Letters: Nov. 1, 1968

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Members of the Wedding

Sir: When Jackie Kennedy first visited Greece she was charmed and captivated by that ancient land. Her fine sense of history responded to the heritage that built the Western civilization she knows so well. She has lived events that are as tragic as any written by ancient Greek dramatists. A modern Croesus found her and brought her to the shores of Homer's wine-dark sea.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis—welcome home!

MRS. ALEXANDER J. TRIPOULAS Rocky River, Ohio

Sir: I am unhappy. My goddess has feet of clay.

DICK NORVICK

Hollywood, Calif.

Sir: We've lost a national shrine.

LARRY E. SCOTT Greeley, Colo.

Sir: Who says no country ever gives the U.S. any help with her problems? Look what the Greeks have done for the Jackie Kennedy situation—even provided the seclusion of an island. Wonderful. Thanks. Best of luck and everything.

J. R. RINKER

Augusta, Ga.

Sir: I have always thought Jackie to be a woman out for all the power and prestige that money could buy. This verifies that. But we had been led to believe that she respected the Catholic Church all the way. How will she explain her actions to those children, who seem so devout?

MRS. A. E. CLINGERMAN Terre Haute, Ind.

Sir: Papa Onassis has added another jewel to his collection, a jewel that one would have thought was not for sale at any price.

E. CABORN Halifax, N.S.

Sir: Aristotle Onassis was undoubtedly a judicious choice for Jacqueline Kennedy—if he doesn't shape up, he can ship out!

EDWARD MARKSCHEID Scotch Plains, N.J.

Sir: It must be love. Surely, Jackie didn't trade the proud name of John Fitzgerald Kennedy for a mess of yachtage! Did she?

(MRS.) LAURA B. MELLEN Binghamton, N.Y.

Sir: Come now. If he's good enough for Jackie, he can't be all that bad.

(MRS.) VIRGINIA FINNEY Johnson City, Tenn.

Sir: Why the bleats of outrage, the sense of personal and national betrayal, the incredulous how-could-she's? My first—in fact, my only—reaction to Jackie's "queenly" surrender to Playboy-Pirate Onassis and his multimillions was that this is her first wholly in-character act since 1960.

(MRS.) CATHLEEN BURNS ELMER Boston

The Courtier

Sir: In 1968 the candidacy of George Wallace [Oct. 18] for President of these United States is nothing less than preposterous. I implore the citizenry to heed the words of Alexander Hamilton, who wrote: "History teaches that among the men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their careers by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants."

FRANK R. SQUEO Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.

Sir: May I suggest the lemming as the appropriate symbol for Candidate Wallace's American Independent Party? The blue-collar worker and his unions will be among the first to achieve self-destruction, followed in short order by the Catholics and Jews, or by any other minority group that does not live up to Wallace's inflexible, preset standards.

CHESTER LOCH New Castle, Pa.