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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 14, 1967
Elmer Beth honored for 20 years service
Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, was honored at a surprise testimonial dinner in the Kansas Union Wednesday night in recognition of his 20 years of service as a member of the University of Kansas Humanities Lecture Series Committee, the last 15 years as chairman.
John Frickson, associate professor of French and Italian, who recently succeeded Beth as chairman, presided. About 40 teachers and administrators representing several schools and eight departments attended.
George Wasserguer, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the lecture series was "the oldest, strongest and most striking of all the cooperative arrangements in the University."
His remarks echoed the recent characterization of the series by a Princeton scholar as "one of the most impressive humanistic enterprises in this country."
Beth, expressing appreciation for the tributes, said visiting lecturers were almost universally "astounded" at the high degree of cooperation evidenced among the university's schools and departments.
L. R. Lind, professor of classics, recalled that he, Beth and Merrrel D. Clubb, professor of English, were the only three members of the original committee in attendance. He detailed Beth's "tremendous service," in obtaining speakers, arranging transportation and hospitality, preparing publicity and introducing the visitors.
LONDON—(UPI)—The great rush to buy gold hit the London bullion market hard again today and wild rumors of impending curbs on gold purchasing threw the Paris bullion market into chaos.
London gold rush hits Paris market
Supplies of government gold being fed to private buyers in Britain held the price of the metal steady.
Near panic seized the Paris market after reports that in Zurich all dealings had been suspended to await the result of the daily gold price fixing in London. Many dealers abstained from placing orders for fear they would not be met.
One London dealer called conditions "chaotic." Another said, "it's the busiest day so far this week" and cut off to deal with more buying orders.
When trading ended, the volume of transactions in Paris was a high 10.16 million. Wednesday's turnover was $12.6 million.
The Paris market's operations are among the most closely watched but not so much as London, the world's largest bullion market.
At the formal price setting session where the five firms which operate the London market
meet together with the Bank of England's representative to fix a guideline price level for the day, the volume of orders was "very large." But it stayed below record levels, dealers said.
After this daily price fixing session, however, the pace of trading stepped sharply higher.
SAIGON —(UPI) Communist reports said American bombers flew heavy strikes against the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi today and lost two planes. There was no confirmation from U.S. headquarters in Saigon.
In South Vietnam, the U.S. command said American forces smashed a new Communist attack Wednesday on the Central Highlands base at Dak To and hurled back an assault on a jungle outpost near Saigon.
Bombs hit Hanoi
Casualty reports for last week issued today by headquarters said allied forces killed 1,818 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in one of the most successful seven-day periods of the war.
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