THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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More Oil
The Budget
So, You See, The People Really Elected
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Was Biased?
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November 22, 1960
Volume LXIX, Number 59
Infirmary: Good Care, Bad Food
We have just returned, shaky
knees and all, from "a seven-day
bout with one of the virus diseases
in the U.N.C. Student Infirmary, a
spot which has received little edi
torial attention since the Asian Flu
swept the campus in the fall of '57.
There are a . great many aspects
of the infirmary which, should be
highly commended, - a few which
should be heartily decried. The six
regular doctors, as well as Head
Physician Hedgepeth, deserve not
mere commendation but hearty
praise.
We do not believe that any other
infirmary or hospital could boast
of a group of men so dedicated to
their job and so willing to perform
it with good humor and diligence.
Students have always found these
men more than ready to hear their
tales of woe, hypochondriacs or
not; they attend to their ministra
tion with dispatch and manage,
somehow, to give each patient the
certain knowledge that, whether he
has influenza or a torn iigament,
he will be well and on his feet as
soon as possible.
Likewise the nurses are worthy
of praise. They are friendly with
out neglecting their duty in the
temptations of joviality; rarely are
they overly severe and almost in
variably they let the whims which
college patients find so alluring run
rampant as long as they do not en
danger anyone's health. And they
suffer through endless buzzings of
the little board which summons
them to bring some student a glass
of juice, a bit of cough syrup or a
little wanted sympathy. .
The food, however, is another
matter. It is so vile and tasteless
that upon release a student is like
ly to view Lenoir Hall as compar
able td Sardi's or Twenty One.
In the morning your scrambled
eggs are cold and look as though
they had been dished out with an
ice cream spoon. The toast is soft
and soggy. The coffee is made of
some substance so foreign that it
is unidentifiable: we think it is
Mongolian mud.
Lunch is of an indefinable na
ture. At times it slides under the
door, slinks up the covers and sud
denly appears before you in the
form of a jellyfish that gave up; at
other times it batters down the door
and hits you in the face, turning
into a piece of corn bread that
never matured beyond the ear.
There is always the chance, of
course, of your getting a bowl of
cold white soup which, upon in
vestigation, reveals a murky sub
stance at its bottom. We admit to
cowardice: we pushed it aside.
Dinner is the most substantial
meal and as such comes marching
in at five o'clock a rather unso
phisticated hour, we must say
complete with warm milk (that is
a regular feature of every meal)
and soggy bun. Your meat is in
variably a slab of some formidable
cut off the shank of some furry
creature and your vegetables lies,
unprotesting, in a little bowl
segregated off by itself. Desert
chickens out, off and on.
If you are sick, go to the infirm
ary. Your examination will be com
plete and your care will be de
voted. You will, in short time ,be
well unless the food kills you.
Gable: He Left Big Shoes
Clark Gable is dead and there is
no one to replace him. He was the
undisputed high priest of mascu7
Unity and . glamor in Hollywood
since the day: in the 1930's when he
amazed Amercan moviegoers by
slapping Norma Shearer in the
face; now there is no actor or per
sonality to assume his throne.
Gable was not merely a glamor
ous man; he was a good, simple and
modest person who never com
pletely realized what he was to his
public and who always was amazed
at the devotion tendered him. He
was not much of an actor, but he
was one hell of a lot of Gable, and
that was enough to satisfy the men
and the women who loved him.
His big ears and his bulky frame
wandered across the screen in
many motion pictures, and every
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time he drew the people to the box
office in droves. They came to see
a real man, not to see a pandering
little singer or some self-satisfied
bully; in whatever Clark Gable
did he always left the impression
that the stamp of sheer mascu
linity had been placed upon it.
He brought a new life and dimen
sion to the screen, because he
seemed so much a real person in
every role he acted; if he could not
declaim his lines with heroic
poise, he could invariably leave the
indelible mark of humanity on
everything he touched.
We are left now with a breed of
actors and "stars" who are half
men, half the creations of the gla
mor studios. The Rock Hudsons and
Tab Hunters emanate only an odor
of sterile cleanliness; one always
felt that Gable sweated, whereas
these gods of the screen seem in
capable of such debauchery.
Perhaps some of Gable's charm
has been captured by the Dean
Martin-Peter Lawford-Frank Si
natra triumvirate, but again there
is something missing; these men
seem tainted by the evil of the
world, and their cinematic image
carries this image across. Gable
may have been rough and tumble
but he never was evil.
