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THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, October CO Southern Novel Bit NdshvilU Hears MSI atlp Wax Ppeel Taster, DanutiUr? In its sixty-eight Jo year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions 1 1 from either the administration or the student body. Pag Two The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Publica tions Board of the University of North Carolina, Richard Overstreet, Chairman. t:i All editorials appearing in ihe lmily iar heel are we personal expres- sions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily represen- tative of feeling on the staff, and all reprints or quotations must specify thus. October 30, 1960 Volume LXIX, Number 40 HST Builds An Amusement Park The following excerpts from a recent speech by Harry S. Tru man serve to illustrate the un deniable fact that this great gen tleman's verve and humor most certainly have not deserted him: "I do not fel bitterness tonight toward Richard Nixon. I feel con cern and a touch of pity. I have been wondering what he could do after the election returns are in. ... He is too young to retire, and he will have to have some kind of job. ... ... "I think I have discovered what Nixon can do. He has considerable gifts of showmanship and the abil ity to create all kinds of illusions. He should go into the amusement park business and open one of his own, which we could call Nixon land. "One of the rules in Nixonland would be 'no cuss words' because of the children there. Of course, in Nixonland there would be nothing to cuss about, because there our prestige would be at an all time high and we would all be morally, spiritually, economically and mili tarily stronger than anybody else anywhere. "Nixonland would also be very neat. In fact, it would be as clean as a hound's tooth. "The first thing to do in Nixon land would be to take a ride on the Nixon train. This would go, rather quickly through 50 odd countries ... the end of this ride would be quite exciting, with howl ing Comunist mobs, and all the passengers would have to be res cued by the United States Marines. "Then there would be the Nixon trip up the Congo River, through Communistland. And you would see stuffed Communists popping out from behind every bush." And Nixon would stand in the bow of the boat, and shoot them deacj -with blanks. "Another popular attraction would be the great Nixon sub marine ride to the offshore islands. This submarine would go to Que moy and Matsu, but not to Cuba. In fact, there would be a rule in Nixonland against mentioning Cuba. Anybody who mentioned Cuba would have to get off the submarine and swim home. . . ." Should be quite a place, Harry. Is Mr. Nixon Changing His Spots? We had hoped that Richard Nixon would completely cast off his campaigning history in this presidential year and speak, as he is capable of . doing, directly an the issues. But it begins to appear that his history is very' much alive; and if a valid distinction may be drawn between "new" and "old" Nixons, it is increasingly the old Nixon voters are witnessing today. Aa Dayton, Ohio, this week, the vice president trotted out what ap pears to be an old technique of his. He brandished and read from an issue of Pravda, the Soviet of ficial newspaper, which had re printed speeches on American prestige by Sen. Kennedy and Ad lai Stevenson. Mr. Nixon comented: "The Com munist newspaper Pravda has run two columns of quotes from speeches by Kennedy and Steven son in which the Democratic lead ers talked of lower U.S. prestige in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It just isn't true. We're the world's strongest nation, first in education. We're first in science. We're going to stay that way unless they give us an inferiority complex by what they're saying. . Aside from Mr. Nixon's neat flip of the page from the topic of pres tige to that of power, the question is, why use Pravda? If Mr. Nixon wishes to maintain, in the teeth of gathering evidence, that Am erican prestige is not slipping, that is his right. If he wishes to quar- .W.V.V.W.'AV i : i 5 JONATHAN YARDLEY Editor Wayne King, Mary Stewart Baker . Associate Editors Robert Haskell, Margaret Ann Rhymes Managing Editors Edward Neat. Riner Assistant To The Editor Henry Mayer, Lloyd Little News Editors Susan Lewis Feature Editor Frank Slusser Sports Editor Ken Friedman. Asst. Sports Editor John Justice, Davis Young Contributing Editors Tim Burnett Business Manager Richard Weineh Advertising Manager John Jester. Circulation Manager Charles WtrzuBTE..Subscription Manager The Daily Tar Heel is published daily except Monday, examination periods and vacations. It is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant with the act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4 per semester, $7 per year. The Daily Tar Heel is a member of the United Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. Published by the Colonial Press. Chapel Hill. N. C. - u ;1 rel with Sen. Kennedy and Adlai Sevenson over their judgment, that is also his right. But of what pos sible relevance is it that their re marks