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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. April 24,1956.
News In Review The Rice Season
The news last week, both national and international, was dominated by the marriages of two Americans, motion picture star Grace Kelly and Margaret Truman, daughter of the former President, Harry S. Truman.
Much to the consternation of some persons and the delight of others, the details of Grace Kelly's story-book romance with Prince Rainier III of Monaco and the plans for their wedding have been in the news for weeks. It took two ceremonies to make their marriage legal, a civil ceremony on Wednesday and a religious ceremony on Thursday. They are on a honeymoon cruise in the Mediterranean.
It was much simpler for Margaret. One ceremony held late Saturday in the Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence where her parents were married made her the bride of Clifton Daniel, assistant foreign news editor for the New York Times.
Also on the international scene, and perhaps of more lasting significance to the world, the U.S., Russia, and 10 other nations reached an agreement on the text of a basic charter for a proposed international atomic energy agency. The agency will be designed to promote and foster the use of atomic energy for power, medical research and other peaceful purposes. In agreeing to this proposal, Russia, who earlier insisted that the agency be established in such a way as to be subject to the big-power veto in the UN Security Council, seems to have made a great concession.
A few days later, in a foreign policy address to the annual dinner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, the President said that a Soviet government genuinely devoted to the interests of the Russian nation and its people "can have friendly relations with the United States and the free world for the asking."
Later in the week Premier Ben-Gurion made a new offer to talk with Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt in an effort to work out a system of coexistence in the Middle East. Observers feel that, although the Arabs previously have been cool toward such a meeting, it might be held at this time at Rome or Geneva under UN sponsorship.
Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secretary General, conferred with the Israeli premier before returning to his temporary headquarters at Beirut, Lebanon, confident that his peace mission was bringing results—especially after the unconditional cease-fire agreement made by Israel and Egypt.
Of great national importance was President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill passed by Congress which included rigid 90 per cent of parity price supports and provisions for the soil bank.
In order to provide immediate relief for farmers, the House appropriations committee vetoed $1,200 million for use in putting the soil bank into effect. The 36-7 vote proposal would provide for immediate payment during the calendar year to Jan. 1, 1957.
On the political scene, Sen. Kefauver (D-Teinn.) was given one of his worst jolts by the returns in the New Jersey primary. He ran far behind the President in the so-called "popularity test," and also lost his bid for delegate votes in the Democratic national convention.
Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet premier, and Nikita Khrushchev, Communist party leader, arrived in London for a 10-day official visit amid a crowd of cheering, jeering, booing Britains.
Charles MacArthur, playwright and movie writer, died in a New York hospital. His wife, actress Helen Hayes, has been honored as the first lady of the American theater. He is best known for his play, "The Front Page," and also wrote "Twentieth Century," "Lulu Belle," "Salvation," "Ladies and Gentlemen," and "Swan Song." His movies include "The Sin of Madelon Claudet," for which Miss Hayes won an Oscar, "The Senator Was Indiscreet," "Wuthering Heights," "Gunga Din," and "Barbary Coast."
The Kansas City Athletics opened their home baseball season at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City, losing the first game to the Chicago White Sox on Friday. 6-3. The following day, however, they beat the same team, 15-1. This puts the Athletics in second place in the American League race behind the New York Yankees.
—Nancy Collins
... Short Ones ...
It may be a hyperbolic paraboloid, but it still looks strange to us.
Note to all float committee chairmen: If your float doesn't have a chance, just strike a match to it. That way you're a cinch to get your name in the paper.
Too bad there isn't a Relays every weekend so we could have a better excuse for not studying.
We sent our parka home for the summer, but perhaps it would have been wiser if we'd sent our summer clothes instead.
It just didn't seem like the same KU Relays without at least a token appearance by Wes Santee.
One description of the Interscholastic Relays said "Records fell like rice in Monaco." Oh well, last year it was hail. Maybe it'll be cats and dogs next year.
Wonder if any organization ever finished a float or house decoration over three hours before the event began?
Saddest event of the year is bringing Grace Kelly's latest movie to Lawrence before most of us can get adjusted to the fact that she isn't Grace Kelly anymore.
The girls are discussing proposed changes in closing hours, which brings a ray of hope. Before a final decision is reached, someone ought to make an accurate timing of how long it takes to drive from Lone Star to the campus and take that into account.
Glad to see the final examination schedule finally came out. It gives everyone something to gripe about until the end of school.
We really don't see how they manage to give us four finals the first day, although it should be a great excuse for our 0.00 grade average.
... Letters
Editor:
The Relays parade and the Engineering Exposition are excellent examples of the ingenuity and ability of University of Kansas students.
