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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 3, 1964
Friendly Sig
Here on top of ozone mountain, where everything is upbeat and seldom is heard a discouraging word (what with the babes sticking to short skirts this winter), things have been quite normal in this new semester.
THERE HAVE BEEN the customary rhubarbs and ruckuses, pickets, and a stage show to brighten the scene. But for the most part it has been study, class, study, class, aching eyeballs with the space age competition grinding hard at times.
At least, that's the perspective from the hill. But consider the good folk out in the valley, mom and dad, for instance.
Consider their perspective:
THEIR LATEST EXPOSURE to KU, where all their taxes go, was a full-page picture spread in Sunday's Topeka Capital on Sig, the friendly dog. Sig, the Sigma Chi's St. Bernard, is shown in numerous seductive poses—lounging in class, dozing in front of the TV, waddling through the rotunda.
rotunda. You get the distinct impression that Sig would be on the honor roll if he stayed awake in class.
Sig, the story says, is one of the four most notable things about the hill, the others being
traffic control booths, the Big Barn, and the English pro test. (Why leave off beaver-shooting?)
Anyway, the Capital could as easily have done a feature on Rock Chalk Revue. photographing a couple of fleshy scenes to remind the citizenry that we are living in the age of sex-on-exhibit.
that we are living in the KU image last week, via the papers, was the effigy hanging of one Dick Harp, patriot, citizen, member of Christian Athletes, and KU basketball coach. (But that was all in fun, with a ho-ho-ho, and a he-he-he.) And the Kansas wags were quick to point out that kids are crummier than ever.
However, probably the real blight on the hill this semester came from the political furor—the Rockwell-Bircher-Opcensky rumble with suitable pickets and publicity. Any tax-paying citizen can easily see that the campus speakers are either red-baiters and fascists, or pinkos and subversives.
But don't lose heart: not everything has turned out badly. Everyone has read in the papers that professors this year didn't get much of a raise—that REALLY would have made a bad impression.
Tom Coffman
'Loser' Reputation Hampers Nixon's Nomination Hopes
By Mike Miller
(Editor's Note: This article is the last of a three-part series on Richard M. Nixon. Series on Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater will follow.)
At the Republican National Convention, the party caucus picked young Richard Nixon as the vicepresidential candidate to run with Dwight D. Eisenhower.
A month later, however, things looked much darker for Nixon. He was accused of improperly accepting an $18,000 special fund raised by Southern California businessmen. For a time his candidacy was in jeopardy. Eisenhower took no stand at first on whether he should be given a new running mate.
When his candidacy for vicepresident was put up to the Republican National Committee, Nixon went on television with his "Checkers" speech to explain his position and asked viewers to send their reaction to the Republican
committee. The result of the ballot was 350 to 1 for his remaining on the ballot.
He stayed. IN THE CAMPAIGN, he continued his harangue against the Communists and the Liberals.
"Adlai, the appeaser who got a PhD. from Dean Acheson's 'College of Cowardly Communist Containment,'" was his description of Eisenhower's opponent. He accused Stevenson of being a friend of Alger Hiss, whom Nixon had investigated. Actually, Stevenson was just an acquaintance of Hiss.
Nixon was a busy vice-president. On occasions when the president was ill, in 1955, 1956 and 1957, Nixon presided at cabinet and National Security Council meetings and was credited with a major role in settling the 1959 steel strike.
On the president's behalf, he visited the Middle and Far East in 1953, the Caribbean in 1955.
southern Asia in 1956, Africa in 1957, South America and England in 1958, and the Soviet Union and Poland in 1959.
In his years as vice-president, Nixon became one of the most powerful men ever to hold the second position. Because of the illnesses of Eisenhower and because of his own trips, Nixon's influence was much greater than that of most vice-presidents, whose main function is to preside over the Senate.
THE VIEW OF Nixon changed during his years of the vice-presidency. Before 1952, he was viewed by many columnists, both liberal and conservative, as a brash young man who didn't belong in politics.
In 1957, Arthur Krock of the New York Times said, "The new Nixon has ideas, is a realist in seeking and acknowledging the errors of his own regime. From all appearances, he is helping to formulate a new approach by the United States in the Cold War."
Walter Lippmann described Nixon as maturing successfully.
He still picked up some criticism, however. In 1956, in a Lincoln Day speech, he said, "And speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, a great Republican Chief Justice, Earl Warren, has ordered an end to racial segregation in the nation's schools."
"It's Stereo, But Is It High Fidelity?"
"THE ONLY WAR we want to launch is the war against poverty, disease, ignorance and fear wherever it exists," he said in 1957.
LIPPMANN SAID. "A man who will exploit for partisan purposes such a decision of the Supreme Court does not have within his conscience those scruples which the country has a right to expect in a President of the United States."
