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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 12. 1960
Classes Heat Up In Final Sprint
WEVE REACHED THE half-way mark in the '60 summer session. Four weeks of school remain and then we scatter to our respective homes. But it's this last lap that can ruin a person. Kansas heat in July is exceeded only by Kansas heat in August. Sunday was a perfect example.
But, as we all say in letters to friends, when we start talking about the weather, it's time to stop writing. So, to the point, don't let the irritation brought about by sultry weather fray your patience. Many a good grade has slipped to, and below, the borderline because "it's too darn hot to study."
Times are much better than they used to be at the University. Back in the early 50s (undergraduate days for this one) air-conditioned classroom buildings and reading rooms were not in the picture. In those days—and for those still meeting in the "hot houses" on campus this summer we assume—it took a lot of cooperation to get through classes without outbursts of temper.
IT'S EASY TO blame it all on the weather. It's been said that this is an excellent reason for a shortness of patience. And well we understand it.
But remember, there's just about 19 days of classes left. And things could get worse.
- Clarke Keys
Let's Let Them Know
.One of our troubles with government expense may be that too many taxpayers feel it is futile to write letters, or feel they don't know how to write them well enough. The man who will back a village trustee or a member of the Town Board into a corner when he has a squawk about some aspect of local government, will never let out a peep about some action of state or federal government that seems to him outrageous. Not where it will do any good, that is. As a result, state and federal legislators often have little knowledge of what their constituents really want, and mistake the organized outcries of pressure groups for the voice of the people. And that, somehow or other, practically always turns out to be
And that, somehow or other, practically always turns out to be expensive.
Camden (N.Y.) Advance-Journal
Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Drawing room.
6 Educable insect,
10 ___ Marian in "Robin Hood."
14 Official decree.
15 Lampreys.
16 Impel.
17 Remove soap.
18 Fallout hazard.
20 Objective.
21 Nightfall.
23 Cheerless.
24 Away from the wind.
25 Sense.
26 One who disagrees
30 Parachute material.
34 Engrave.
35 Source of obsidian.
37 Consumed.
38 Zorina of the stage.
39 Debate.
41 Snack.
42 Gibbon.
43 On the deep.
44 Tended.
46 Power.
48 Voyagers.
50 Bird sounds.
52 Become lively (with "up")
53 Relative of the guinea pig.
56 Small monkey.
57 Border.
60 Club group.
62 French school.
64 Hudson Bay Indian.
65 Soapstone.
66 Current dance.
67 Tennessee: Abbr.
68 December time.
69 Surface of a stair.
DOWN
1 Certain.
2 Like.
3 Catch.
4 W. W. II agency.
5 Narrow, pointed
rocks.
6 A kind of weasel.
7 Drip.
8 Antiquity.
9 Sotto voce remark
10 Without a word.
11 Opera recording.
12 Operatic prince.
13 Refute.
14 Hippodrome.
22 Lavinia's husband.
24 ___ Minor.
25 Wife: German.
26 Opera stars.
27 Unsuitable.
28 Mass of loose pebbles.
29 British composer.
31 Popular singer.
32 Mink's relative.
33 Requirements.
36 Symbol of smoothness.
40 Soaks, as flax.
41 Pitcher's error.
43 Violin.
45 Most uncanny.
47 Sharp insight.
49 Each.
4A Anmusing.
53 Account: Abbr.
54 Kefers's colleague.
55 Augury.
56 Announce.
57 Restful place.
58 Where Napoleon stayed.
59 Lake formed by Hoover Dam.
61 Greek letter.
63 Pullman.
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79
Capsule Profiles Of Leading Candidates
Lyndon B. Johnson
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, 51, the tall lean Texan whose wife, ranch, daughters and family dog all carry the same initials he sports on the cuff-links in his elegantly tailored shirts.
As the youngest floor leader ever in the Senate (44 on his election in 1953) he pulled together a dissident minority party. And as majority leader of an out-of-the-White House party, he has compromised the way to legislation in the last four years.
"I believe that I am progressive and prudent without being radical," Johnson says. "I think I am conservative without being reactionary." He said he was called a "fighting Liberal" when he first went to Congress, in 1936, and quickly became a protege of President Roosevelt, a "great Democratic Liberal" under Harry S. Truman and a "voting Liberal" against McCarthyism.
Johnson has voted with the oil and gas interests of his native state, but despite his Texas roots and some early votes against Civil Rights bills, he piloted through congress after bitter fights in 1957 and earlier this year the only two Civil Rights bills enacted in 80 years.
JOHNSON WAS BORN Aug. 27, 1908, in comparative poverty near Johnson City, Tex., where his own Green Acres today bespeak his cattle and farming wealth. He went "on the bum" through the West for a year after high school, returned to whiz through Southwest Texas State Teachers College in three years.
