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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. March 14, 1962
An Elusive Agreement
It begins to appear certain that the Soviets plan to wreck another nuclear disarmament conference. They made a surprise proposal for uncontrolled nuclear disarmament Monday at the 17-nation conference in Geneva. Russian sources said the proposal would probably be presented to the conference today.
The fact that the Soviets have chosen to ignore the question of adequate controls (some arrangement for inspection teams and observation posts), which they know the Western powers consider vital, is the key factor in their proposal. They knew before the proposal was made public that it is unacceptable to the Western powers.
IT IS WORTH noting that the Kremlin has also adopted an aggressive attitude on several problems it is dealing with at present. One of these is the decision by Khrushchev to go ahead with Soviet armament plans at the expense of needed improvements in the Soviet Union's agricultural program. Another is the harassment of Allied planes and ground forces in Berlin.
Perhaps the most significant factor is the recent massive series of nuclear tests by the Soviet Union, which does not indicate that a nuclear disarmament agreement is being considered as a possibility for the near future. Such a series requires lengthy preparation and consideration of all related factors. It is doubtful the Kremlin would have decided to go ahead with those nuclear tests if it was seriously considering nuclear disarmament.
All these actions suggest that the Kremlin's plans do not call for any compromise with the West on current problems.
Naturally the West will continue to seek a nuclear disarmament agreement, but the possibility of one coming from the current Geneva conference is almost non-existent.
—William H. Mullins
Reaction to JFK's Speech Editor;
Good old consistent Jack Kennedy, always cheerlein' folks up when the awful curse of the Devil seems most near. Why, accordin' to his Saturday night speech — a natural encore to his TV talk a while back about settin' off some more of our real clean nuclear bombs — "humanity" can look right forward to "an age in which many of the predictions of imaginative fiction will be coming true." Yes sir. Now that's what I call a genuine Revelation. Only thing is that this member of humanity, havin' read some "imaginative fiction" himself, can't decide which fiction book we're racin' to prove: "Nineteen Eighty-four" or "On the Beach?"
Note on "A Traffic Incident"
Editor:
Thank you for your article entitled "A Traffic Incident." I fully agree with your opening statement. I am the "Young lady in a rather small car" that upset our fair patrolman.
Robert Bosseau
Pittsburg junior
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It seems important that I vindicate my position. As I approached the intersection of Javihawk Blvd. and Sunflower Road, the patrolman was attempting to halt another young lady, a pedestrian, who had also irritated him. Meanwhile traffic waited.
THE OFFICER'S chase was unsuccessful, so he began walking back toward the intersection. Needless to say, by this time horns were blaring away. The policeman lifted his right arm high in the air in what several pedestrians and I thought
I was not intentionally breaking any of his orders as he accused me of doing. My car was halted in the center of the intersection for several moments while he told me that he would stop traffic indefinitely if I wanted him to do so. In my most polite voice I said "No, sir." He then very rudely asked if we "all" wanted to go before the judge — again "No, sir." He seemed quite disappointed that I didn't argue with him and so let me move on and resume the traffic flow.
was a signal to proceed. Obviously, this was not the meaning of the motion as far as he was concerned.
TO ME, HE did not carry out his duties as a public servant. If I broke a law and endangered other lives I believe I should have received a ticket and due punishment. This was not the case. I followed what I trusted to be a clear direction and was rudely insulted by said party.
Kansas University would profit by improving the quality of its public servants.
Marsha Morgan
Boulder, Colo., junior
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Action Commended Editor:
Until last Thursday, when the platform of ACTION was announced, the campus gave no impression but that of being politically dead. Both existing parties ran for the last elections on platforms which carefully avoided every important issue of conflict. This seems to change with the foundation of the new party.
The fact that a stand is being taken on questions such as the NSA-affiliation, the CRC (which
"Lover Come Back": produced by Martin Melcher and Stanley Shapiro. At the Granada.
"Lover Come Back" is a movie about an oversexed account executive from a Madison Avenue advertising agency who successfully advertises a product that does not exist. The executive, Jerry Webster (played by Rock Hudson) falls in love with undersexed Carol Templeton (played by Doris Day).
So, even if ACTION should not succeed in winning seats on the ASC, it contributes considerably to the political scene by bringing some movement into the benumbed atmosphere of student government.
