars in every garage, a Mustang in every pot, and nobody walks any more. If anybody takes a walk, he's considered some kind of nut. Pretty soon we won't know how to use our feet any more, and just as they teach in evolution, nature will take our feet away. I'd rather ride a real mustang any time than a steel one.
JOE BRODY
New York City
Sir: I guess the new fastback cars mean my VW will really be in style!
LOUISE HOWE
Chicago
Sir: TIME'S relief at the discovery that the Detroit automotive engineers are indeed not infallible is exceeded only by the reader's relief in noting that TIME itself is subject to human error.
Your article pointed out that the galloping horse on the Mustang's grill is running the wrong way. Could this be the reason that the Mustang on the front cover has the horse running the correct way?
E. W. ASHFORD
Minneapolis
> Artist Safran forgot to err.—ED.
Needless Tragedy
Sir: TIME's story on the Rev. Klunder's death in Cleveland [April 17] is a shocking distortion of fact. The violence at the school site did not occur until after the Rev. Klunder's tragic death, and civil rights demonstrators were not participants in this understandably violent reaction by citizens who were witnesses.
MORRIS H. COHEN
Director
Area Councils Leadership Projects
Cleveland
> In Cleveland, as in other civil rights protests, what began as orderly picketing ended up in widespread rioting. TIME's reporter observed rocks and bricks being thrown by Negro roughnecks even before the fatal accident; he remained on the scene until after the police had rescued the bulldozer operator from the mob, which continued brawling, smashing windows and looting late into the night.—ED.
Sir: If the civil rights movement in Cleveland has an Achilles' heel, the leadership of CORE and the United Freedom Movement is it. These two groups have done more harm to the Negro cause in Cleveland than a boxcarful of Southern segregationists could ever hope to do.
The Rev. Mr. Klunder's death was a needless tragedy that resulted from an atmosphere of violence and "direct action." It, and the events preceding and following it, serves to illustrate one thing: the lack of intelligence among those who have assumed the leadership of Cleveland's Negro community.
WILLIAM G. MURMANN
Cleveland
Mixed-Up, But Admirable
Sir: Your Barbra Streisand story was the most satisfactory cover story in a long time. Reporter Kennedy and Writer McPhee did exactly what they should have done in exposing the young lady in a responsible way. They refrained from injecting the type of mystery that feeds adulation of public figures merely because they are public and difficult to understand, and at the same time they presented her eccentricities so as to prevent the unjust charges that she is motivated solely by a desire for publicity.
She comes out as a little mixed-up, but also as an admirable woman who could never be a member of any chorus.
ROBERT WILLIAMS
Charlottesville, Va.