were given currency in Pravda? What would it matter if Pravda chose to use a full issue quoting the views of Sen. Kennedy, Gov. Stevenson, or any other American politician Democratic or Republican? Has American de bate come to the stage at which Americans must tremble to see themselves quoted in a Russian newspaper? So far, Mr. Nixon has hot pro duced a document or a conclusive argument to parry Sen. Kennedy's thrusts. Does Sen. Kennedy say Ameri can prestige and relative power are sinking? Mr. Nixon accuses him of "selling America short" and now reads from Pravda. Does Sen. Kennedy suggest that the U. S. might have exercised the diplo matic formality of "expressing re grets" over the U-2 flight provid ed Mr. K demanded that alone? Mr. Nixon replies that "some pe ople" want to "apologize" to the Russians. He leaves no doubt that by "some people" he means Mr. Kennedy, and that "apologizing" is the same as expressing regrets. This log-jam of accusation re paid by obfuscation gives signs of breaking. A document possibly bearing on the confidence of Euro peans in the American position is jammed somewhere in the chan nels of the executive. Press Sec retary James Hagerty describes it as a rountine "low level" report, whose importance ought to ..be minimized. Henry Cabot Lodge implies with superb oligarchic dis dain that he, not the public, nor the United States Information Agen cy, is equipped to judge this issue. Mr. Lodge is a formidable and high minded and able man. But he seems to forget that judging is the business of the voter and that they deserve all relevant facts it js pos sible to give them. The public is surely qualified to judge on its own the significance of a document that may be vital to its future. Certainly it's to be pre sumed the U.S. document is more objective and more valuable than the Soviet newspaper that Mr. Nix on holds in his hand. ; From The Charlotte News Novels with a rural South set ting are pretty predictable. The reader can count on a few bawdy characters, a good many; four letter words, a couple' of rape or incest scenes. Result: one big yawn on the part of the reader, and a ride on the best-seller charts for the author. The above elements are large ly missing in Guy Owen's "SEA SON OF FEAR. Subsequently, the book is a pleasant surprise. Instead of treating country people as curiosities or museum pieces, Mr. Owen treats them as humans. Instead of poking fun at them, Mr. Owen detects their dignity and pride. Dignity and pride were hard to hold onto during the few years following the Depression, when the action' of the novel takes place. In the N. C. Cape Fear to bacco community of Eller's Bend people were trying in vain to grow a decent crop when every thing worked against them. Prices were much too low, to be gin with, and there was no rain. Clay Hampton, the book's cen tral figure, is such a person. A tobacco farmer, in his 40's, who has spent his life supporting and obeying two old women (his mother and his aunt), Clay finds the summer a season of fear fear of a cruel God who won't let i rain, "and fear of a mother who won't let him out of her clutches. Clay is ugly and igno rant, and yet realizes that he must escape the isolated world of Eller's Bend if he is ever to become an individual. (To be continued tomorrow) JACK GAVER Danny Kaye, Dean Martin Specials Highlight TV Week NEW YORK (UPI) Only Dan ny Kaye and Dean Martin spe cials disturb the placidity of rou tine programming on the three TV networks next week. SUNDAY "CBS Television Workshop" is pre-empted' by "Other Hat in the Ring," a report of minority par ties in" the presidential election. U.S. Sen. Jacob K. Javits,.(R. N.Y.), appears on ABC's "College News Conference." " The CBS regional coverage of National Football League games is: St. Louis-New ' York, Cleveland-Washington, Baltimore-Dallas, Chicago-San Francisco, Green Bay-Pittsburgh. NBC offers the Green Bay Pittsburgh NFL game. ABC's regional coyerage of American Football League games consists of Houston-Buffalo, Dallas-Denver. Democratic presidential nomi nee Sen. John F. Kennedy is on the CBS "Face the Nation." "An Hour with Danny Kaye" on CBS replacing Ed Sullivan's show for the evening is the comedian's first time on the air as an entertainer. He once did a United Nations documentary. Louis Armstrong helps out with his trumpet. A story by Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner, "The Gradua tion Dress," is the basis for the half-hour drama on the CBS "GE Theater." Hugh O'Brian, Stella Stevens and Buddy Ebsen ap pear in it. MONDAY Raymond Massey and Bethel Leslie are guest stars on NBCs "Riverboat" in "Trunk Full of Dreams," story' of a shipwrecke4 pair of would-be ' enerMriers. " Clint Walker stars in ''Road to Three Graves," the episode on ABC's "The Cheyenne Show.' powerful land-owner tries o block development of a irrine. The "Surf side Six" private-eye story on ABC is ''Local Crirl." A detective assigned as bodyguard to a rich girl gets involved in a shotgun wedding. TUESDAY ABC's "Expedition'.' deals with the discovery of a ship sunk 3, 000 years ago in the Mediter ranean. NBC's "Laramie" has a