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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 1, 1962
Socialists to Govern Italy
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
Barring unforeseen developments. Italy's first left-of-center government since the war takes office this week, its success dependent upon a stocky, moon-faced man in heavy glasses who once called Former President Truman another Hitler.
The man is Left-Wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni who applied his epithet to Truman in opposition to Italy's membership in NATO.
NENNI, FOR YEARS A CLOSE collaborator with Italy's Communists still opposes NATO but his ties with communism have loosened considerably.
Nenni's left-wing Socialists will hold no cabinet seats in the new government formed by Premier Amintore Fanfani.
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Those went to the coalition of Fanfani's own Christian Democrats, the anti-communist Social Democrats of Glusepe Saragat and to the moderately left Republicans.
Pro-NATO Defense Minister Giulio Andreotti kept his old job, as did Foreign Minister Antonio Segni, a strong supporter of the Communist-opposed European Common Market.
AMONG THOSE NOT INcluded in the new government is Mario Seelba, who as interior minister frequently sent his headhumping riot police against the Communists.
In return for the government's leftward shift domestically, Nenni promised to support government measures his party approved, and more imporantly, to abstain on those measures which were not approved.
He also agreed to a reluctant neutrality toward NATO.
The idea of an "opening to the left" in Italian politics has been discussed for years.
THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS, Italy's largest party, are bound together by a common religion but are deeply split among themselves, left, right and center. Attempts at coalition with other center and rightwing parties proved unstable and short-lived.
For example, this is Italy's 23rd postwar government.
The alliance with the Socialists provides Fanfani with time and the solid majority he believes he needs
to accomplish needed reforms.
THESE INCLUDE A CRASH program to build schools, tax reforms, anti-trust legislation and easier farm credits.
Also on the program is nationalization of Italy's private power industry.
The Roman Catholic Church opposes the alliance which also is regarded with great misgivings by
many in the political center. The center and rightwing fear that Nenni could be the Trojan Horse to lead Italy increasingly to the left and therefore away from NATO. The Common Market and close ties to the West.
At best, the "opening to the left" is regarded as a necessary calculated risk. A gain might be a final break between Nenni and the Communists.
'Preserved' Vacation On View at Dyche Museum
By Janice Pauls
How would you like to take a North American "safari" in 30 minutes?
You can do it in sight and sound by visiting the KU Museum of Natural History where a panorama of wildlife, natural vegetation and beautiful scenic colors surround you. At the push of a button, a narrator will explain the silent motionless world before you.
A walrus and Polar bears stand pested against the forbidding snow and ice of the Arctic north as the pale sea merges with the sky against the horizon. Towering rocks in the foreground protect the animals from the icy blasts.
From the coniferous forests of Canada the caribou and snowshoe rabbit emerge side by side. They stand sheltered by bog willows while a lynx crouches menacingly above them.
THE TUNDRA RECION with its mosses and lichens mixed with colorful flowering vegetation serves as a stomping ground for the muskox. Mountain sheep stand as statues on high mountain cliffs overlooking the tundra. Their great curved horns circle around their small white heads.
From the Canadian forests, you move into the Northern Rockies where moose and mountain goats abound. Tiny white-tailed deer gather at a sparkling water-hole unaware of the grizzly bear lurking in the mouth of a canyon. Beavers work energetically on a partially completed dam while mink watch from the bank.
short, brown grass of the Colorado prairie. Prairie dogs peck cautiously out of their burrows at the coyotes hiding nearby.
Huge bison roam and feed on the
A BOBCAT LIES silhouetted against an autumn landscape as a squirrel and woodchucks play in and around the trees. A sly fox fads softly into the underbrush while a cardinal swings high on a limb.
The dry, sandy desert is accented by enormous cacti reaching toward the sky. A tarantula and rattlesnake creep over the surface among the floral desert shrubs.
