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But we, too, are guilty of treating our elderly shamelessly. A young girl reported at a nursing home for work. She asked the nurse at the desk to which ward she was assigned for the day. The nurse pointed to what she called the "vegetable bin."
SONJA BIERSTED
West Reading, Pa.
Serious Matters
Sir / I am surprised that the only information you gave about the third UNCTAD was in connection with the price of Scotch and brothels.
I am very proud, as are all Chileans, to have contributed to the care of the delegates and U.N. staff and to have demonstrated that we are an organized country that can put up a conference building in nine months and make this conference one of the better organized ones.
GERMAN HEVIA ASTORQUIZA
Banco del Estado de Chile
Santiago
Sir / TIME'S reputation is founded on far better coverage than that accorded the third United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in "Those Hot Chile Nights"
[May 29]. The emphasis on bar and brothel belies the seriousness of the matters at stake. If the world is ever to achieve peaceful development, it will come more through the success of ventures like UNCTAD than through Nixon-Brezhnev talks. Until international trade relations have been established on an equitable basis, the tragedies of Viet Nam and Bangladesh will go on repeating themselves. A more incisive analysis of UNCTAD's failure would have been appreciated.
REGINALD McQUAID Richmond. Prince Edward Island
Sir / If there is a Pulitzer or other prize for the man who said it all in one sentence, it should go to whoever wrote of the UNCTAD in Santiago that "The conference presumes that the U.S. is a giant cow and that there should be a teat for every developing country in the world."
EARLB. MILLARD
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Don't Knock It
Sir / I was very disappointed that such a splendid issue of TIME should have been spoiled by the one-sided attack on the Anglo-French supersonic Concorde [May 291.
The majority of British and French taxpayers are in favor of the project by virtue of confidence in both governments who are sponsoring the venture. Your American airlines will have the choice to buy or not to buy it. so please don't knock it!
BARRY T.LANGRIDGE
London
Sir / Your latest report on the supersonic Concorde and the anecdote about its being too heavy to travel today can only be a poor attempt at humor. One can only assume that your minds are so narrow that one has to prize your ears apart with a bread knife.
America is past its world industrial, financial and political dominance.
STEPHEN J. GEE
Chaplcau. Ont.
Sir / The Concorde is a commercial calamity. It reverses decades of air transport progress, namely increased speed combined with greater efficiency to produce lower fares. Any airline operating the Concorde would be forced to cross-subsidize it. i.e.. raise subsonic fares. I hope no airport operator in the U.S. would be foolish enough to let this noisy, smoky, expensive pre-ecology-awarencss De Gaulle legacy land.
CHARLES H.GESSNER
Marblehead. Mass.