U.S. Accuses Russia Of Hypocrisy In Peace Talk
"Streetcar"
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VOL. 2. No. 10
Kennedy Tabs Johnson for VP
Eisenhower
Reaffirms
Doctrine
WASHINGTON (?P) The
United States denounced So
viet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev in blistering language
yesterday and warned him to
stop trying to foist com
munism on the Western Hem
isphere.
It accused Khrushchev of trying
to supplant with a "Bolshevik
doctrine" the historic Monroe
Doctrine which guards Latin
American republics against out
side intervention.
In solemn words, approved
by President Eisenhower, the
State Department reaffirmed
U.S. determination to uphold
the 173-year-old Monroe Doc
trine in the face of Khru
shchev's rocket-rattling threats
to intervene to help Cuba.
"This naked menace to world
peace, branished so callously by
the Soviet leader, reveals the hy
procrisy of his protestations in be
half of peace," the department
said in a formal statement.
The State Department's reply
to comments Khrushchev made at
a Kremlin news conference Tues
day added up to one of the most
biting indictments leveled at him
since the blow-up of the Paris
summit conference in mid-May.
To back up what appeared
to be a new tough-talk policy.
the State Department called off
civil aviation talks with the
Soviet Union which are due to
begin here Monday.
Khrushchev's newest barrage of
threats and distortions, the de
partment said, has worsened the
International atmosphere to the
point where there is no chance
for an aviation agreement. A de
partment spokesman said 'a suit
able time" for rescheduling the
talks would depend on Moscow's
future conduct.
2d Lecture-Recital
To Be Presented
By String Quartet
The Claremont string quartet
will give its second in a series
of three weekly lecture-recitals
at 8 o'clock tonight in the Hetzel
Union assembly room.
The quartet will play selected
portions of contemporary compo
sitions, stopping to analyze the
form, style and feeling the com
poser tried to convey.
The quartet which is serving
as a quartet-in-residence prior to
going to the Vancouver Music
Festival and a world tour, also
gives weekly concerts on Tues
day evenings at 8 in the HUB
ballroom.
Filigree Setting for String Quar
tet (1960) by Mel Powell and Con
certino for String Quartet by
Stravinsky, two numbers on next
Tuesday's program will be dis
cussed and interpreted instru
mentally tonight.
Fuel Grant Given
A research grant in fuel tech
nology from the Plastics and Coal
Chemicals Division, Allied Chem
ical Corporation to the Univer
sity will support research on the
relation of chemical and physical
properties of manufactured car
bon bodies to the behavior of the
pitch binder used in their prepa
ration.
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—Collegian Photo by Rae Hoopes
STUDENTS RELAX on the sun-swept terrace of the Hetzel Union
Building. Shaded by huge umbrellas, many students and visitors
find that the terrace provides a pleasant respite from a long hot
day in the classroom.
Dea.ns To Study
Library Deficiences
The deans of all nine colleges of the University are con
sidering the report submitted in May by a Liberal Arts
faculty committee, listing gross deficiencies in the facilities
of Pattee Library, Lawrence E. Dennis, vice president for
academic affairs, who chairs the Council of Deans, reported.
Groups of faculty also plan to
visit President Eric A. Walker to
discuss the matter, Dennis said.
It is expected that the faculty
of each college will investigate
the library problem and decide
on any action it may wish to
take.
The Liberal Arts faculty com
mittee took the first positive ac
tion two' months ago when it
presented to Walker a 28-page
report it had compiled charging
inadequacies in various areas of
the present system.
The report struck at a lack of
specific texts, incomplete stand
ard editions and workout refer
ence works. It said that the Uni
Review
Mateer Gives Finest Presentation
By JAY RAKE
Collegian Reviewer
The Plateer Playhouse
Players at Standing Stone
give their finest performances
of the season with the current
presentation of the Tennessee
Williams' tragedy "A Street
car Named Desire."
Fantasy covers a sordid life and
the memory of a destroyed love
for the main Williams' character,
Blanche Dußois. Visiting her sis
ter who lives in the French Quar
ter of New Orleans, she must
fight her brother-in-law, Stan
ley Kowalski, who is ever-ready
to strip the mask from her pre
tense.
Stanley manages to dig up
enough dirt to ruin her chances
for marine to one of his friends.
All this as Blanche tries futilely
to save her sister, Stella, from the
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 15. 1960
versity's library ranks low among
comparable institutions and has
twice been refused admission to
the Association of Research Li
braries.
A request for a new wing or
an additional building was sub
mitted to the General State
Authority, which finances aca
demic buildings for the Uni
versity, last fall, but it is not
very high on the priority list,
Dennis said.
