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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 15, 1968
"COOL IT, LUKE"
Photo by Moe Behravesh
Wichita Southeast-number one in high school AA basketball-suffered a surprising 41-39 defeat at the hands, of Great Bend high school Thursday afternoon in the tourney at Allen Field House. The upset caused tempers to flare and fists to swing among high school fans. Above, one of the inflamed high schoolers gets a lecture from KU campus police.
Kennedy surveys opposition
By United Press International Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-NY., weighed grassroots encouragement against rising party opposition today as he sought to make up his mind whether to challenge Lyndon B. Johnson and Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The New York Senator's Capitol Hill office buzzed Thursday
with phone calls, telegrams, special delivery letters and visitors who urged him to resolve his "reassessment" of the presidential race by declaring his candidacy.
Aides said Kennedy, who plans to announce his decision within a week, was keeping an "open mind" until more elements are known. They said 95 per cent of
some 5,000 pieces of correspondence from around the nation welcomed his prospective candidacy.
But two more leading organization Democrats pledged allegiance to President Johnson, and a UPI survey of Democratic state chairmen showed 23 of 32 respondents unequivocally opposed a Kennedy candidacy.
Convention sites are strategic
In a publication from the University Governmental Research Center, factors affecting conventions and state delegation selection procedures today are analyzed.
Public attention will be focused this summer upon the 1968 national nomination conventions of the Republicans (Miami Beach, Aug. 5) and Democrats (Chicago, Aug. 26). Such conventions replaced Congressional caucuses as the procedure for nominating the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates in 1832, an article in the March issue of Your Government said.
One strategic factor of increasing importance is the city in which the convention is to be held. It not only must be physically capable of accommodating the convention, but it also must offer minimal opportunities for adverse publicity throughout the convention proceedings. The number of state electoral votes in the particular state, the recreational facilities available, and the sums of money and/or goods and services offered to the parties as inducements play a significant part in the final decisions of the national committees.
Convention delegates are selected by a variety of methods, depending upon the election laws of individual states or areas and the national convention rules. While the most common method is by Congressional district and state party convention, some states' at-large delegates are chosen by party central committees. New York, Illinois, and Pennsylvania use a combination of both plus the presidential primaries.
There will be a total of 5,611 delegates and alternates and 110 national committee members at the 1968 Democratic National
Convention. Of these, the Kansas Democratic Party will have 78 (42 delegates with 38 votes and 36 alternates), which is an increase of 11 delegates and 11 votes over the 1964 convention. The apportionment formula allows Kansas three votes for each electoral vote (21), one vote for each of its national committee members (2), one vote for each 100,000 votes cast for the national ticket in the last election (5), and several bonus votes (10). The major reason for the delegate and vote increase stems from the ten vote bonus given because the state's electoral votes went to the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1964.
The Republican National Convention will have a total of 2,666 delegates and alternates, of which Kansas will have 40 (20 delegates
with 20 votes and 20 alternates), the same as in 1964. The Republican apportionment formula allows one district delegate from each Congressional district casting over 2,000 votes for the 1964 Republican Presidential nominee or Republican Congressional candidate for the same year and two delegates if over 10,000 votes are cast. Four at-large delegates are given each state and six additional at-large delegates are awarded if all of the state's electoral votes went to the national ticket in 1964, or if the state elected either a Republican Governor or a Republican Senator in 1966. Kansas has ten at-large delegates because a Republican Senator was elected in 1966. Each Republican delegate has one full vote compared with fractional votes given to some of the Democratic delegates.
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Sound had a profound effect on the actors and audience as well as the film itself, he said. There was the change of attention in the audience. They no longer had to keep their eyes on the screen continuously to know what was going on.
Vidor said silent screen star John Gilbert's problem was not a high-pitched voice, as has been long thought, but an inability to get across the symbols he represented.
"He was a great lover, highly emotional and passionate." Vidor said, "but you cannot put those kind of feelings into words." It doesn't work.
Vidor also showed excerpts from two of his films, "The Crowd" (1928) and "War and Peace" (1956). He commented on the films, explaining different techniques and forms he used in them.
"The Crowd" was the last silent film he made. It came during an expressionistic era when he was influenced by German directors. In this film, Vidor says he was "observing life." It traced the life of a man who can be found in any crowd—a dreamer faced continually with failure and frustration.
TODAY
In "The Crowd" Vidor used unknown actors because he felt the film would be more realistic if the audience couldn't identify with the actor if they remembered him from another role.
When Vidor filmed "War and Peace" the big screen was coming into being. No longer were backlot scenes used because they could not accommodate the scope of a large movie. The battle scenes in the movie are evidences of this. The Italian army was used as well as a cavalry post for the scenes.
Official Bulletin
Driver Education Workshop. 12:30 p.m. Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union.
KU Muslim Society. 12:45 p.m. Praysers, Kansas Union.
Kansas High School AA Basketball
Tournament. 7 p.m. Allen Field
Hallway.
Poulnar Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "To Be A Crook." Dyche Auditorium.
**Foreign Film**, 7.30 p.m. "Aren't We Wonderful", German Hoeh Audition.
Brazilian Opera Broadcast. 8 p.m.
"Il Guarany," by Gomes, KANU-FM.
University Theatre. 8:20 p.m. "Macbeth."
TOMORROW
Driver Education Workshop. 8:30 a.m. Javahawk Room. Kansas Union.
Hindu Society Meeting, 5 p.m. "Abas-
tion of the Meat" Meet,
Methodist Student Center
KU Moslem Society. 6:30 p.m.
Banquet and talk, "Introduction to
Islam" by Zafar H. Israili. Wesley Foundation.
Kansas' High School AA Basketball
Tournament. 7 p.m. Allen Field
Hill.
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "To Be A Crook." Dyche Auditorium.
Magician, Borgman, 1958, 303 Budley,
niversity Theatre, 8:20 p.m. 'Macabee
SUNDAY
Concert Course, 3:30 p.m. New York Pro Musica. University Theatre.
Carilion Recital. 3 p.m. Albert Gerken.
Community Meal. 5 p.m. Bill Routt talks. Methodist Student Center.
Gamma Delta and Lutheran Students Association. 5:30 p.m. Dialogue by Father D. Redmond and Morni Legni, University Lutheran Church.
Popular Film. 7 & 9:30 p.m.
Be A Crook." Dyche Auditorium.