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62nd Year, No. 84
KU Concert Course Offers Ballet Group
Monday, Feb. 22, 1965
World Famous Ballet Appears In Hoch Tonite
The American Ballet Theatre, America's oldest native ballet company, will perform this evening at 8:20 in Hoch Auditorium.
Celebrating its 25th season, the company has produced 103 ballets, of which 32 were world premieres and 29 were premiered in the company's experimental workshop. Classic among these are "Fall River Legend," "Rodeo," "Fancy Free," Billy the Kid," and "Pillar of Fire."
The American Ballet Theatre's production was the last to be supervised personally by Fokine.
The company has toured in 48 states and 37 countries, including the communist countries of Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. In 1960, the company became the first American dance group to tour Russia. Just recently, the company completed a nine-country Latin American tour, under the auspices of the U.S. State Department.
Tonight's performance includes "Les Sylphides," a ballet by Michel Fokine, with music by Frederic Chopin, and orchestration by Benjamin Britten, whose "War Requiem" was performed at KU last year.
Also being performed is Agnes de Mille's "Fall River Legend," which is based upon the Lizzie Borden hatchet case. The music is by Morton Gould.
"Graduation Ball," with choreography by David Lichine, music by Johann Strauss, and orchestration by Antal Dorati, is the concluding portion of tonight's performance. It is set in the ballroom of a girl's school in Vienna, and is a gay portrayal of the last evening before graduation.
Presented by the KU Concert Course, tonight's performance is one of a long line of prominent artistic appearances. Concert Course is in its 62nd season at KU, and "was one of the first programs at a university devoted to bringing major artists and groups to the university community in the country," Thomas Gorton, dean of the KU School of Fine Arts, said.
The Concert Course is supported by Student Activities and by patrons, who subscribe to season tickets to various performances. Appearing later this semester under the Concert Course's auspices will
be the Hague Philharmonic Orchestra, March 18, and soprano Mary Curtis-Verna, April 20.
Past performances in the Concert Course program have been by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic; singers John Charles Thomas, Eileen Farrell, Cesare Siepi, Rosa Ponselle; pianists Vladimir Horowitz, Rudolf Serkin, Josef Hofmann, Artur Rubenstein, Jose Ituri; violinists Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Bronisław Huberman; cellists Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatiorsky.
KU students will be admitted tonight with their I.D. cards.
Soviets Orbit 57th Cosmos
MOSCOW —(UPI) —The Soviet Union sent another unmanned satellite into orbit today in a stepped up program of space research. Three "Cosmos" satellites were orbited Sunday.
Today's vehicle is number 57 in the Cosmos series, started March 16, 1962. The Soviet news agency Tass said Cosmos 57 was operating "normally." Numbers 54, 55 and 56 were orbited Sunday piggy-back fashion from a single rocket.
All four satellites were apparently designed to make scientific measurements clearing the way for new manned space flights.
MOSCOW RADIO made brief mention of the U.S. Ranger 8 picture-taking mission to the moon but the broadcast noted several American "failures" and called attention to a similar Soviet feat five years ago. The Russian vehicle obtained photos of the back side of the moon. Ranger 8 produced 7,500 pictures of the front side, many of them revealing close-ups of the lunar surface.
Tass said today's Soviet satellite was operating on a frequency of 19, - 997 megacycles.
The weather will be clear and cold today with warmer south winds 15 to 30 miles per hour this afternoon and tonight. Today's high is expected to be from 35 to 40. Low tonight 25 to 30. Turning colder Tuesday with strong winds shifting to the north and a threat of snow.
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14 Women Selected for Dress Finals
One of 14 KU coeds will be entered in "Glamour" magazine's "Best Dressed Girl" contest in March.
The woman named KU's best dressed coed by the Associated Women Students Fashion Board will be entered in the national contest. She will also become a member of the AWS Fashion Board, according to Miss Nancy Egy, Topeka senior and chairman of the board.
