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Sir: Where are the intellectuals who gleefully jumped on President Eisenhower when he answered reporters' questions with as involved sentences as President Kennedy sometimes uses?
GODFREY HAMMOND Scarsdale, N.Y.
German Reunification
Sir: You say, "As far as armaments are concerned, the protests from West Germans that they were about to be left in the lurch by the U.S. hardly came with good grace [Aug. 16]."
But what Bonn is concerned about is that the Germans behind the Iron Curtain may be left in the lurch, and to that neither Washington nor TIME has yet given a reassuring answer.
The attitude of the U.S. seems to be that of a rich young man who says to a girl, "I'll marry you and provide for you in every way, but you'll have to stop worrying or caring about your sister, who got raped by that no-good friend of mine."
H. GEORGE CLASSEN
Ottawa
Larry's Girls
Sir: Billy Friedberg, producer of Harry's Girls, is delighted with your interest in this new NBC-TV series [Aug. 16], but regrets he is not the man surrounded by beauties on the beach in your picture. That is Larry Blyden, star of the show.
JOSEPH STEIN Executive Producer
Harry's Girls
Nice, France
Investment in Tampa
Sir: Your article, "Sabotage in Tampa" [Aug. 16], failed to report that since 1957 we have invested more than $100 million in new and improved telephone facilities; the number of telephones in service has increased from 328,000 to 470,000; 761 new jobs have been created, bringing total employed to 4,129; and our annual payroll within the communities we serve has jumped from $16.6 million to more than $22 million.
In reference to labor-management relations, during its six years of operating in Florida General Telephone Co. has instituted, among other benefits, an improved employee pension plan, greatly in creased life insurance benefits, increased hospitalization benefits, and substantially increased wages.
Whereas the Florida Public Utilities Commission did criticize the company for inadequacy of telephone facilities, despite the fact that we had greatly expanded our plant and equipment, the commission also gave public praise to General Tele phone for its efforts to improve telephone service.
FRED D. LEAKEY
President
General Telephone Co. of Florida Tampa, Fla.
Literacy in Spanish Sir: What an intriguing idea New York's Mayor Wagner has there: to allow Puerto Ricans to take literacy tests in Spanish [Aug. 9]. Why couldn't we have oral literacy tests for people who can't read or write? EUGENE MOORE Lancaster, Pa.
Sir: The literacy test as a requisite for exercising the sacred right of the suffrage is a thorny problem, but does not the logic of the American democratic way of life dictate that means must be sought to in corporate 600,000 citizens into the political life of an American community?
ANGEL CALDERON-CRUZ
Rio Piedras, P.R.
Educanto v. English