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Sir: Your account of President Johnson's visit to Newark [Oct. 14] implies that his visit was poorly received, and says that "even Newark's Democratic Mayor Hugh Addonizio had left the scene before the presidential motorcade pulled away, L.B.J. had badly mispronounced his name." In fact, the President's reception amazed all except those of us proud to be among his staunchest supporters. Estimates of the crowd ranged from the G.O.P.'s 30,000 to the police's 50,000 and the Democrats' 70,000. At the end of his talk, Johnson was mobbed by well-wishers. It took his car 22 minutes, despite the best efforts of police and Secret Service, to move four blocks. How do I know? Because I was sitting happily with the President in his car. We had a fine ride to the airport and a good laugh at his mispronunciation of my name. He mispronounced it regularly when we were together in Congress, and he heads a long list of distinguished persons who have tripped between A and O.
HUGH J. ADDONIZIO Newark
The South Has Risen
Sir: Thank you for making the break from conformity. TIME has too long remained among those so busy upholding the myth of Big Ten football supremacy [Oct. 14] that they have overlooked the
Scoreboard evidence to the contrary. Big Ten superiority passed from the realm of fact to that of fancy long before the 1966 season. If you will use the same criterion by which Midwestern football came to be regarded as superior (national rankings, intersectional game victories), you will find that the Southeastern Conference has earned the distinction of being America's toughest league.
G. DANIEL McCALL Brevard, N.C.
Sir: So "little" Miami of Ohio defeated Indiana. We here in Oxford did not find that surprising; we expected it, for in recent years Miami has beaten Indiana twice, tied once and lost once by only five points. Also in recent years we have defeated Northwestern twice and Purdue once, and at present have the longest winning streak in the country. Miami now has 10,500 students on campus, so it is not exactly little.
RICHARD MIDDAUGH Oxford, Ohio
Lesson from the Text
Sir: As a graduate of the London School of Economics now in the doctoral program at Harvard Business School, I deplore the absurdity of Susan Cooper's attack on American education [Oct. 14]. She might have better served the truth were she familiar with the curriculum of an English university: the textbooks I used at L.S.E. were nearly all American.
ANNE JARDIM Brookline, Mass.
Arguments Over the Law