All of us in Lawrence greatly appreciate the work and ideas that go into making these events one of the highlights of the year. We find that more people from over the state are each year visiting the University at the time of these great exhibits, and further we find these visitors are becoming salesmen for the University when they return home.
The Engineering Exposition and the Relays parade this year were outstanding. The best guide to this statement is the comments of the viewers. You hear statements from the crowd as to the excellence of the exhibits, and to me this testimony is proof of the reception.
We congratulate and thank each and every person who had a part in promoting and staging the Engineering Exposition and Relays parade.
E. R. Zook
Manager, Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
of Commerce.
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The Daily Kansan has done it again. Degradation and slander must have been the criteria for the article written about the hyperbolic paraboloid which appeared on the front page of the April 20 issue. The poorly applied terminology, "Weird Apparatus," in theory, was used by primitive man, probably before he utilized the common post and beam structure. Although it can be used as a roof, as stated, its purpose is better served as a complete structure in itself. It certainly is not the perfect structure, but it is a far cry from the description so indiscretely applied to it, by an illiterate editorialist.
"TAKE IT EASY"
Editor:
I neither helped, nor am I connected with the group who designed and constructed it. But I am an inflamed bystander, ashamed of his University paper.
"Eggy 3-D creation"; INDEED!
Deforts Hogue
Dodge City sophomore
(Note: Indeed. And if the reader progressed further, he also noticed that the structure was "somewhat revolutionary compared to conventional construction design." We'll admit we haven't out of the sticks too long, but we never seen anything like it, and to our way of thinking that makes it just a trifle revolutionary. As for the term weird, the stone wheel also was used by early man, but most persons would describe a modern-day automobile equipped with stone wheels just a little "weird." Indeed.)
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The nation, still stunned by the "death march" in which six Marine recruits lost their lives when S. Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon led his platoon into a tidal creek at Parris Island, S. C., is awaiting the results of the Marine Corps inquiry.
Sgt. McKeon undoubtedly will be punished severely for the tragic incident. But is he being condemned for the deaths of the six men, or for the action which led to their deaths?
There's a difference. If the march hadn't ended in tragedy, few outside Parris Island would have heard about it. Even if they had they would have commented something like, "Those marines sure have it tough," and let it go at that.
To those who know nothing about the rigid training of the marines, the tragedy is a shocking, near unbelievable wrongdoing. Marines and exmarines are less shocked. Since the day they entered the service, they have become fully aware, discipline. In fact, many of them probably have gone through acts similar to the Parris Island disciplinary march.
It appears that Marine Corps investigators are on the spot. If they testify that Sgt. McKeon's act was not typical at all of the corps, they probably will be scoffed at by other marines who are more acquainted with drilling tactics.
On the other hand, if the investigators assert that a high degree of discipline, even if not to such extremes, is necessary to keep marines at their fighting peak, then Congressmen, backed by frightened parents' pleas, are certain to watch more closely the training methods of the marines.
Few Americans will argue that the Marine Corps is the finest fighting force in our country. It also is the most disciplined. The question is whether such rigid discipline is necessary to maintain fighting efficiency.
Kent Thomas
The Air Force
With a Senate committee investigating the government's present defense policy, the public is bound to learn of many new facts concerning our Air Force.
Let's Build A Winner
One area that will be under attack will be the policy of "fly-before-you-buy" which the government now uses. In a recent Look magazine article former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Trevor Gardner (he resigned in February because he disagreed with the present policy) reports that the United States must change over to a "buy, then fly them" policy.
In 1952 one of the country's most brilliant aeronautical engineers developed the Lockheed F-104, one of our most advanced fighters. Experimental models (17 in all) were produced in 1954. They will not be produced in operational quantities until sometime next year, five years after the planes came off the drawing board.
This change in method of procuring planes for our Air Force is necessary, Mr. Gardner says, "because if we become involved in a little or a big war before 1957, our airmen will have to be content with something less than the best—a dangerous business in this H-bomb age."
Mr. Gardner says that if a production order for the F-104 had been given in 1954, the U.S. now would be using these better fighters today.
A "second rate" Air Force would not be of any help if we were attacked by Russia. Our Air Force must have the latest equipment ready to use in combat, not as plans on the drawing board or as test models.
The government is being "budget wise, not time wise." Mr. Gardner believes the present procurement policy would be fine if the country had plenty of time to build up her forces before an attack. However, since we probably won't receive much of a warning in case of an attack, it is essential that we be ready to combat the enemy with equipment which is equal to, if not better than, theirs.
We have such equipment, but it is in the experimental stage because of the present "fly-on fore-you-buy" policy.
Cautious buying wastes our most precious asset—TIME. Our air power must be a winning force, because in such a business, winning is our only aim.
Louis Stroup