Elizabeth Taylor
God, what a face! Your cover of Elizabeth Taylor (PEOPLE, March 15) shows why she's "the most beautiful woman in the world."
Mark Thomas
San Jose, Calif.

Please PEOPLE—let's have no more of Liz (YAWN) and Richard (Z-Z-ZZZZZZ).
Jack Iasillo
Fort Thomas, Ky.

The Burtons have found that they know how to predict each other's moves too well. They're playing Virginia Woolf games now. This will be an interesting period in their real-life novel.
E. John
Philadelphia

Peter Darmanian's thoughts and wishes far exceed "greetings" and "good health" if the Portuguese word employed was saudade. It is an emotionally laden term meaning a "longing for," as for something loved and cherished. It is often used to express homesickness for someone or something.
Taffy Warner
Newport Beach, Calif.

I know that it's expected of journalists to be wittily iconoclastic instead of compassionate these days, but I thought that your two articles on Elizabeth Taylor's latest troubles were more than usually cruel.

I hope that she knows that many (and probably most) of us are very sincerely saddened that her feelings have been so harshly assaulted again. Lampooned so consistently by the press, it must be hard for her to believe that she has our sympathy and good wishes more than our envy and scorn, but I'm sure that she does.
Muffy MacGowan
Los Angeles

Bobby Knight
If he were good enough, I would not hesitate to let my son play basketball under coach Bobby Knight. In my opinion, coach Knight builds men—more importantly, gentlemen, both on and off the court!
Marylin Jo Green
Middletown, Ind.

If you have noticed, here at Indiana we have a "nice guy" football coach in Lee Corso, but in the two years I've been here our football team has won only three games. If it's okay with you, I'll stick with Bobby Knight.
Maureen Hudelson
Bloomington, Ind.

Rosalynn Carter
This is the first year I will be able to vote and it is articles like yours on Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter that help make my choice a lot easier. All I can say now is, "Hurry to Texas, Jimmy and Rosie. You have one very sure vote."
Joanna Bostwick
Killeen, Tex.

How could Jimmy Carter serve 13 months on a nuclear submarine and be out of the service by 1953? The U.S.S. Nautilus, our first nuclear sub, was launched Jan. 21, 1954, from Groton, Conn.
Ed Zell
St. Louis

As we said, Carter worked "in" the development of nuclear subs, not aboard one of the boats.
—ED.

Dr. Elias Ghanem
My admiration for Dr. Elias Ghanem stems from the fact that as he prospered, he did not forget his family. He gathered his relatives around him to share his success.
Zahi F. Haddad
Tacoma, Wash.

I am proud to say I knew the good doctor P.P. (pre-Presley). I'm sure his patients in Las Vegas value him more for his exceptional dedication and talents as a doctor than for his cars, plane and mirrored ceiling.
Toni Marcus
New York

Barry and Suzi Kaufman
Suzi Kaufman well deserves the mother-of-the-year award for her dedication to her son. The courage shown by this couple is reminiscent of the struggle of Sister Elizabeth Kenny in her fight against polio.
Douglas Haaland
Calumet, Mich.

Would you please be good enough to print an address for the Kaufmans? In the event that they do open some kind of center for autistic children, I would most assuredly be interested in doing some work for them.
Sylvia E. Oman
Montreal

Write to Options for Autistic Children, 46 Shelter Lane, Roslyn Heights, N. Y. 11577.
—ED.

As parents of a 6-year-old autistic boy, my husband and I are sorry to read Mr. Kaufman's dismissal of behavior modification as "cattle prods and 10,000 volts." For us it has provided an invaluable tool for helping our son grow. Within an atmosphere of warmth and love we emphasize and "reward" our son's accomplishments rather than punish his faults. Our son, Jay, now speaks in sentences, initiates love and affection and is beginning to learn the academic and social skills of a normal 6-year-old. My heart and my hand go out to the Kaufmans as I know what they have suffered and rejoice in what they have done.
Mary Fitz
Greenfield, Mass.

Pamela Powell
I enjoyed your article on Pamela Powell, but why was it necessary to dwell on her weight problem? Was it an article on her weight or on her job as Director for Youth Affairs?
Janie Kirk
Emporia, Kans.

Dr. Janet Hardy
Mrs. Hardy's condescending attitude toward teenage mothers bothered me. (I am 15.) She claims to "get down where the action is," but how can she accomplish this when she publicly describes these girls as "youngsters"? If she wants to help them she must treat them on a mature level and give them some credit for their intelligence.
India Northrop
New York

I am continually amazed at the naïveté of otherwise intelligent doctors when looking at adolescents. Five hundred or 600 years ago a 15-year-old girl would likely be married and either running her own household or supervising the servants who were. If she did not succumb to puerperal fever she would probably have borne five or six children by the age of 21. Grandmotherhood at age 28 would have been closer to the norm than age 40. A 100-year-old artificial pattern of keeping children in school seven or eight years past the onset of puberty is not likely to wipe out a pattern established far longer ago and one which is infinitely more natural biologically.
Aravis K. Del Clare
Brooklyn, N.Y.

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