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University Daily Kansan Monday. Nov. 5. 1962
Frantic Life in West Berlin Reflects Political Tensions
By Ralph Villers
EERLIN — (UPI) This one-time capital of Germany, now situated 110 miles behind communism's Iron Curtain in Europe, almost compels a visit by any American traveling on the Continent.
Aside from The Wall dividing East and West Berlin, which in itself has become a lure for travelers, Berlin offers an atmosphere unable to be found anywhere else in Europe, and approximated elsewhere only in Hong Kong, which sits virtually surrounded by Red China in the Far East.
IT'S HARD TO ESCAPE an impression of frantic living for today, if you take even a brief plunge into the city's night life. In some of the "hotter" spots, it almost looks as if money is going out of style, what with a drink of scotch going at prices up to $5 or more.
But neither is it necessary to "go for broke" to catch a glimpse of Berlin's famed, frantic night life. Young, and not too wealthy, West Berliners flock to a place called the Resi, as unique a fun and dance spot as is found anywhere. Guys and gals go in stag groups to the Resi and settle down around the hundreds of tables — all linked to each other by dial telephones and a pneumatic tube system.
FRIENDS GAB the night away on inter-table phone calls, completed via a fully automatic dial system right in the club. Others arrange a dance by messaging a prospective partner via the tube system.
Never have you seen more heart or hips put into the Twist than in the Twist Room, one of the many little rooms in a club called the Eden, where the younger set lives it up at a moderate price by nursing one beer through much of the night. The night life comes in all varieties and price ranges — from a corner beer restaurant, right up to Latin background music in El Panorama, high atop the Berlin Hilton, where you can sit and contrast the bright glow of lights of West Berlin with the relative darkness of the Communist sector of the city.
BUT EERLIN is fully as alive in daylight as at night. When the sun is up, the Western sector of this largest of German cities is busy and prosperous looking. The streets, many of them broad, modern boulevards, are heavy with traffic.
Sidewalks and sidewalk cafes, neatly glassed in and heated against the chill of winter, are crowded. The stores of the Kurfürstendamm, that most famous of Berlin shopping streets, are filled with anything you
MOST OF THE relics of the war are gone, although obvious signs of damage are about and empty lots, even near the city center, testify to buildings that once were there. And right in the heart of the shopping area stands the Memorial Church, or more correctly the facade, vestibule and bomb-damaged steeple of a once magnificent structure, deliberately left as a reminder of the war.
want to buy from smart clothes to expensive silverware and cameras.
The ninth annual exhibit features 161 pieces of ceramic, sculpture, jewelry, silversmithing, furniture, textiles, wall-hanging and enamel work of 83 craftsmen. Work for the display was selected from 296 entries of craftsmen who have lived in Kansas or the Kansas City area for one year.
Design Exhibit Opened In Kansas Union
design department. University Extension, Student Union Activities and Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity. The purpose is to encourage the fine craftsmen of the area and to stimulate an interest in and the purchase of fine crafts.
Specialists from throughout KU will be using the NASA funds to explore their research ideas. Biologists, sociologists, bacteriologists and engineers in several fields will consider some of the problems of space and man's place in it.
"PROGRESS ON these projects will lead to new proposals, and they will bring additional support to the campus," said John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture and head of the KU committee administering the project.
At the opening of the exhibition on yesterday, 35 prize winners were announced. They received a total of $640 in prizes, contributed by interested persons and firms.
Judge for the exhibition was Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb, chairman of the board and founder of the American Craftsmen Council. New York City.
Acting promptly, KU has selected 15 research ideas from 24 submitted by staff members. KU hopes to have some usable research findings for NASA by this time next year.
The Kansas Designer Craftsman Show will be displayed in the Kansas Union until Dec. 1.
The University of Kansas and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are teaming up on space research.
In the next few years, the collaboration may multiply the amount of engineering research done in the state.
"The proposals submitted by the faculty were absolutely first rate," McNown said. "The selection committee is excited by the prospect of the research potential they indicate. In fact, we decided to allocate half again as much money as we had
She noted new approaches and techniques in jewelry and sculpture which were "exciting in their end result."
Mrs. Webb described the exhibition as "excellent, vivid and expressing contemporary trends."
NASA has given KU $100,000 over three years to stimulate the beginnings of new research related to space. It was the first NASA research grant to a Kansas institution.
NASA Grant Stimulates Space Research at KU
"THE ACTIVITY which the staff will undertake as a result of this grant will greatly increase space-oriented research on the KU campus." Dean McNown said. "Both staff and students will be involved."
The show is sponsored by the KU
Of the first year's grant of $50,000, University officials had planned to allocate half now, half later in the year. Because of the quality of the research proposals, $38,000 was allocated immediately to start as many investigations as possible. The remainder of the NASA grant will be held in reserve for expenses through the year.
The University of Kansas was more than a $30 million enterprise for the year ending June 30, according to the University's annual "financial report."
Annual Financial Report Calls KU $30 Million Enterprise
originally intended to start activity on as many fronts as possible."
State appropriations provided only 46.5 per cent of the operating income, marking a continuing decline of the University's budget obtained from state tax sources.
One of the subsidiary purposes of the NASA grant is to increase cooperation between specialists in various fields of knowledge. Space research requires a variety of talents.
In 1958, the year of the first KU "financial report" in its present form, state appropriations supplied 51.4 per cent of the University's income.
Income from student fees has increased by $285,000, reflecting the increase in enrollment, and by 0.4 per cent of total income, reflecting last year's increase in out-of-state fees. "Gifts, grants, and sponsored research" continues to play an ever more significant role in the University's finances, an increase of 2.1 per cent bringing the proportion of total income to 18.1 per cent.
Major areas of operating expenditures were resident instruction, 31.8 per cent; hospital and health service, 19.1 per cent, and organized research,
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