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Sir: How can we raise the dignity of man when the very conception of human life is to be given less forethought than buying the family car? Children who are desired, loved and cared for surely become more secure, loving people than do mere byproducts of a couple's love relationship for whom provision is somehow managed. Do we really expect couples to follow the rules set forth by a man who has never played the game?
MRS. WILLIAM W. CLEMENTS JR.
Devon, Pa.
Convention Challengers
Sir: I enjoyed your cover article on "The Challengers" [July 26], but I was infuriated at Governor Rockefeller's appraisal of Richard Nixon: "That's right, he's the one. He's the one who lost it for us in 1960." Every intelligent Republican in the country knows damn well that it was Rockefeller who lost it for us that year, by closing down Republican campaigning in New York and delivering the state's 45 electoral votes to Kennedy.
PATRICK MORRISON Philpot, Ky.
Sir: McCarthy's appeal to the college student arises from his reasoned questioning of the assumptions upon which American life is based: the increasing power of the President; the top-priority importance of G.N.P. growth; and the increasingly evident errors in the dirty-Commies foreign policy game. A President who can understand moral assumptions that are implied by political action—and vice versa—is what we, the university-educated young people, first-time voters who have never really known war and who do not accept its inevitability, are searching for. McCarthy says that reason can govern power.
ISABEL MAGIDSON, '68 University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Milwaukee
Sir: All my life I've dreamed of getting my name in TIME Magazine. So imagine my delight when the joke I told your correspondent—about the pollster getting clobbered when he asked the man whether he was going to vote for Nixon or Humphrey—turned out to be the lead to your cover story. And then, just a line about this being a gag that is circulating in the Middle West. Tarnation!
RICHARD MAYER JR. Editor
The North Vernon Plain Dealer and Sun North Vernon, Ind.
Senatorial Calendar
Sir: I read the article "Fortas at the Bar" [July 26] with a mixture of shame and sadness. Shame that a great jurist and American was submitted to a modern-day McCarthy verbal witch-hunt; sadness that there are still Americans (especially in positions of power) who look upon every Supreme Court ruling that clarifies and strengthens individual rights as Communist inspired. For too long we have used Communism as a scapegoat to hide our deficiencies in civil and individual rights. This neurotic obsession with Communism has got us into the moral and economic abyss of Viet Nam. It is a shame that a U.S. Senator would ask such a question as, "What difference does it make if there is a lawyer present or not?" While we are at it, let's dispense with search warrants and other inefficient barriers in the realm of criminology.
Justice Fortas deserves the moral support of every thinking American. Senator Thurmond deserves some advice: get a new calendar—this is not 1952.
LESTER GUYSE San Diego
Where Did Everybody Go?