Author Vance Packard
Cr-'izies America’s
Social Life Standards
SALT LAKE CITY (#f — Author
Vance Packard, student and critic
of America’s social life, says
“snob appeal” buying has changed
from automobiles to homes which
are described as the “executive
type” and built on top of hills
“so the people who live in them
can look down on the rest of the
community.”
In a. lecture Monday night
Packard also said many adver
tisers concentrate on the “youth
market” not only to sell goods but
to create future generations of
free spenders.
Packard said such trends lead
to “more and more self-concentra
tion and self-love and less and
less thought about the needs of
others.”
MOST OBLIGING ! ! !
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. M—
Citizens had been complaining
about the dirt left on streets with
the thaw of winter’s snows, so an
obliging street worker rolled out
a sprinkler early today.
Several blocks of the busiest
downtown streets had i'roz.en like
hockey rinks before the police
stopped the operation.
LONG SESSION . . .
LONDON (iP! — Labor members
of Parliament harassed Prime
Minister MacMillan’s conservative
government by keeping the House
of Common^ sitting thoughtout
Monday night.
For 14V£ hours the Laborites
waged a campaign of censure and
filibuster growing out of their in
tense opposition to the govern
ment’s plans for higher charges
for national health service.
THERE WAS A DOUBT ! ! !
BRISTOL, England — The
sign outside a lemonade factory
in suburban Kingswood read:
“Notice to intending intruders.
Do not waste your time and en
ergy breaking into these premises.
We bank all cash daily. No cash
is left on the premises overnight.”
Friday night a gang broke into
the factory and drove away with
a safe containing 70 pounds ($196>
in cash.
$9.1 BILLION WILL BE SPENT
ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
WASHINGTON I IP) — The Na
tional Science Foundation esti
mated Sunday that government
spending to support scientific re
search will total $9.1 billion. This
compares to $8.6 billion for the
fiscal year that ended last June
30 and $7.4 billion the previous
year.
Museum Discovers It Has
Three Fake Sculptures
NEW YORK m — The Metro- i
politan Museum of Art has dis- j
covered that it has been exhibit
ing three fake sculptures since
1933.
The three large famous Terra
Cotta sculptures of warriors had
been labeled “Etruscan” — of
about the Fifth Century B. C.
Posted Tuesday in the museum’s
distinguished Etruscan collection
was a notice saying that as a re
sult of modern scientific analysis
the museum had received “proof
that these famous statues were
not made in ancient times.”
The museum did not say how
much was paid for the warrior
figures. All were in fragments
when acquired.
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By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
The United Nations is now about to reap the
harvest of its own mistakes — or perhaps it would
be better to say its own disabilities — in the Congo.
It was fairly clear at the beginning of the crisis
that by atempting to police the situation, and to
help the Congolese establish a stable government
in the meantime, the United Nations were attempt
ing to give help where there was no one to help.
Trying to establish a stable government quickly
was hopeless.
So was trying to establish a long term trustee
ship, under which the United Nations would have
taken over lock, stock and barrel for perhaps 20
years until a government cadre could be estab
lished. Too many members lacked either the money
or the will.
In this situation a police action was tried, in
which the police were not authorized to act, as
though they were dealing with a civilized coun
try where the mere presence of world public
opinion could have some effect. It did not.
Soon there developed a feeling in the West, and
there were concrete reports from observers in the
Congo, that Dayal was pursuing the Indian type
of neutralism which played into the hands of the
Lumumba group.
In the last of many arrests, deposed Premier
Patrice Lumumba was physically mistreated and
finally killed.
International Police had not Kept Order
The International police had not kept order, and
such attempts as they had made gave the neutrals
an impression that they were working for the j
Western Powers and for Belgium, the ousted land
lord. This feeling grew despite the submerged feel- i
ing in the West about Dayal.
Now the Soviet Union has broken relations with J
Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, bringing
the situation back to where it was in 1950 when '
the Soviets also broke with a former Secretary
General Trygive Lie, over U. N. action against
the North Korean Communists. The bridge be
tween the free world and the Communists in the '
United Nations was broken. Lie eventually re
moved himself in order that it might be re-estab
lished.
U. N. Observers are betting Hammarskjold will
serve out his term on the ground that retirement
of the secretary-general under such pressure would
be bad for the United Nations, despite the fact it
will mean three years of non-communication be
tween his office and the Soviet Union. Routine will
go through the secretariat.
At the end of three years the Communists will
veto his reappointment, and refuse to agree on a
new secretary-general while promoting their pro
posal for a three-man top secretariat which would
give them a virtual veto on implementation of
General Assembly decisions.
The United Nations, having refused in the be
ginning to pick up the hot coals left by Belgium
in the Congo, now faces nothing but trouble.
AIR FORCE WILL END ITS
OPERATIONS ON ADAK ISLAND
ANCHORAGE UP) — On March 1 the Air Force
will withdraw its last unit on Adak Island in the
Aleutians and formally end its operation there.
The wind-swept island was home to headquarters
of the 11th Air Force during World War II and was
an important communications center and enroute
station for B24 bombers operating in the Kurile
Islands.
The squadron’s operations were gradually cur
tailed until deemed no longer necessary. After
World War II and up to a few years ago, the
1929th was a minor relay station serving as ap al
ternative route between the Far East and the
U. S. for communication purposes.
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