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University Daily Kansan Friday, Feb. 8, 1963
The World Will Survive
Judging from the surface of recent international uproars, it would appear that our weary, old, war-torn globe is crumbling into a pile of 18th Century Nationalistic rubble.
Charles de Gaulle has thrown NATO and the Common Market to the brink of apparent disastrous dissension; Communist China and Russia have ended, at least temporarily, their Marxist love affair, and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's charges of U.S. intervention into Canadian defense policy has wilted the long-blooming flower of romance between the two North American powers.
IF THESE SEEMINGLY revolutionary developments are indicative of a permanent shake-up, world power-parleys will be conducted along new lines of alliance or at least common interests, the basis for alliances.
This is doubtful. The differences between Russia and China are more likely transitory, instead of permanent. Neither, especially China, can go it alone. At least not as effectively as together.
AS FOR A permanent split growing between the U.S. and Canada, it's doubtful.
Differences between allies are common. The same general alliance lines will prevail.
What has been uncommon is that three such shakeups have occurred in such close succession.
But this is one instance when one-plus-one-plusone does not equal three. At least not in magnitude of repercussions.
THIS DOES NOT MEAN that the changes are not significant. But the aura of total upheaval with entirely new alignments is doubtful.
The common interests which connect Russia and China together are less binding. On the surface, China needs Russia more than vice versa.
Even after China develops its own nuclear bomb (it will be too soon, experts say—about 1965), the Asian power will need help from Russia. Food is short. Industrialization has been slow, and at the expense of increasing food output.
BUT IT IS not that simple.
Russia is in trouble whichever direction they go, as regards China. No nation, Russia included, is pleased with the prospects of things to follow after Peking owns its own nuclear weaponry.
China is the only world power-parley element that cannot be figured on the basis of past performance. It has always had superior numbers. Soon it will add powerful muscles.
After that, it could develop into everyone's nightmare. For the present, a solution to disarmament and controls can be delayed. We hope.
—Terry Murphy
Movie producer Carlo Ponti clashed with Boccaccio last night in a three-round bout at the Varsity Theatre. Boccaccio held his own for one round but spent most of the last two rounds on the ropes.
ROUND ONE, "The Temptation of Dr. Antonio," led learing fans through a gay spoof at just about everything in sight, thanks to the talents of Peppino de Filippo and the more obvious assets of Anita Ekberg. Dr. Antonio, the super-prude, opened the bout with a blast at the sweet life as lived in the Roman version of Zone O.
He rode high for a while. But then a King Kong version of Anita Ekberg turned the tide, mopping up Rome with a terrified Dr. Antonio.
ROUND TWO. "The Job." slowed the pace considerably to tell the heart-tending tale of how tough it is to be a rich, beautiful countess whose husband would rather pay for what he should be able to get for free. She retaliated by cutting the for-free clause out of their very businesslike marriage.
Her revenge gave her no satisfaction, however, and she was in tears when her erring husband entered their bedroom with check in hand. The whole thing is just a little too ludicrous for anything but a hopped-up soap opera with some near-miss nude shots of Romy Schneider.
ROUND THREE. "The Raffle," picked up the pace a little. Some of the slams are rather good. But the thought of a group of fat, sweaty old farmers at a fair buying chances on a night with Sophia Loren is just a little too repulsive.
This aspect is smoothed over sloppily with a happy ending. A Casper Milquetoast wins the services of Miss Loren and then loses his nerve just in time for her motorcycle-riding, cowboy-booted prince charming to move in and steal his winnings.
This little trilogy probably will help verify the theory that sex can sell almost anything—DNB
Strike Shows Importance of Newspapers
Bv Roy Miller
How long will they last? What is their current affect? What impact will they have on the future? These are the major questions being asked about the newspaper strikes in New York and Cleveland.
"Being as far away out here as we are, it is hard to tell how long the strikes will last." said John DeMott, assistant professor of journalism. "Like I tell everybody else, what I know about the strike is what I don't read in (New York and Cleveland) papers."
