Man of Steel
Sir:
Regarding the steel crisis [April 20], it has taken a crafty captain of industry to prove beyond all doubt what we Democrats have known for some time: what this country has in the White House is a man of steel. JEFFERSON FRAZIER
Harvard College Cambridge, Mass.
Sir:
If Big Steel can absorb the increased costs and make a fair profit, we can be gratified. But, looking beyond the industry's bungling, if there is not public revulsion at the Administration's tirades and intimidation (confused with leadership), we no longer are basically concerned with free enterprise, and the planners indeed have their victory.
BERNAL E. DOBELL
Orinda, Calif.
Sir:
Before Kennedy completely ruins our system of free enterprise, someone should tell him that the dough that sent him to Harvard didn't come from the bakery shop.
DIANA C. GLEASNER Kenmore, N.Y.
Sir: Imagine the nerve of U.S. Steel—actually wanting to make a fair profit. What will these capitalists think of next!
JAMES DUIGNAN Astoria, N.Y.
Sir:
Who does he think he is telling U.S. Steel, or any other business for that matter, when they should and should not raise prices? I am a workingman, but am very much in favor of free businesses of all sizes.
JOHN F. MAC!VER JR. Oakland, Calif.
Sir:
President Kennedy would have been much more in character had he emphasized his points, at his press conference on steel, with his shoe rather than his fist.
BENJAMIN PROCTOR Canisteo, N.Y.
Sir:
So, "in staging its curious predawn raids ... on orders from President John F. Kennedy himself," the FBI first telephoned its victims.
Ah, those exquisite Harvard manners; under Hitler, I understand, the maximum courtesy was a knock on the door.
CLEMENT F. TRAINER San Francisco
Sir:
The temper tantrums by Jack and Bobby only underline the fact that they are truly spoiled little rich boys who have yet to learn the economic facts of life.
Too bad Papa Joe hasn't the dough to buy up control of the steel industry and fire those greedy, power-hungry executives who displeased his boys.
EDWARD CAMPBELL Melrose, Mass.
Sir:
In George Orwell's 1984, Big Brother watches you. In 1962, Little Brother investigates you.
WILLIAM A. BONEY Pittsburgh
The Ascetic
Sir:
I feel we all owe a debt of gratitude to the saintly Sister Nazarena [April 13], who is dedicating her life in prayer for all of us.
Who can say that without all the good to humanity she is doing by her devotion, our world would not indeed be having more serious troubles than it already has?
DANIEL TOTIRE North Olmsted, Ohio
Sir:
True, Sister Nazarena is a religious and devout person, but when it comes to sainthood, I'll nominate the nuns who teach elementary school any time.
MARGARET A. GIBSON Wilmington, Del.
Sir:
Sister Nazarena with her asceticism is doing a great service for the whole human race. She puts me in mind of Simeon Stylites the Elder (A.D. 388-459), who sat on top of a soft, pillar for 36 years. The church made a saint out of him.