Miss Martha "Muff" Yankey, Wichita junior, was selected to represent KU in the "Glamour" contest in 1963. She went on to win a place among the "Ten Best Dressed College Girls."
The AWS Fashion Board will present "Swing into Spring," a fashion show featuring the new spring styles, 7:30, Thursday evening, Feb. 25, in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The KU best dressed girl will be judged and announced at that time.
This year each sorority and each scholarship hall could enter two candidates and each dormitory could enter four. Fifty-four women represented the living groups of KU in the first judging Thursday. Feb. 18.
The second judging of 24 girls was Sunday, Feb. 21, in the Curry Room of the Union. Each girl modeled an outfit appropriate for tea or church.
Girls are judged on the ability to wear their clothes well, to plan and coordinate a diversified wardrobe, poise and correspondence of makeup and hair styles to life at KU.
Finalists for the KU best dressed girl contest are: Miss Sandy Kaiser, Paola senior representing Delta Gamma; Miss Karen Wight, Tulsa, Okla, sophomore representing Pi Beta Phi; Miss Melinda Ross, Shawnee Mission sophomore representing Gamma Phi Beta; Miss Susan Harley, Atwood junior representing Alpha Chi Omega; Miss Susan Goetze, Prairie Village freshman representing Corbin Hall; Miss Nancy Beck, Independence. Miss, freshman representing Corbin Hall; Miss Karla Hoelzel, Kansas City, Mo., minor representing Lewis Hall; Miss Marcia Bunn, Tulsa, Okla., sophomore representing Kappa Alpha Theta; Miss Deborah Fowler, Topeka sophomore representing Kappa Kappa Gamma; Miss Joan Heimovics, Prairie Village freshman representing Kappa Kappa Gamma; Miss Virginia Wilds, Atchison junior representing Chi Omega; Miss Melinda Cole, Miami, Okla., senior representing Chi Omega; and Miss Carol Hamm, Crestwood, Miss., sophomore representing Alpha Delta Pi.
Khanh Resigns Viet Leadership
SAIGON—(UPI)—Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh agreed today to resign as South Viet Nam's military strongman but balked at demands of the powerful Armed Forces Council that he come to Saigon and put his resignation in writing.
Khanh was reported to have agreed early today to step down in a series of telephone conversations with the group of rebellious generals that had voted him out.
He was said to be holding out at Vung Tau, 40 miles from Saigon, until some face saving measure had been worked out for him.
THE COUNCIL sent a delegation to Vung Tau to try to convince Khanh to come here and officially resign as a preliminary to his departure from South Viet Nam.
The Communists, apparently seeking to take advantage of the confused political situation, launched an offensive over the weekend against a vital highway linking the Vietnamese army's II Corps headquarters at Plei Ku with its seacoast supply depot.
A U.S. military spokesman said the Viet Cong attacked two government outposts and fought a head-on battle with a Vietnamese marine unit in the area where highway 19 cuts through the jungles in the mountainous region about 200 miles northeast of Saigon.
He said incomplete reports indicated the government suffered more than 100 casualties, killed, wounded and missing. Communist losses were reported at 16 killed.
Khanh was deposed as armed forces commander-in-chief by order of Chief of State Phan Khac Suu, Sunday. At the same time he lost his position as chairman of the Armed Forces Council, which includes all of the country's top generals.
AN AMERICAN Embassy spokesman denied reports of involvement of the American mission here in the disappearance of some of the 14 persons implicated in the attempted coup last Friday. The Armed Forces Council today offered rewards for the 14, dead or alive.
Lt. Gen. Tran Van Minh, a Roman Catholic known as "Little Minh," was named to succeed Khanh in the powerful post of commander-in-chief after three days of coups, counter coups and the threat of full-scale war between feuding factions in the Vietnamese army.
KHANH WAS reported to have promised to relinquish his post in a telephoned surrender to the generals at 6:30 a.m. after his airplane ran low on fuel and landed in the mountain region of Dalat. He had failed in frantic efforts to line up support of another counter-coup among military commanders in the countryside.