His first taste of congress was as secretary to a Texas representative. He had taught briefly before that and served for two years as Texas State Director of the National Youth Administration before his own election to the House in 1936. He was elected to the Senate in 1948.
Shortly after Pearl Harbor Johnson was commissioned a lieutenant commander and served seven months on active duty, mostly in the Pacific, before returning to his House seat.
Johnson suffered a heart attack in July, 1955, but has had no recurrence.
John F. Kennedy
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, 43, the U.S. Senator for Massachusetts who says if he's too young to be President, Columbus was too young to discover America.
Second of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, late U.S. Ambassador to Britain, and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, daughter of a mayor of Boston, he became a millionaire at 21—by his father's gift—and displayed almost equal intellectual and political precocity.
His first book, "Why England Slept," published when he was 23, became a best-seller. His second, "Profiles in Courage," written in 1954 and 1955 during his convalescence from Spinal surgery, won a Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Kennedy won election to congress in 1949, but the most dramatic display of his vote-getting powers came in 1952 when he defeated incumbent Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in a year when Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower handily carried the state. Prominent in that campaign and in his political efforts since has been his large, attractive and sociable family, and a keen professional organization.
KENNEDY HAS SERVED on the Foreign Relations Committee and on the Special Labor and Management Rackets Committee to which his brother, Robert, was counsel. His voting has been generally liberal and internationalist, but independent of party. He won disapproval of some Liberals for failing to take a position on the final McCarthy showdown, during which he was absent from the Senate because of his surgery. His Roman Catholic religion was an issue in primary campaigns until it appeared to have been laid to rest in protestant West Virginia.
Kennedy became a hero as a PT boat skipper in World War II, when his boat was lost near New Georgia Island and he and his men survived hours in the water and days on a tiny island before they were rescued. The experience aggravated an old back injury. Kennedy also contracted malaria.
Adlai E. Stevenson
ADLAI EWING STEVENSON, 60. twice defeated for the presidency by Dwight D. Eisenhower, once declared when he was delayed in reaching a Washington engagement by the welcome to Gen. Charles de Gaulle: "It seems my fate to be always getting in the way of national heroes."
Stevenson, then seeking a second term as governor of Illinois, was drafted for the presidential nomination in 1952 with the active support of retiring President Harry S. Truman. He fought a hard primary campaign for the 1956 nomination and won it handily despite Truman's interjection of Averill Harriman as a last minute rival.
Relations between Stevenson and Truman are distinctly cool. The former President said recently that Stevenson isn't decisive enough to be President, but he has not suggested Stevenson or any Democrat could have won the last two presidential elections.
Stevenson, whose wit and erudition brought the word "egghead" into American politics, has won a large, loyal and vocal following, but little professional political support for the 1960 nomination.
STEVENSON WAS BORN in Los Angeles, Feb. 5, 1900, moved to Bloomington, Ill., with his family when he was six. He was educated in local schools, Choate School in Connecticut, Princeton University and the Harvard and Northwestern University law schools, served a time as assistant managing editor of the family newspaper, the Bloomington Pantograph, before taking up his Chicago law practice. He had served as an Apprentice Seaman in the Navy in the last months of World War I.
Stevenson first went to Washington as special counsel in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in the early years of the New Deal. He returned in World War II as counsel and special assistant to Navy Secretary Frank Knox. After Knox's death in 1944 he served in the State Department and for three years as a U.S. representative at the United Nations.
Since 1956 he has traveled widely and written and spoken often on world and national problems. He was in the forefront of critics of administration handling of the U-2 incident.
Stuart Symington
STUART SYMINGTON, 59. U.S. Senator from Missouri, is best known for his seven years as a top administrative official in the Truman administration—and as a millionaire by his own business talents.
Now in his second Senate term, the handsome silver-haired Symington has a record of solid liberal voting, has been most identified with his criticism of the administration's defense policies.
Symington was born June 26, 1901, in Amherst, Mass., and was graduated from Yale in 1923. While still in his 30's, with the financial backing of wealthy uncles, Symington bought successively into a number of floundering firms, put them in the black and sold at a profit. At 37, he took over the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. in St. Louis, scandalized some fellow businessmen with his liberal attitude toward its unionized labor, but in seven years completely reversed its fortunes.
WHEN HE LEFT for Washington in 1945,the firm was doing a $100 million dollar annual business and Symington had tucked away a personal fortune of $1 million.
His first Washington job was as head of the Surplus Property Board. In 1946 he became Assistant Secretary of War for Air and the following year, with the armed forces reorganization, he was named the first Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
In 1950, Truman named him chairman of the National Security Resources Board, and in 1951 "cleanup" administrator of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., then rocked by the "mink coat" and "deep freeze" scandals.