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Your Oct. 17 Saar article presents a distorted viewpoint and serves only as anti-German propaganda. Has it ever occurred to your reporter why the Saarlanders have so recently started to demonstrate? Since the close of World War II, the Saar has been a police state. Any attempt on the part of the Saarlanders towards self-determination was rigorously suppressed...
...enigmatic deckhand upon those around it's a very original one. But it is an even well-sustained piece of fiction. "The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge," by Evan S. Connell, is satire on mid-western, upper-middle class morality. It is not able for a placidity of viewpoint unlike much social satire. The other stories are marred more or less, as I have said, by an obvious effort to be murky or ultra-lucid. The "Art of Fiction" interview, tenth of a uniformly excellent series, is with James Thurber...
...only factors to which Dr. Keys would give major responsibility were physical exercise (or the lack of it) and diet. He tackles the diet problem from the viewpoint of fat content. The fat in the U.S. diet, he points out, has been going up for 50 years; fats account for as much as 40% of its calories. In Sweden the proportion is 38%. But in Sardinia it is only 22%. The clincher, for Dr. Keys, is to be found among Yemenite Jews who had no coronary disease in their native habitat but have begun to develop it since they migrated...
Each club, moreover, should send to the forum a delegation prepared to record the club's majority viewpoint on the topic. If a club must declare itself pro or con in the public meeting, there must be much prior discussion among its own members in order to decide on a stand. On the other hand, if groups sent individuals speaking only for themselves, the forum would soon degenerate into a series of personal testaments. This would hardly give students a chance to experience real parliamentary debates...
...TIME'S political viewpoint is pretty stupid, but your coverage of humanity and those who fight for its basic principles more than compensates for that...