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AT THE MICHIGAN:
Too Much Frankie;
Not Enough Joinny
"JOHNNY CONCHO" has Frank Sinatra for both star anrd producer.
Also seen occasionally are his co-stars Keenan Wynn, William
Conrad and Phyllis Kirk.
The movie begins with Johnny slowly walking down a deserted
street with a look of determination in his eye and a stalk of hay
in his mouth. The background music is strangely reminiscent of
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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: DICK HALLORAN
4.
The Sudden Death
Of The Andrea Doria
THE WORLD this morning' mourns the PRAISE IS also due to those who provided the
passing of a beautiful and gracious lady, aid which prevented disaster from becoming
When the Andrea Doria dove beneath the agonizing tragedy. Passenger liners, freighters,
Coast Quard vessels and helicopters, military
calm seas of the Atlantic yesterday, one of the transports all had a hand in the greatest res-
newest and most luxurious ocean liners was cue operation in modern times.
lost. We have cause to wonder how the collision
Yetin this catastrophe,. there s much for took place, whether it was due to mechanical or
Yet n tis atasrope,.ther s uchfor human error. With seasoned crews and service-
which to be thankful. The loss of life was merci- ableamernnaigaonequipenwhrti
fully slight, vastly different if the sinking able modern navigational equipment, why this
ofu thesiaslydifficirent alflted.siin happened will be the subject of the closest
of the unsinkable Titanic Is recalled. While scrutiny. In this day of hydrogen and atomic
scores are seriously injured, the alertness and pw r ocktsdandojetsoespae atli
speed with which rescue operations were power, of rockets and jets, of space satellites
efectedundoubted ihaesuedpetinsw and deep-sea exploration, an occurrence of this
effected undoubtedly has saved the lives of nature serves to rpmlnd man of his limitations.
many, and the limbs of more from permanentn
injury. THE SEA, like the sky and even the earth,
Certainly, the world will acclaim the courage holds a majeste power wth which man can
and calmness of the captain, officers, and men do, battle, sometimes turn to his own ends,
of the stricken vessel for their disciplined partially control, but never totally conquer.
action in an hour of trial. -RICHARD HALLORAN
Inaction on Civil Rights
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Behind the 'Dump-Dick' Movet
By DREW PEARSON
"Man with the Golden Arm." After
things begin to happen and people
begin talking-anid never stop.
The plot, naturally, centers
around Concho who is the kid
brother of big Red Concho, the
terror of the West. Johnny is
living in the reflected glory of his
brother's fame, or rather infamy
and asserts himself as the town's
boss.
Then to his chagrin, Johnny is
told that his brother has been
shot; the reflected power is shut
down and he is treated like a com-
bination dustmop and punching
bag. The bearer of these unfortu-
nate tidings is big Red's murderer
himself who immediately assumes
the role of town dictator and tells
Johnny to either run or shoot it
out. He runs.
The gal, Phyllis Kirk, runs after
Johnny but ultimately leaves him
because of his cowardice. The
"chicken," as Concho is affection-
ately called by his "friends" doesn't
see the error of his ways until
Keenan Wynn, who plays the part
of a retired gunslinger turned min-
ister and appears for a total of
five minutes, shows him the light.
Johnny returns to face the music,
which is still curiously similar to
"Man with the Golden Arm." The
ending is obvious.
The movie isn't like other west-
ern "pitchers" only because it lacks
the hustle and bustle of a "typical"
western town. The dialogue, how-
ever, is typical, the characteriza-
tion is typical and the plot is
typical-only Sinatra "ain't".
The billboard outside the theatre
describes this movie as the
"Screen's hottest star turns on the
heat in his first western." Let's
hope it is his last.
-Donna Hanson
N THE last few decades, Congress has become
more and more chaotic and disorganized.
No one looks to it for much leadership in
matters of national consequence. For example,
a few days ago, the Senate sent a bill to the
House for authorization; it's one on a five-
year study of jellyfish and sea nettles. No doubt
it will go through.
But on civil rights, Congress was incapable
of accomplishing much.
The President, who has been called a repre-
sentative of American people in one, therefore
not chaotic or disorganized, is depended upon
for ramification of significant affairs. Yester-
day Ike performed a keen, fabulous feat in
appealing to the Senate for action on the civil
rights bill. Never spontaneous like Truman was
in this, Ike amazed most of us.
