Friday, February 9, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Parties in Denmark; silence in Berlin P-to-P trip: homestays, travel
The taste of Danish pastry served at a Count's home near the Baltic Sea is one of the memories Judy Ericson, Leavenworth graduate student, brought home from her summer trip to Europe.
Miss Ericson was one of 12 KU students who participated last summer in the American Students Abroad program sponsored by KU People to People which is affiliated with Collegiate International. Students live in "home-stays" for three weeks with three families in either the British Isles, France-Belgium, Germany, Greece, or Scandinavia, and travel where they wish for seven more weeks.
From New York, the students flew to Brussels, Belgium. There, Jean-Louis Baudoin, European coordinator for the program, advised them about changing traveler's checks, traveling from family to family, and how to act with the European families.
Communicating and eating were two problems Marilyn Selack, McPherson junior, faced.
Her only communication link with her family on Crete was a 12-yearold girl. Their age difference put a strain on the conversation. Miss Selack said the Greeks eat a lot of food in a short time.
"It took me a while to make them understand that I liked their food but couldn't eat as much as they did," she said.
The only sign of life Miss Moore noticed in the city was the guards riding on scooters and checking the wall.
The most sobering experience for Susan Moore, Atchison senior, was walking through Checkpoint Charlie on a Sunday afternoon to spend a day in East Berlin. Accompanied by some other students, she went into a cafe filled with people but strangely quiet. "We sensed the depression," Miss Moore said, "and we found ourselves whispering."
Tommie Caruth, Prairie Village junior, met several Scandinavians at parties given by her homestay families.
"When I think of a certain country now, I think of an individual," Miss Caruth said. "The program gets people to other people and that's its whole aim."
Miss Selack was impressed by the hospitality of her Greek host families. "They treated us like royalty," she said. "They loved to have us sit down and sing American songs."
When Miss Ericson had a picnic on a fjord in Norway, she declined to go swimming because the water was too cold, but the 52 degree Baltic Sea water was more inviting.
"When I went swimming in the Baltic, the water was cold at first," she said, "but I got used to it."
After arriving in England Miss Moore found the young "mods" added quite a bit of color to the drab London scenery. She enjoyed the contrast of older English people who still observe their rigidly set tea time, and "mods" rebelliously breaking with tradition in their Carnaby Street fashion look.
Americans win first Olympic medals; 3-way tie for second in speed skating
GRENOBLE, France — (UPI)— The United States claimed its first medals of the Tenth Winter Olympic Games today when a trio of girls finished in an unusual three-way tie for second place behind Russia's Ludmila Titova in the ladies 500-meter speed skating race.
Dianne Holum of Northbrook, Ill., Mary Meyers of St. Paul, Minn., and Jennifer Fish of Strongville, Ohio, all clocked 46.3 seconds to earn a silver medal. Miss Titova, the world champion at 500 and 1,000 meters, won the gold with a time of 46.1.
Miss Holum, 16, also finished second to the 21-year-old Russian girl in this event in the recent world championships at Helsinki.
Dianne raced in the 10th of 14 pairs today and her opponent was two-time world champion Christina Kaiser of Holland. A light rain was falling as the American got off to a fast start and raced home 25 meters ahead of the Dutch policewoman.
Only moments before the start of the speedskating, 30-year-old Swedish housewife Toini Gustafsson gained the second gold medal of the games by winning the women's 10 kilometer cross country ski race.
Miss Gustafsson became the first non-Russian girl to win an Olympic cross country gold medal since 1952.
No Americans competed in the race.
Team's last chance
The American hockey team's
last chance at a medal was at hand when the Yanks faced a Russian team which easily won the gold medal in 1964 and which has outscored its two opponents 17-0 in these games.
"Russia can be beaten," U.S. Coach Murray Williamson predicted. The U.S. team has lost 5-1 to Czechoslovakia and 4-3 to
Sweden. "The boys feel an upset in the air. To tell you the truth so do I."
In Thursday's Olympic action, two-time world champion Peggy Fleming of Colorado Springs, Colo., virtually clinched the Olympic figure skating title by piling up a 77.2 point lead after the five compulsory figures.
French skier wins event
GRENOBLE, France—(UPI)—Jean-Claude Killy, France's skiing superman who said he would retire to the hectic world of auto racing after the Winter Olympics, flashed to an impressive victory in the glamorous downhill event today, and two American stars were injured trying to match his record time.
Killy, propelling himself toward his goal of matching Austrian Tony Sailer's 1956 feat of winning all three Alpine events, went down the 2,890-meter Chamrouse hill in one minute, 59.85 seconds.
U. S. hopes were quickly dashed and suffered perhaps a killing blow to chances in next week's slalom events when America's top star, Billy Kidd of Stowe, Vt., finished a disappointing 18th and the skiing buddies from Steamboat Springs, Colo.-Jim Barrows and Jere Elliott—were injured. Also far back was Dennis McCoy of Bishop, Calif.
Barrows suffered a possible broken thigh when he fell halfway down the treacherous course
and Elliott was badly shaken up when he took a cartwheel spill on the top of the iey chute. Both were rushed to the Grenoble military hospital. Kidd, recovering from a sprained ankle which he said did not bother him today, had a time of 2:03:40 and McCoy was timed in 2:04.82.
Our excuse
Only about 1.000 KU students received the University Daily Kansan on time Thursday.
Mechanical failures of the printing press delayed the Kansan about five hours.
Navy scientists here
J. E. Johnson and R. D. Misner, of the scientific staff at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., will visit KU Feb. 26.
The laboratory is the focus of physical science research and development for the U.S. Navy. During its 44-year history, the laboratory has contributed to Navy and scientific development.
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