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Summer Session Kansan Friday, June 17. 1960
13. (A) 40
(B) 20
(C) 10
(D) 5
U.N. Gains Importance
BY PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
In the opinion of top United Nations authorities, the demonstrable failure of personal diplomacy at the summit will lead the world organization back into its own.
DISARMAMENT, ON which admittedly the United Nations made little progress in 13 years, was taken away from the East River glass house unceremoniously. One day last fall, the General Assembly recognized that the arms race was the concern of the whole world by expanding the U.N. Disarmament Commission to include all of the organization's 82 members. Later, under big power pressure, it voted the same commission virtually out of business by transferring the arms question to the Committee of 10 at Geneva.
There is no concealing that the United Nations was by-passed and forced into eclipse during the Eisenhower-Khrushchev pen-palship, with the leaders of the other major powers contributing heavily to a trend away from collective diplomacy into private negotiation.
The question of nuclear weapons test suspension was kept out of the United Nations. On the problems of outer space, the Assembly created a committee but Russia and the West have been unable to agree on terms for even its first meeting.
ALL THIS WAS evident obeisance to the cult of personal diplomacy — confession of faith that more could be accomplished by face-to-face talks among the world's top leaders than in parliamentary discussion in the United Nations.
RUSSIA WILL renew its demand for condemnation of U.S. espionage at September's General Assembly session. The United States will present its plan for worldwide aerial surveillance at the same meeting. Outer space will gain a major share of discussion. And even the nuclear test talks, dragged out over 18 months now, may be brought into the assembly.
That theory was blasted at Paris on May 16, 1960, when the summit fell flat at the starting line.
Now, the top U.N. authorities reason, collective diplomacy will become the thing for the simple reason that the big powers realize they must talk and they have nowhere to do it except at the United Nations.
But it was not considered dangerous.
The Grim Mosquito Threat
The pendulum of history swings slowly, but steadily.
Until last summer, Milfordians could joke about the mosquito. It was an annoying pest. It could even depress some kinds of businesses in some seasons.
LATE LAST summer, mosquitoes began injecting lethal doses of eastern equine encephalitis virus into residents of New Jersey. Several died.
In Connecticut several pheasants caught the
disease. Health authorities were sure it had been spread by mosquito bite.
Now, as a new mosquito season approaches, it becomes urgent that mosquitoes be exterminated. The fight against the mosquito seems now to have become a fight for life.
IT IS NO longer a fight we can leave to the authorities. It is now a fight for every one of us. The Milford (Conn.) Citizen
Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Shade.
7 An equal.
14 Shape of a cigar.
15 What some income is.
17 French students.
18 Make good.
19 Passenger plane.
20 Match.
21 Buffalo hunter.
22 Thrash.
23 Holy book.
24 Wide difference of opinion.
25 Length times breadth.
26 Levee.
27 “A miss is as good as :—:
2  words.
28 ““ Dreamed,” from “The King and I”: 2 words.
31 Impudent.
32 One type of triangle.
35 Pinkies.
36 Circular ornament, used in has-reself.
37 Miss Hayes.
38 Sultan’s decree.
39 Bottle stopper.
40 “— Death,” from the Peer
Cynt Suite.
44 Choice European seafood.
45 Grassplots.
46 Quick blow.
47 Mythical king.
49 Character in "Antony and Cleopatra."
50 North Dakota. city.
51 Exalter.
53 Knighthood badge
54 Passed on to others.
55 Dramatic beginning: 2 words
56 Jeopardies.
57 Turned the pages.
DOWN
1 Italian statesman.
2 More sancti-
monious.
3 Where gladiators fought.
4 Fitted together skillfully.
5 An odd individual
6 Lived.
7 That can be remedied.
8 Original designer of the knewpie.
9 39.37 inches in
France.
10 Expert golf score.
11 Author Ambler.
12 Make vigorous.
13 Discloser.
16 Becomes more complex.
20 River in Italy.
23 “___ Junction.”
27 British composer.
28 Historic document; 2 words.
30 The vicinity.
31 Defrauds.
32 “Step-right-up-folks” man.
33 Tilted.
34 Mythological huntress.
35 Nonflowering plants.
37 Sidney and others.
39 Occupation.
41 Somewhat; Colloq. 2 words.
42 Oregon city.
43 Describing 35 Down.
45 French city.
48 Horse.
50 Important aspect of 37 Across.
52 Large.
53 New Testament book; Abbr.
Economy Up In Survey
NEW YORK—(UPI)—The economy has more vitality now than at any period in recent history, according to the International Statistical Bureau.
This vitality undoubtedly is the result of a healthy population growth, industrial creativity, the revolution in income distribution and the relative stability in prices and expanding consumer demand, the bureau pointed out.
This has been clearly indicated by the fact that the impact of the greatest declines in steel activity during a comparatively short period. has been very limited, it was noted.