The piteous fact is, the Supreme Court passed
civil rights rulings two. years and two
months ago, at a timey when Ike was spending
just eight hours a day flat on his back and
had no excuse for not doing something posi-
tive. He could have done much more, or at
least his cohorts could have.
RUE, he has personally done a few things.
For instance: E. Frederic Morrow, who
spoke on this campus, is administrative head
of Ike's special projects group (which, as some
will slyly say, includes disarmament man Harold
Stassen) in the White House, and is a Negro.
He's a man well qualified for his position, and
extremely loyal to Eisenhower.
There are a few other Negroes appointed by
Ike, too. But however noble this seems, few
people will know about it-until Ike's time as
President is written and chronicled in our grad-
children's history books. And we hope by then
that something positive will have been done
about civil rights.
CERTAINLY when civil rights becomes a cam-
paign issue this fall, what Republican will
have the nerve to say, "Look here, Dwight D.
Eisenhower has so-and-so working under him.
He knows Negroes aren't inferior to white
people; he employed their abilities; he doesn't
think depressed minority groups should be left
out of a democracy. He gave them jobs. Be-
sides, Washington itself is almost completely
integrated."
To appoint Negroes to sub-administration
positions is fine, but it's a behind-the-scenes
accomplishment and it is hidden in the morass
of federal government activities.
If Congress can do things for jellyfish, Ike
must do things for people.
--ADELAIDE WILEY
The Union's Front Steps
IN THE shadows behind Harold
Stassen and his "Dump-Dick"
movement are such powerful Re-
publicans as Gen. Lucious Clay,
Ike's intimate friend; Sidney
Weinberg, the Wall Street banker;
Paul Hoffman ,the ex-Marshail
Plan Administrator; Jack McCloy,
head of the Chase Bank and for-
mer High Commisisoner to Ger-
many.
They don't dislike Dick, but they
do consider him a drag on the
ticket. With repeated attention
focused on Ike's health, they know
the public will be voting not alone
for the President, but for the man
who would replace him-If these
backstage bigwigs wanted someone
to break the Nixon ice.
Henry Luce's potent publications
fired two shots which had the
earmarks of an artillery barrage in
preparation for the Dump-Dick
movement. Life Magazine carried
a penetrating, not too friendly
diagnosis of Nixon. Time carried a
devastating diagnosis of Ike's
medical history, stating that the
heart attack lessened his life ex-
pectancy 30 Oper cent, that re-
currence of ileitis was 50 per cent.
Though Eisenhower didn't encour-
age Stassen, inside fact is that he
didn't discourage him. Ike was
quite willing to have a trial balloon
launched by others with no respon-
sibility by him. Stassen has shown
courage in various moves around
the White House. He was the first
to tangle with McCarthy.
But he doesn't go out on such an
important political limb without a
green light from Mr. Big. Chris
Herter, Jr., son of the Massachu-
setts Governor whom Stassen is
booming to replace Nixon, was once
administrative assistant to Nixon.
After that he became counsel to
Stassen's Foreign Operations Ad-
ministration.
* * *
TEXAS TANTRUMS-The Lone
Star state goes into its big election
battle Saturday with some inter-
esting candidates on the ballott.
Warren G. Harding is running for
State Treasurer against Jesse
James. Two men are running who
are under indictment. J. Roy Ram-
sour, under indictment for murder
and facing trial, is running for
Justice of the Peace in Edinburg.
George Parr, who has served
time for income-tax evasion and is
now under a new federal indict-
ment, is running for Sheriff of
Duval County. Last week he was
arrested for threatening a county
official with a rifle. In Browns-
ville, Senator Roger Kelley, law
partner of county political boss
J. S. Looney, is being opposed by
Hubert Hudson, scion of Okla-
homa-Texas oil mililons.
It's hot in Texas!
Cautious Ike-Careful exam.na-
tion of Eisenhower's Nixon state-
ments shows that he personally
never went overboard for Dick.
His first statement was that he
had told Nixon to "chart his
course-not exactly a. warm em-
brace for a running mate.
* * *
NIXON then phoned various
GOP state leaders, said he was
taking soundings to see what
course he should chart, wanted
their opinion. Flattered, most said
they favored him. Nixon kept a
score-sheet, let it come to Ike's
attention.