America will miss Clark Gable,
perhaps more than she realizes. He
exemplified many of the things that
we have always thought were good
in what is basically America; his
vigor, his strength and his basic
honesty were inherently and total
ly American. Some of these quali
ties will vanish from our public
life now that he is dead.
President William C. Friday
apparently intends to have his
board of trustees take up the
controversy with the State Board
of Higher Education over budget
slicing recommendations.
Friday said a special call meet
ing of the University's trustees
has been set for Dec. 6 at North
Carolina State College.
The request for a call meeting
to discuss the 1961-63 budget
needs of the Consolidated Uni
versity was approved by the
trustees Sept. 12. . ' .
"At that time," Friday said,
"a full report will be given to
the board on the" status of Uni
versity budget requests for the
next biennium." '
The higher board recommend
ed that the University's request
ed $14 million budget for the next
biennium be reduced to slightly
more than $4 million.
Friday immediately protested
the board's action saying it would
"severely damage the quality of
the University" and retard ef
forts to offer competitive salaries
to its professors.
L. P. McLendon, chairman of
the higher board, defended the
action and attributed the contro
versy to a "difference in phi
losophies." He said the board's philosophy
"is that the colleges should con
centrate on improving existing
services before they move on to
new programs."
McLendon said the recommend
ed budget would meet 60 per cent
of salary requests for the first
year of the biennium and 52 per
cent during the second year.
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THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS'
Preoccupation With Sex Fades As The Plot Thickens
" 'Each one of you thinks it
is he who fights on the side of
the angels. What a marvelous
new race of men . . . Im
possible, but marvelous.'"
These words, spoken by a Ro
manian who seems to be intro
duced into the novel primarily
just to speak them, form the key
of the philosophy underlying The
Side of the Angels, a new novel
by Alexander Federoff. The book
has already been purchased for
the screen by Otto Preminger
and underwent three publications
before its date of publication'
yesterday. In short, it seems des
tined for a rapid ascent to the
upper echelons of the best seller
lists and, probably, to a lot of
Christmas packages.
The author, a young man with
roots in New Orleans, is con
cerned in the book with the
generation which came into ma
turity immediately after World
War II and the problems which
have faced it since.
Specifically, he is concerned
with seven individuals and their
roles in the upheavals and re
settlings that have been taking
place in America since the first
VrJ Day. . . .
. Helen Maclean is a young girl
from the midwest with one great
desire in life: to get ahead. He
pursues her destiny to Chicago
and falls into bed and other
places with an errant husband
who helps her go to secretarial
school; she soon rises in the
world of fashion, but is thrown
over by her lover and goes to
New York. There she rises and
rises in fashion circles, but is
faced with difficulty when she
wants to marry Dr. Marvin Kauf
man, whose Jewish parents object
to his marrying a Gentile.
Zeeda Kaufman (Marvin's sis
ter, as a matter of incidental in
telligence to prove how every
thing works in) gets involved in
a sexual encounter with budding
author Steve Williams but ends
up as a . Communist agitator. Her
road leads only one way down.
Steve Williams's road, on the
other hand, leads up. He becomes
a successful writer and marries
Margaret Cowan (after an affair
in New Orleans, supplied for a
little idyllic adventure and more
sex) who is the daughter of a
big wheel in the Republican
Party. Her brother is queer, and
falls in with
Warren Taggert, who suffers
what the advertisements call a
"sexual' abberration" after, an
unfortunate affair with a prosti
tute and heads for New Orleans
to work in the bank and escape
his girl. There he meets Mike
Cowan, and becomes a homo
sexual. Their encounter is de
scribed with a little more detail
than some may find palatable.
We only wonder how Preminger
is going to handle it. He finally
succeeds in repressing it and be
gins to work in publishing.
Tiger Rizzuto is a rough tough
sergeant who tries stealing cars
for a living, gives it up as a bad
security risk, and turns to being
janitor in the New York Labor
School. He begins to attend
classes there and soon is a-full-fledged
student. By the book's end
hie. has started fighting dirty
labor practices and has become a
reasonably respectable citizen.
As the book ends two of these
seven have died and five are in
MIKE ROBINSON
the same room, which proves
that coincidence can happen if
only you keep your eyes open.
Federoff seems, for the first
hundred pages of this rather long
book, ,tq. be engrossed in the
s'QJcual livesJof the characters, as
though he were trying to give a
medical history of each. Helen
Maclean starts right in at the old
game in the second chapter (in
lurid detail) and Steve Williams
goes to work as soon as he enters
the book. The other characters
all get a chance.
