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Rome fakes steps to remain green
HIKER AL WELI.S INDEX
ROME (UPI) — The Italian
government has drafted a detailed
plan to keep a mounting tide of
cement from engulfing the remain-
ing public parks of Rome, which
used to be one ofthe world’s green-
est cities.
The plan includes a gigantic
park and a new road along the
ancient Appian Way. The park will
be as big as all the city’s existing
parks and gardens put together.
The bold plan was outlined by
Public Works Minister Giuseppe
Togni.
His project is the answer to
•widespread complaints that Rome’s
growth—its population has grown
from 250.000 in 9,000,000 in 90 years
—is destroying the Eternal City’s
unique parks and lovely suburban
meadows to make way for houses.
The minister said a bill currently
under preparation will reserve a
certain area in every city district
for public parks, playgrounds and
sports fields.
An eight-mile network of foot
paths also is contemplated.
• WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Shall We Throw Overboard
Any Defense of U.S. Cities**
BY RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—(NEA)—There is now a serious debate raging
In the' Pentagon over whether it is possible to “defend” American
cities and factories.
Some leading Defense Department strategists contend that
“defense” is no longer practical. They see no “adequate” defense
as possible, in fact, in less than a decade:
• Against constantly improving intercontinental ballistic mis-
siles.
• Against atomic missile-firing submarines.
• Against boost-glide intercontinental bombers.
• Against nerve gas and bacteriological attacks.
They therefore propose abandoning major purely defensive
programs, already programmed for 25 billion dollars, and expected
to receive another 25 billion in the next few years. 1
THIS GROUP OF HIGHLY-PLACED Pentagonians insist that
if these large sums were added to what the U.S. is already putting
into offensive weapons, America would.be so' strong—so able to
devastate Russia—that the Reds would never dare start a war.
These men contend that one reason for the offensive, strength
of the Russians is simply this—they’ve spent far less on defensive
systems, far more on offensive weapons than has the United States.
The Russians and American overall military budgets are not
too far apart. But the Reds are besting the U.S. in the numerical
production of key offensive weapons because of this concentration.
These military strategists are talking about the amount of
actual hardware produced—not its quality.
BUT THIS FUND DIVERSION would enable the U.S. — with
its manufacturing genius — to turn out so many more missiles
and other offensive weapons that in sheer numbers they would
make up for the U.S. bureaucratic lag in producing better weapons.
It’s too early in the debate to tell how far these offensive-minded
generals and admirals will get. It’s certain, of course, that they
won’t get all they’re asking for. Regardless of military logic, no
Congress would ever vote to leave U.S. cities defenseless.
But these officers may have some major successes — against
the costly Nike-Zeus program, for example.
“By the time we put Nike-Zeus into full operation—or within
a very short time after—scientists will have developed a better
missile, one that can evade these defenses,” says top missile
man.
ALREADY BEING THOUGHT ABOUT: missiles — with flaps
or small jets — that can change course en route, thus confuse
any defense system dreamed up so far.
In the minds of some key Defense Department scientific men,
continued superiority will hold for a wide range of offensive
weapons.
These men expect superior gases and bacteriological agents will
be developed more rapidly than methods for detecting and counter-
ing.
They expect submarines will become faster and quieter more
rapidly than methods for hunting and killing them.
They expect the development of a series of new fantastic weap-
ons within fhe next few years.
They don’t expect defense to be always behind the offense.
They’re working on some fantastic defense methods too.
But as of now they’d like to put a lot more of the U.S. defense
funds into the offensive.
TV In Review
By FRED DANZIG
United Press International
NEW YORK UPI — What sarong
with AB.C-TV’s hour-long series,
Adventure In Paralise?
The show took a stvere thrash-
ing when it debuted. ! ven the ad
agency man and film executives
who helped put it together voiced
distress over the show, They vow-
ed to work harder to improve it.
Gardner McKay, the star of the
show, began taking lessons on how
to act. I was assured last week that
the show had improved so much
that I might be pleasantly surpris-
ed if I took another look.
What’s this stuff about double
jeopardy?
Monday night’s story was straight
out of those Peter Lorre movies.
His early ones. Paulette Goddard
was on deck as a woman living it
up on Noumea who didn’t want her
daughter to learn about her dread-
ful past. I’m going to be very sure
my past doesn’t ruin her future,”
is how she put it. Paulette was
threatened by a killer-blackmailer,
played well enough by Simon Oak-
land. It all came out okay, how-
ever, after one of those patented
ABC-TV warehouse brawls.
