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...TIME'S Nov. 7 Letters column, Congressman Sam Coon claimed that "nonfederal interests" could participate in his partnership bill for the John Day Dam. The Congressman failed to reveal to your readers that the Rural Electric Cooperatives of Oregon, for example, have described his bill as "a scheme to turn over the rivers of the Northwest to private monopoly...
...Your Nov. 14 review of Retreat from Learning struck a responsive chord in a teacher of many years' experience. Teachers are a dedicated group. The older generation of teachers were so completely cowed by bureaucracy and politics that freedom of speech was just a pat phrase. Conditions have changed only to grant that freedom to pupils. The public asks so frequently, "Why don't teachers do something about all this delinquency?" They should read how Author Joan Dunn shows up the limitations of teachers' authority...
...Says the Cowboy Sir: Fie on the reviewer of The American Cowboy for referring to Dr. Frantz and me as "dude professors" and "vicarious vaqueros" [Nov. 14]. I was riding an Indian pony and not "grabbin- " leather when I was "going on" seven, and I have broken more than one broncho. Furthermore, we don't the cowboy, and we believe that and the reality are inseparable...
Margaret's Decision (Contd.) Sir: This may be classified as old news now, but I can't help but comment that Margaret's decision has been analyzed, weighed, and blamed upon everything from symbolism to the Archbishop, per your Nov. 14 "Judgments & Prophecies." The most obvious and logical influence on Margaret's decision seems to me to be that she must have heard from Uncle Edward...
...rather disturbed by your meticulous description of Ann Woodward as she was found by the police [Nov. 14]. Must you resort to such intimate and unimportant details ("blue negligee," "black brassiere ') in order to present a story in its true form? Are you competing with the cheap "tabloids...