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My husband has been sent to France with the Air National Guard. He works an eight-hour day, takes weekend trips, is part owner of a car, has all his meals served to him, laundry done, etc. I am home with three little ones, trying to keep my sanity, my patriotic feelings and our house.
The men with my husband are not complaining (why should they?), but I am.
MRS. E. JANIK Levittown, Pa.
Sir: While Jackie imports from Paris, And movie stars go to Rome, The serviceman's wife saves the U.S. gold By raising her family at home—alone.
KAREN KRUSE
Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing Baltimore
Sir:
There is a saying, ''If the Marine Corps wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued you one."
Marine wives have never tagged along on overseas duty; that is partly the reason that the Marine Corps has a reputation for getting the job done.
We sit home and pray, not whine.
ROSALIE WARNER Newport Beach, Calif.
What the Poet Can Read
Sir:
Your article on Evgeny Evtushenko and Russia [April 13] brings to mind Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, which was published in 1864.
Dostoevsky's hero comes to believe that human behavior is motivated by the craving for absolute freedom and self-assertion in defiance of all dictates of reason.
NEIL J. NELSON
San Francisco
Sir:
May I say that you have outdone yourselves in the great article on Russia's new generation.
It remains only to notice that this same trend of "profound skepticism" is also on the move in this country, and to realize that the two nations are closer than ever.
JOSEPH M. LEONARD Lima, Ohio
Sir:
Congratulations on your excellent cover story on Russian Poet Evtushenko.
The Russian passion and struggle to realize what truth is go back to Russia's conversion to Christianity in the 10th century. Thinking Russians, like Evtushenko and his contemporaries, consciously and even unconsciously are groping their way to this true Russian heritage, which, in spite of Communism, is brought to their attention dramatically in Russian Orthodox churches every Easter.
(THE REV.) C. SAMUEL CALIAN University of Basel Basel, Switzerland
Sir:
The man at the helm still is dedicated to "burying us." Please, TIME, I beg of you, don't hand him a shovel.
FRANK H. JESSE JR. Hopkinsville, Ky.
Sir:
What an encouraging story. Will Evtushenko be able to see your article on him? And what kind of circulation has TIME behind the Iron Curtain?
RON WREN San Francisco > In addition to the hundreds of copies sent each week in diplomatic pouches, TIME has 87 subscribers (but no newsstand sale) in the U.S.S.R. Surely one of the lucky 87 will show a copy to Evtushenko.—ED.
Family Tree
Sir:
Your art story, "The Prussian Francophile" [April 20], calls Louis XV the son of Louis XIV. Louis XV was the Sun King's great-grandson, not his son.
Whatever happened to those nice Vassar and Smith girls who used to check your facts?
WILLIAM C. ESTY
New York City They're still here.—ED.