Poet to read, sing
X. J. Kennedy, accused of being a wit,
to perform today at Hoch Auditorium
"Somebody stole my myths,
Stole all their gists and piths.
Somebody stole my Juno and Pan,
Crooked Dionysus
And caused my spiritual crisis...
Taste this flavor in your mind's tongue and go meet in person, the author, X. J. Kennedy, an American poet teaching at Tafts University and Wellesley College. Kennedy will read and sing some of his works at 4:00 p.m. today in Dyche Auditorium.
KENNEDY, FORMER editor of the Paris Review has written poetry for a number of magazines including the New Yorker and Poetry.
His first book of poems, "Nude Descending A Staircase," received the Lamont Poetry Selection and won first prize in the Hopwood Competition. Some of his work is reprinted in "New Poets of England and America" and in the recent, "A Controversy of Poems."
Kennedy is an experienced performer who has read and sung poems and songs at more than 40 American colleges in the last three years.
He confesses he has been accused of being a wit, but he assures the more solemn audience that he is "never after laughs for their own sake."
Gemini 8 spaceship passes last big test
CAPE, KENNEDY — (UPI)— America's Gemini 8 spaceship has cleared the last big hurdle in a long series of tests leading up to Tuesday's start of a new space spectacle calling for the first two-satellite hookup and a record "walk" around the world.
The craft that will take astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott on the three-day orbital voyage wound up an 11-hour simulated flight test late Thursday night with no apparent difficulty. This cleared the way for the start of final launch preparations.
THE PILOTS spent about five
P-to-Ptotour Abilene sites
and the Eisenhower Museum, home and library will be visited by 38 KU People-to-People members tomorrow. The bus will leave the Kansas Union at 8:30 a.m. and return by 5 p.m.
David Waxse, Oswego junior and People-to-People chairman, said the Abilene tour is the fourth such tour sponsored this year by People-to-People. Last month students visited the planetarium in Kansas City.
"This trip will give the international students a chance to meet each other in an exciting environment." Waxse said.
The travelers will have lunch in Abilene and will visit the part of Abilene that has been kept "like the old days," he said.
Contract to cover trainee expenses
J. O. Smith, associate professor of special education at the University of Kansas, has been granted a $5,949 Vocational Rehabilitation contract.
The contract will cover expenses of 40 trainees from state, institution and school vocational rehabilitation programs for a five day KU summer workshop on cooperative developments in special education.
Christian Science Lecture "Man Unlimited" by William Henry Alton 7:30 p.m. Friday Danforth Chapel
hours at their ship's controls during the exercise to make sure everything was set for one of the nation's most ambitious manned spaceflights.
Gemini's launch doubleheader is scheduled to get underway at 10 a.m. EST Tuesday with the launch of Gemini's Atlas-Agena rendezvous rocket.
If the Agena avoids the problems of its predecessor and reaches orbit, Armstrong and Scott will be rocketed in pursuit at 11:41 a.m. EST.
The spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with the orbiting Agena five and one-half hours later and fly formation with it for 45 minutes. Then Armstrong will attempt to hook up Gemini 8 with the Agena to give the United States another space "first."
Early Wednesday, if all goes according to plan, Scott will climb out of the capsule and start a record-breaking two hours and 10 minute spacewalk.
"The 100 Year Ball" originally scheduled for April 15 has been cancelled for financial reasons, said Bill Robinson, Great Bend junior in charge of the event.
Century Ball may be cancelled
THE DANCE WOULD have cost from $1500 to $3500. To finance it, admission would have gone from the original $5 per couple to $10 and this would have cut attendance, Robinson said.
The guest list was increasing, refreshments were going to be expensive and we had an expensive band, he said, Lee Castle and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra were to play at the dance.
"We are negotiating to cancel
When You're in Doubt—Try It Out, Kansan Classifieds.
the band. If we cannot do that there is a possibility we may still have the dance. We'll have to absorb the cost elsewhere," he said.
Daily Kansan 7
Friday, March 11, 1966
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THEATRE
THE BEDBUG
by Vladimir Mayakovsky
with Catherine Ziablowa, guest artist
March 11, 12 and 18, 19
8:20 p.m. Murphy Hall
KU students admitted free to $1.20 seats
with current Certificate of Registration
Murphy Hall Box Office
Telephone UN 4-3982
T. G. I. F.
3:30-5:30
65c Pitchers
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