Then, as suddenly as he start
ed, Federoff stops and there is no
sex for the rest of the book. One
gets the feeling that he felt it
Holiday In Neiv York
It is pleasant to act fool
ishly in the right place.
Horace.
New York this Thanksgiving
holiday promises to be a wonder
ful madhouse of screeching and
sedate merriment. Everything
from Dave Brubeck to, Manet
prints will be found in the Big
Town this week. Some cost like
the devil, while others are free,
but certainly New York will make
you exclaim "It's great, but I
wouldn't. . . .",
The Theater
THURBER CARNIVAL This
James Thurber' grab-bag is stu
pendous, literate nonsense espe
cially when comic genius Paul
Ford is on stage. Anta Theater,
52 St. West of Broadway. Tickets
available. Thanksgiving Day
matinee at 2:30 instead of Wed
nesday matinee. '
THE WALL Drama of the
destruction of the Warsaw Ghet
to provides dynamic theater in a
grand manner.: A jolting jab to
the brain and a round-house
right to the stomach,! with superb
acting. Billy Rose Theater, 41st
W. of B'way. Tickets available.
T-Day matinee.
IRMA LA DOUCE A sassy
jaunty musical farce with a bril
liant performance by Clive Revill
and a good performance by saucy
"Elizabeth Seal, i who plays "a" girl
of whom no one can say 'tis a
pity she's a . whore. Music Box
Theater, 45th W. of B'way. T
Day matinee. Tickets riot avail
able, but you might slip in by
taking single seats! " "
.. TOYS IN THE ATTIC A
prize-winning drama about moral
decay in a New Orleans family.
Lillian Hellman shines like a
floodlight in comparison, to spot
sized contemporary playwrights.
Hudson Theater, 44th E. of
B'way. Tickets available. T-Day
matinee.
GYPSY A brilliant diamond
hard look at show business, with
a smile and a tear, and the solid,
deep and powerful acting of
Ethel Merman. Imperial Theater,
45th W. of B'way. Tickets avail
able. T-Day matinee.
An absolute must is The Mod
ern Jazz Quartet with scintillat
ing DAVE BRUBECK and Chris
Conner at Carnegie Hall this
Friday at 11:45. Ever way-way-out
MORT SAHL will perform at
Carnegie the same day at 8:30
p.m. (Carnegie Hall, 57th & 7th).
Nightclubs
Where dancing andor en
tertainment are provided
your check is subject to 10
Federal tax.
Brassy BASIN STREET EAST
137 E. 48th Vivacious jazz club
featuring top-notch entertain
ment: Johnnie Ray, George
Shearing Quintet & Quincy Jones
orch. at 9, 12 & 2 a.m. Medium
price range. With dancing.
Swinging wild METROPOLE
7th at 48th- Downstairs Room:
Lionel Hampton & orch. alternat
ing . "Red" Allen. Raucous and
tourist-ridden. Very inexpensive.
BIRDLAND 52nd and B'way
is the headquarters for jazz
fans. Herbie Mann's Afro-Cubans
& other cool cats. Medium priced.
EL CHICO 80 Grove As
Spanish as Spain in decor. "Pan
American show all the way, with
dancing. Just plain expensive.
Always be on the lookout for
the cover charge and the mini
mum. If you are wondering what's
free in New York try a Goya and
Manet art exhibition of rare
prints at the N.Y. Public Library
at 42nd & 5th. And don't forget
the colorfully colossal Macy's T
Day parade at 9:45 a.m. starting"
at 77th &' Central Park West. . .
necessary to pull the reader into
the novel with sex and then saw
no reason to carry it on when it
has served its usefulness.
In general the novel is written
well, if somewhat awkwardly.
The author's control of dialogue
is excellent and as long as the
characters are talking the novel
moves with a fast pace. His nar
rative passages are less effective,
if only for the sheer reason that
he seems to be straining to be
effective.
Interspersed in the narrative
are passages which serve to re
mind the reader of historical
events taking place at the time,
of the story: Marshall Plan,
Truman Doctrine, etc. These pas
sages are well handled and gen
erally heighten the dramatic ef
fect of the book.
The characters are well drawn
and come to life for the reader.
Particular mention should be
made of the characterization of
Tiger Rizzuto. It is handled with
genuine sympathy and makes the
plight of a man caught between
being decent and making money
to support his wife and daughter
seem very real and pitiable.
