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...week) goes to Maria Luisa Cisneros and her staff of nine, who answer the mail, analyze trends and distribute excerpts of the most interesting letters among TIME's staff. Isabel Kouri, a letters correspondent since 1960, answers mail critical of our Watergate coverage. "A striking number of readers are worrying about the image of the presidency itself," she says. Last week she wrote to one such reader: "It seems to us that in the long run, competent, thorough, honest and aggressive news reporting is the servant of the national interest, even though in some cases it may be momentarily...
...smoothly. Although the original music is lost even in the best translation, enough of her emotional tones come through this excellent Englishing to suggest a tough individualist whose highly economical style was due not to reticence but a stubborn belief that she had distilled the truth and the reader could take it or leave...
...Days of Simon Stern is a book possessed by its Jewishness, its particularity (a favorite Cohen word). The reader gradually finds himself watching for signs and portents and, incredibly, patiently awaiting a messiah...
...Hills was saved by love, and by copping out. The love part is perfectly straightforward: he found either a new wife or (his references are discreet to a fault) a new dog. The copping out is a little harder to understand, because what Hills did, as far as the reader can figure it out, was to become a full-time freelance writer. This, in an era of declining markets, is very similar to becoming a professional buffalo hunter, and it is definitely not the road to mental health...
Each Eliot resident was issued a magnetically coded card. When the card is placed in the reader located next to the door, the magnetic code is signaled to a computer memory unit in the chilled water plant north of the Yard. If the card's code matches one on record in the memory unit, the door is automatically unlocked. If a card is lost, its code can simply be erased from the memory unit and it will no longer open the door...