Nixon has not announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in 1964. Many say he will be drafted, however, as a compromise candidate between Gold-water's right-wing philosophy and Rockefeller's liberalism.
NIXON AND his opponent, John F. Kennedy, fought a tough, physically gruelling campaign. Nixon's whistle-stop tours took him to nearly every state in the Union. The candidates also held an unprecedented television debate.
Nixon must overcome one great obstacle, however, before he can hope for the GOP nomination. He has the reputation of being a loser. He must convince the leaders of the Republican party that he can overcome his defeat in 1960 and particularly his defeat in 1962 by the people of his own state.
Tax Cut, Liston-Clay Head News Review
Tax-weary Americans had cause to be happy last week. Congress passed, and President Johnson signed, the largest tax cut in the nation's history. The reduction means that about 80 million Americans will enjoy $10-$20 more a month in take-home pay. ...
Nearly 500,000 corporations will have their taxes cut by 9 per cent. The cuts go into effect March 5, but people are urged to put the added pay back into circulation with increased buying which, it is hoped, will spur the nation's economy.
ONE NEWS EVENT last week probably gripped the interest of more Americans than any other. The Louisville Lip, Cassius Clay, did the impossible. He took the heavyweight boxing crown from champion Sonny Liston on a seventh round TKO and then announced that he is a member of the Black Muslims, a black supremacy group.
But the Clay-Liston fight wasn't the only battle last week. On wartown Cyprus the situation between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots worsened. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant spent the week negotiating between Greece and Turkey but late in the week gave up and admitted defeat.
Over the weekend Turkish Cypriots began to mass in villages and more violent bloodshed is expected to raise the death toll even higher. The present battle stems from a constitutional change in the island's government that Turkish Cypriots, in the minority, feel would rob them of their rights. British-American efforts, as well as those of U Thant, at preserving the peace failed and the matter may be thrown into the U.N. General Assembly.
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Elsewhere in foreign relations the U.S. fared a little better. The eight-week-old Panama crisis seemed nearer settlement as the U.S. agreed to resume diplomatic relations preparatory to a review of the Canal Zone treaty.
THE ORGANIZATION of American States investigating committee charged Cuba with seeking and directing the overthrow of the government of Venezuela and other Latin American countries. Venezuela promptly called for a ban on trade with Castro's country. The U.S. agreed and Secretary of State Dean Rusk said there is "need for additional pressures" by Western Hemisphere nations.
French President Charles de Gaulle is finding that his recognition of Red China may have bad side effects. Common Market solidarity has been threatened by the recognition as De Gaulle and the other members have disagreed over measures leading to the inclusion of Nationalist China as an associate member in the trade group.
On the other hand, France has been blasted by the Red Chinese press for its colonialism in Africa. The Chinese accused France of
exploitation in the Congo and meddling in the internal affairs of Gabon. C'est la vie!
Racial violence continued to mark the news. Negro students protesting lunch counter segregation in Princess Anne, Md., were beaten by state and local police. Negro leaders charged that the officials' use of dogs against the demonstrators was brutal and unnecessary.
NEW YORK CITY has its school boycott, and last week Boston had one too. Thousands of Negro and white children boycotted the Boston public schools to protest alleged de facto segregation. No violence marked the second such protest in eight months.
Meanwhile forces for and against the administration's civil rights bill are organizing, and plans are being drawn for the battle which should start sometime next week. The controversial farm bill is being cleared first. The fight over the rights bill is not expected to end until some time this summer.
AND SPEAKING OF boycotts, the longshoremen's boycott against loading ships with wheat for Russia and other Eastern European countries has ended after successful negotiations between union leaders and Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz.
The agreement provides that one-half of all future ships carrying wheat to the Russians be American vessels.
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Around the country last week two trials and one Congressional investigation ground on. In Dallas the tedious work of selecting a jury in the Jack Ruby trial speeded up. Late in the week ten jury members had been picked.
JAMES R. HOFFA, head of the Teamsters U, took the stand in Chattanooga, Tenn., and asserted that the testimony given against him by the government's chief witness at his jury-tampering trial was "an absolute fabrication."
In Washington the investigation of Bobby Baker and "influence peddling" in the Senate was highlighted by the appearance of Baker and his attractive secretary, Nancy Carole Tyler. Baker refused to turn over records of his financial dealings to the Senate investigating committee.
AND THE KANSAS legislature did it again. Last year's reapportionment bill was declared invalid because it omitted Leawood. Last week the House bill signed by Gov. John Anderson was found to contain a clerical error in that a precinct in Prairie Village was included in two districts. The question of the law's constitutionality is presently being taken to the Kansas Supreme Court.
Kansas
would end to a week of news-
Charles O. Finley finally signed
an agreement on the stadium lease
with Kansas City officials. The
Athletics are here for four more
years.
—Rick Mabbu++
Dailij Hansan
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