davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1960-10-06
Failed to Follow Up

In another Washington case,
the report said, GSA determined
the fair market value of a build
ing in which it planned to rent
Evening star., 1960-10-06

Baskets toted add up to tons
stairs climbed become noun
tains-in a year. An automatic
electric dryer saves you all
that work. And only electric
dryers are fGmeleSs. See them
Evening star., 1960-10-06

CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Of
f1cers Of newly chartered Local
Evening star., 1960-10-06
The Sun and Neon

Automobile lights must be turned on
70 hour after sunset. -
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-06-24

Ultra Wave companion
products are a must for
proper culture grooming.
~ ultra Wave Pre-
Creme (2) Ultra Wave
Black Rinse ~ Ultra
Wave Hair Creme Oil.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
No More 'Ninotchkos'

The intelligence that Premier Khru-
shchev's daughter ard Son-inlaw were
"bored" by Paris night life on their
recent visit is not unexpected. But the
news will stir old memories and old
regrets among middle-aged readers who
remember a glorious make-believe ac-
count of another meeting between East
and West in the City of Light. Who
could forget "Ninotchka" when the
divine Garbo was at her peak and movies
weren't afraid to be funny? She strobe
onto the scene, purpoSeful, trench
coated and grim, sneering at capitalist
decadence and all its works. Then, a
little champagne, few sweet nothingS
from Melvyn Douglas and, VOLTA, the
daughter of the Revolution was waltzing
and giggling and carrying on like any
girl who ever went to Paris and got
with it.
Well, we guess the days when Paris
could work its magic on the comrades
is behind us. The Place de la Concorde
is just another square to them, now they
are acquiring their own creature COM
forts. Come to think of it, they don't
make movies like that any more. either.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Machines and Man

DR.. Norbert Wiener, professor Of
mathematics at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, has had some pretty
grim things to say to the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science.
Addressing the organization at its recent
meeting in Chicago, he has warned
that electronic calculating machines had
better be watched and controlled most
carefully lest they Supplant the human
mind and enSlave, or otherwise gravely
victimize, the peoples of the world.
What worries Dr. Wiener, who is a
distinguished expert in this field, is that
one or another of these machines (Which
in some respects appear to be a lot
smarter than homo sapiens) may go
berSerk in a way that could be most
embarrassing, or even catastrophe, for
humanity. Thus, left to themselves, GER
tain types Of electronic brains might
decide to start a puSh-button process
that could make nuclear war inevitable
on the basis of certain formulas fed
into it-unleSS, that is, some sensible
attendant were carefully watching it to
make sure that it behaved itself or that
it didn't Jump to conclusions too fast.
Scientifically speaking, DR.. Wiener's
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Fdvorite Sons Fovorite

Senator Kennedy has received a
valuable and timely political gift in the
announcement by Ohio'S Governor
Disable that the latter will enter the
Ohio Democratic presidential primary
as ''fo"orite son" fully committed to
the New Englander'S nomination.
For while the youthful MasSachu-
SettS Senator obviously has popular sup
port scattered widely around the coun-
try, the Disable announcement and the
probability that it will mean solid bloc
of 64 Kennedy votes in the party con-
vention next July add up to the first
major breakthrough from the regional
confines of the six small Northeast
States. Ohio itself is one of the big
plums, the fifth largest in this case, in
nominating convention.
For Mr.. Kennedy, the benefits are
considerable. He is spared, first Of all,
the need to engage in battle in big
State. He has strong man to do it
for him. There is, Furthermore, great
psychological advantage in having early
support for candidacy that officially
is only few days old Then there is
the advantage of having it come from a
political figure who has been generally
identified with the liberal wing of the
party, as Mr.. Disable has been through
out his political career in Washington
and in Ohio. If the presidential nomi-
nation does go to the Massachusetts
Senator, the Disable contribution will be
rated a big one.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Rockefeller and COP

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
proclaims that he is a Re-
publican with a determined
desire for a 1860 victory for
the Grand Old Party. If Gov.
Rockefeller is sincere, why
will he not indorSe and sup
port an apparently sure
winning Nixon-Rockefeller
ticket?
If Gov. Rockefeller will not
support the Republican Party
on such a sure-fire COP.
ticket in 1860, why should
the Republican Party ever
consider Gov. Rockefeller as
a Republican choice either
in 1864 or 1868?
If Gov. Rockefeller fails
the Republican Party in 1860.
why shouldn't it be suspect
ed that he would fail the
party in 1864 or 1868?
Gov. Rockefeller mentions
that his past has been one of
administration and that he
has no desire to merely be a
presiding officer over the
United States Senate.
Certainly Vice President
Richard Nixon, during the
past seven years, has been
much more than a presiding
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Macmillan to Africa

