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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 21, 1962
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Piqskin Puzzle
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Head Coach Jack Mitchell will direct his fifth Kansas Jayhawker football team against Texas Christian University in Memorial Stadium tomorrow afternoon and as yet there remains considerable question about the prospects for the Crimson and Blue.
This time last season KU was tabbed as one of the leading gridiron powers in the nation. This season the Jayhawkers are among the "possible Big Eight Conference champions. What the actual situation is will not be known until this time tomorrow.
ONE OF THE REASONS why Coach Mitchell has had such fine success has been his acute ability to deal with people. Not only has this been an aid in recruiting fine players but it also has enchanted the press and raised ticket sales.
This ability also has incited great fascination in this year's team because of the mystery which surrounds the capabilities of the Jayhawkers. This shroud will be lifted tomorrow and the prospects for the coveted trip to the Orange Bowl can then be analyzed on the basis of play under fire.
Since Coach Mitchell brought his exciting style of coaching and playing football to Mt.
Oread there has been serious talk by Kansans of making the New Year's Day trip to Miami. Last year KU had to be satisfied with an impressive win in the Bluebonnet Bowl. This year, although most comment from Allen Field House has been delivered with a frown, consideration of another bowl sojourn cannot be overlooked.
LAST SEASON KU probably had the greatest array of talent ever assembled here. This time the Jayhawkers may prove to be not the niftiest but the most exciting and most explosive team in KU's history.
Coach Mitchell has said that he thinks his squad "will come along late in the season." This may be the most accurate comment about the team.
But no matter when the Jayhawks really develop the momentum needed to be a title contending team, it is certain the fleet halfbacks and cunning coaching of Jack Mitchell will deliver the type of gridiron thrills which will continue to fill the stadium and bring national prestige to KU and its progressive athletic program.
Bill Sheldon
Master in Massachusetts
Ted Kennedy has been called too young, uninterested, inexperienced, lucky, and about every unfavorable name ever used in politics. He withstood the severest possible punishment from not only his own state but throughout the world and still came out a winner. All summer it appeared no one liked him. At the polls all of these people who were afraid of a Kennedy dynasty, a man who has never held a job, and the many other things supposedly involved in the campaign voted for the President's brother almost 2 to 1 over a more qualified opponent. What happened?
Organization was named as one of the principal reasons for the election of John Kennedy to the presidency. This is possibly the outstanding factor in the Massachusetts primary election. Ted spent over a year preparing for Tuesday's outcome. If he was not touring the state he was overseas gathering information and making his presence generally known. He campaigned throughout the Bay State and went into the Democratic convention this summer confident of its support and made the hard work of Edward McCormack look childish. Following the convention the precise and thorough Kennedy front offices directed a campaign which would be difficult to match in completeness and effectiveness.
ALTHOUGH THE ENTIRE NATION waited somewhat in wonder, there could have existed little doubt but that Kennedy was going to be the winner. However, people were generally hoping McCormack's experience and more favorable background would sway the undecided voter.
Possibly the biggest surprise could be the strength which Kennedy showed outside the vast Boston area. Since his family has long been in power in the metropolitan area it seemed likely that he would have a tremendous majority coming from that area. He did post a wide margin of victory (101,270 to 54,640) which was nearly equal to that in the entire election. But he actually won the vote in the western part of the state.
THIS IS MOST surprising because of the nature of that part of the state. Western Massachusetts is primarily rural or small city, Protestant, middle to upper class, and slightly Republican. The combination of these factors does not add up to a Kennedy majority. The people of this area are willing to express their dislike of the current Washington situation, show disgruntlement over a Catholic in the White House and the Kennedy family situation in today's government. Yet with an obvious opportunity to eliminate a link in the chain these people did not do it.
Kennedy faces a much stiffer test in November against Republican George Cabot Lodge. As it stands now, the do-nothing attitude of the voters of Massachusetts could easily elect the President's brother. Certainly, if Kennedy does enter the Senate next year it will be because of the better organized campaign and not necessarily because he is the more qualified individual.
