THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, MAY. 14, 1966
THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY. MAY 14. 1966
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FILMS
yen Brides'; Gymnastic Joy
White Females Tense
In Civil Rights Setting
U.S. AMBASSADOR:
Porter Portrays Viet Cong as
Faceless'-Lacking Leaders
By BETSY COHN
punk, zip, zest, and a lot of
er onomotopaeic words huddled
ether still would not suffice to
cribe the zowie type of anima-
i which inebriates "Seven
des for Seven Brothers."
'he movie's groundwork seems
be layed on a resilient trampo-
Bouncing about the flexible
na is an effervescent cast of
sical gymnasts. Jane Powell is,
e moralistic strong - backed
.ng heroine and Howard Keel,
Paul Bunyan. hero from the
kwoods who ambles into town
day in search of a wife to
k and clean for him and his six
thers back in the mountains.
n the time that it takes Milly
,ne Powell) to milk a cow;
am (Keel) has wooed, courted
I been promised Milly's hand in
rriage. The two ride happily
ay into the unauthentic poster
nt mountains to the home of
am.
dilly chirps cheerfully about the
she expects, her own home,
ce, flowers, children . . . but
rer did she expect to gain pos-
sion of six mop topped, non-
nesticated brothers-in-law. Her
tremble for awhile as she
realizes that her heroic Daniel
Boone spouse is no more than a.
mustachioed Peter Pan, looking
for a Wendy to tend to his six-
slovenly siblings.
In-Laws Conquered
Nevertheless, as mentioned pre-
viously, her dorsal nerves are
strong and she fearlessly conquers
the savage in-law tribe.
In no time, Milly has reformed
the boys into clean-shaven, well
mannered, love - hungry young
cowboys. "You can't make vows
to a bunch of cows, ... you can't
go to sleep with a flock of sheep;"
with the final howl of this spir-
itual saga the action picks up and
so do the six.
They woo as the Romans did;
capturing their women and forc-
ing the ladies away with them.
In the true Western tradition,
this brings about an avalanche,
a town riot, shotguns, and chaos.
The end can be predicted only
as far as seven ladies will hug
seven gentlemen while "The End"
sign superimposes itself on the
scene. Still there is an unexpected
twist lurking behind the inevitable
"I do's" which only adds more
charm to the already satiated epi-
sode.
Spontaneous Dialogue
Made in 1954 the movie is based
on the novel by Stephen Vincent
Benet entitled "The Sobbin' Wom-
en." In spite of several songs
which should not have been sung
when they were and aside from the
scenery which wasvaguely rem-
iniscent of Crayola stains and
Lincoln logs, the movie still man-
ages to retain a certain appeal.
The spontaneity of dialogue (the
unexpected answer technique) and
the flip-flopping high spirited agil-
ity of the dancing (especially that
of Russ Tamblyn who plays the
wide-eyed Thumbelina of the
troop), carries the movie through
acrobatic contortions of verbal
play and musical excellence.
ATLANTIC CITY (-) - White
female civil-rights workers in the
South are experiencing' tension-
provoking hostility from a source
they had little expected - the
Negro community itself-a psy-
chiatrist said yesterday
Such white girls who go to the
South "place themselves in a so-
cial and psychological crossfire
that for most of them is emo-
tionally-shattering," said Dr. Arv-
in F. Poussaint of Tufts Medical
School, Boston, Mass. He is also
Southern field director of the
Medical Committee for Human
Rights, Jackson, Miss.
In a report to the 122nd annual
meeting of the American Psychi-
atric Association, the physician
said:
"Not only must they withstand
the rejection of the white com-
munity, but the Negro community,
as well, because as white women
they are the symbol of the 'South-
ern-way-of-life,' t h e i r interper-
sonal relationswithNegroesbe-
come marred by the scars that
centuries of racism have wrought
on both their psyche and that of
the Negro.
"They are distrusted, feared,
hated, adored, and worshipped all
at the same time by their black
co-workers."
He said that few of the girls are
able to cope with the personal
tensions generated by both facets
of the white-black crossfire beset-
ting them - and "most of these
girls leave the South in less than
six months."
A number of the girls "often
contribute to their own difficul-
ties in the Negro community," he
said, adding:
They.may bring with them cer-
tain psychological attitudes -
often unconscious and in differ-
ent degrees-which can generally
be referred to as the "white Afri-
can Queen complex." I
"At the center of this 'complex'
is commonly found a tabooed and
repressed fantasy of the intelli-
gent, brave, and beautiful white
woman leading the poor, down-
trodden, and oppressed black man
to freedom."
