Letters: May 20, 1966

(5 of 5)

RONALD C. FRANCIS, D.V.M.

Slidell, La.

Sir: No doubt there will be a spate of discussion by semanticists as well as theologians about the morning-after pill. Can its use be termed abortion without conception? Or ovum frustration? I suggest it be termed simply deception.

J. R. RAINES, M.D.

Portland, Ore.

Over the Horizon

Sir: Your reference to "uninspired paperbacks by Pan Am" [April 29] puzzles us, since all our books are hardcover. We do have a series of eight reference guides that cover 17 countries. Could you possibly be referring to the 27 European countries in our New Horizons World Guide? As to who sells the most general guidebooks, Fielding runs a poor second to New Horizons, which has sold over 1,250,000 copies—43,000 of the current edition since January. We like to think that size of circulation is some indication of worth with guidebooks as it is with magazines.

GERALD W. WHITTED

Manager, Publications

Pan American World Airways New York City

> TIME was referring to Pan American's eight guides, which are somewhat hard on the outside and rather soft within.

Crossing Out the Cross

Sir: In "The Surfer's Cross" [April 22], you say that the German Iron Cross is being sold in reproductions by such "high-quality stores as Bergdorf Goodman." This is not true. While for many years we and other fine shops have sold jewelry in the form of variations of the traditional Maltese Cross, we have not, nor do we ever intend to offer for sale the Iron Cross, with its tasteless, macabre implications.

ANDREW GOODMAN

President

Bergdorf Goodman New York City

Heads of Clay

Sir: Three cheers for ex-FBI Clerk Carter! His sadly amusing story [May 6] is a bright spot in an ever-increasing sick male homosexual world.

KAY BARNES

New York City

Sir: As one who has esteemed the FBI for its purposes, direction and efficiency, I grieve to find, not that their feet are of clay, but that their heads are.

RICHARD L. CROWELL

Los Angeles

Peering Hyperbolically

Sir: TIME blurred its image by reporting [May 6] that De Gaulle peers myopically through his thick-lensed spectacles. As is the case with the vast majority of people who have undergone cataract surgery, he now peers hyperopically through his thick-lensed spectacles.

ANDREW P. FERRY, M.D.

Department of Ophthalmology

Mount Sinai Hospital New York City