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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 31, 1967
Write Rocky: 'Run'
In time of political doubt and insecurity such as the year or so preceding a presidential election, Nelson Rockefeller is one of the few politicians who knows exactly where he stands with the powers-that-be in his party. If the Republican decision-makers were to convene today Rockefeller would surely be at the far end of any list of possible presidential candidates.
The Republican Party is once again proving that its talents lie more in grudge-carrying than in finding a suitable man for the '68 nomination. It sharply recalls Rockefeller's outspoken opposition to Goldwater in 1964, and the fact that Rockefeller's fears were affirmed by a huge majority of voters only seems to intensify his "crime."
Rockefeller also remembers the 1964 miscarriage. For more than two years we have been ignoring his non-candidacy vows as political hogwash, but finally his words are bringing conviction to the doubters. Perhaps, just perhaps, the shock of a king-sized humiliation was indeed enough to make a proud man weary of the Presidential game.
Regardless of Rockefeller's motives, he doesn't have months in which to make up his
mind. Time prophesied in May that Rockefeller might change his mind in a year if he found Romney couldn't win. Shades of Scranton. Does the loyal opposition truly believe Mr. Johnson will be so easily downed that anybody can step in at the last moment and come up with a win?
Recent polls have shown that many people are interested in Rockefeller as a 1968 candidate. Many others would undoubtedly like to know his opinions on the issues. But as opinion-offering is an accepted part of "non-candidacy" candidacies, Romney-backer Rockefeller has kept his mouth shut.
It seems that what Rockefeller needs now is proof of interest. It's a cinch the encouragement is not going to come from the party hacks. If vengeance is the name of the game, however, it may be time for the voters who had Gold-water crammed down their throats in 1964 to shove back for once. Rockefeller must get this cue from the "grass roots."
If you are among those who would like to see Rockefeller among the possible choices, the burden falls to you. Write Rockefeller to run.
—Betsy Wright Editorial Editor
Letters to the editor
Fee refund, film
To the Editor:
If the quotation from Vice-Chancellor Nichols appearing in the Oct. 27 Lawrence Journal-World is correct, that is required fees for teaching graduate students are $8.50 per semester hour rather than the $13.75 listed on the official schedule of fees, then the University owes me $52.50 in overpayment of fees for this semester alone.
I urge that all teaching graduate students take the Vice-Chancellor at his word and gather tomorrow at the business office to claim their refunds.
Miles W. Coiner Jr.
Assistant Instructor of Speech and Drama
To the Editor:
To add to the various descriptions of the recent movie "Bonnie and Clyde," I would like to bring to your attention the review of Giles M. Fowler, the Kansas City Siar's motion picture editor, in the Oct. 8 issue. It begins:
"It's a rip-snortin', gun-shootin'
laft-a-minute, rinky tink joy
ride. Three years long! All the
way from West Dallas, Tex.
to Arcadia, La., and points between."
Continuing and in bold print in the middle of the article:
"If the picture were just a life
history of two famous criminals, it would have no more than passing worth. If it were just a thriller, it would have to be condemned; such violence should never be shown for cheap amusement. Yet the film is far more, for what it says about a most contemporary kind of evil, and for the way it says it, "Bonnie and Clyde" is no less than a creative triumph—and, by the way, the best American film in years."
My reactions to this exciting and touching story could be put no plainer.
Bill Wallace Ottawa junior
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--spirits. It's the same way in parts of the British Commonwealth and Western Europe. But over most of the world, rural people live only in villages, emphasizing
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Everyone can't be like us
By John Chappell Instructor in Geography
Take the way people arrange their houses out in the country. In the U.S., each home stands apart, emphasizing our rugged, individualistic
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If geography has one particular message to teach, it is that things are different in different parts of the world. Everyone doesn't think, worship, grow food or build houses the same way; they never have and they probably never will.
their collectivist, sometimes defensive attitudes.
It was that way long before Thomas Jefferson or Karl Marx were born, and it will be that way long after they are forgotten, if they are.
And yet somehow there has developed in our national capital a crowd of geographically—and historically—illiterate public "servants" who think that the only "normal" situation in any part of the world is either an individualistic and democratic society, or something rapidly evolving into one. They tell us that any people can have any kind of socio-political system, if only it will work for it; and any nation which does not work for a system like ours is somehow to be mistrusted . . . unless, of course, it agrees to work against a system which is unlike ours, in
Geography doesn't hope to shape the world. It may help to improve the world, but mainly it wants to explain it. This is a big enough job in itself. Interested persons might start with the writings of Ellsworth Huntington and Albert Burke, two geographers from whose works the above ideas were drawn. You may remember Burke: the television educator who left the networks after three years of low ratings. He had an annoying habit of challenging people to get up and do something about the sorry state of our popular understanding of the world we live in.
It would also suggest that we don't have any excuse to be cutting up a little nation like Vietnam in order to get it to think and act like we do. Such an admission, of course, would lose a lot of money for some powerful big contractors, and bring at least some red faces to many elected officials.
which case it can get away with having any old system it wants.
It never occurs to any of these world-remakers that people don't always have the choice of building their houses or their political systems any old way, and that in fact very few people have enough to afford to be individualistic. That would imply, of course, that we are as we are mainly because of our good fortune, or God's Grace, rather than simply because we have more gumption and intelligence than the average nation (and that too may be due largely to our climate).
Paperbacks
The best buy of this bunch is something called Contemporary American Short Stories, which was edited by Douglas and Sylvia Angus (Premier, 95 cents). And they are contemporary—no more of this business of Hemingway, Hawthorne, Poe, Stephen Crane and Henry James.
A different kind of assortment. Names like Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, Philip Roth, Flannery O'Connor (have you noticed that when a guy gets famous you can drop that first name, unless the last name is something like "James"?), James Baldwin, john Creever, wright Morris, Saul Bellow, Katherine Anne Porter, Bernard Malamud, People like that. Some of the best in the business, and contemporary themes, too.
Graham Billing's Forbush and the Penguins (Crest, 60 cents) is a curious kind of novel that may develop a following. It's about a
young guy who's all alene in Antarctica and about the way he responds to the situation. Well, Lindbergh did it in his marvelous story of flight called "The Spirit of St. Louis," and Jack London did it on a smaller scale in "To Build a Fire." And there was "Robinson Crusoe." You've got to be a tour-de-force type to pull off this kind of thing.
And there's some of what we might call junk, too. Well, anyway not enduring literature. Romantic suspense stuff, and historical, too, in something called Never Call It Loving (Crest, 75 cents), by Dorothy Eden. It's about the celebrated Parnell of Katherine O'Shea, and if you're old enough you'll remember when Clark Gable and Myra Iov did this one. And Modesty Blaise is back in Peter O'Donnell's Sabre-Tooth (Crest, 60 cents). In case you want to blow, it's a bull of
female James Bond. Has his sexual inclinations, too.
Francoise Sagan, who made a big splash as a teenage writer more than a decade ago, is now. in some eyes practically middle-aged. Her recent novel, La Chamade (Dell, 75 cents) is now with us. This is contemporary Frenchtype sex, quite divorced from the Yerby kind of thing. Really kind of a bore, too.
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Sen. Edward Long, D-Mo., commenting on his being cleared by a Senate investigating subcommittee of charges he helped jailed Teamster President James Hefla: "I knew I would be cleared because I knew that I have been scrupulously honest in my dealings."