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Thursday, May 4, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Book recounts history of canal
By JERRY JONES
Staff Resume
Staff Reviewer
The Path Between the Seas; The Creation of the Pomegranate, Canal, 1870-1914
By David McInnoge
Simon and Schuster. 698 pp.
Because of the recent senatorial debate over the Panama Canal Treaty, interested observers have been scrambling to find answers to the history of the canal and the United States' somewhat dubious entry into canal-building. David McCutligh, a former secretary, said that search for information by
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providing a relatively straightforward account, drawn from more than 440 separate sources, which details the creation of the canal from the beginning of the ill-fated French attempt to the first successful interocean transit.
interaction tasks.
If one is overwhelmed with the scale of
canal project, then the scale of McCullough's work is equally awesome. To be
able to take these myriad sources and raw information and then assimilate everything into an orderly account, in is itself a feat truly remarkable. Undoubtedly, however, McCullough counts himself lucky that the sources were unavailable in the first place. As one might suspect, any government operation of this scale generates reams of information, press attention and public comment.
MCCULLOUGH HAS captured the flavor of an era when man was still pursuing his own goals.
Acting saves 'Unmarried Woman'
By MARK L. OLSON
Reviewer
Without the support of warm, honest performances by Jill Clayburgh and Alan Bates, writer-director Paul Mazursky would be missing out on a powerful screen venture, "An Unmarried Woman."
The potential for a truly touching movie exists in the story of Erica Benton (Clayburgh), a wife of 16 years, who is dumped by her husband Martin (Michael Murphy) for an encounter with a 26-year-old department store worker.
Muzarski's movie, which shows Erica's painful recovery from a devastating attack on her family, is a test of continuity. Father then devising into her sensitivity as a suddenly available woman
in a single girl's world, Mazursky exploits Eric as a sex-star divorced wife.
Claybury gives a brief portrait of a woman who must find a new life but never finds her birth.
Much of Erica's search, as well as the movie itself, revolves around her consciousness-raising club, a trio of women with whom she shares her experiences.
With the help of the club, Erica sheds the after-effects of her divorce but takes a skittish attitude toward all the new men she sees.
Mazursky, at this point, tries to compress Eric's rehabilitation into a series of one-night stands, psychiatrist couch sessions and verbal battles with his ex-husband—all of which come out in one big incohesive mess.
The movie's only saving grace is the entrance of Sol (Alan Bates), a London artist, who also has gone through the trials of a divorce.
Sol and Erica's relationship, though smacking of the Greenwich Village craziness, is the only real affair Erica has after her divorce.
This relationship manages to salvage a movie that Muzursky seemed determined to pull out of.
Housing shortage not a problem for students of summer session
By MARY ERNST
Staff Writer
University of Kansas students who plan to stay in Lawrence for the summer term should have no problem finding apartments in a house they had better start looking soon.
Elida Turner, credit manager of Lawrence Rentals Exchange, 910 Kentucky St. said yesterday that there was no shorerem apartments in Lawrence during the summer.
However, she said that houses were more in demand and that Lawrence Rental Exchange would not have many openings for houses to rent.
"There are quite a few students who want houses for the summer, but we don't have many clients who want to rent to groups of students with five single college students," Turner said.
"THESE SHOULD be no problem unless
they'll allow you to pick and choose.
They'll allow you to pick and choose."
"There is no shortage," she said. "We have several vacancies, but there are more now."
Turner said that Lawrence Rentals Exchange, with rented apartment complexes, duplexes, fourplexes and houses, had quite a few apartments that she expected some to be open all summer.
Big Blue Rentals now has about 40 to 50 units open, he said, because they offer only nine and one-half month leases and two and one-half month leases, which fit well into the room.
Turner said that all of her company's contracts were year-long ones and that not only did she keep them, but
Joe Stoup, manager of Associat Realty Co., which owns Village Square, 850 Avalon Rd., and Birchwood Gardens, 19th and Tennessee streets, said that very little subleasing was done at those two apartment complexes.
"WE DON'T really get involved in renting
summer camps, summer events. It's more
tough legal." "Strong," she said.
He said that Associated Really had both students and teachers that students usually signed 18-month contracts.
"What vacancies we do have during the summer we use to make repairs on the apartments," he said. "It's our only chance to do it."
Art. Farmer, assistant manager of Meadowbrook Apartments, 101-T Windsor office that subluebring often at ala Oak because it offered only 12-month leases.
Twenty-two University of Kansas
for community excellence Tuesday night.
Top students in economics recognized
Ricky Troll, Overland Park senior, won the John Ise Award; Marcia Boswell, Lawrence senior, the Richard S. Hoyee Award; and Jeffrey Rhoads, Leaward senior, the Domenico Gagliaroid Award. All three were honored with a honor of former KU economics professors.
Nineteen other undergraduate students received Arthur J. Boyton scholarships. Boyton also was a University professor of economics.
The awards totaled more than $7,500.
"We have a few residents who have to sublease their apartments in the summer, and we sure work with them on that," Farmer said.
But subleasing an apartment is often difficult.
Ed Kulp, West Chester, Pa., junior, said that he had encountered problems in finding someone to lease his apartment at Trailridge Apartments.
"ONLY A few people have looked at it and it's the second week we've advertised for it," he said. "The main problem is the money and the fact that most people want to move in before June, which is when we're leasing it from."
Kulpa also said that he didn't know that he would have to pay **$0** less charge if he made the mistake.
"I didn't really hear about the $4," he said, "but we don't lose our deposit because they keep it to cover any damages that the subletters cause."
Linda Loudon, Leawood senior, also said that she has having problems finding someone to subtlet her apartment at Malls Ode English Village apartments.
"It's really depressing," she said. "We're even putting down the deposit for the bank."
She said that this was the first month that the Malls apartments had set up 12-month lease terms. "The Malls are in good shape," she said.
subleasing change nor did she have to forfeit her deposit.
STUDENTS WHO are looking for apartments can find one source of information from the housing office in McColm Hall, Flint, Michigan; Lumbery, director of off-campus housings.
Her office at 206 McCollum has five books of categorized listings containing all types of information about different types of housing in Lawrence.
"The information service is very well
used in the hospital," and people are
unlikely to forget.
Lumley said that, in addition to the listings that she received from area landlords, her office also would give students a Lawrence rental housing pamphlet that was prepared by a local bank. It lists in the Lawrence area apartment complexes in the Lawrence area.
In addition to off-campus housing, students also may stay in Joseph R. Pearson resident hall, which has a maximum capacity according to J. J. Wilson, director of housing.
"I would guess that about 350 students will stay at Joseph R. Pearson this summer, but maybe only a handful."
Wilson said that students would pay $500 for a double room and $450 for a single room for the summer session, which is about 60 days.
find flaws in a work of such immense scope, particularly a book so carefully and thoughtfully designed.
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Perhaps his decision to include so much detail, to the point of irrelevance, is the one gnawing shortcoming of the book. Who cares, for example, that as Thomas Jettier wrote in 1804, "his pet mockbird (was) swinging in a cage head over?"
McCullough's foresight was remarkable. Obviously, he began research this book long before Panama had jumped into the headlines, yet his work explores the very basis for our current treaty. It also reveals how very little most people actually know about the canal. For instance, the canal actually runs north-south, but how many people assume that it runs eastward? How many people actually visited The Panamanian city who was the single person most responsible for the Panamanian revolution?
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