Still absent from the show are
paradise-like scenes of the South
Pacific. Most of Monday night’s
action took place at night, or in-
side houses or cafes or that
bloomin’ warehouse. And as as for
adventure — it was sadly outdated.
However, McKay’s acting has im-
proved. He’s only a monotone 98
per cent of the time now. But his
eyelashes still flutter before he
speaks. I think this little prelimi-
nary helps rev up his voice.
Someone once said that because
of TV new performers no longer
have any place in which to be bad.
Nonsense. There is a place for new
talent to be bad. Ironically, it’s TV.
And Adventure In Paradise is the
best example I’ve seen.
Tuesda,y November 3, 1959
ForeLgn news commentary ^SsLh°™¥Dk
Pat Harrington Jr., a performer
who is resurrecting dialect comedy
on TV, joined the permanent Dan-
ny Thomas show company Monday
night on CBS-TV. He plays the part
of a young night club comedian who
specializes in being an Italian golf
pro named Guido Panzini which is
the role he made famous on Jack
Paar’s show. Harrington’s short-
comings as a straight actor were
plainly evident, but tn his less
emotional scenes with Thomas, he
showed promise of becoming an as-
set to the show.
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
There is evidence that Iraqi Pre-
mier Abdel Karim Kassem was
much more seriously hurt in the at-
tempted assassination against him
than the outside world was allow-
ed to know.
There also is evidence that his
arab neighbors, notably Jordan
and the United Arab Republic,
have been watching events since
with an indecisive mixture of hope
and apprehension.
The machinegun attack on Kas-
sem occurred on Bagdad’s nar-
row Rashid Street on Oct. 7. An
official announcement said he was
hit in the left hand, the left arm
and the left hip.
It was emphasized the wounds
were not serious.
Yet nearly one month later, Kas-
sem still is in the hospital and la-
test reports say he will be there
another 10 days.
Since Oct. 7 the Baghdad Radio
has been busy denying various re-
ports, most of them circulated by
those admittedly unfriendly to Kas-
sem. One was that Kassem had
died. Another, that Iraqi doctors
had proved incapable of treating
him and that Russian doctors had
been flown in.
Whatever the facts, the method
of treatment has changed. A de-
cision to leave bullets remanats in
Kassem’s arm was reversed and it
now appears another operation
may be necessary to remove the
whole slug.
The mixture of hope and appre-
hension being demonstrated in Jor-
dan and the UAR springs from two
sources.
Chaos certainly would result
should Kassem be removed from
the ruling seat in Iraq.
Whether this would be of most
benefit to the Arab nationalists or
to the communists is problemati-
cal. But neither King Hussein of
Jordan nor president Abdel Gamal
Nasser of the UAR would be like-
ly to stand idly by while the Com-
munists took over.
Neither Hussein nor Nasser
wastes any love on Kassem —-
Hussein because he regards him-
self as head of the Hashemite dy-
nasty v/hich was toppled in the
Iraq Revolution last year, and
Nasser because of his battle with
Kassem for leadership of the Arab
world.
But if either were to attempt to
intervene in Iraq, it js most prob-
able some of legality wduld be
sought. That form presently is
lacking.
Uneasiness again is stirring in
the Middle East and, as he was a
year ago, Kassem once more is
the center.
Pastel bath pellet
is disguised mill
PLAINFIELD,N.J. UPI — An in-
novation for the bath: a pastel pel-
let which looks like a tablet of
bath salts. But when the pellet Is
placed in water, it expamds to a
full sized, terrycloth clip-on mitt
with a pleasent fragrance.
This cleanliness adjunct con-
venient for home, office or trav-
el - comes in kits of from one to
four pellets (Q—W Laboratories,
Plainfield, NJ)
The Almanac
united Press International
The Channel Swim. Recording
artists who will receive “Gram-
my” awards on the Sunday, Nov.
29 NBC-TV special presented by
the National Academy of Record-
ing Arts and Sciences include Ella
Fitzgerald, Bobby Darin, Duke
Ellington, Jimmy Driftwood, Shell-
ey Berman and the Southern Cali-
fornia Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
U. S. Steel’s CBS-TV special on
Feb. 10, “The American Cowboy,”
starring Fred MacMurray, has a
supporting cast of Wally Cox, Edie
Adams, Hans Conried and Carol
Burnett. Bill Baird is filming a
puppet series in color for network
or syndication use. The format
recreates best-selling kiddy books.
A Tuesday, Nov. 10 show on ABC-
TV will honor Dr. Thomas Dooley,
the American whose clinics have
helped Laotians battle sickness.
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 3, the
307th day of the year, with 38 more
days in 1959.
