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...Sir: After reading "The Age of Man" [Aug. 29], I happened to pick up G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man and read his perceptive comment on another famous reconstruction by paleontologists -Pithecanthropus. Every word of it could be applied to Ramapithecus and the Yale investigators who have reconstructed him from "no more than partial jawbones and a few teeth...
...Sir: As deplorable as the kidnaping case of U.S. Ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick [Sept. 12] might seem, it does have a positive side...
...Sir: I view with alarm TIME'S account [Sept. 12] of our present wheeling-dealing man in the White House(s). It used to be comforting that Truman was satisfied to be poor; that Eisenhower achieved security through royalties; that Roosevelt and Kennedy possessed inherited wealth; and that even L.BJ. had Lady Bird. But will a President who has already gained so much from inflation, and who stands to gain so much more, feel impelled to fight it for the rest of us? Maybe "Nixon's surprise call for milder tax reform" isn't so surprising after...
...Sir: Political Scientist Barber's long-distance analysis of President Nixon's personality and predictions of his behavior [Sept. 12] began to wobble my confidence in your Behavior section until it was later mentioned that he claims no professional credentials as a behavior expert. That much had to be obvious, of course...
...SIR: In your review of the recent books on George Bernard Shaw [Sept. 5], there is the usual abundance of puns, japes and witticisms which one expects to find in TIME. But I find it lamentable for one reason: the usual anonymity. Sincerely, Benjamin R. Katz...