What a pathetic joke! The Deans have "financial troubles." After reading about their selling their home for $135,000; "fixing up" a new $110,000 home; the "five-figure advance" for a nearly-finished novel; their "secluded backyard pool," I almost feel the need to send them a CARE package.
Judy Horstman
Florissant, Mo.
When John Dean was sentenced he was granted one month to attend to family matters, specifically an ailing mother-in-law. In your article there is no mention of her. It looks like Dean put one over on the generous—and foolish—Judge Sirica.
Margaret Brannigan
New York
The Deans' new home is near Maureen 's ill mother and they visited her often. Now that John is in prison near Washington, Maureen commutes between L.A. and the capital.—ED.
Paul Anka
Paul Anka's You're Having My Baby has probably set Zero Population Growth back 50 years. To call it "tacky" is a gross understatement.
Lorna Dils
Clinton, Conn.
Anka is joined in the song by a woman. Who is she?
Regan LaMothe
Battle Creek, Mich.
She is Odia Coates, 26, who has been Anka's protege for about a year. An album of her own will shortly be released by United Artists.—ED.
You better play it again, fella. Nowhere in You're Having My Baby does Paul Anka sing: "I can feel me growing inside you."
Other than that, I enjoyed reading about one of my favorites.
Jacqueline Clapper
Canton, Ohio
The lyric is: "The seed inside you, baby, do you feel it growing."—ED.
It is a wonder to me how this song can be termed a "tacky hit." There are a million people who like and appreciate this tender song of a man's love and joy for the woman who is bearing his child.
Patty Biram
Lexington, Ky.
Agronomist Borlaug
Your pictures and Dr. Norman Borlaug's "own words" frighteningly expressed the exploding population-food collision and the famine that has started to make its presence known around the world.
Please continue to print articles like this one that show our finite earth cannot properly feed its present masses now, and surely not the 76 million people added each year.
Tyrone L. Steen
St. Peter, Minn.
The Malley Brothers
The irresponsibility of "penny pirates" Ed and Arthur Malley is little short of revolting. These profiteers seem to glory in the very real troubles of our nation's coin shortage.
Phillip Campbell
Waco
Earl Butz
Come on! Did Agriculture Secretary Butz actually "pitch hay into" a thresher when he was touring the Indiana State Fair, or is this a new New York technique of farming?
R. Kirk Smith
Grand Rapids
Butz actually pitched wheat into an old-time steam thresher.—ED.
Evel Knievel
"The people come, of course, to see Knievel crash," your story said. Oh yeah? The people did not go to see Evel crash any more than they would go to a concert to see a star in hopes that he might have a heart attack center stage. The people came to see a legend, a living legend. Thank you for your article, but no thanks.
Caitlin Hines
San Rafael, Calif.
So Evel slugs his 12-year-old child in the eye for riding his cycle across a golf green and has to try to pull off some extraordinary feat to prove he's a man.
Evel Knievel was a loser before "The Big Jump."
Barbara A. Fisher
Middletown, Pa.
Divorce and the Presidency
Your article on the Presidency and the shadow of divorce was most interesting, but didn't you make a mistake when you said that Ford is the only President born of divorced parents? As I remember, President Harding's parents were also divorced.
M. L. Alexander
Sands Point, N.Y.
Harding's parents (above) were not divorced. Only his father, George Try on Harding, was—twice, in fact—before he married Harding's mother, Alice Severns Harding.—ED.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