The chubby little goatee general, who had weathered a series of coups since he first took power 13 months ago, had held out for more than 12 hours.
He was officially informed Sunday night that he had been deposed.
Dorm Fire Burns Two
A gas bottle used to repair a radiator leak caused a small fire shortly after 9 a.m. today in Hashinger Residence Hall, injuring two and forcing the evacuation of more than 150 hall residents.
The fire occurred as two men from the Buildings and Grounds Department were repairing a leaking radiator in the main lounge of the third floor which had caused flooding of the hall's living room last night.
A bottle of gas used in a small butane torch ignited, causing the fire and injured both maintenance men.
J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, estimated the damage to be $300.
Students Making European Travel, Study Plans
By Rosalie Jenkins
After finals in June, the majority of KU students will probably head home for the summer. For others, however, home will not be their destination. These are the students or faculty members who will travel to Europe under a university-sponsored program.
Travelers will go for study, sightseeing, or both. Group programs include language institutes, People to People, a travel group arranged by Errol E. Harris, professor of philosophy, and trips planned through information from Student Union Activities travel committee or the All Student Council travel coordinator.
THE FRENCH, GERMAN, and Spanish institutes will be leaving New York City, June 6 and returning Aug. 8. They will travel on the same chartered plane to Brussels before dividing into groups to study in the three countries.
The Russian institute will fly to
Helsinki, Finland, June 7 and re-
turn Aug. 18.
Ronald Tobin, assistant professor of romance languages and director of the French institute, said about 35 students will study and live in Paris this year. The students receive six hours of credit for classes taught entirely by French teachers
Before school begins, the institute will spend a week traveling by bus through Belgium and western France.
THE GROUP WILL also take weekend excursions to Versailles and the Chateau region of France. At the end the students are given "a week of freedom," to travel and visit.
The German institutes will be sponsored by Lothar Schweeder, acting assistant professor of German. His group contains about thirty students who will study in Holzkirchen, Germany. 20 miles south of Munich.
They will be taught by German teachers also, and will live with German families.
DURING THE WEEK, the group will go into Munich to attend concerts and plays. They also will tour some part of Germany every weekend.
Plans are being made for a weekend trip to Berlin with the help of the West German government. Schweder said they would try to get into East Berlin if it could be worked out.
The Spanish institute will be directed by Cherrie Soper, assistant professor of romance languages. The thirty students will be taught in Barcelona by Spanish teachers.
They will take a two week trip from Brussels to Barcelona before school starts. The group will fly to Madrid and then travel by bus through southern Spain. Miss Soper said they will be in Cordoba, Sevilla, Granada, Cadiz, and Valencia on this tour.
THE STUDENTS also will make short trips to such places as the monastery at Montserrat.
Jerry Krzyzanowski, visiting associate professor in Slavic languages, will accompany the Russian Institute.
Herbert Ellison, Chairman of Slavic-Soviet area studies, said KU students have not been selected. Forty students from all over the US will participate, including 13 from KU.
This group will study in Jarventass, Finland, and receive ten hours of credit for their work. Ellison said the program will include sophomores, juniors, and seniors who have taken at least 12 hours of Russian language study.
THE STUDENTS WILL make short trips in Finland, and a three-week tour of Russia at the summer's end. The group will spend most of its time in either Moscow or Leningrad, talking with Russian student groups, and studying about three hours a day.
PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE has three different programs for American students planning to travel in Europe. Lance Burr, Salina senior and head of the KU program, said about 40 KU students are among 600 students from across the U.S. participating.
One program offers three weeks in a certain area living with a different family each week. After this, students are free to travel anywhere in Europe as student ambassadors.
Another program helps interested students obtain employment in Europe through various European information agencies.
The students leave Baltimore, Md., on June 18, and return Aug. 27 or 28. Burr said an orientation program for KU students participating will begin in a few weeks. The students will also be given a three day orientation in Washington, D.C. and one in Europe.
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