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Goff Meets Russians Eyes Exchange Plans
Friday, July 7, 1961
A "reunion in Vienna" with Russians, the thrill of speaking to an audience in four languages, a look at 12 plays in 10 days, and planning for possible future KU-European exchanges.
These were the experiences of Dr. Lewin A. Goff, director of the University of Kansas theater, who was one of five U.S. delegates to the International Theater Institute Congress in June.
The KU speech and drama professor reports that an informal session with the Russian delegates was one of the most important of the Vienna gathering. He was host to the Soviets at a luncheon during which the theater artists had no difficulty discussing "ways and means of arriving at a peaceful coexistence in the use of 'the Stanislaysky system' and 'the Method.'"
Delegates from West Germany, France and the United Kingdom responded with what Dr. Goff called "impassioned speeches" before the discussion turned to theater subjects.
In contrast, theater talk at the congress itself was slow in getting started, Dr. Goff said. The satellite delegates, who could not forget their national roles, surrounded the Russian representatives as though they were seeking advice.
As a result of being named "rapporteur" for a conference committee
Tiny Kuwait Oil Soaked
BEIRUT, Lebanon—(UFI)—Take 6,000 square miles of barren sand and rock, spread it under a summer sun that sends temperatures to about 110 degrees and give it some 150,000 people, nearly all illiterate and poverty-streiken.
Then strike oil—lots of it. Suddenly, there is money enough for everything.
It sounds like fiction. It is Kuwait.
Before World War II Kuwait's only known natural resource was the steaming Persian Gulf where Kuwaiti divers risked their lives to recover some of the Middle East's best pearls. At night Kuwaitis retired behind five miles of 14-foot high mud walls.
Oil was discovered in 1936. The war and the ignorance of the fabulous nature of the strike caused the world to turn its attention elsewhere. But 10 years later the first Kuwaiti oil was on its way to western markets and today Kuwait is a difference place.
The tiny sheikhdom boasts more than 20 per cent of the entire world's known oil reserves and it has been estimated that at present production rates its 60 million barrels would last more than a century. Its income this year will run about 425 million dollars.
The old mud walls have been torn down to yield to the Middle East's only pure example of modern city planning. The pearl divers drive taxis now. There are ultamodern buildings, super highways, schools and hospitals.
But there also was wealth enough to corrupt men and tempt nations, and today tiny Kuwait is the center of a power struggle to determine who will control its mineral riches.
On June 19 Britain pledged full independence for the sheikdom in an agreement that Foreign Secretary Lord Home later declared implied Britain's full support and protection.
Premier Karim Kassem of Iraq quickly followed up by claiming the oil-rich sheikdom as part of his own country. A British spokesman said in London that Britain was consulting with the United States on the Iraqi assertion. The United States and Britain are Kuwait's two biggest consumers of oil.
Westminster Center Issues Invitation
All students are invited to attend Sunday evening fellowship services at the Westminister Center, 1200 Oread.
The services are held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. each Sunday and include a dinner and discussion group periods. Larry Rusco, Great Bend senior, is in charge.
on training for the professional stage, the KU professor had another interesting experience, that of being translated into three other languages while addressing the congress of 35 nations.
Traveling a tight schedule to and from Vienna, Dr. Goff nevertheless managed to see 12 plays in that city and London, Berlin, Munich and Paris. He observed that the Viennese theater, even with its lavish productions, was "a bit static—certainly compared with the French."
During his European visit, Dr. Goff also established a contact at the University of Vienna that may lead to KU student study at Strobli, the summer campus of the university in 1962. This will involve preparation in the language and in the theater during the 1961-62 school year, he said.
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TOPEKA — (UPI) — "It almost makes you want to call off the next holiday," the superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol remarked as he examined traffic records on two long holidays which claimed a total of 21 lives.
Holiday Driving Claims 21
The superintendent, Col. Larry Hughes, said he and his staff had thought about the problem of heading off traffic fatalities all day and reached the conclusion that the patrol simply needs more troopers.
"What we really need are more troopers so that we don't have to take men away from the main arteries to patrol some of these bad county roads," the Colonel said.
The patrol is examining records of state accidents and will soon begin a program of selective enforcement, that is placing the most emphasis on areas where accidents are most likely to occur.
Hughes pointed out that most of the ten fatalities during the past July 4th weekend occurred on county roads.
He said one thing the patrol plans for the upcoming Labor Day holiday is taping messages to be played over radio stations, pointing to each station's particular area.
The messages will point out specific accidents which have occurred in a station's area and places where extra precautions should be taken.
Wheat Harvest Just About Over
GREAT BEND — (UPI) The Kansas wheat harvest moved into its last days yesterday as Sherman, Thomas, Cheyenne, and Rollins counties in the northwest corner of the state became the last to be harvested.
The Center said the Kansas harvest should be completed in the next few days. Temporary labor control offices in the northwest corner of the state will remain open until the harvest is complete, but others closed yesterday.
The Harvest Control Center said that other counties in that area are past their peak operations or are finishing up their harvest. No shortage of men or machines is reported in that area.
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