Letters: Jun. 7, 1968

ZAP! POW! SOK!

Sir: To those of us who voted for him in the Indiana primary, Senator Robert Kennedy [May 24] represents honesty, imagination, courage and leadership. These, in my opinion, constitute the ingredients of that special chemistry that Presidents are made of.

MICHAEL KOR

Terre Haute, Ind.

Sir: A carpetbagging snollygoster with Torquemada tendencies should be denied a license to pilot the ship of state.

POKA CARIAN

Detroit

Sir: The Kennedys promised us the moon in 1960, and that particular moon consisted of the Bay of Pigs, acceleration of the war in Viet Nam, the Berlin Wall, the disastrous Vienna conference and the failure to get one New Frontier legislative program through Congress. What is Bobby going to do for an encore?

EDWARD H. CALLAHAN Olean, N.Y.

Sir: If there's one thing R.F.K. has shown himself good at, it's recognizing past errors of judgment (cf. the significant difference between his early and recent positions on Joe McCarthy, civil rights, Cuba and Viet Nam). How many lives would have been saved if L.B.J. had this same quality?

CHARLES Louis JAGODA Huntington, N.Y.

Sir: Roy Lichtenstein's cover drawing of Robert Kennedy, the New York Senator from Massachusetts, was superb. It provided an at-a-glance character analysis: colorful, comic, callow and caustic.

CHRISTINA SAKOWSKI, '71 University of Illinois Chicago

Sir: The cover exemplifies the real Bobby Kennedy because it explodes with the youth, nationalism, pride and determination that are so characteristic of this great leader.

DOUGLAS KELT

Oneonta, N.Y.

Sir: Looks to me like the kid has the measles and ought to be quarantined until about Dec. 1.

A. M. BROWN Meridian, Idaho

Sir: The cover cartoon shows the Senator's hair parted on the left, as Ted wears it (and as John did), whereas in fact Robert parts his hair on the right. Like Alice, Robert Kennedy has gone through the looking glass, where inversion and distortion, of him as well as by him, are the only possibilities. Mr. Lichtenstein is less artist than oracle.

MICHAEL G. DULICK St. Louis

Sir: Zap! Faster than a chartered 707! Pow! As powerful as Pappa Joe's Checkbook! Sok! It's the American Eagle! It's the Dove of Peace! It's Super Fraud! Who, disguised in beads and a turtleneck, leads a never-ending battle for touch football, New Camelot, and his own way! Bleah.

T. J. GREEN, '69 University of Missouri Columbia

The Name Game

Sir: TIME lists me among the supporters

of Senator Kennedy [May 31]. I support

Senator McCarthy. When political figures

seek our support, we have little to lend

but our presence, represented by our

names.

BARBRA STREISAND

Los Angeles

Sir: Pleased to be anointed as Beautiful Person. However, you have erroneously listed my name among supporters of one of the Democratic candidates. I have not lent my name in support of any candidate. I am in fact a member of the California delegation formerly pledged to President Johnson but expressing no preference at this time.

GREGORY PECK

Universal City, Calif.

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