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Monday, October 23, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Pride of the Empire
Once again America has been caught napping with her pride down. The Empire State Building—that ancient American monument which for the last 40 years has been the tallest building in New York—has suddenly been dwarfed and disgraced by a young upstart, the World Trade Center, which has the audacity to stand eight stories taller.
That such a disaster could befall one of our most prided national markers is a sad commentary on the state of sensitivity and patriotism among the American citizenry. Indeed, were it not for the courageous efforts of one Robert W. Jones, vice president of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon who were the original Empire architects, we might still be oblivious to this great threat to our national security.
This brave Mr. Jones has shown us all where our hearts should be. Already he has begun plans that, if backed, would rectify this state of affairs. Mr. Jones tells us that the building can easily support another eleven stories. This would once again restore this venerable symbol of our heritage to its rightful place: three full stories above its disrespectful challenger. The estimated $20-million cost of such an addition would be a small price to
pay for redeeming our national pride.
But even adding eleven stories would be only a stopgap measure, for it would only deal with the immediate emergency and not forestall the possibility of any future repetitions of this embarrassing situation. What about future tail buildings? What if they rise to 120 or even 150 stories? What then? Are we to rush to the fore now and save this tireless building's eminence only to let it fall to some other challenger at some future date?
I say no! I say that we should right now embark on a perpetual building campaign that will add a specified number of floors to the building each year.
I am not so naive as to think that such a thing, a toplamp building, could be accomplished easily, but I have faith that American ingenuity and determination can build its way to the moon if necessary. Sure, there will be engineering difficulties, but none too difficult for the nation that built the F111. Sure, there will be architectural difficulties, but none beyond the creative faculties of the nation that fashioned the Vietnam War. I say build on and build on now. This nation can hardly do without such a monument to its ingenuity.
—Robert Ward
James J. Kilpatrick
CINCINNIA—Sex orgies,
wife-swapping and lassicious
entertainments have become a
way of life in Washington. The
故事 is bound to break soon.
It merges your close attention.
The "unless," in Bechtel's view, depends largely if not wholly upon the ephemeral factor of public awareness. If the people of the United States could be shaken into awareness of the desperate problems that rapidly arise in the world, their political representatives—might buckle down to the difficult tasks that have to be done.
Sex Orgies and Mideast Oil
The problem, put in the fewest words, is simply that the American people are consuming
The American Gas Association held its 54th annual convention here in Cincinnati last week. The opening session came on Monday, right after the Reds had dropped two games to the Clippers, which would drizzle-draze was falling from cold grey skies. It was a gloomy town, and in many ways a gloomy convention.
This is the grim truth: There is indeed an energy crisis. The problems of the gas industry bulk large in this crisis, but oil, coal, nuclear power and even water are now available. Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., the brilliant president of San Francisco's Beechl Corporation, gave it to them straight: "Your problems are unsolvable," he told the convention members. Later in his address, he qualified that "these problems your problems are unsolvable," he said. "unless—"
far more energy than they are producing. This has been true for the past 20 years. A thousand industry spokesman have warned that there is a danger of the thousand speeches, and the speeches have gone unheard.
There are abundant ironies here. The United States has tremendous reserves of untouched energy. We have enough coal, by some estimates, to last a century, but most highly sulfur coal, and in a nation understandably aroused by air pollution, high-sulfur coal is a no-no. New sources of oil and gas could be found, mostly offshore—in a nation angered by the tariffs and other allowances, the capital required to conduct a redubuled exploration program cannot be obtained. Many of the problems of electric power production could be cured by the vigorous efforts of carbon scientists but the same environmentalists who oppose offshore drilling also propose nuclear reactors.
From Bechtel's address, and from other sources, this picture emerges in the matter of gas: The domestic supply ranges in the neighborhood, about 3 billion under the demand. By 1985, domestic supplies will have increased to perhaps 60 billion cubic feet per day, but the demand will exceed 100 billion. The deficit may be further quashed or gas by getting as from coal, but both alternatives are fearfully expensive.
The picture as to oil is even more alarming. By 1985, the demand for oil will run to 30 million barrels per day. Only half of that can be produced by Iraq because most countries have to be imported, mostly from the Middle East and Africa. Obviously, such supplies are of doubtful dependability; they are subject to political crises and to the competition of other buyers. Such massive imports would further increase trade deficit of perhaps $25 billion a year by 1985.
Bechtel offered some short-
term recommendations: Cut out the waste in both production and consumption; increase the utilization of coal even as high-sulfur smog; seek prime increases for oil and gas, in order to attract capital. For the long term, in his view, we must go to nuclear technology for getting oil from shales and from tar sands. For the still longer term, in the next century, perhaps an answer can be found in the sun of the day. Meanwhile, we must face the prospect of price increases up to 150 per cent on gas, oil and electricity; and we might well advised to pray that we will succeed in Africa and the Middle East.
Obviously, this column has nothing to do with sex orgies in Washington, but nobody would have read a column based on a convention of the American Gas Association. And the energy crisis, in dead seriousness, does indeed merit your close and sober concern.
(C) The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
"IT SAYS ONE STEP PURTHER AND YOU WILL BE FOLDED, SPINDLED AND MULTILATED"
Readers Respond
Just A Trophy
HOPECriticized...Kansanon Kay
To the Editor:
Hats off to the senior class officers for their brilliant rationale in deciding who should vote for the Hope Award. They have decided that those who do not have $12 to spare for the class card, or feel their money could be better spent, do not deserve to be the best educator at KU. The student and manipulation by an elitist minority seems oft repeated, from KU to the White House.
