Letters, Feb. 18, 1974

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Sir / This profligate, above-the-table jury-padding so shamelessly practiced by Christie and Schulman [Jan. 28] should leave the jaws of Justice so far agape at this brazen violation that they would relax no more until the scales slip from her hand and she slumps into an unattended death.

BEVILL PIERCE Silver Spring, Md.

Sir / We undergraduates at Douglass College in the '50s knew Jay Schulman was a maverick the minute we spotted him lumbering down the path in the academic procession the first day of school. The mortar board was hanging off the back of his huge, hairy head, and the black gown was drawn back like stage curtains. His tie was loose, his shirt was rumpled, and his socks looked as though they had melted and frozen just over the tops of his shoes. Yet he was a good prof: bright, probing, funny, involved, shy, mocking, shocking and demanding.

Those students who stretched themselves further than they had thought they could may have done so because they remembered some of his insightful, pointed, honest comments.

ANNETTE L. MARTINO Oldwick, N.J.

Business Almost As Usual

Sir / You ask "Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?" when writing about Britain's economy [Jan. 21]. May I assure you that it is certainly not as you report.

Far from having "laid off nearly half its 235,000-man work force," the British Steel Corp. has maintained its labor force virtually intact and is fulfilling its guaranteed work-week agreement with unions. Furthermore, although the corporation could do with more coal to get back to normal, we are producing steel at a rate greater than 70% of our precrisis output through the full cooperation of our work force, management and men.

H.M. FINNISTON Chairman British Steel Corp. London

Help Offshore

Sir / While Canadian Broadcaster Gordon Sinclair's pro-American sentiments [Jan. 21] may seem inspirational to some, his rhetoric leaves a bit to be desired by way of fact: "Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble?" If it had not been for the French fleet standing offshore during the battle of Yorktown in 1781, there might not be an America today.

PAUL F. PREUSS Boulder, Colo.

Sir / Mr. Sinclair has reminded us that we do have something to be proud of. He has shown that there is more to America and Americans than Watergate, the energy crisis and the dollar.

Americans are proud of that.

MAYNARD POGUE Lincoln, Neb.