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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 12. 1960
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Swiss Eject Red Spys
BERN, Switzerland — (UPI) — Switzerland tightened its security measures against communist diplomats today following discovery of what was termed "the gravest case of Soviet espionage" here since World War II.
The Swiss government announced last night that two officials of the Soviet embassy in Bern were caught red-handed on a spy mission in Zurich and expelled within 24 hours.
The incident stunned, confused and angered the Swiss public, which had been highly critical of the U.S. U-2 "spy plane" incident.
News that the Soviet Union was spying inside Switzerland brought a swift change of mood and an outburst of indignation against the Soviets from Swiss newspapers.
The two Soviet officials, whose identity still was being kept a secret by Swiss authorities and the embassy, were arrested Tuesday night.
Swiss security branch officers
Parley Slated For Writers
Four well-known authors will be guests at KU's 10th writer's conference June 21 to 24 in the library of Gertrude Sellands Pearson hall.
Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism, will be the director of the conference.
Fiction leader for the conference will be Margarita G. Smith, who for 15 years has been a critic for Mad霉oiselle magazine.
BERNICE SLOTE, a professor at the University of Nebraska, for the second year will be the poetry and essay leader. She has received numerous writing awards, including the Explicator Award for the best book of "Explication de texte" published in 1958.
BIOGRAPHY and juvenile writing will be the topic of Mrs. Charlie May Simon of Tokyo, Japan. Mrs. Simon received the Albert Schweitzer Award for her writing. She has written biographies of Schweitzer and of the crown prince and princess of Japan.
Charles Pearson, Sunday editor of the Topeka Capital-Journal, will lecture on writing and selling feature stories.
The public conference tuition fee will be $30 for adults and $15 for students. Participants may submit manuscripts for criticism and may attend all discussions.
Advance registrations may be sent to the University Extension office in Fraser Hall.
Friday Is 'Funday' For Law Students
Tomorrow is "Funday" for KU law students.
The annual holiday, sponsored by the Student Bar Association, for students in the Law School will include a queen contest, picnic and dance.
The "Funday" festivities will begin at 10 a.m. in Strong Hall Auditorium with the naming of three queen finalists. The queen, to be judged by professors of the Law School, will be named at the dance.
SEVENTEEN CANDIDATES from sororites and women's residence halls, will be vicing for the title of "Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur" (Latin for "The thing speaks for itself.")
Following the naming of the three queen finalists, the third year law students will present a program of skits, entitled "Dean, for a Day," depicting the idiosyncrasies of the Law School professors.
AT NOON the students and guests will journey to the farm of Charles H. Oldfather, Jr., professor of law, for a picnic.
Miss "Res Ipsa Loquitur" will be named at the "Funday" dance in Prof. Oldfather's barn beginning at 8:30.
The committees for "Funday" are: Queen Contest, Howard Duterher, Wautoma, Wis.: Skits, Ed Graham, Belleville; Food, Ed Dunn, Holton; Beverages, Bob Edmonds, Lawrence and Dick Smith, Lawrence; Sports, Larry Baker, Lawrence and Dance Finance, Polly Peppercorn, Overland Park.
were tipped off by a confidential source and had followed the diplomats to a secret rendezvous near the central railway station in Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, where the pair hoped to receive Swiss military secrets and information on U.S. rocket bases in West Germany from a mysterious "third man."
Police said he had not been arrested. There was speculation in some Swiss newspapers that he was either a Communist turncoat or a Western counter-agent who lured the Russians into a trap.
The whereabouts of the "third man" — merely identified in yesterday's government announcement as a "soviet agent" — were still a secret.
The two Russians who were seized were sent packing although they protested their innocence.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI)—Roy A. Roberts has stepped aside as editor of the Kansas City Star and has been succeeded by Richard B. Fowler.
Roberts Steps Aside As KC Star Editor
Roberts remains as president and general manager of the newspaper.
Fowler has been a member of the Star editorial staff since 1930 and wrote most of the newspaper's editors during the tempestuous period that led to the overthrow of the political city government in 1940.
The management of the Star also announced yesterday that Managing Editor John W. Colt, who has been a member of the staff since 1924, has been named to the Board of Directors.
Colt succeeds the late C. G. Wellington on the board. He will continue to supervise and coordinate the gathering and display of news for the newspaper.
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Since it is impossible to photograph an entire nation with its collective foot in its big fat mouth, we must be satisfied with Princess Margaret's wedding on this week's cover. The story of what appeared at the outset to be the United States' greatest faux pas of all time begins on page 38. There are pictures of the plane, the equipment in the plane, the pilot, the pilot's wife, the pilot's parents and Nikita Khrushchev.
All this ballyhoo is followed by a sober and sincere editorial effort on "The Real Issues at the Summit." This seems quite appropriate, since the two have been linked more or less definitely since word first came that some of Niki's farmers had captured a real live American spy. The link that seems to be missing here is a fact that might have been hinted at when President Eisenhower casually suggested he might send vice president Nixon to the summit conference — the fact that both East and West realize that nothing will really be accomplished at the summit. Both sides need strong rationalizations for a fact so aptly put in the editorial, "Such victories (settlement of Berlin issue) are won between summits, not at them." This is perhaps partial explanation of the sudden hooplah about a long-existent situation. While your mind is on the subject, you might find a look at the troops of West Germany (page 110) a rather awesome experience.
If you — like one KU professor I know — have seriously considered the plausibility of giving away the M-D Building, you will be interested in the plight of Pittsburgh millionaire G. David Thompson and his collection of modern art. Chances are, we couldn't do it. Five pages in full color, beginning on page 80, tell the story in the man's own words. Dorothy Seiberling, Life Art Editor finishes the tale with a black and white background on a man quite serious about modern art.
With all the talk lately from colleges about presidential images and the agencies behind them, it is a little ironic to see the definite image that (of all people) college
professor Woodrow Wilson created for himself during the convention of 1912. Unfortunately the media were not up to perveying to the people the image Wilson built so beautifully at Sea Girt, where he literally hid out during the proceedings. The whole fascinating story is taken from Walter Lord's new book, The Good Years, and appears under the innocuous title, "The Wild Convention Scrap a Professor Won."
While we argued fervently about who has the right to sign what, saying what about whom and in what capacity, Princess Margaret said, "I do," for herself (with a couple of tang toungles) and walked away with a husband. The ten pages of pictures, beginning on page 28, include Sir Winston Churchill; Princess Margaret; her husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones and his three mothers, which isn't a bad tally for a youngster of 30 or so.
The American Bandstand quivered a little last week as TV teenie idol Dick Clark faced the questioning eye of the congressional committee investigating Payola. Clark, commenting on his actions, which seem questionable to members of the committee, uses the same logic and look of hurt innocence of a nine year old boy caught with his hands in the cookie jar. He almost looks the part too. Regardless of any lack of love lost between you and Dick Clark, there is one page you cannot pass up. Page 125 offers testimonials on the purity of heart and intent of Dick Clark from such modern leaders as Paul Anka, Frankie Avalon, Fabian and Jerry Lee Lewis (who by the way got shafted by Clark and sees nothing pure at all about the lad).
An interesting side light is thrown on the issue when one considers the question, "How eager would Congress be to chastise the idol of millions of teenage voters-to-be?" Silly? Perhaps not.
Lay down your scissors and paste. We have no cute cut-outs, pin-ups or paste-ups for you this week. For those of you who thrive on this sort of thing (cutting and pasting does gain popularity toward the end of a gruelling year) you are directed to the issue of April 25 and the baby gorilla on pages 20 and 21.