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Republicans, Democrats Clash
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WASHINGTON () - The wit-
ness sat for two hours saying
nothing yesterday as Democratic
and Republican Senators argued
bitterly over whether their sub-
committee is conducting a fair in-
vestigation into drug prices.
Thegnew wrangling - continua-
tion of a row that has been going
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South Korea
WASHINGTON ()-President
Dwight D. Eisenhower yesterday
added a one-day visit to South
Korea to his projected trip to
Russia and Japan in June.
The announcement, from Eisen-
hower's Augusta, Ga., vacation
headquarters, raised possibilities
that he might travel also to For-
mosa and the Philippines. How-,
ever, officials said there are no
such plans at present.
As matters now stand Eisen-
hower will arrive in Moscow from
Washington on June 10, tour
Russia in a return of Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev's visit to
America last September, then fly
from Siberia to Tokyo on June
19.
He will interrupt a June 19-23
stay in Japan to fly to Korea and
back on June 22. A Tokyo-Seoul
jet flight takes less than two
hours.
Eisenhower is expected to con-
fer with South Korean President
Syngman Rhee and visit United
States troops stationed on this
front line of the cold war.

on for months-was touched off
by Sens. Everett M. Dirksen (R-
Ill) and Roman L. Hruska (R-
Neb) who called the inquiry an
inquisition.
Chairman Estes Kefauver (D-
Tenn) retorted that "unless it was
a whitewash" nothing in the in-
vestigation would please the two
GHOP Senators.
"As long as I'm chairman, there
is not going to be any whitewash,"
Kefauver said.
Dirksen and Hruska insisted
they were not seeking a white-
wash.
The long - silent witness, Dr.
William Bean of the State Uni-
versity of Iowa medical school
staff, didn't seem to mind wait-
ing, however. When the Senators
tried to apologize for keeping him
silent so long, he said:
"This looks like fun."
Intolerance of Criticism
Finally Bean read his statement
charging that some big medical
societies are so beholden to some
free-spending drug manufactur-
ers they won't tolerate criticism
of the firms' products.
Bean said some of the medicines
now being put on the market are
dangerous and deplorable. Criti
cizing what he called shortcuts in
clinical trials of some preparations
in the race to be first on the
market with something new, he
said :
"There have been a few trage-
dies and other near misses. Once
sulfonamides (sulfa drugs) were
dispensed in a variety of anti-
freeze because it was a good sol-
vent. Many persons were killed."
Bean and a later witness, Dr.
Hans Popper of the Mt. Sinai

Hospital in New York City, said
they believe there should be more
continuing research into the pos-
sible side effects of new medicines.
Side Effects Fatal
Popper, a pathologist, testified
that side effects of some new med-
icines have caused fatalities. He
said that under present known
testing methods it is not always
possible to know before trying
them on patients what the side
effects may be.
Bean proposed creation of a
committee representing the medi-
cal and pharmaceutical profes-
sions to help raise standards and
make certain that doctors are
properly informed of side effects.
Popper endorsed the idea.
He also agreed with Bean's sug-
gestion that it would be reasonable
to give the Food and Drug Admin-
istration more authority to keep
a continuing check on the effec-
tiveness of medicines and to keep
an eye on manufacturers' claims.
Names No Organization
Bean never named any particu-
lar medical society or medical
journal as the target of his
charges. He told reporters he had
no direct evidence on this score,
but that he could give the Sena-
tors the names of people who do
have evidence.
In reply to a newsman's ques-
tions, Bean said he does not be-
lieve the American Medical Assn.
tries to censor speakers.
In his testimony, Bean said,
"modern medicine owes a tre-
mendous debt to the pharmaceut-
ical industry" for developing new
drugs. And he said the pharma-
ceutical industry is now doing "a
splendid job in keeping up stand-
ards of purity."
The problem, Bean said, is "with
companies whose sole concern is
business."
Cuba .Levels
Criticism
HAVANA (A) - Letters from
Cuba are telling Chilean univer-
sity students that President
Dwight D. Eisenhower Interfered
in Cuban internal affairs through
remarks in his letter to the Chi-
leans last week.
One letter was from Cuban
President Osvaldo Dorticos, an-
other was from the Cuban Feder-
ation of University Students. Both
invited students of Chile to come
to Cuba and judge the situation
for themselves.
Dorticos' letter represented the
first official reaction here to
Eisenhower's declaration that
many long-time friends of Cuba
believe the Fidel Castro regime
has betrayed the ideas of "free-
dom of expression, equal protec-
tion of the laws and the right
freely to choose a representative
form of government."
Eisenhower was answering criti-
cism of United States policy to-
ward Cuba as voiced by Chilean
students when he stopped in San-
tiago six weeks ago on his South
American tour.