And a common manifestation of
this "complex," he continued, "is
excessive condescension and pat-
ronizing of black people."
Poussaint said all the white fe-
male civil-rights workers "are
completely rejected by the local
white community and are some-
timesntreated with scorn and
derision."
"However," he added, "the white
female workers, by and large an-
ticipated this type of rejection-
and for that reason it was a bit
easier to deal with than the little-
suspected difficulties they encoun-
tered in the black community. It
is the superimposed stresses that
come from living and working
with the Negro community that
send many of these girls scurrying
back home."
Bar1er To Read His Poetry,
IImagery Violent, Disjointed
SAIGON (M)--Acting U.S. Am-
bassador William Porter says 'the
Viet Cong are "faceless" - they
lack an outstanding leader and
can command obedience among
South Vietnamese only at the
point of a gun.
Porter compared the Viet Cong
with the nationalist movements
he watched as a diplomat in such
trouble spots as Algeria, Morocco,
Syria and Iraq, and found them
wanting in all respects.
Lack Leadership
Speaking about Viet Nam, Por-
ter said, "What strikes me here
is the absolute lack of respected
Viet Cong leadership as compared
to Middle Eastern and North Af-
rican movements.
"There in the Middle East and
North Africa, the best known,
most stable and respected elements
were involved. Here there is no
such leadership on the Viet Cong
side. It is a collection of non-
entities who never had any stand-
ing in the community.
"Another salient fact which em-
phasizes their facelessness is that
no Vietnamese of standing has
gone to their ranks."
No Urban Support
The diplomat said the absence
of respected leadership has result-
ed in a lack of Viet Cong control
over South Viet Nam's urban pop-
ulation.
"They have tried the devices of
Middle Eastern and North Afri-
can movements and they failed
completely to evoke any obedience
from anybody they are not facing
with a gun," he said.
Porter said that strikes inspired
by the Viet Cong have failed, and
despite the orders of the insurg-
ents, the people continue to work
for Americans.
do so in rural areas where theyI
are present in some.force."
He said the North Vietnamese in
Hanoi, directing the Viet Cong ef-
fort in South Viet Nam, "copied
the name from the National Lib-
eration Front in Algeria."
But Porter said Hanoi has never,
given the Viet Cong the recogni-
tion of a government-in-exile such
as African countries gave the Al-
gerian nationalists.
"This makes the status of Viet
Cong as a puppet of Hanoi abso-
lutely clear," he said.
Viet Cong terrorist tactics "are
much more indiscriminate than
those of the Algerian front," said
Porter.
Arab nationalists selected their
victims but the Viet Cong kill be-
cause they wish "to terrify the
people," he continued.
Porter said the Viet Cong mili-
tary doctrine is based on the
teaching of Red Chinese leader
Mao Tze-tung.
The arrival of North Vietena-
mese troops to bolster guerrilla
units, he continued, "indicates that
the Viet Cong, as a guerrilla group,
needed support or that they
thought the time was ripe for
conventional warfare."
Averting Collapse
"The arrival of North. Vietna-
part to prevent collapse," he add-
ed.
Discussing, the French army in
Algeria compared to the Ameri-
can Army in Viet Nam, Por-
ter said:
"The French army never fought
alongside a national army. The
French were against a national
army because they intended to
stay in Algeria. The French army
relied on many extraneous ele-
ments such as the Foreign Legion
and colonial troops. The American
Army has a totally different char-
acter.
"It is fighting alongside a much
larger Vietnamese army and is
composed largely of some of the
best men the United States has
produced."
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Peking Story
WASHINGTON (-) - Official
Washington showed caution yes-
terday about denying Peking's
charge that American planes shot
down a Red Chinese aircraft over
Chinese territory.
State Department press officer
Robert J. McCloskey told newsmen
he had no information that U.S.
fighter planes had entered Chi-
nese air space or fought an aerial
battle there. But his official "no
comment" on the Communists'
charge was as close as hecame
to denying Peking's report that a
Chinese plane was downed on the
Chinese side of the border.
He referred newsmen instead to
the U.S. Air Force announcement
in Saigon of a plane kill about the
same time Thursday just inside
North Viet Nam.
By GEORGE ABBOTT-WHITE
Richard Barker, West Coast
poet, will give a reading of his
poems in the UGLI Multipurpose
Room, Sunday at 4 p.m. His poems
have appeared in various West
Coast "little magazines" and a
poem of his, written after John
Kennedy's death, was part of the
"Poetry And Power" anthology.