Suddenly, just before Murray
Chotiner, his campaign manager,
was scheduled to appear before a
Senate committee, Nixon rushed
into the White House for a late-
afternoon, unscheduled visit. He
had not been on the calling list.
He told Ike he had charted his
course, would like to run. Nixon's
friend Hagerty said Ike was "de-
lighted."
But there was no personal state-
ment from the President, no posing
together for photographers, as is
customary. After the second, ill-
ness, word came from Len Hall
that the ticket would be the same.
But there was no statement from
Ike himself.
He did not deny, but also did
not affirm. His State Department-
McCarthy row, have been to let
those around him battle things
out. Len Hall's strategy has been
to avoid a nomination dispute,
keep a united front at San Fran-
cisco and before.
Len was never personally en-
thusiastic about Nixon, but he has
been Nixon's best political friend
because he believes in unity.
* * * '
ADLAI STEVENSON had to
choose between Mrs. Mahoney and
Mrs. Moroney the other night
after the Senator George dinner.
Mrs. Florence Mahoney had in-
vited him to a reception after the
dinner. Mrs. Mike Monroney, wife
of the Senator from Oklahoma,
invited him to meet a distinguished
group of Senators, also after the
dinner.
He chose Mrs. Mahoney. At her
party were George Killion, Presi-
dent of the American President
Lines, who raised many thousands
for Adlai's campaign in California:
also Tom Finletter, who will be
Stevenson's Secretary of Defense
if elected.
(Copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
A FINE OLD Michigan tradition was buried
in the pile of rubble at the side of the Union
while the new addition was being erected.
Although the Union has risen from the contrac-
tor's debris with many added features, in-
cluding a wide side door, the old addition
of "no women on the front steps" seems to have
fallen by the wayside without even' a decent
obituary. ,
Some one has described a traditional act as
one which "no one in his right mind would do"
and that "the more senseless the tradition,
the better."
The old unwritten law of the front steps
was one of these traditions. It certainly made
no sense whatsoever to walk a date around
to the side of the building through the typi-
cally miserable Ann Arbor weather.
Yet it was a tradition which survived for
many years and one which should be revived.
OF COURSE, there is no reasonable basis for
this revival. This would defeat the whole
idea of tradition.
Still, after the old snack bar has been
changed from the darkest, drabbest and yet
best place on the campus to an imitation
Howard Johnson's and since the comfortable
plush chairs in the lobby have been replaced
by instruments sof torture which would be a
credit to a Mohawk torture master, it would be
nice to have something around the Union
remain unchanged.
Perhaps the change comes from the great
American ideal of equality of the sexes, an idle
dream at best. We can no longer debate whether
or not women should ever have been taught
how to read.
That battle has been lost and the battle
that followed, when women were admitted to
the universities (where their admitted contri-
butions to the pleasantness of college life almost
counterbalance their ill effects on the academic
standards) has also been lost.
However, we can still fight for one last
stronghold, the male right to the front steps of
the Union.
If men can hold the front steps, it will be a*
small but symbolic victory.
In these dark days, any victory is heartening.
--KEN JOHNSON
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To the Editor:
THE University's misfortunes in
attempting to obtain sufficient
authority for their newfound traf-
fic cops has deeply touched my
sympathies and set my thinking to
the task.
Fortunately, I have been able to
hit upon what seems a foolproof
solution, one that will solve addi-
tional problems at the same time.
It is simply this: the University
should enter into an agreement
with the city of Ann Arbor by
which the city would deed over to
the University all the property
upon which the streets in the
campus vicinity lay, in return for
the University's promise to pay a
fair share of the city taxes, subsi-
dize the city's police force and/or
convert the business administra-
tion building into a municipa4
carport.
This would produce thendesired
result of allowing the University
to police the streets (now its own
property) in any way it saw fit.
It could even build anti-aircraft
installations to enforce the stu-
dent flying restrictions that are
sure to be one of the nightmares
of the future's dreamworld.
Of course, the University would
then face the responsibility of
maintaining the avenues, which it
might~ easily do by establishing
City Maintenance 51 and City
Maintenance 52 as compulsory
courses, possibly in place of the
language requirements, thereby
providing some much needed mod-
ernization for its curriculum.
The cost of this could easily be
handled by raising the driving
regulation fee from $7 to $10, elim-
inating Student Government
Council and silencing the Daily.