PROF. DEMOTT, faculty adviser to the Daily Kansan and a former staff member of the Kansas City Star, isn't alone in his confessed inability to supply the answers. From the managing editor of the New York Times to
the copy boy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, it appears that no one has the answers.
In Cleveland, the afternoon Cleveland Press and News and the morning Plain Dealer have been shut down since Nov. 29. The Cleveland Newspaper Guild touched off the strike there when the Guild requested, among other things, union security for commercial department employees of the Scripps-Howard-owned Press.
The Machinists Union joined packet lines Monday as the strike began its ninth week. Five unions are now on strike against the Cleveland newspapers.
THE CLEVELAND RECORD, publishing a little more than 100,000 copies daily. has become the city's only newspaper.
More attention has been focused on the New York strikes, possibly because of the greater population, the number of newspapers affected and the several strike-born newspapers and stop-gap efforts to inform the inhabitants of America's largest city.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"SEEMS LIKE EVERY YEAR WE HAVE TO PLACE MORE OF OUR ENTERING FREHMEN INTO LOWER LEVEL MEDICAL CLASSES"
The city's nine major dailies have been shut down since Dec. 9. The Times, News, Journal-American and World-Telegram were struck by the International Typographical Union, Dec. 8. The Herald-Tribune, Post, Mirror and Long Island Star Journal have also been idled by the strike.
AT ISSUE IN New York is an ITU request for an $18 per week wage increase and an additional week of vacation. The Publishers' Association of New York has called the union's requests "impossible proposals" and local, state and federal efforts to mediate have been unsuccessful thus far.
Efforts to keep readers and shoppers informed of news and sales have ranged from news printed on grocery store sacks to the New York Standard, a morning tabloid sponsored by a credit card firm. Reportedly as many as 350,000 copies of some issues of the Standard have been sold.
"I think the lack of newspapers in New York City for two months has made it very clear to the general public and to persons in all media that the newspaper plays an essential role in public information," said Burton W. Marvin, dean of the School of Journalism.
DEAN MARVIN SAID continuation of the present situation in New York and Cleveland could cause legislation "which will lead to a stoppage of this situation."
"Because of the role it plays in society, the newspaper is a semipublic utility, and for that reason it's essential to keep it coming out," said Dean Marvin.
"However, there's a dilemma here because if the public accepted enforcement of legislation that would guarantee that the newspaper would keep coming out, then there might be danger of government regulations applied to newspapers as they are to public utilities."
Mel Adams, assistant professor of journalism, says radio and television advertising can't absorb the advertising role formerly played by newspapers in the two immediately affected cities.
"IN THE LAST strike of the papers in New York, you'll recall, Gallup in his survey asked people what they missed most. And what was it? Seventy-nine per cent of those interviewed said they missed advertisements most." Prof. Adams said.
Prof. Adams, who specializes in advertising, believes sales have been sharply affected by a lack of newspaper advertising in New York, despite figures that have suggested that there has been a rise in sales because of increased television and radio advertising.
"New York showed one of the
smallest increases in department store sales for the last reporting period for the national pattern in the last reporting period since the strike has begun," he said as he compared the 1 per cent rise in New York to Kansas City, the 26 per cent spurt claimed by Kansas City, Mo., for the same period.
"THIS WASNT good, this was bad." Prof. Adams said of the New York figure. "It should have been far greater than this."
Prof. DeMott said newspaper strikes have at least one positive aspect. He was city desk assignments editor for the Kansas City Star before joining the KU faculty last fall, and he was involved in two newspaper strikes as a reporter for the Star:
"The strikes were good in one respect, even though we had to work right through during the strike and the company lost money," said Prof. DeMott.
"You tend to take the newspaper for granted. Once in awhile there's a threat to one of these freedoms that are taken for granted and people stop and think of the newspaper's true meaning."
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