pre viously announced and then post poned, episode, ''The Dark rail" in which Gigi Perreau and Rob ert Vaughn play a" romantic pair fleeing her father's "wrath." NBC's "Thriller" also has an announced and postponed drama in "The Watcher.? Martin Gabel plays a psychopathic teacher who has killed once and threatens to do so again. Dean Martin's first TV effort of the season on NBC employs Dorothy Provine, David Rose and his orchestra, Don Knotts and Frank Sinatra. WEDNESDAY The "Hawaiian Eye" episode on ABC is "Vanessa Vanishes." A kidnap-ransom situation in volving a rich girl develops into more than it seems to be. Perry Como gets ex-Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, Rose mary Clooney and six-year-old piano player Ginny Tiu for his NBC hour at 9.' The "U.S. Steel Hour" play on CBS at 10 is "A Time to Decide" with Nina Foch, Barry Nelson and Cathleen Nesbitt. A man is torn between his ideals and his wish for financial security. THURSDAY ' The CBS "Witness" will con sist of a simulated probe of Chi cago gangster Roger Touhy. NBC's "Outlaws" hour has a story' called "Shorty." Alfred Ry der plays a frail specimen who attempts to make up for size by FRANK MURPHY becoming a deadly gunman. Luther Adler and Michael An sara are guest stars on ABC's "The Untouchables." A raid on an illicit still results in a killing that imperils Ness. FRIDAY Dane Clark stars on "Rawhide" for CBS as an ex-con who gets involved with the cattle drive in "Incident of the Night Visitor." Detective Stu Bailey imperson ates a killer in "Double Trouble" to break up a big-time gangster operation "on ABC's "77 Sunset Strip." The "Michael Shayne" case on NBC at 10 is "Call for Michael Shayne.!' Shayne uncovers black mail, the narcotics traffic and two murders in investigating the death' of a wealthy woman's sis ter. SATURDAY The college football game on ABC is Army vs. Syracuse. NBC's pro basketball game at 2 pits Syracuse against Los An geles. ABC's "All-Star Golf" consists of a match between Cary Middle coff and Paul Harney. Perry Mason's concern on CBS is "The Case of the Clumsy Clown." Bigamy and a black mail threat are involved in an attempt of one circus partner to buy out another. The "Checkmate" case on CBS . is "Kill or Be Killed." Charles Bickford is guest star as an ec centric financier who believes a former partner is trying to kill him. "The Fight of the Week" on ABC is a 10-round non-title af fair between Paul Pender, world mdidleweight champ, and Marcel Pigou. REFLECTIONS The other day, an ad for a new can-opener featured a voluptu ous girl in a bathing suit open ing a can. It didn't have anything to do with cans ... or did it? NASHVILLE, N. C. Former President Harry S. Truman turned to the Constitution last week in support of Sen. John F. Kennedy, Democratic presidential candidate. Article G of the Con stitution was Truman's firing line for trying to erase prejudices against ' Catholic Kennedy for president. The article states: "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." Speaking on a platform in Nashville, N. C, between the courthouse and Pope's Five and Ten, Truman said he regretted there appeared "to be a lot of people trying to yiolate and over turn that provision of the Con stitution. "To me, that is a terrible thing. To me, it smacks just as much of disloyalty to overturn that provision of the Constitution as it does to overturn the rest o it." Truman stated religious liberty is one of the basic freedoms in a democracy: the fundamental theory of separation of church and state. "We ought to keep it that way," he said. "The question of whom you will vote for in November is not a religious question, but a po litical one. It is not a question of voting for or against a man because he is a Catholic. It is a question of choosing between a Democrat who happens to be a Catholic and a Republican who happens, I believe, to be a Quaker," Truman explained. He aiso reminded the crowd of about 15,000 jamming Nashville's main street the same situation oc curred in 1928 when a Catholic was defeated by a Quaker who was a Republican. "You people here in North Carolina helped to elect him, and I think you have been sorry for it ever since. I hope you won't make the same mistake again." After defending Kennedy, Tru man cut Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Republican presiden tial candidate, on the issue of experience. He admitted Nixon has had experience and followed up with the question of what kind of experience. 'So far as I can see, most of the experience of the Republican candidate has been the bad kind. It may qualify him for return to private life. . . . One fact about the vice president's experience which is sometimes overlooked, although it is extremely impor tant (is) his experience has been Republican experience. If the country should be so unfortunate as to have him elected president, he would be a Republican presi dent. ... In his campaigning, the vice president soft pedals the fact that he is a Republican. "I don't blame him for playing down the fact that he is a Re publican during this campaign. However, if he were elected, you can be quite certain that he would remind you just how much of a Republican he is," Truman said. Reviewer Calls South Pacific A Theatre Delight One had but to hear the en thusiastic oohs and ahhs of the "South Pacific" opening night audience to know that the Play makers have a hit on their hands. The production, which opened Friday and ends tonight in Me morial Hall, is a rousing two-and-a-half hours of theatre magic, . spiifl'Vfanicai)?.''". The; musical, whicj 'opened on Broadway in 1949, is a 1 yartime . loye story se on' a Pacific island. 