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...Both scientists and the public derive a benefit from the space program that your Essay "Why Should Man Go to the Moon" [Feb. 10] does not mention. For more than 50 years, scientists have been crying for support of basic research, not for what it produces immediately but for what it ultimately provides for society's betterment. The space program should be our great teacher in this. It is the first case of widespread support of science by the public, and already the public is being made aware of the benefit it will derive Ironically, some of the same...
...Including a written exam containing essay questions on how to solve L.A. policing problems through 1970, implement recent court decisions, cooperate with city government, improve community relations...
...Three cheers for your excellent Essay on art today [Jan. 27]. I recently completed a course in modern art in hopes that I might gain some appreciation for the currently hailed art trends. However, I was completely disillusioned with the hodgepodge of junk that supposedly caters to the American taste. I can find beauty in the colors of Pollock, design in the geometric abstraction of Malevitch, and esthetic reasons for the distortions of Picasso; however, I can find no purpose in pop art or minimal art. Previously, I thought that I just wasn't with it; now I know...
...Your Essay reads as though contemporary art were imported from another planet. Do you forget that these works are products of earth men reflecting or reacting, albeit esoterically, to their life and times? The gold-plush-carpeted stairway leading nowhere may indeed be a most appropriate symbol of our time...
...Sato's most farsighted moves has been to join Asian regional groupings (TIME Essay, Feb. 3), which do not commit Japan to an aggressive foreign policy but will probably involve the country with its Asian neighbors. One organization in which Japan already has a stake is the Manila-based Asian Development Bank, whose first president is a former government finance adviser, Takeshi Watanabe, 60. With its $200 million funding toward the 32-nation bank's $1 billion capitalization, Japan matched the U.S. contribution. Said Sato: "A cornerstone is now being laid by all of us to establish...