Orient Expert To Spend Week at KU
Albert Ravenholt, specialist in Far Eastern affairs who said the best thing about being a foreign news correspondent is that it gives him a professional excuse for sticking his nose in other people's business, will be visiting the KU campus today through Jan. 12.
Ravenholt, also a member of the American Universities Field Staff (AUFS), with his base in Manila in the Philippines, will be delivering a series of lectures to both individual classes and special interest groups.
RAVENHOLT, who joined
AUFS when it was founded in 1951, has worked in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and countries throughout East and Southeast Asia.
He was born on a farm in northwest Wisconsin in 1910. After high school, he "set to roaming and writing like all of us in the Thirties," he said, settling in Shanghai in Eastern China because it was a "cheap and interesting place to live." While there, he had himself tutored in four languages — Russian, Chinese, German, and French.
In 1941, Ravenholt smuggled himself through Japanese milli-
tary lines into the interior of Free China. He and a friend traveled part of the way on falsified visas and hired a professional smuggler to transport them farther into the interior.
They had trouble with only one Japanese sentry, but Ravenholt bribed him with some cigarettes, and the two continued their hike through the Chinese mountains.
Afterwards he traveled with the International Red Cross until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Throughout the war years he worked as a correspondent for United Press wire service.
IN 1950, through a series of
articles, and with the cooperation of U.S. seed companies, Ravenholt began the famous Seeds for Democracy campaign to supply foreign countries with seeds to develop local agriculture.
His work with the AUFS includes three years of living in the Far East, studying political and economic trends in the area, and writing a case study for AUFS Reports Service once a month.
He returns to the United States once every four years to spend nine months visiting and speaking at the 12 member AUFS universities.
Western Civ Review
Western Civ Review A second Western Civilization review will be held tonight from 7:15-9:30 in Bailey Auditorium.
All students who will take the Comprehensive Examination on Saturday are urged to attend this final review session.
A passing grade on the Western Civ. exam is a graduation requirement of the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of Education, Journalism, and Chemical Engineering.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year. No. 61
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, January 5. 1966
N.Y. Strike Persists
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Traffic congestion of fantastic proportions forced the city today to institute a voluntary plan for staggered working hours for the duration of the million-dollar-a-day subway-bus strike, already in its fifth day with no end in sight.
The only bright spot in the gloomy situation was Mayor John V. Lindsay's report that negotiations between the city's Transit Authority (TA) and the second-string leadership of Michael J. Quill's Transport Workers Union (TWU) was "starting to work constructively."
"The negotiators worked most of the night and moved," said Lindsay.
Quill and eight other top union brass were prisoners of the city for contempt of a court order for resumption of public transit service. Quill suffered a possible heart attack shortly after
he was jailed Tuesday and remained in serious condition in Bellevue Hospital.
Traffic Commissioner Henry A. Barnes asked employers with businesses between the battery and 59th street in Manhattan to release workers this afternoon in four shifts staggered according to four geographical areas.
Barnes said he hoped this would ease the evening outbound jam of cars which poured into the city's business heart this morning at about the same
Weather
rate as Tuesday-five per cent higher than usual.
Clear to partly cloudy skies with colder temperatures are predicted for Thursday by the U.S. Weather Bureau. The high Wednesday will be around 50 degrees, with the low tonight in the 20's.
Lindsay left his office shortly after 8 a.m. to go to the Hotel Americana, scene of the strike negotiations, at the request of Dr. Nathan Feinsinger, chairman of the three-man mediation panel. Meetings were scheduled throughout the day.
The first incident of violence was reported by Robert Carlesco, 30, driver of a bus chartered to transport New York Times employees. He said three men entered the bus at the end of his run Tuesday night, asked him if he worked for the Times and beat him up.
Transit union boss Michael J. Quill blamed "editorial writers of the New York Times" and Lindsay for sending him to jail Tuesday. The peppery union leader was stricken, possibly by a heart seizure, and was removed to Bellevue Hospital.
Watson Exhibits Tell History of Printing
The early history of printing, publishing, and book design will be documented in a special exhibition which will be held in the Class of 1938 Exhibition Gallery in Watson Library from Jan. 8, until Jan. 30.
"Treasures from the Plantin-Moretus Museum" is a collection lent from the large and famous old printing house in Antwerp. The material is touring leading museums and libraries across the country under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
The showing is sponsored by the Belgian Embassy.
AMONG THE RARE original items included in the exhibition are punches for the type face "ascedonica romaine," which has been widely copied down to the present day.
A manuscript of the celebrated medical treatise by Andreas Vesalius and Juan Valverda, "Vivas figuras de las partes del cuerpo humano," prepared for the Spanish edition, is another unusual item included.
The famous Plantin House, one of the finest printing houses in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, published the Polyglot Bible, a massive edition of the Bible in 5 languages (Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syrian, and Chaldic). The eight folio volumes, appearing between 1568 and 1572, were an achievement of both scholarship and printing.
Included in the exhibition are a number of documents and autographed letters, among them a privilege signed by Philip II of Spain granting Plantin a monopoly for the Polyglot Bible.
SINCE 1876 the house was given to the city of Antwerp to become a museum.
Before the American tour of this exhibition, which began at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., material from the museum had been shown outside of Antwerp only twice.
Staff photo by Bill Stephens
Under the Overpass
READY FOR WELDING—The bridge across Iowa Street at Seventeenth begins to take shape with the placement of the structural steel. All of the steel is in position now and ready for welding. The bridge will lead to a parking lot on the west side of Iowa for dormitory residents at KU on the east side. The
project is sponsored by KU. Construction is by the State Highway Commission. Clyde Woods, resident engineer of the commission, said the weather will be the determining factor for the date of completion.