4 'Navy' nursf," Nellie, !Forbush, . falls " in loye with an exiled Frenc planter, Emile de Becque; A second loye affair invblyes J oe Cable, a lieutenant from :'-Princeton, atid' Liat, a young Tpnkanese beauty. The ' musical ' score con tains such favorites as "Some ' Encantr.lIyenWV ''Bali Ha'i," VYpunger ' Than Springti'mV'; v in fact, nearly all the songs are well remembered even today; , Jane Page is a charming Nel lie Forbush. Her beauty and poise pull her through a very tricky role. A times she" seems reluc tant to forsake dignity and hop aout with gay abandon, and she is often oQ soft, top aloof, "for the springy, "bouncy Nellie. Yet in such numbers as 'Honey Bun," bounce she does and quite Well. Also, despite a pleasant sing ing voice, Miss Page lacks force or shall we say, "razz-ma-tazz." Her acting occasionally, lapses into an upsetting same- ness; for example, when her lover, feared dead, returns, she merely smiles gaily, as if he is a post man with the new "Good House keeping." Nevertheless, this role (doubtlessly created for Mary Martin) is most demanding; and all things considered. Miss Page does quite a commendable job. . Joel Carter as Emile acts with a flair and self-assurance that lends importance to the play. De spite his being considerably older than Miss Page, Dr."' Carter's savoir-faire makes hirn quite be lievable as her lover. His songs, as might be expected of a musi cian, are excellent; arid his French accent seems almost second-nature. His high-stepping parody of Miss Page in one scene delights the audience while Tend ing burlesque' and charm to' the same role. . The two scene-stealefs, how ever, are Frank McDonald as Luther Billis and Marilyn Zschaii as Bloody Mary. These two belt out their lines " with savage fer vor; and the result is delight, sheer delight. Miss Zschau's bawdy laugh is maryelously similar to the trade mark oi the original Bloody Mary, Juanita Hall. When she sings, however, her voice changes so completely that the virtuoso shines through, which is out of character; but who will condemn her for singing too well? Her songs seem set lower than her usual range, too, which kills her volume and at times causes her to be drowned out by the orches tra. But both when she bellows her wares and when she describes her Bali Ha'i, the audience loves her and that seems proof enough of her ability. As for McDonald, he shakes the stage with vitality. His "belly dance" is a show-stopper; attired in a flimsy skirt, with coconut shell breasts and a mop on his head, he merits more laughter than any other moment in the play ,and that's going some. His full-throated line delivery is a welcome contrast to the meek voiced minor players, who are frequently the bog-down element and sharply remind us that this is a non-professional group. Ed Robbins as Joe Cable is at his" best when singing; otherwise he lacks vigor, that all-important vigor. His love scenes with Elaine Chang, who is a lovely, fragile Liat, are moving but it is un fortunate that he cannot project more forcefully. His tenor voice simply doesn't carry very far. which is a serious hindrance. . The sets are magic. Lynn Gaulfs colorful, well-coordinated gems are alone worth the admis sion price. Especially beautiful is the enchanted island Bali Ha'i. which looms mysteriously in the distance. ' A master choreographer has wielded the choruses so that they are far less cumbersome than fn previous musicals and even add much to the spell of the play. Irene Rains' costumes are up to her usual standard, and Russell Graves' lighting is also quite good; one is unaware of the lighting manipulations, yet re calls afterward how effective they have been. The orchestra, while frequently too loud for the ama teur voices of the singers, is a pleasing complement. But the success of "South Pa cific" and success it assuredly is has sprung largely from the forehead of one man, Director Tom Patterson. As evidence, the pace is unusually swift in this longer-than-average musical. This reviewer was conscious of no drags whatever in the action, a quality which may well be an all time first for Playmaker musi cians. The actors move about with natural grace in such a way that there are no awkward dump ings; and obviously the poise of Miss Page and Dr. Carter is a tool in which Patterson has re veled. Tom Patterson and the Playmakers have developed a far - above - average Playmaker musical, much better, it seems to this reviewer, than "Okla homa? or "Carousel." It was a rare pleasure to experience "South Pacific," Playmaker-stylc.
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