-Jim Dygert
Self-Inc rimination? * *
To the Editor:
FREQUENTLY it is implied that
individuals are guilty when
they take the "fifth amendment"
and refuse to answer questions on
grounds of possible self-incrimin-
ation.
On July 11, it was reported that
the USA neither confirmed nor
denied Japanese reports that the
USA was continuing the nuclear
bomb tests. In effect, the USA was
taking the "fifth amendment"
against self-incrimination. Yet, re-
gardless, these tests violate inter-
national law concerning freedom
of the seas and disregard world-
wide opinion against such tests.
However, all the people of the.
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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1956
VOL. LXVIII, NO.235
General 'Notices
Golf Clinic, auspices of the Office
of the Summer Session and the De-
partment of Physical Education for
Men. Conducted by Bert Katzenmeyer,
golf coach. 7:00 p.m., Thurs., July 26
and Fri., July 27, U-M Golf Course,
Lectures
Astronomy Department Visitors' Night
Fri., July 27, 8:30 p.m., Room 2003 An-
gell Hall. Prof. William Liller will
speak on "Electronics in Astronomy."
After the talk the Student Observatory
on the fifth floor of Angell Hall will
be open for inspection and for tele-
scopic observations of Saturn, a double
star, and the Hercules cluster. Chil-
dren welcomed, but must be accom-
panied by adults.
Lecture in Social Psychology, Th
first of a series of four public -lec-
tures on social psychology will be given
by Prof. Fred Strodtbeck, associated
with a.research project at the Univer-
sity of Chicago Law School, Mon., July
30, at 4:00 p.m. In the Rackham Amphi-
theater. Title: "Factors Which Impede
the Growth of Social Psychology." Suc-
ceeding lectures later in the week will
be announced.
Play
The Wayward Saint, Paul Vincent'
Carroll's comic-fantasy, will be pre-
sented by the Department of Speech at
8 p.m. tonight in the Lydia Mendels-
sohn Theatre.
Concerts
Student Recital. Jean Miller Bur-
roughs, soprano, will present a pro-
gram in partial fulfillment of the re-
quirements for the degree of Master
of Music at 8:30 p.m. Fri., July 27, In
Aud. A, Angell Hall. Compositions by
Mozart, Schubert, Rachmaninoff and
Ravel. Open to the general public. Mrs.
Burroughs is a pupil of Chase Baromeo,
Student Recital: Laura Smith, so-
prano, will present a recital Iin partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the
Master of Music degree at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday July 28, in Aud. A, Angell
Hall. Miss Smith is a pupil of Frane*
Greer, and herprogram will include
works by Schubert, Wolf, Gounod, Sam-
uel Barber, virgil Thomson, Sergiis
Kagen, and Ned Rorem. Open to the
public.
Student Recital Postponed. The re-
cital by June Howe, soprano, previous-
ly announced for Sunday evening,
July 29, in Aud. A, Angell Hall, has
been postponed. The new date will be
announced during the first semester
1956-57.
Memorial Recital in honor of the
late Harvey Spencer M. D., Associate
Psychiatrist of University Health Serv-
ice, former Carillonneur of Welesley
College, and Past-President of the Guild
of Carillonneurs in North America, will
be heard at 5:00 p.m., Sun., July 29,
on the Baird Carillon in Burton Tower.
The program has been planned and
will be performed by his carillonneur
friends at the University of Michigan,
Percival Price, University Carillonneur,
and Sidney Giles, Assistant University
Carillonneur, and students Beverly
Brehm and Julia Hollyer. Compositions
by Chopin, Dvorak, Curry DeGruytters,
van Hoof, Percival Price, and J. B.
Dykes.
Student Recital: Eleanor Tibbals,
flute, will present a recital in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the
Bachelor of Music degree at 8:30 p.m.
Mon., July 30, In Ad. A. Angell Hall
A pupil of Nelson Hauensten, Miss
Tibbals wiiI play compositions by Han-
del, Roussel, Guarnieri. Dutilleux Mo-.
zart, and Piston, assisted by Linda
Reck, pianist, John Mohler, clarinetist,
and Robert Quayle, bassoonist.Open
to the public,
Academic Notices
Doctoral Examination for Earl Eu-
gene Mosier, Education; thesis: "Con-
sultant ServicesuFurnished to Super-
intendents of Schools by Nine State
Universities and Land Grant Colleges
in the Midwest." Fri., July 27, East
Conference Room, Rackham Building,
at 2 p.m. Chairman, H. C. Koch.