Finally, at the end of the journey, you enter the swamplands. The hanging vines provide a playground for the monkeys who swing over a small forest deer roaming below. High among the foliage, one can spot the brilliant colors of a parrot while a fluorescent blue butterfly flutters nearby.
All this is a preserved vacation-land to be enjoyed all year round.
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VIENNA, Austria — (UPI) — A new twist-like dance called the "Gida" is catching on fast in Hungary, the Budapest newspaper Esti Hirlan reported yesterday.
"It is similar to the twist but more tasteful," the newspaper said. "The couples jump and circle around each other but without touching or embracing."
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(Author of "Rally Round The Flag, Boys", "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.)
UNITED WE STAND
The entire academic world is agog over the success of the Associated Colleges Plan—ACP, for short. I mean, you go to any campus in the country these days and you will see students and faculty dancing on the green, blowing penny whistles, grabbing each other by the elbows and yelling, "About that ACP, Charley-like wow!"
And who can blame them? The ACP is a plan not only simply brilliant, but also brilliantly simple. All it is, is a loose regional federation of small colleges. Let's say, for example, that in a given region we have a group of small colleges, each with its own academic specialty. Small College No. 1, let's say, has a fine language department; Small College No. 2, let's say, has a fine science department; No. 3 has a fine music department; etc., etc.
Well sir, under the ACP these various colleges federate. A student in any one of the colleges can take courses in the specialty of any of the other colleges and—here's the beauty part!—he will receive credit for the course at his home college. Thus he enjoys all the advantages of a big university without losing the comfy coiness of a small college!
Well sir, you can see what a good idea the ACP is. I respectfully submit, however, that just because a thing is good is no reason not to try to make it better. Like, for instance, Marlboro Cigarettes. Marlboros were good from the very beginning, and people found out quickly and sales zoomed. But did the makers of Marlboro say, "Okay, we've got it made. Let's relax"? Well sir, if that's what you think, you don't know the makers! They did not relax. They took their good Marlboros and kept improving them. They improved the filter, improved the blend, improved the pack. They researched and developed tirelessly, until today Marlboro is just about the most admirable cigarette you can put a match to. There are, in fact, some people who find Marlboros so admirable they can't bear to put a match to them. They just sit with a single Marlboro in hand and admire it for ten, twelve years on end. The makers of Marlboro are of course deeply touched by this—except for E. Rennie Sigafoos, the sales manager.
But I digress. The ACP, I say, is good but it can be better Why should the plan be confined to small colleges? Why should it be confined to a limited region? Why not include all colleges and universities, big and small, wherever they are?
Let's start such a federation. Let's call it the "Bigger Associated Colleges To Encourage Richer Intellectual Activity" — BACTERIA, for short!
What a bright new world BACTERIA opens up. Take, for example, a typical college student—Hunrath Sigfafoos (son, incidentally, of the Marlboro sales manager). Hunrath, a bright lad, is currently majoring in burley at the University of Kentucky. Under the BACTERIA plan, Hunrath could stay at Kentucky, where he has made many friends, but at the same time broaden his vistas by taking a course in constitutional law at Harvard, a course in physics at Caltech, a course in frostbite at Minnesota and a course in poi at Hawaii!
there are still few bugs in BACTERIA
I admit there are still a few bugs in BACTERIA. How, for instance, could Hunrath attend a 9 o'clock class at Harvard, a 10 o'clock class at Hawaii, an 11 o'clock class at Minnesota, and still keep his lunch date at Kentucky? It would be idle to deny that this is a tricky problem, but I have no doubt American ingenuity will carry the day. Always remember how they laughed at Edison and Fulton—and particularly at Walter Clavicle who invented the collarbone.
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© 1962 Max Shulman
Three cheers for American ingenuity, which gave us the ACP, the collarbone and MGM... that's the Mighty Good Makin's you get in Marlboro, the filter cigarette with the unfiltered taste. Settle back and enjoy one. You get a lot to like