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Sir: Could it be possible that Elsa Maxwell [May 31] might have held an average of one party every two days for approximately 50 years? If this figure is correct, could you inform my friends and myself as to her cure for hangovers? LORRAINE HERNAN Perth, Australia > "To avoid making tiresome explanations," Miss Maxwell says, "1 take a glass of champagne or a cocktail when I'm in a group of drinkers, but I nurse it all night.
It's not that I have any scruples against drinking. I simply have never felt the need for it."—ED.
Room at the Top
Sir:
I think that ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo is right about the "Alianza" [June 28]. We need a bigger name (or names) on the job. The good neighbor policy was successful because Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Nelson Rockefeller, among others, worked hard to make it a success.
The Alliance for Progress, properly guided, can be equally effective. Latin America is enormously important to us, and I believe that a careful investment now (not indiscriminate handouts) will pay big dividends. But let's put someone big at the top to get things moving.
JOHN H. M. SCRIBNER Panama, R. P.
The Woods Hole Beast
Sir:
As one of many participants in the Thresher search, I appreciated your well-balanced account [June 28] of its progress up to the recent dive of the bathyscaphe Trieste. However, you are in error about the design of "The Beast," used on Atlantis II. Its framework was constructed at Woods Hole to mount an echo-ranging apparatus developed in our department by Willard Dow and others, cameras designed by Harold Edgeton of M.I.T. for general use in the deep sea, and an instrument developed by the Schlumberger Well Surveying Co. for measuring the voltage set up by dissimilar metals immersed in a liquid.
"The Beast," despite its name, typifies the cooperative spirit characteristic of the teamwork of scientists, engineers and naval officers throughout the search for the Thresher.
J. B. HERSEY
Chairman, Geophysics Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, Mass.
Philanthropist Mott
Sir:
Congratulations on your [June 28] profile of Charles S. Mott, Flint, Mich., philanthropist. It pays deserved tribute to a man whose activities and charities could fill a volume.
However, the American Automobile Association believes your writer omitted a colorful sidelight on Mr. Mott's varied career. He is one of two survivors of the nine motor club representatives who met in Chicago in March 1902 to found the organization that has come to be known by its more than 8,000,000 members as the Triple-A.
GEORGE F. KACHLEIN JR. President American Automobile Association Washington, D.C.