Any increase in funds for addi
tional books or facilities would
have to be included when the
next annual request is made for
appropriations from the state, he
said.
clutches of this "prehistoric man" law, David Frank, gives a strong
she married. I performance, confirming every
* • • thing Blanche says dbout his
Williams has written the play animal tendencies. He is mean
for Blanche, played so poignant- and entirely heartless while
ly by Esther Benson. Miss Ben- destroying Blanche's illusions.
son, who is making her only ap- I Perhaps most important in
pearance at Standing Stone this :making Frank's portrayal of Stan-' Traditional Sing
season, is just excellent. She is ley successful is that he has cre
pitiful, moving, flirtatious all lated a character of his own
at exactly the right time and in 'rather than trying to imitate J et For Monday
the c
the right tone. i"accepted" way of playing the A 30-year old tradition at the
In the show's most beautifully,
.role. University will be continued Mon
touching scene she gets a young *•* day night when the second stu
newsboy (Larry Bristol) to kiss! Patricia Thompson, as Blanche's dent sing of the summer will be
her. Aided by a wonderfully tim-,sister, Stella, gives nice emotion'held at 8 p.m. in, Schwab.
id Bristol, Miss Benson tears all!to her part and is entiring con-' Fra`nk Gullo, associate proles
emotion loose in heart-rendering; vincing. Her finest scenes are sor of music, will direct the sing
fashion. ;those in which she reaffirms her ing. Dr. Hummel Fishburn, head
While "Streetcar" is the kind ofllove for Stanley . and virtually .of - the department of music and
show that rests predominantly oniflies into his arms. music education, and Elmer G.
one character, it requires excel-i Miss. Thampson's major trouble Wareham, instructor in music,
lent support from the ether mem-lis holding her southern accent. Itwill accompany on the piano.
bers of the cast if it is to reachimight be better to have none, than Music features are also sched
a real height of success. This sup-Ito have it inconsistently. !uled in the program so the sing
port is ready for Miss Benson in 1.. As Harold "Mitch" Mitchell, ing audience can catch its breath.
the current production. •
1 Ronald Bishop shows what he 1 The singing will be held every
As The animalistic brother-in- I (Continued on page four) Monday night through Aug. 1.
Seeks Stronger Ticket
With Popular Southerner
LOS ANGELES (IF) Sen. John F. Kennedy, seeking to
give his Democratic presidential ticket the broadest possible
appeal, yesterday designated Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas to be his vice presidential running mate.
He thus set up a combination that presents the voters
with a New England liberal in
the No. 1 spot and a Southern
or Westerner with more con
servative leanings in the No. 2
place.
Nixon
K enne d y
•
Johnson, accepting second place,' Formidable /
on a ticket he had hoped to head,l
said he would "stump the country i
from coast to coast" in an attempt
to win an overwhelming Demod WASHINGTON VP) -- Vice_
cratic victory in November. 'President Richard M. Nixon
Between them Kennedy and
Johnson captured 1,215 of the
1,521 votes cast by delegates
Wednesday night in selecting
their presidential nominee.
Johnson pledged that he will 'sized 'sized up Sen. John F.Kennedy
support the platform adopted by;
the party convention, which in-!yesterday as a highly fermi
eludes a strong civil rights Planic clable opponent against whom
ihe campaign vigorotAy
In another development, Sen. 1. will .
Henry M. Jackson of Washing
!across the country.
ton who had hoped for .the
vice presidential nomination
said he was considering whether 1 His news secretary Herbert G.
-
to become the Democratic na- Klein, said Nixon will .carry his
tional chairman. Paul M. Butler 'fight against the newly nominal
is resigning this post. ed Democratic candidate for the
,
,presidency into all the 50 states,
there . speaking personally in as many
On the religious angle,
was another sort of balance of-
!as he can before the November
fered in the Kennedy-Johnson 'election.
ticket. Kennedy is a Roman
Catholic. Johnson is a member of ; Klein told reporters that
the Christian Church. Nixon, the virtually certain
Republican candidate, person-
On the point of age, Kennedy is: ly regards Kennedy as "a high
-431y formidable opponent."
and Johnson 51. Johnson had
been among those who had sug-1
"The vice president is confident
gested that the man from Massa-;'that he will win," Klein said, "but
chusetts needed more maturity.
' he expects a close race."
Until yesterday Johnson had Klein said Nixon and his wife
been maintaining that he would
' Pat, will fly to Chicago Monday ,
,
not be interested in taking sec- !July 25, for the opening of the
and place. !Republican National Convention
Yesterday the Texan said that;and make his headquarters at the
he did not think any man had a;Blackstone Hotel.
right to refuse to serve his coun
try if he is convinced he can do
so.
Standing 'on a chair outside his
Biltmore Hotel suite in a mass of
in ews m en and photographers,
Johnson said he had told Ken
!nedy that he thought Kennedy
was entitled to decide on the in
dividual he would like to have
!run with him and serve with him
las "our commander in chief."
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"He wants to be there early
enoueh in order to meet and
shake hands with as many dele
gates as possible," the spokes.
man said.
The vice president has not
ruled out the possibility that New
York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
may seek the nomination at Chi ,
cago, but he is confident of Lis
own selection.
Rockefeller will appear before
the Republican Platform Commit
tee in Chicago Tuesday for a pre
sentation of his views on what
the platform should include.
Nixon has been convinced all
along that Kennedy would be his
:November opponent. He has built
ihis campaign strategy with that
:in view, planning, among other
things, heavy emphasis on the
South where he regards Kennedy
as weak.
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