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The article on Roman Catholic monastic orders in the U.S. was most interesting and informative; however, many people may not be aware that Anglo-Catholic (Episcopalian) religious orders are also active in this country. There arc eleven Episcopal monastic orders and 14 orders of nuns in the U.S.
L. M. WILSON Oklahoma City
Man From Stalag III
Sir:
TIME failed to mention that Culver's Delmar Spivey [Jan. 5! is well trained to prevent ''turncoat performances" after having served as senior American officer in center compound of Stalag Luft III during World War II. He is respectfully credited by many of us with having maintained discipline under difficult circumstances, and thus of having saved our lives at the risk of his own.
R. P. FROESCHLE, M.D. Hazen, N. Dak.
∙Spivey was shot down while piloting a B17 over Germany in June 1943. For the next two years he was the officer in charge of some 9,500 Air Force prisoners of war, responsible for their internal organization and welfare. Freed in 1945, he became General Eisenhower's adviser on prisoner-of-war matters.—ED.
Castrophobe
Sir:
In these days of G-2 Cuba, believe me it is distressing to be called a "Castrophile'' in your report on Juan José Arévalo's book, The Shark and the Sardines [Jan. 5].
Since I collaborated with the Cuban revolution—1959 and part of 1960—times have changed. For example, I well remember when I found it perfectly natural to receive help from the papal nunciate in the preparation of an Italian version of a pamphlet by Bishop Evelio Diaz praising the land reform.
All my pro-Castro activities, as a volunteer in New York and later as a member of the staff of the Office of the Prime Minister in Havana, were directed toward preventing the alienation of Cuba from the U.S.
In view of Castro's recent declarations, I was—like many other Cubans and Americans of good faith—plowing in the sea! But I certainly do not deserve to be mistaken for one of today's Castrophiles.
JUNE COBB
Mexico, D.F.
6 & 14
Sir:
My wife and I are the discoverers of what has been referred to as "6 and 14 dysrhythmia" [Jan. 5], and we have been recording for many years electroencephalograms on normal children, epileptics, and children with behavior disorders, including all the famous child murderers in northern Illinois. We can assure you that there is not a significant correlation between murder and 14 and 6 per second positive spikes.
By mixing this common and relatively benign electroencephalographic abnormality with a heavy charge of Freudian psychosexual speculations, Dr. Sherwyn Woods has produced an article that you have thought worth reporting upon. His two cases are statistically insignificant, and only the Freudian overtones entitled it to "scientific" publication in the first place.
Undoubtedly children who murder are sick, but neither the electroencephalogram nor Freudian theory tells us what is wrong. We are dismally ignorant; we might as well face it and keep looking for the truth of the matter.