One objection we raise to this
novel is that Federoff will be
come entranced with one or two
characters for a long period of
time, leaving the reader in the
dark about the activities of some
of the other characters. Steve
Williams becomes the focal point
of the book and, perhaps, can be
viewed as the autobiographical
element in this first novel.
The novel is styled in the pano
ramic vein of John Dos Passos'
U.S.A. trilogy. The latter is more
successful, primarily because it
commutes more sense of history.
One tends to wonder where
Federoff's convictions lie, whe
ther they are with Steve Wil
liams, Zeeda Kaufman or her
brother. The book radiates a lack
of deep philosophical thought.
Despite this, the book is quite
a good one. It is a fascinating
glimpse into the people who now
are leading our nation, the gen
eration that spawned our next
President and much of his cabi
net. And it is a powerful story,
told with a flair for the dramatic
and for, the touching.
i Readers will find this a good
reading extra, and will probably
make a big success out of it.
There have been better novels
since the War, -but this is one of
the best about the people who
were involved in or touched by
the War.
Alexander Federoff. "T h a
Side of the Angels' Ivan Obe
lensky. Inc., New York. $5.95,
518pp.
Jonathan Yardley
To the editor of the
Daily Tar Heel
While .reading the Daily Tar
Heel's article of Sunday, Novem
ber 13, which pertains to the
proposed revision of the Student
Constitution of the University of
North Carolina, it became ob
vious to me that something was
amiss. I feel that I should con
tain my remarks to the article as
presented, rather than to the pro
posed revision, of which I know
less than I would like.
This article was presented as a
news item, and not as an edi
torial. Therefore, I feel I must
object to the obvious, as well as
subtle bias of which Mr. Lindell
is guilty. I do not object to Mr.
Lindell's methods of presenting
this bias to the student body.
It is evident to me that this
article was intended to be an
early attempt to "shape-up" stu
dent opinion in favor of the pro
posed revision.
Mr. Lindell is also guilty of
this subtle slanting in the body
of his article. I must admire Mr.
Lindell's choice of words. For
example, he states, "The greatest
single innovatoin of the new con
stitution is the shake-up in the
structure of the judicial branch
of Student Government." "Great
est" mind you, not "major" or
"biggest."
Although these are singular
points, I feel they are indicative
of Mr. Lindell's approach to the
entire matter. The tone of his ar
ticle conveys the impression to
me that there is no question but
that the proposed revision will
be adopted. I cannot help but
feel he is trying to "put some
thing over" on me, as well as the
student body at large.
Mr. Lindell proposes that we
are in dire need of a new con
stitution. I personally question
whether or not we even, need a
new constitution. According to
Mr. Lindell, this is the sixth re
vision to be presented to the
Student Legislature since 1947,
the last one being in 1957. I ques
tion the necessity of another re
vision at this time on the grounds
that. the present Constitution has
iot been given adequate time for
it to be seen if it can be made to
work effectively. (I also serious
ly doubt whether there has been
any serious attempt by the pres
ent administration even to make
it work effectively.)
Mr. Lindell says that we "need
a more up-to-date framework in
order to keep pace with the
needs of a growing student
body," and that the proposed re
vision will lead to greater flexi
bility on the part of the presi
dent of the student body as re
gards his duties and capacities. I
feel that this so-called "flexibili
ty" may lead to a rubber-stamp
legislature, with too much power
in the hands of the president and
his appointees. I feel this pro
posed revision advocates ex
pediency at the expense of jus
tice and democratic procedure.
I would refer specifically to the
proposal to drop the jury-trial
option. Mr. Lindell supports his
argument by stating that the
jury-trial option has been little
utilized, and that dropping it
will result in simplification and
expediency of trials and related
matters. Regardless of whether
the option has been employed or
not, I still feel that a student
should have the right to a jury
trial if he so desires.
My major question concerning
the proposed revision is how does
it propose to "greatly simplify
and expedite" the legislative and
judicial processes? ... at whose
expense and for whose benefit?
Mr. Lindell's article leaves me
woefully uninformed on this
question.
My major objection to Mr.
Lindell's article is his attitude
that the new constitution has
been "signed, sealed, and deliv
ered." It has not, and I must
wonder just why Mr. Lindell has
adopted this attitude.
In view of Mr. Lindell's ob
vious editorializing, I feel that
the Daily Tar Heel made a mis
take in not placing Mr. Lindell's
article on the editorial page.
Charles W. Trouiman
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