MISS TEMPELTON is from a rival agency and is consistently outdone by Webster. He impresses the prospective client by showing him a good time in New York night spots. Then, after the client is drunk, he has him sign with his agency. Miss Templeton refuses to use these tactics and loses all of her prospects to Webster.
By Murrel Bland
WEBSTER AND Miss Templeton meet for the first time in the eccentric chemist's laboratory. Miss Templeton has come to persuade the chemist to give her and not Webster the formula for VIP. She comes into the laboratory when the chemist is out of the room. Webster is able to convince her that he is the chemist. She unknowingly plays up to Webster to get the formula and, in the process, falls in love with him.
John Turner
The product Webster advertises that really does not exist is VIP. The VIP advertising campaign started as the result of a mistake
and Webster must now find a product to fit the advertising. He persuades an eccentric chemist in Greenwich Village to make something that can be used as VIP. The chemist develops a special cooky that dissolves into pure alcohol after it is eaten. This means the average person can now have a cheap drunk for just 10 cents.
BY THE MERE fact that these controversies are made issues in future elections on this campus, students are forced to make a personal decision. The voting is thus no longer merely a popularity contest but a true election of the representative who stands for the ideas of the majority. It seems to us that even UP and VOX should be grateful for this achievement.
The story line in the movie is not probable. However, the movie does accomplish its main purpose—to make people laugh.
means on the discrimination issues) and the stadium seating plan can only be welcomed, since it raises these questions to the level where they belong and creates the necessity for decisions and actions by the ASC, the students' representatives.
John Turner
Topeka junior
Wolfgang Keim
Hamburg, Germany
graduate student
Brian E. Cleave
Sussex, England
graduate student
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"OH MY —IM IN FOR IT AGAIN TONITE —IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S HAD ANOTHER BAD DAY AT SCHOOL!"
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By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
SCOTT FITZGERALD, by Andrew Turnbull. Scribner's. $5.95.
F. Scott Fitzgerald now has passed the point of frenzied revivalism that marked those late-forties appraisals of his writings. We now can look at Fitzgerald a bit more objectively, and perhaps his books and short stories will come to have more meaning than they had in an era when Americans were trying to go back to the gaudy 1920s.
On the dust jacket is the face of an incredibly handsome man, looking to be in his mid- or late-thirties. If one cares to, he can try to read into this face the excitement—and the torment—of the life this man was living in the twenties and thirties.
ANDREW TURNBULL, WHO BENEFITED from a friendship with Fitzgerald when the author lived in a house belonging to the Turnbulls in the Maryland countryside, has written an excellent biography of the celebrated novelist. If it is not as introspective as Mizener's "The Far Side of Paradise," it is more readable; and it resembles Elizabeth Nowell's recent biography of Thomas Wolfe in its attempts to use excerpts from the author's work to tell the story.
There is much in the Fitzgerald novels and short stories that is autobiographical. The heroine of "The Ice Palace" could be Zelda, and Fitzgerald could be either "The Rich Boy" or "The Freshest Boy." The tormented lives of Dick Diver and Nicole in "Tender Is the Night" could be Scott and Zelda trying to burn themselves out in Paris and on the Riviera. "The Last Tycoon" gives us Thalberg of MGM and the miserable days the already wasted Fitzgerald thrald as a Hollywood writer. "Babylon Revisited" is the thoughtful Fitzgerald returning to the scenes of his triumphs and miseries.
This is a sad tale as well as a fascinating one. Trying to live life to the fullest, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald began to drink their way into oblivion, and for Zelda, her mind already touched by the seeds of madness, this was an unfortunate way to live. Fitzgerald was a fine writer, not a great one, though there is greatness in "The Great Gatsby" and much of his other work. He was a perceptive one, and a generous one.
It must have been both trying and inspiring to be Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's and have Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Wolfe all writing at the same time. This time of genius and adventure in American letters has been captured well by Andrew Turnbull.
Sound and Fury
Many faculty members here seem to be highly skilled at criticizing students for laziness, slovenly thinking, bad grammar, poor posture, etc. But it is unfortunate that these instructors can't sit in on a few bull sessions to learn what students think of their courses.
THE FACULTY might be shocked to hear that a major gripe of students is that courses are not sufficiently challenging. And the professors most students like—and work for—are not the ones who tell corny jokes, but the ones who stimulate thinking.
Unimaginative teaching appears to be the norm at this university. And if the students are stupid and lazy, our esteemed faculty must share some of the blame.
—Bacchus