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Soviet Union
Catching Up

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'Deception'
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. A)-
Adlai Stevenson claimed last night
the Eisenhower Administration
has practiced deception and "gov-
ernment by concealment."
"Our own leaders," Stevenson
said, "have deceived us by under-
rating the magnitude of the
crisis."
The man who ran for president
twice against Dwight D. Eisen-
hower, and lost both times, still
gave no hint that he would like
to head the Democratic ticket
again this fall.
But he jabbed away not only at
Eisenhower, but also at Vice-
President Richard M. Nixon. He
looked like a politician eager to
keep in fighting trim.
In his prepared speech for
Founder's Day at the University
of Virginia, Stevenson said:
"Too often our leadership has
been hesitant and half-hearted,
and has concealed from us the
nature and dimensions of the
crisis . . . government by con-
cealment, by soothing assurances
rather than candid communica-
tion, cannot be long tolerated if
our system is to endure."
As recently as 1956, Stevenson
said, Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles was saying that
Communism is "a gigantic fail-
ure."
And, Stevenson continued,
"when some of our most distin-
guished citizens and generals ex-
press concern about the obvious
fact that our defenses are not
strong as they were, the President
becomes angry, Nixon considers
that it undermines our security
and the Republican National
Chairman contributes a sarcastic
remark about their 'paper hats
and wooden swords'."
Stevenson contended the Re-
publicans will continue to reach
for a slogan instead of a cure in
the 1960 campaign.

Need for Progress
WASHINGTON M)-The United
States is still ahead of the Soviet
Union in science education, but
the Russians are catching up fast,
says the director of the National
Science Foundation.
Alan T. Waterman told a House
appropriations subcommittee, in
testimony given March 2 and re-
leased today:
"Out total number of scientists
and engineers is still larger, by a
small margin, than in the Soviet
Union. In certain areas-particu-
larly at the most advanced degree
levels-our rate of production is
still higher than theirs."
But, Waterman said, "to main-
tain our scientific and technolog-
ical supremacy we must intensify
our efforts to improve the quality
of our education in the sciences
at all levels..
Twenty-Two Testify
Waterman was one of 22 scien-
tists testifying on the comparative
merits of science education in the
United States and Russia.
They urged that the United
States devote more effort and
money to improving science edu-
cation within the present frame-
work of the American public
school system. Several said the
Russian system cannot be import-
ed into this country because goals
of the two systems are not the
same.
Harry C. Kelly, associate dit-
ector of the NSF, told the sub-
committee the Russians are grad-
uating about three engineers to
our one.
They now have a million train-
ed engineers, he said, compared
with 850,000 in this country. The
Soviet plan to graduate 125.000
engineers annually during the
next five years; in this country
the rate is about 38,000 a year.
Kelly, who visited Russia for a
month last year, said the Russians
have their goals firmly in view,
and are willing to work hard now
because they are convinced life
will be better for their children.
"They work as our pioneers did
in this country," he said.
Situation Not Hopeless
Waterman said that "while our
situation with respect to educa-
tion in the sciences and engineer-
ing is serious, it is by no means
hopeless . . . it is a good thing
that our educational process has
been sharply criticized, and that
solutions of many kinds are de-
grees have been proposed. Out of
all this has come a general move-
ment which we feel is in the right
direction."
The question of teachers' salar-
ies, he said, "goes to the heart of
the whole thing."
"In a recent year," Waterman
testified, "there were something
like 3,600 teachers fully trained
for secondary school science. Only
a little more than half of them
actually took employment as
teachers in the secondary schools.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon
ruled out any possibility. that
communism would play any part
in the presidential c a m p a i g n
through innuendo.
Speaking before a group of stu-
dents at the University of San
Francisco, he also handed an un-
expected compliment to former
president Harry S. Truman.
Nixon, here to open the San
Francisco-St. Louis baseball game,.
was supposedly making the trip
for non-political purposes, but at-
tended a student question period
before the game.
Asked by a San Francisco stu-
dent whether a man who stooped
to the use of "Communist innuen-
do" in the past could qualify to
lead the nation as president, Nix-
on said that any candidate's atti-
tudes toward communism should
be discussed in the campaign but
only on thebasis of his record,
never through innuendo.
The question was an obvious
allusion to Nixon's campaign for
the House and Senate against
Democrats Helen Gahagan Doug-
las and Jerry Voorhis. Nixon had
been criticized in both campaigns
for implying that his opponents
were sympathetic to communism.
Nixon pointed out his repudi-
ation of charges that New Hamp-
shire Gov'. Wesley Powell made
against Sen. John Kennedy con-
cerning Kennedy's softness to-
ward communism.
Nixon stressed non-partisanship
more than in the 1952 campaign
when he claimed Dean Acheson,

then secretary of state, was ap-
peasing the Communists in his
dealings with them, saying there
was little difference between the
Republicans and Democrats in
their views on Communism.
The vice president credited
former President Truman with
real leadership in making the
"difficult decision" to resist Com-
munism in Korea 10 years ago
and build the hydrogen bomb.
Nixon said, in response to a
student's query, that he felt the
president of the United States
should be a leader of public opin-
ion, rather than a conciliator.
He further said that President
Dwight D. Eisenhower "has been

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as was his predecessor,"
In another student questioning
at Stanford, Nixon said that if
Sen. Kennedy should win the West
Virginia primary he would be a
"shoo-in" for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
Also at Stanford, the vice presi-
dent came out strongly against
the Forand bill, a Democratic
measure . which would increase
social security taxes to provide
improved medical care for the
aged.
He said that the bill would not
include millions of aged persons
and that it would lead to a deteri-
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