—Bill Sheldon
WORTH REPEATING . . .
"I am a firm believer in parliamentary democracy; I believe very strongly that parliamentary democracy is the only type of society which is congenial to the growth of human freedom, human happiness, and human genius.
"I believe in human dignity; I believe in fundamental freedoms like freedom of expression, freedom of thought, freedom of belief, freedom of conscience, freedom of association and the freedom to choose your own lawmakers.
"To give a religious analogy, I am a Buddhist; I believe that Buddhism as a religion is superior to other religions, but this conviction does not blind me to the fact that there are hundreds of millions of people who believe otherwise.
"I BELIEVE IN THESE freedoms, but the belief, the conviction, does not shut me off from the knowledge that there are hundreds of millions of people who believe otherwise; I am absolutely aware of this fact.
"WHETHER WE LIKE IT or not, I believe communism is going to stay; I believe capitalism is going to stay; I believe parliamentary democracy is going to stay.
"As Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and all other religions are existing peacefully in amity, I believe a day will come when these different societies—communist societies, capitalist societies, socialist societies or any other type of societies are going to exist peacefully.
"I understand this, and because of this understanding I believe in peaceful coexistence.
"I believe in these things."
—U Thant, acting secretary-general of the United Nations.
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I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, by Robert Paul Smith (Popular Library, 35 cents).
The author of "Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing," gives us here a series of vignettes, illustrations, and rambling observations on life and kids and how things today are different from what they were back in the twenties. The theme may wear thin.
He gives us a series of amusing translations from children, parents, salesladies, doctors, wives, husbands, and so on, and tells us how to tell a middle-aged person (one, for example, who remembers Toby Wing and Rod LaRocque). It is all light, superficial, and not likely to endure for more than a few days.—CMP
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THE LONG MARCH, by William Styron (Vintage, 95 cents).
On a superficial level, William Styron gave us in this short novel a brutal story of marines on a 35-mile march in the Carolinas. That seems to be the theme. On another level entirely, it is the story of a clash of wills, of conflict between men.
One of them is typical of many of the characters in "The Long March," a reservist called back to duty in Korean War days and none too happy about it. The other is the colonel, who is bound and determined that his men—reservists or not—are going to march, and march fast. The reservist, Mannix, resenting the march, loathing the colonel, marches, and drives his men with a fury even greater than that of the colonel. This is a harsh tale, and one that will not be forgotten soon.—CMP
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A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA, by Richard Hughes (Signet Classics, 60 cents).
It is cheering to learn that Richard Hughes has published a new book. His "A High Wind in Jamaica" goes back more than 30 years, and it is a genuinely exciting, funny—and at times macabre—story.
Symbolists can take heart in noting that it is a story of innocence. Hughes tells us here about a band of pirates who kidnap five children, and find themselves the victims. One is constantly asking himself, "Who are really the corrupted and who the corruptors?"
This is really an enchanting story. One is particularly drawn to Emily, who has for herself an earthquake, a hurricane, and life on a pirate ship. But the other children—Rachel marching to "Onward Christian Soldiers" around the deck, Edward imagining himself a pirate leader, the unlovely Margaret, and poor little lost John—these too are characters not to be forgotten.—CMP
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Is there anyone, at least in the literate world, who doesn't know "Animal Farm"? This is one of the most savage stories of modern times, one that deserves a place alongside Anatole France's similar "Penguin Island."
It is a true "classic," a word that is over-used these days. Some time it is likely to be as highly regarded as "Utopia." That is, unless Orwell's warnings come true. If this should happen, "Utopia," "1884," "Animal Farm" and many others, indeed, will not even be on library shelves.
ANIMAL FARM, by George Orwell (Signet Classics, 50 cents).
C. M. Woodhouse, in an introduction, considers whether "Animal Farm" is a fairy tale. He concludes that it is, on one level. It is funny, grim, at least partially prophetic, and, in telling about Napoleon and Snowball and the Manor Farm, about as revealing of people themselves as it is of animals. Come to think of it, the last scene reveals to us that there really are no differences between pigs and people.—CMP
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