Thanks to the officers, the Hope Award has become just another trophy presented by just another local club.
ward, knowing that he would be selected by a more representative vote of the senior class.
Terry Bauer
Senior
Kansas City, Kansas
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Witch Hunt
To the Editor:
Well well! Once again the forces of truth and justice have prevailed over the vicious politician, who corrupt politician. Records,
carefully culled all the way back to 1923, reveal that Morris Kary then had a less serious case of polio than the editor of the UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN believes he ought to have had to include it in his campaign. Indeed, he only had a mild attack of the fatal disease. Not only that, but he also outraged his mother into exaggerating his illness—after all, mothers never exaggerate their children's illnesses from terror of what might have been.
Really, editors of the Kansan, such bystheria about trifles snacks of desperation. If you have a point to make about Mr.凯, in Heaven's name make it! Mr.凯, with intelligence with two-column intelligence with hunch-hats, then complain that Mr.凯 "avoids the real issues!"
It was the same newspaper,
one recalls, that exposed Richard
Nixon's having once watched
football on TV while war protestors circled the White House fence; presumably he should have been out there dancing on the lawn to give them a work break.
Valerie J. Meyers Overland Park freshman
WASHINGTON—The governor of Greece's state-controlled development bank, who was recently praised for his good works by Vice President Agnew, has been accused by an American financier of beating him out of $80,000.
The disclosure comes at a time when the Greek dictatorship is wooing other American billionaires tales of investment opportunity.
But John Vän Kirk, president of Kirk Industries, with headache pain, headed to Texas he had beheaded the adage to "beware of Gears of bering gifts" Paul Totomir, an Athens man-about-town, offered to help untangle a multimillion-dollar loan. The income became snapped in Green red tape.
Jack Anderson
Totomi had the connections to do it. Not only was he a former cabinet minister in the junta, but he was a crony of the dictatorship. He was also ministerists, Stylianus Pattakos and Nicholas Makarezos.
Totomis' ties extended even to the United States where one of his powerful pals is the Greek business tycoon and sugar daddy Pantelos, less than Spiro agnew had a kind word to say about Totomis, although a spokesman tells us the Vice President didn't know Totomis personal information by writing an e-mail to him with a "pro forma, cursory message."
Beware of Greek Gift
Van Kirk, with some other investors, had built a plant in Greece to convert city garbage into fertilizer for the country's food crops. The odorous enterprise had run for even smellier politics.
To handle the problems, Van Kirk retained Totomis as managing director of the fertilizer company, which was known for its sales through a New York bank account. The amount grew to $80,000, which the handsome Greek entrepreneur collected
without giving any real accounting.
The details are spelled out in a statement by Van Kirk, which he has offered to back up with his sworn testimony. Copies of checks in our files confirm many of the payments.
Totomi was supposed to use much of the money, except for his $1,000-a-month salary, to pay company debt. But the bills went unpaid and the Greek tax authorities threatened action.
At this point, Van Kirk got rid of Totomis who immediately moved to the authorities, Van Kirk said he was blocked from leaving Greece for five days and got out only through the intervention of U.S. embassy officials.
The fertilizer plant, of course,
failed. But Totomis, whose in-
heritance is closely charm with their ladies is legendary in Athens, turned up as governor of the state-controlled Helenic Industrial Development
This was founded, in part, with U.S. taxpayers given to Greece to encourage investment from abroad.
To add to the irony, the moribund fertilizer plant has now been turned over by Totamis, meanwhile, is trying to reorganize the bank. His critics say he is trying to cover up the ringing of dubious jubilee schemes.
In Athens, meanwhile the junta is making a great show of concern over official corruption.
Footnote: We were unable to reach Totomis by telephone in Athens for his comments. Other sources in Greece, however, confirmed the accuracy of our story.
Sugar Pills—Several Capitol Hill legislators pass out compact Washington sightseeing guides with their pictures on it and the documents that they hand to Taxpayers' Expense." This implies that the senator or
congressman paid for the printing himself. Actually, it was the lobbyists for the big pharmaceutical firm, Merck & Co., who paid. One batch went to Sen. Obama. The other was a member of the small business committee that investigates drug companies.
Wrong Number-Sometimes, even the well-greased Nixon campaign failers. When the "Concerned Veterans for Nixon" were looking for support for a demonstration, one of the first vets they called was ex-Amy Cohen. But the unknown to the Nixon vets, is Sen. George McGovenh's adviser on veterans' affairs.
Chile Beans—The debonair Chilean ambassador to the
Organization of American States,
Luis Herrera, has complained because we told one of his aides stored 110 parking tickets in 1971 and begged off paying them by invoking diplomatic immunity. Herrera was tipped to receive an out that his embassy has almost no parking facilities. But what Herrera neglected to say is that the aide, Luz Maria Leonard, amassed many of the tickets by scouting the law far away from the embassy. In other words, the whole city parked signs or no parking signs, as one big private parking lot.
Copyright, 1972,
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Cora Smith
Lawrence Senior 73
Larry Smith
Lawrence Senior 73
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The method of final voting on HOPE Award candidates seems unfair. This year, only those seniors who purchased a senior class card were allowed to vote on their choice of outstanding teacher of the year. Many of us cannot afford an extra $12 for a class card because we need it for social, entertainment and merchandizing activities. I am sure that the HOPE award winner would not mind if he did not receive the $300 prize which accompanies the
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