Barker's reading, part of a tour
stretching from New York to San
Francisco, is double edged: "I
want to set up a route poets not
so involved in the 'academic role'
can follow." He is also raising
money for his magazine, "Aquar-
ius," which is about to be publish-
ed.
The world of Barker's poems is
one seen through the eyes of a
Nathanael West of the Sierras. It
is a world of angry; policeman,
farmers, poets, beatout cars, gui-
tars, quiet sunsets. Only Barker
can juxtapose a bowl of puffed
wheat with a desert rim at day-
break.
His world is rich in jargon and
dialect--the jargon of the radical;
the dialects of the Negro, Mexican,
"dirtfolk," San Francisco "hippie,"
truckdriver.
Speaks Dangerously
His images are violent, disjoint-
ed, dangerous. If his poems reveal
a quiet grace only seldom, it is
because Barker has consciously
chosen to speak dangerously.
When he catalogues-Whitman-
esque fashion-eye and ear jump,
struggle to keep pace with the
quick economy of words.
Barker's world is different and
to be valued for that difference;
a difference that Barker has given
voice. As F. O. Matthiessen once
wrote: "thinkers and artists often
mean to be as dangerous as pos-
sible. They try to do everything
they can to break through all
expected reactions, to disturb, to
shock, to compel people to keep
life fresh by not allowing it to
stay hardened in any conventional
molds."
Barker's world is far from con-
ventional, far from being hardened
into a mold. If there is anything
constant, however, it's man-but
man plastic, man becoming. Bar-
ker records that becoming.
mese units may be intended
Chicago Students Continue
Sit-in With Reduced Force
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"This will be demonstrated by
their statement agreeing that stu-
dents and faculty will be partici-
pants in deciding the question."
The students have further stat-
ed that if any t attempt is made
to impede the operation of their
token force, they will reenter and
reoccupy the building immediate-
ly. They specified in this regard
that any attempt to arrest, detain,
harass or suspend or expel the
leaders of the group or any mem-
ber of the token force will bring
about an immediate reoccupation
of the building.
Students said they will recon-
vene the entire boay next Wednes-
day to evaluate their progress and
consider future plans. Further,
they have voted to hold a rally on
May 25 to allow the administra-
tion time to arrive at some accept-
able treatment of their demands.
Eighty - five faculty members
have signed a petition supporting
the demonstrators' demand that
ranking be postponed until the
issue can be discussed "by the en-
tire university community" in the
fall.
Demonstrators in the adminis-
tration building have carried on
a non-violent protest. However,
yesterday afternoon one demon-
strator was injured by another
student who apparently opposed
the sit-in. The student seized a
walkie-talkie unit from one of the
demonstrators outside communi-
cating with those in the building,
throwing the main part of the
unit in the direction of a monitor.
The main part of the unit
struck the female student over the
left eye, causing a severe incision
that required hospital treatment.
ing and accompanied those who "These are key areas which nor-
evacuated and- marched to the mally give allegiance to any valid
President's home. nationalist movement," P o r t e r
said. Th. so-called National Lib-
At one point during last night's eration Front Viet Cong simply
final meeting, a group of about 20 cannot exercise control over the
stu'dents opposed to the sit-in and urban population. They can only
trying to force their way into the
building came close to creating a
panic among demonstrators in- ORGANIZATION
side.
The 20 came over with but were!NOTICES
not a part of another group from
the business and law schools also
opposed to the demonstration. One USE OF ThIS COLUMN FOR AN-
of that group of 60 outside the NOUNCEMENI'S is available to official-
administration building, George ly recognized and registered student or-
ganizations only. Forms are available
Tomington, a second year law in Room 1011 SAB.
student said that the majority of *s
the people who came from the Newman Student Association, Picnic,
business and law schools were not Sun., May 15, 1:30 p.m., 331 Thompson,
meet at Newman Center.
protesting the demands of the stu- a enr
dents inside, but the fact that the Lutheran Student Chapel, Bible study
building is occupied. They were at 9:30 a.m. Worship service at 10:30
oppoed notto he st-Iner deaim., Sun., May 15. 5 p.m., supper &
opposed "not to the sit-inners de- program at Campus Chapel, 1236 wash-
mands, but to the tactic involved," tenaw. Speaker: Dean Gordon van Wy-
he said. len, School of Engrg. "What's Ahead in
the Physical Sciences?"
Tomington further specified . * *
that these students feel that the India Student's Association, A film,
"Gumrah," May 21, 7 p.m., Aud. A,
university probably did not give Angell Hall.
the people demonstrating inside * * *
the building a proper hearing for Michigan Christian Fellowship, Lec-
ture-discussion (informal), Tues., 7:30
their complaints, p.m., 3rd fl., Union.
