Eighth Astronaut
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Frenchmen Can Be Wrong
Link nosed aad hardly neaacKd is she
American press is she sacs shat she 7-year
war in Algeria and she hcjrfnle atrocities oi
the OAS are in their ins instance a racial
war.
In sj®se of she fact that whttjejra rfc
lasxsis are betser in the Soashera United
States than anywhere its she world, she
majority oi she American press aas Sled
she wcrfd with hes. half troths and damned
Sts ahons she Sooth while hardly winsjersEg
a word ahc<ot this terrible conihct winch
involves; the cltsa-civSted French.
Xteffless to say. a majority oi Frenchmen
■deplore she horrors oi this Algerian war, has
there ssS remains a determined, desperate
corps oi Fresschsnes — both in Fsaawe and
yUgersa — who are w3Esg so risk shear &es,
ihftr ioitms as3 ibesr sacred koas n.
iker than to be* to Arab nue .no jt£fcr.
!y *bxb but of tbm but soef and
brad barer dm ibere bin beer arfcie
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er iboal Ac anksec of jeidc a Warns
or Nimhulijn ■ canaries arb: rersse *:■ ac
cent total utgro esfrsasAcsezaeic because as
anar total ne^rr; rr3e Amid axairae Sits,
ibeir on actions is a —enTiy- sna jrWm and
second. icilea os5St xror Ac cpnarari
That has sjfit Fiance sc serrbirr ice- so fang.
Tbc Fteadames m A-tzerzz. are ibe 3>i
CaBaiy faiafid to t&w C:«-:.e3tracj. arinrk
Aicr reason q' Me nseh' mr rarber
:ha* to access a are! arts fcfisicai aeijara
as it coadd not toSeraif
Our Military Copcem
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tary essaMshrseiiit: Hw ^a3 a n sarib as
Edwxo Walter o« rse to due razi oi aq.
or genera]? - .,4* .
The fcor relkwr is l^aiaaiT aiTi ij^L I"
ai-ianrei seirxre of paiaaon. Bad Hider was
cadged ~ >are aad look at Ac harm he Ad
d* spmid.
Walter is Ac lyrical MiMi hey ache
ia stef • whde erejyhedy ebc ia the assay,
gwtraaeB and a heck of a lot ofjas*
jfaa to&s are afl oat of aifL
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Be Stans at the tap with P11 ■* — Kea
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Wka <W cTy kiS. Ac omt boasc paA
lot sad Ac post office sre added to
Ac sacs aronnd Gaswefi, ilcLcmon, King
sad laiibgrniirnl streets a very long stride
sfl kne been takes toward ados renewal
A an area that has h—w saitaiag residential
Wight. Perhaps Aas area Aqnld be elimi
BA&r fTrianrdj came off a poor second
is «Mu»g wtA “a a Uni Sara Ervin the
■merits or a hi! to lower Ac literacy tests
tor voter registration- As nsnal Kennedy
to be a
aliiil} of New Eng
first interest is in dec
t ml hsAKins who are irritated by
Ae TV V—» of hasrbaB Aonld not crit
iriis Ac Oarafina 1 »»js. bnt Anold rath
er aam Acs' barbs at Ae major leagues who
hare ynt thasdies in competition with
every pra^emnwal baseball team in the na
no® ArapA Itlerisian
Ac and Italians bare jump
ed on cagarcas as a cause of rang cancer.
The —ajar point that has yet to be estab
EAed is: Do cjgarex smokers get bag can
cer, or do Ag canter types smoke dgarets?
A friend has a small sign in one of U»
-branch offices" that asks, "If yon arc
go rich, why ain't yon smart?" That was
the first thing that popped into my mind
when J heard that United States Steel had
Mfad the price of its product $6 per ton.
This was rather (ike the bereaved widow
leaving her husband’s grave with a gigolo
aad a one-way ticket to "Gay Paree.” Just
last week after weeks of negotiation the
stcd union had signed what was called a
m—inflatinnary contract with die steel in
dustry. Now before the flowers are wilted
on the grave on this pact the biggest seg
ment of the steel industry has said, *D>
hell with inflation, we’re gonna raise oar
prices so we can compete with foreign steel."
The steel union leaders, Labor Secretary
Arthur Goldberg, President Kennedy and
the American public have been dealt an ex
ceedingly low blow by an industry that has
tried to better its image for the past 25
years. The days when hordes of “human
nmles” were brought in steerage from Eur
ope to labor in the mines and mills of the
steel industry are not' so distant, but the
horrible image of that era has faded because
of the all-out effort steel, and other major
industries, have made in the past generation
to atone for the sins of their fathers.
Sow, the nicer-riddled press agents of
the steel industry must' return to the draw
ing boards in a desperate effort to find
some excuse for the public relations mad
ness of their superiors. The union can, and
will say, “We made the sacrifice in the na
tion’s best interest although we knew all
along the industry was skinning us.”
All efforts at sarcasm aside, this is a
deadly serious decision made by the na
tion’s key industry; the industry that more
than any other sets the tone of all other
business. Despite their moanings about the
danger of inflation the big boys of steel have
plunged Us iitto the most serious inflationary
spiral since the end of the Korean War.
The boost of $6 per ton in the cost of
steel will come out at something like a $300
boost in the price of the average car, and all
the way through the spectrum of American
business similar upward whirlwinds will
blow. More serious than the direct mone
tary blow to the nation is the damage that
labor-industry relations have suffered, not
to mention the loss of confidence that in
dustry has brought upon itself in govern
ment.
The only catch in this kind of reasoning
is that somewhere along this inflationary
trail the straw that breaks the camel's back
will be applied and the public will bring
the whole card, castle down by just simply
refusing to go along. And just beyond that
point is the comer where the public may
be quite willing but not able to continue the
ride on the inflationary merry-go-round.
Could it be that the “hears" are moving
quietly into position to pick up the broken
pieces of another economic earthquake? In
finance as in physics matter is not destroy
ed; it merely changes form or ownership.
Spring has hardly burst into bloom and
•beady Eastern Carolina has been 1ft by
nmrty a down accidental drowniogs. People
•tbo are unfamiliar with boats, the waters
m which they arts, travelling and tbe power
of a sudden sqoaU in open water are flirt- \
ing with this kind of sodden death.