Nasser Is Year's Top Newsmaker, Poll Shows
By JERRY DAWSON
(Daily, Kanyon Associate Edit)
(Daily Kansan Associate Editor)
From a position of relative obscurity to one of international recognition, Gamal Abdel Nasser, premier of Egypt, has been the individual that has dominated newspaper headlines the most in 1956.
A poll conducted among journalism students showed that the person in the No. 2 headliner spot is an anonymous Hungarian youth who sowed the seed of rebellion in the minds of his fellow students, which eventually led to the Budapest riots and pointed up the dissatisfaction of some Iron Curtain countries with their Russian dictators.
Nasser gained top news play July 26 of this year when his revolutionary government seized the Suez Canal in a move to nationalize that waterway.
With the United Nations figuring actively in the news this year, it follows that the secretary-general of that organization, Dag Hammarskjold, should be hte No.4 ranking newsmaker. Mr. Hammarskjold has worked incessantly to achieve some sort of understanding between nations at odds with each other.
Since then, this controversial action caused Britain and France to attack Nasser's army which occupied the area surrounding the Suez Canal; this in turn brought the United Nations into play. The problem to date is still unsettled.
Three Russians—Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Joseph Stalin—tied for the fifth position on the poll. Stalin's death touched off a "de-Stalinization" campaign by Bulganin, Russian premier, and Khrushchev. Red party leader that stirred up much discontent among pro-Stalinists in the Soviet Union and in other Iron Curtain countries.
President Eisenhower ranks third in the poll. He made news in November not only because of his reelection to the presidency, but because he won it in a landslide even more overwhelming than that of 1952.
No. 6 on the poll is Sir Anthony Eden, British prime minister who sided with France's Guy Mollet (No.9 on the poll) to attack Egypt in the Suez Canal Zone. Eden's action was highly criticized.
Later the action in the Middle East was resolved when United Nations troops entered the area under terms of an agreement that Britain and France would withdraw their forces. Thus far, this removal has
been slow, and some fighting has been going on between Egyptian and U. N. forces.
David Ben-Gurion, Israeli premier, occupies the No. 7 spot on the poll. His country has been waging a hot-and-cold war with the Arab nations ever since Israel became an independent state.
Trouble in Poland which indicated that Russian rule there was on the rocks brought Wladyslaw Gomulka, premier of Poland, into the limelight to be chosen as the No. 8 newsmaker of the year. He replaced ex-Premier Roussousky, puppet government leader, after riots in Poznan and later in Warsaw.
One of the most controversial political figures in the history of the United States was chosen as the No. 10 newsmaker of 1956. He is Richard Milhouse Nixon, vice president of the United States. (Related story, 'Kansas Staff Voter
(Related story, 'Kansas Staff Votes Magary Revolt Top Story', Page 8)
Revue Winners To Be Named Jan.11
Dr. Patricia McIlrath, the director of the Kansas City University Playhouse, will be the final judge of the 25 submitted scripts for the 1957 Rock Chalk Revue to be presented April 13 and 14 in Hoch Auditorium. Eight will be chosen.
The winning scripts, from four men's and four women's organized houses, will be announced Jan. 11 by Glenn Pierce, Lawrence senior, producer of the show.
Hot doughnuts from an automatic doughnut machine will go on sale at four cents apiece after Christmas vacation in the Hawk's Nest. The doughnuts will be cut and fried in the machine and will then be taken to the food center where they will be sold.
Free Doughnuts In Hawk's Nest Jan. 3
Free doughnuts will be given to all students who buy coffee on Jan. 3. The machine is now in experimental operation, said Dwayne Hall, food production manager.
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After a few years on sabbatical leave, THE ROMANCER will again come forth to irritate, if not to stimulate.
Presumptuous, but not fantastic.
A tonic for sterile intellects.
An antibiotic for jellyfish.
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TODAY
Robinson Gymnasium will be closed at 10 o'clock each night.
Roger Williams Fellowship caroling party, 7:30 p.m., p.124 Mississippipll.
WEDNESDAY
Episcopal morning prayer, 4:55 a.m.
Holy Communion 7 a.m. Danforth Chapel.
Followed by breakfast at the Canterbury House. All are welcome.
Museum of Art record concert, 11 a.m.
and the Art Museum. Verdi: "Simon
Bocconegra."
A proposal introduced by Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, that the student member of the executive committee of the World War I Memorial Corp. have prior or current tenure on either the Student Union operating committee or Student Union Activities committee was adopted at a meeting of the corporation Saturday.
Memorial Corp. Adopts Proposal
Named to the board of directors were George M. Beal, professor of architecture; Henry Shenk, associate professor of physical education, and C. Roger Allen, a former KU student. Other business included reports from committees.
Election of officers was held. Richard B. Stevens, class of '25, was re-elected president; Dean Woodruff was re-elected first vice president; and Alvin K. Petefish, class of '35, was elected second vice president to replace Leonard Axe, dean of the School of Business.
Revue To Audition Variety Performers
Auditions for variety acts for the intermission of the 1956 Rock Chalk Revue will be held 3 to 5 p.m. February 5 and 6 in Strong Auditorium. Vera Stough, Lawrence junior and assistant producer of the Revue, said all types of acts are needed.
"We need singers, dancers, musicians, magicians and masters of ceremonies," she said.
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