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Precautions are being taken
against any future kind of in-
juries occuring. Police are withI
the small group inside the build-
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SATURDAY, MAY 14
Day Calendar
English Language Institute Anniver-
sary Conference-"Theory and Practice
in Teaching English as a Foreign Lan-
guage": Rackham Amphitheatre, 9 a.m.
Cinema Guild-"Seven Brides for Sev-
en Brothers": Architecture Aud., 7 and
9 p.m.
English Language Institute 25th An-
niversary Conference-Symposium: TE-
FL Today, Second Session: Rackham
Amphitheatre, 9 a.m.
General Notices
Voice-Students for a Democratic So-
ciety: Summer school, Eric Chester
speaking on the failure of the German
Social Democracy, Mon., May 16, 8
p.m., Room 3G Michigan Union.
English Language Institute 25th An-
niversary Conference-25th Anniversary
Observance: Rackham Amphitheatre, 2
p.m.
Doctoral Examination for Peter Paul
Orlik, Mathematics; thesis: "Necessary
Conditions for the Homeomorphism of
Seifert-Manifolds," Mon., May 16, 3010
Angell Hall, at 1 p.m. Chairman, Frank
Raymond.
Placement
ANNOUNCEMENT:
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to
America): Representatives will be in
the Lower Lobby of the Mich. Union
Mon. and Tues., May 18 and 17, to
give information about their program.
Men and women 18 yrs. or older for 1
yr. assignment. 4-6 week. trng. Posi-
tions in 50 states, Puerto Rico, Virgin
Islands, and Trust Territ. No appoint-
ment needed.
POSITION OPENINGS:
Wilson and Co., Inc., Chicago, l1.
-Seek young man with as little as
2 yrs. college, some science courses,
for shift supervisor leading to plant
management. Other openings still cur-
rent: Lab. tech., Chemist, Boiler Engr.,
Process engr., Accountant.
City of Port Huron, Port Huron, Mich.
-Engineering Assistant, work on mu-
nicipal, civil, surveying, high school
and advanced work in civil engineering,
several years exper. in sub-professional
civil engineering desirable.
Girl's Training School, Dept. of Soc.
Service, Adrian, Mich.--Opening for
occupational therapist. Applications for
exam must be at dept. of civil service
no later than May 23. These are avail-
able at the Bureau.
Ideal Industries, Inc., Sycamore, Ill.
Senior Manu. Engineer wanted with
6 yrs. exper. or four yrs. of college
and two of exper. Design sheet metal
working dies, cutting tools and ap-
praisal of capital equipment.
Management Consultants, New York
City-Director, Pharmacology and Clin-
ical Research. PhD in Pharm. or M.D.
with extra training in Pharm. Develop
new ethical drug operations. Produc-
tion Supervisor, needed with tech. de-
gree in Chem. or Mech. Engineering,
5-7 yrs. exper. in supervisory capacity
with knowl. of processes, equip. and
chem. of the raw material used in
procedures.
Frequency Engineering Laboratories,
Farmingdale, N.J.--New opportunities
for engineers at project levels with
bkgd. in systems, RFI or radar. Other
openings in solid state, tech. integrated
circuits, and microwave areas.
Smith, Kline and French Laborator-
ies, Phila., Pa.--Seven current open-
ings: 1. Admin. Mgt. Prog., no exper. BA
or MA in Lib. Arts or Business. 2.
Pharmaceutical Sales, some sales ex.-
per., or college bkgd., or sci., or teach-
ing. 3. Operations Research Analyst, BA
or MA in Oper. Res., Math, or Sta-
tistics and Bus. One yr. programming
or business. 4. International market-
ing, 2 openings, BA or MA, fluency in
Spanish, Italian or French. 3-5 yrs. ex-
per. 5. Mgt. Syst. Anal. BA or MA in
Lib. Arts or Math. 1-4 yrs. program-
ming. 6. Financial Mgt. Trainee, BA or
MA in Aect. or Finance. 7. Adv. and
Promotion Writers, BA in Lib. Arts,
Journ., Bus. Ad. No exper.
Welch Grape Juice Co., Inc., West-
field, N.Y,--Indus. Plant, and Project
Engineers with degrees and 2-5 or 7
yrs. exper. Research Chem., degree plus
5 yrs., Mgr. of Budgets degree plus 5-7
yrs. Maintenauice, production and per-
sonnel supervisors. 3-5 yrs. exper.
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