Doctoral Examination for Samuel
Shozo Komorita, Psychology; thesis:
"Probability Learning as a Function of
Data7Collection Methods." Fri., July
27, 7611 Haven Hall, at 10:00 a.
Chairman, J. D. Birch.
Placement Notices
The following schools have listed va-
cancies on their teaching staffs for
the 1956-1957 school year. They will
not send representatives to the Bureau
of Appointmentseto interview candi.
dates at this time.
Battle Creek, Michigan - Teacher
Needs: Debate/English; Physics/Chem-
istry; Elementary.
Dixboro, Michigan - Teacher Needs:
Elementary (2nd/3rd combinatalon).
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DAM NOT PANACEA:
Nasser Faces Internal Problems
INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Man and Nature
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
MAN HAS begun to think he's pretty good,
In a thousand ways he converts the powers
of nature to his own use.
He flies far faster than birds, and defies
the oceans in ships.
But every now and then his foot slips, and
nature strikes back in retaliation.
Thursday morning the wipds of the North
Atlantic were heavy with the echoes of more
than forty years.
Editorial Staff
LEE MARKS, Managing Editor
Night Editors
ONCE AGAIN the fogs had rolled in, and a
great ship was dying with more than 1,700
people aboard, her modern compartmentation
nullified, her lifeboats useless.
"Titanic, Titanic," whispered the winds.
Man's system had slipped. The vaunted radar
didn't work or wasn't working.
The Atlantic lanes are busy this year, busier
than ever. More than 10,000 people sailed from
New York alone in one 24-hour period recently.
Two ships got too close together in the fog,
and one of them killed the other.
Four weeks ago two heavily laden planes
did the same thing in the crowded air.
But the very crowding of the seas also proved
merciful. Rescue vessels converged within min-
utes. Few died.
MAN HAD escaped greater disaster again.
But nature had again tapped out her mes-
sage, that man is not the be-all or end-all of
this world.
By DAVE GELFAND
Daily Staff Writer
WHILE everyone is contemplat-
ing the long-range effects of
the State Department's refusal to
finance Egypt's Aswan Dam, it
is time to take a good long look
at the Egyptian government and
the man who heads it.
Undoubtedly, the ousting of
Farouk replaced torpor with youth
and energy, and regardless of the
soundness of its policies, no one
can deny that the new Egyptian
dictataorship is far more active
and aware of the possibilities for
Egypt economically and in world
affairs.
The greatest support for the
new regime undeniably comes
from its promise to provide the
traditionally destitute Egyptian
peasant with his own land,
Toward this end, about 600,000
acres of former royal estates and
large landholdings are to be dis-
tributed to landless farm laborers.
But this action remains largely
promise. In three year, only a
ANOTHER promise that sup-
ports the three-year-old military
junta is the prospect of an indus-
trialized Egypt with a high dam
at Aswan. This dam is to give the
land-starved country one third
more irrigated land and increase
its electrical power production
eightfold.
But to build the dam now is
technically unsound. What good
is a tremendous flow of electri-
city if you don't have the factories
to use it. By the time the dam is
completed, population will have
increased by more than one third.
Certainly, if Egypt can barely
finance the dam with U.S. aid, it
won't have capital to build the
factories to make it worthwhile
and foreign firms don't build
heavy industries in lands without
resources or skliled labor. Nod is
Egypt trainipn its peasants on
the modern methods necessary for
agricultural self-sufficiency.
But Nasser is not blind. There is
a huge steel mill planned at Hel-
mwa1, o-n the Nil However- mev
police, efficiency which the de-
posed Farouk never-had the en-
ergy to impose on his people.
This police rule combined with
not too satisfactory expedition of
promised reforms has promoted
Nasser to the level of villain. No
one dares cheer his picture when
it appears on a movie screen for
fear of unseen blows falling from
behind.
THUS IT is no surprise that
foreign powers are reluctant to
finance a project that will serve
little purpose other than the per-
petuation of a basically unsound
government. Undoubtedly, both
Dulles and Shepilov had this in
mind when they announced they
would not finance the dam at
Aswan.
Where does this leave Egypt?
Both at home and abroad, the
Nasser government stands to lose
both prestige and material power.
Without the Aswan dam and its
attenant industrie s.vE t can-
a
,