In order to predict a further significant upside move in the market, the breadth will have to continue to improve, according to Edmund W. Tabell of Walston & Co., Inc. There will have to be more weeks of heavy upside volume contrasted with low downside volume, and the number of advancing stocks must significantly outnumber the declines, he points out.
"If this type of action takes place, it is highly possible that the January high in the averages will be exceeded by an important margin."
Short Ones
EAST HARPTREE, England — (UPI) To discourage romantic couples from monopolizing a new bus shelter, officials have installed seats with spaces between them and have locked the light bulb in place.
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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By Calder M. Pickett
Associate Professor of Journalism
AMERICAN HERITAGE, June 1960. $3.95.
King George III is one of the special villains of American history. Grade-school children, who learn history in terms of black and white, place him almost in a class with Benedict Arnold and John Wilkes Booth. Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence based this classic indictment on the evils and abuses of power by George.
J. H. PLUMB of Christ's College, Cambridge, undertakes to prove that George III, while no mental giant, was a good man, that he was a good king who did not necessarily load his ministry with gouty gentlemen who were out to sabotage the American colonials.
Here is a fascinating portrait, beautifully illustrated with paintings and cartoons of the troubled George, ending with a black and white portrait of the blind, deaf, insane king that recalls Rockwell Kent's woodcuts of Lear. All the Georges of that long ago time were troubled men, but Plumb observes that Peter the Great and Frederick William of Prussia, who have had a "better press," were rather special kinds of bad kings themselves.
THE NEW VOLUME of American Heritage, besides its lead article on George, "our last king," offers a brilliant variety of historical subject matter. Lewis Thompson and Charles Boswell tell the story of the notorious Black Sox, a sickening, sordid tale of a fabulously fine ball team that lost the 1919 series to the markedly inferior Cincinnati Reds—"lost," I say, though eight White Sox players conspired with gamblers.
“THE ENEMIES of Empire” is an article that reveals the other side of imperialism—the fight waged by such men as Carl Schurz and Gamaliel Bradford against the Mahans and Roosevelts. “The Rage of the Aged Lion” is the story of Cassius Clay of Kentucky, abolitionist-diplomat-statesman who took a teen-aged bride when he was 85.
"Say It Ain't So, Joel!" the article is titled. In that title lies the shocking aspect of the Black Sox affair, for here were fabled kings of the diamond, especially the celebrated Shoeless Joe Jackson, who were the idols of kids the country over. Multiply the Charles Van Doren disgrace several times and you have the Black Sox disgrace; it was as though players of the celebrity of Mickey Mantle, Nellie Fox, Jim Piersall had been revealed as dishonest pawns of gang lords.
Part III of the "America and Russia" series is entitled "A Royal Welcome for the Russian Navy." This is a description of a Civil War era visit that was construed by many as an assertion that Russia would not join forces with the South. "Ordeal in the Arctic" is an incredible tale of congressional bungling and log-rolling, and ineptness by Lincoln's secretary of war. Robert Todd Lincoln—all these taking place while a heroic expedition of Army explorers perished in the Arctic.
"The Young Devils and Dan'l Webster"—the story of a murder case involving celebrated names of Salem, Mass.
"Douglas, Deadlock, and Disunion"—Murat Halstead's story of the troubled Democratic conventions of 1860.
"Narrative of an escape from a Rebel Prison Camp"—a document by Morris C. Foote, second lieutenant, New York volunteers.
ALSO IN THIS issue:
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Asst. Instructor of English
By M. K. McKinney
We are told about Sam Houston's life among the Indians, his adventures with Jackson in the War of 1812, his enmity with Calhoun, his marriage with Liza Allen, and his resigning the governorship of Tennessee. The book ends with his commission from President Jackson to go to Texas to take that territory from the Mexicans.
This is a biographical novel about Sam Houston from 1810 to 1832. Whether this is a successful novel and true biography depends upon how loath the reader is to put the book down and how closely the author has followed his documents.
THE RAVEN AND THE SWORD, by Matthew Gant, CowardMcCann, Inc., $3.95.
THE PUBLISHER furthermore tells us that a motion picture producer "of considerable standing" advised him to use the subtitle "The Sex Life of Sam Houston." He refused because "sex is not the theme of the book." This is not to say that sex is not prominent in the book, but it is without the physiological details that make O'Hara, Couzzens, and Metalious unsuitable for Sunday School libraries.
ABOUT THE FIRST. I can say only that I did not drive myself to the end, nor was I loath to put the book down from time to time. Only a professional historian of American history of this period can discuss the second point. The publisher says that the story of young Houston is backed up by 'historical research plucked from thousands of documents and over five years of diligent "digging"'.
If this were a thirty-five cent paperback, I would say to buy it, read it and toss it away. I would suggest this only if you have nothing better to do with your time. If you want to know something about Sam Houston, this novel is not the place to get it, because the reader never knows what is imaginary and what is documentary.