Today is election day.
The moon is approching its first
quarter.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mercury,
Jupiter and Saturn.
On this date in history:
In 1783, the Continental Army de-
mobilized by order of Congress.
America had won its first war.
In 1814, European powers opened
the Congress of Vienna in an at-
tempt at resolving the problems
left by the Napoleonic wars.
In 1883, delegates from through-
out the United States concluded
their conference at Detroit after
organizing the world Women’s
Christian Temperance Union.
In 1896, Idaho granted full suf-
frage to women.
In 1900, the first national auto-
mobile show opened its doors at
Madison Square Garden in New
York City.
In 1917, the first American sol-
! diers to die in Woeld War I - a
corporal and two privates of the
first division - were killed near
Nancy, France.
In 1936, President Roosevelt
scored the most one-side presi-
dential victory of the century,
carrying every state but Maine
and Vermont,
A thought for today: The states-
man Daniel Websetr, “Let our ob-
ject be our country, our whole
country, and nothing but our coun-
try.”
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
By MARY LU McDONALD
United Press International
PULLMAN, Wash., (UPI) —The
average American teen-age girl
lives on a' diet only slightly better
than that in many of the world’s
famine areas. But it is the girl’s
own fault, according to a recent
national nutrition study.
Inez Eckblad, Washington State
University’s extension specialist,
said the survey indicates teenagers’
diets are only slightly better in
terms of food value than those in
any ofthe world’s starvation areas.
Miss Eckblad is a member of the
national 4-H committee on improv-
ing teenage nutrition. The com-
mittee recently analyzed nutrition
research studies conducted across
the nation.
She said six out of ten girls do
not get a sufficient amount of one
or more ofthe following—protein
calcium, iron, vitamin A, thiamine,
riboflavin and vitamin C.
“The teenage diets especially
lack calcium, iron and vitamin C,”
she said. “And the closer the girls
i get to maturity, the poorer their
diets and the fewer nutrients they
get in the day’s meals and snacks,”
The cause? One is the traditional
“woman-worry” — overweight. But
another is the ever popular candy-
popcorn-pop routine which ranks
high with teenagers.
“Empty calorie foods—sweets,
potato chips or carbonated bev-
erages—do not have the essential
food elements that growing teen-
agers need,” says Miss Eckblad.
She said the average teenage girl
needs at least 2,400 to 2,600 calories
a day.
And the cure? “Certainly the
parents can’t supervise every
mouthful their youngsetrs eat,”
said Miss Eckblad.
Parents can, however, make sure
that meals eaten in the home con-
tain needed nutrients, andthe food
—
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specialist at WSU suggested using
the “big four” food groups as a
daily guide.
This includes the milk, meat,
vegetable-fruit and the breads-
cereal groups. She said that four
ar,d usually more glasses of milk
.daily are essential but cheese and
ice cream could substitute for part
of the milk supply.
The food specialist also urged
that two or more servings of meat
be included in the day’s diet.
Dark green or deep yellow veg-
clables provide the essential vita-
min A and should be used at least
every other day. Four and usually
more servings of bread or cereals
daily are also recommended.
Insure With Shore — Phone
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• BARBS
BY HAL COCHRAN
Maybe the man who punched
a porter on a train in Ohio want-
ed to have his shoes shined else-
where.
He * W ■
Don’t kick about your bad
luck. A golfer in Florida made
a hole in one, but it was on the
wrong green.
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Van B, Butler,, Secretary
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country
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its monetary
unit
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of Greece
13 Lincoln’s
nicknmae
14 Biblical
•garden
15 Narrow fillet
16 Flax (dial.)
17 Low haunts
18 Mariner’s
direction
19 Perfume
21 Goddess of
infatuation
22 Leases
24 Stage
performer •
26 Opposed to lee
28 Guide
29 Rot flax by
exposure
30 Ventilate
31 Before
32 American
writer
33 Classifies
35 Trap
38 Lover of
Daphnis
39 Puff up
41 Wand
42 Great fear
46 Century (ab.)
47 At all times
49 Possessive
pronoun
50 Filth
51 Nuisance
52 Soak up
53 British
princess
54 Italian city
55 Abstract being
56 Forest
creature
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5 Seasoning
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geese
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Wisconsin
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English school
45 Vipers
48 Route (ab.)
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NBC-TV’s This Is Your Life earlier
this season, returns Wednesday to
help Ralph Edwards honor a
friend. Director Norman Jewison
has quit CBS-TV’s Big Party. Pro-
ducer Perry Lafferty and Abe Bur-
rows will handle the directorial
chores.
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