Monday, Feb. 15, 1965
University Daily Kansan
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SPU Demonstrates Against U.S. Military in S. Viet Nam
The Student Peace Union staged a protest demonstration over the escalation of the war in Viet Nam Friday in Kansas City, Mo.
Twenty students paraded in front of the city hall for about an hour carrying signs reading: "Negotiate not escalate!" "Now that we have reunited the Communist bloc, what next?"
THE DEMONSTRATION in Kansas City followed distribution of leaflets on the KU campus protesting the intervention of the United States in Viet Nam.
Charles Hook, Glen Head, N.Y. sophomore and president of SPU, said that the distribution of leaflets was an effort to "increase awareness and concern over the dangerous situation in Viet Nam."
Hook, speaking for the SPU, said
stopping Communism is "good and necessary." "But we are going about it in the wrong way.
"COMMUNISM IS an economic, social, and political system. We must fight it on its level." Hook said. Hook stated that American troops were the only foreign troops in Viet Nam. He also said, "American military intervention is immoral, illegal, and foolish."
"The SPU feels that all we can do by remaining in South Viet Nam is to make the situation worse," Hook replied.
Hook drew a parallel between the Soviet Union's military intervention in Hungary in 1956 and the intervention of the United States in Viet Nam.
"The USSR intervened in Hungary over and above the will of the people to create the type of government they wanted. We can't condemn one without condemning the other."
Hook expressed concern over the fact that the war in Viet Nam could find a parallel in the "domino theory" of Southeast Asian politics.
Hook said that the war could also follow this chain unless the United States got out of Viet Nam. As one of the signs in the Kansas City march read, "The domino theory: War in South Viet Nam leads to (indicated by an arrow on the sign) was in North Viet Nam, war with China then World War III—Peace?"
The "domino theory" states that as one country in Southeast Asia falls to Communism, the rest, like a line of dominoes, will also fall.
Nat King Cole Dies
HOLLYWOOD—(UPI)—Nat King Cole, one of the nation's top popular recording stars for a generation, died today of cancer. He was 47.
Cole underwent surgery Jan. 25 for the removal of a cancerous left lung at St. John's Hospital in nearby Santa Monica.
After the three-hour surgery his condition was described as satisfactory and later as very good.
THE FAMED singer entered the hospital last Dec. 8 for observation and tests which disclosed a malignant tumor in the lung. He was given cobalt and X-ray treatments to shrink the tumor before the surgery.
Nat Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles, the son of an impoverished Baptist minister in Alabama, who did a little farming on the side.
Chuckles in White House Add Humor During Crisis
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Backstairs at the White House: Even in the midst of crisis—such as there was recently in Viet Nam—time can be found for a semi-official chuckle.
NEWSMEN had to accept Reedy's denial of a "bug," but the other day, while the Viet Nam crisis was erupting again, a taxidermist delivered to Reedy's office a stuffed marlin.
This guess resulted from the several times his telephone rang during news briefs and, apparently after talking with President Johnson, Reedy was able to answer questions he had been unable to answer just moments before.
For example, there was laughter —outwardly, at least—among White House aides over some published speculation that Press Secretary George E. Reedy's office was "bugged" with a hidden microphone.
COLE, GIVEN early musical training by his mother who was a church choir singer, began his entertainment career as a pianist with the "Nat Cole Trio." He became a singer by accident when a drunken patron insisted he sing his favorite tune, "Sweet Lorraine."
"Actually," this friend said, "they're waiting to install a microphone next to the eye. The fish is really a bug."
SEVERAL DAYS earlier, Johnson himself aroused some unplanned laughter. This occurred when he went to the dimly-lit diplomatic reception room of the White House to greet a group of high school students.
Reedy, who caught the fish off Acapulco in December, was proud of his trophy and wanted it on his office wall right away. He was busy with Viet Nam matters, and had to delay. But one colleague said that wasn't really the reason for waiting
The room, decorated in colonial style, was illuminated only by a series of candle-like lights around the walls. It was brighter than usual, though, because of cameramen's floodlights.
When those floodlights were turned off, Johnson could hardly see his guests. He peered into the crowd and asked:
"DO YOU have any more lights here to turn off?"
It was the first time anyone could recall such words from the President, whose lights-out campaign last year highlighted his economy in government drive.
There is nothing funny, however, in the latest disclosures about the White House beagle. Him.
On Inauguration Day, it now can be told, Him had to suffer the indignity of being sprayed with flea powder—which he didn't like a bit, but which may have been helpful for his human friends when Him wound up in a place of honor in the presidential box to view the Inaugural Parade.
Him also was the saddest creature around the White House when the President had his recent four-day stay at the hospital for a bad cold. The dog whimpered through much of that time, and wasn't his normally frisky self until his master returned.
Former KU Man To Head NSF Area
A former KU staff member has been named director of the new Division of Pre-College Education in Science for the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Keith R. Kelson was a postdoctoral research associate in the KU Museum of Natural History for five years, 1949-54. During that period he became secretary and then a director of the American Society of Mammalologists.
1. I've been weighing the possibility of becoming a perpetual student.
Last week you said you were considering the merits of mink farming.
2. With graduation drawing near I realized how much more there was for me to learn.
You didn't also realize, did you,
that when you graduate your dad will cut off your allowance?
8. I must admit the thought did enter my mind.
Has the thought ever entered your mind that you might get a job and make a career for yourself?
5. You mean earn while learning?
4. What about my thirst for knowledge?
Just because you work doesn't mean you have to stop learning.
Right. And you can do it at Equitable. They'll pay 100% of your tuition toward a qualified graduate degree. At the same time, the work is challenging, the pay is good, and I hear you move up fast.
6. But what do I know about insurance?
With your thirst for knowledge, I'm sure you'll be the star of their development program.
See your Placement Officer for the date Equitable's employment representative will be on campus. Or write to Edward D. McDougal, Manager, Manpower Development Division.
The EQUITABLE Life Assurance Society of the United States
Home Office: 1285 Ave. of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019 ©Equitable 1965
AnEqual Opportunity Employer
COLE then concentrated on singing and his income reached $10,000 a week. His records have sold more than 50 million copies.
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