AS the l960S begin, statesmen on
both sides of the Iron Curtain seem to
be firmly convinced that peregrination
can be an effective instrument of foreign
policy. The latest to resort to it, at any
rate, is British Prime Minister Macmil-
Ian, who is now undertaking a month
long tour of Africa in the hope that
by personally visiting various new or
emerging nations, and by comforting di-
rectly with their leaders, he will achieve
mutually beneficial results for his coun-
try and the Commonwealth.
Mr.. Macmillan's itinerary will take
him to several lands that have been
deeply affected by the great ferment of
change that has been stirring the So
called'D DARK Continent ever since the end
Of the Second World War. His visits will
include such former colonies as Ghana,
which became independent in 1857, but
remains in the Commonwealth; Nigeria,
which will achieve full self-rule later
this year, and the Central African Fed
Grafton (the RhodesiaS and NyaSaland),
which is well on its way toward complete
freedom, but which may face serious
trouble, as have other new nations, in
governing itself
The Union of South Africa-inde-.
pendent within the Commonwealth since
191O-iS another Of the countries to be
visited by Mr.. Macmillan. Here, too, he
will find major stresses and strains,
stemming primarily from the aparthetd
policy separating the colored peoples
from the whites. All in all, his tour
which will also take him to Kenya, where
there has been bitter strife between the
white minority and extremist Negro ma
tionalistS-does not promise to be COM
pletely relaxing or full of unbroken
pleaSantrieS But it certainly can do no
harm, and it may well accomplish the
kind of good he hopes for.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Khrushchev's Motives

Nikita Khrushchev's drive
to seek accommodation with
the West does not seem to be
as much a mystery as many
persons may think it is. I
don't claim to be a political
strategist, but ! do read be-
tween the lines when possible,
and have spent most of my
life in the naval service
travelling to many foreign
lands, and speaking with their
peoples.
Therefore, in a layman's
opinion, I say Khrushchev is
becoming chummy with the
West not because he is the
friendly type, nor is he neces-
sarily afraid of the West. The
point in the mystery is he
fears his neighbor, China,
and what China intends to
do in this new decade. It's no
secret China wants to spread
out. and the only direction
she can spread is to her west,
or into Russian-held terri
tory.
History seems to be re-
peating itself. Russia needs
strong allies badly. and the
West is naturally the only
place at present to look, as
the Russians did during
World War II. Khrushchev's
trip to China was one bent
on peace. but Chou only
laughed. and commenced to
show off his military might.
TenseneSS in the air, as it
must be on the Russia-Chin
border, is something you can
almost smell. Many of us in
the Navy expected to go to
war with Japan as early as
1887. The tenseness was in
the air then, as it is now in
Russia. Let's hope and pray
some peaceful solution will be
the outcome.
John ], SWartz.
Evening star., 1960-01-06

misgivings may be sound enough. But
we prefer to believe otherwise. We think
that no electronic machine will ever be
as erratic or foolish lin terms of war; as
the human mind. In that sense, we do
not share the good professors worry. On
the contrary, we feel that there is much
more reason to brood over the vagarieS
of the common cold. Anyhow, looked at
effectively, mechanical calculating
device seems much less disturbing than
things like coughing SpaSmS that spoil
ones sleep at night.
Evening star., 1960-01-06

@. Was novelist Bertha M.
Clay a man?-K. N.
A. Bertha M. Clay was the
pseudonym of the English
novelist Charlotte Monica
Braeme (l836-1884), but it is
reported that some of the
dozens Of romantic novels
published as the work of
Bertha M. Clay were written
by Frederick Van Rensselaer,
Dey (1861-1922) and Thomas
Chalmers Harbaugh QS49-
1920, authors of the famous
Mick Carter" dime novels.
@. Why are the Welsh
people called the Singing
Nation"?-M. F.
A. The Welsh have long
been called a nation of sing
ers. 1t is as natural for them
to sing as it is for most people
to talk, and their famous
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Low-Grode EnqIish

The Star reports teacher
irritation with DR.. Hansen'S
emphasis on English cempo-
Sition. A teacher myself, I
well understand the dislike
of paper grading. but anyone
who contemplates teaching
English should know that
there will be many papers to
grade If a good job is to be
done and can make the deci-
sion to teach accordingly.
Certainly, the field of COM
position needs more emphasis
locally; this I know from ex-
perience.
Because we realized that
there were gaps in the edu-
cation offered our daughters,
we transferred them to pri-
vate school. One entered the
10th grade without ever hav-
ing to do any original writ
ten work. In a school that
stressed writing, she was
seriously handicapped for a
while and had to attend sum-
mer classes to improve her
background in writing, gram
mar and spelling. Even her
previous work in literature
was deficient.
She had had practically no
work in grammar, and in
stead of having 10 new words
each day for spelling drill, as
when I was in school, she
had 10 to is each week. with
tests on Fridays and trial
tests" the day before. Those
words could then be forgot
ten. for they we're not in
serted in any later tests.
In the sixth grade, she had
to prepare book reports-by
filling in blanks on a mimeo-
graphed sheet handed out by
the teacher. There were Just
a few lines for a sentence or
two on the subject of the
book. She read so many
books that I had to make
extra copies of the mimeo-
graphed sheets, but any book
was acceptable for the re-
ports, so that she was not
led to more difficult reading.
At the new school she is re-
garded as a rather poor read
er, as reading is directed
there.
In Junior high, book reports
were all oral. She had to
prepare two written reports
from reference material. but
never had to write more than
isolated short paragraphs in
English classes.
Many papers in my daugh-
ters' classes were corrected
in class, students correcting
their own or another stu
dents, so that the teachers
homework" was practically
nil so far as paper grading
was concerned. In some ele-
mentary grades and in GER
tain Junior high classes no
papers of any kind were re-
turned; thus there was no
opportunity to study correc-
tive com m e nts, as there
should have been.
I have therefore felt that
some teachers, at least, are
not overburdened with paper
grading and so opposed the
plan for "lay readers" for
English papers. There is no
substitute for a teachers
grading his own papers if he
is to know how students are
progressing and the points
that need emphasis.
MEM,
Evening star., 1960-01-06
18th STREET.

l6Jn STREET.
Dear Sir:
You were very mean to
write about my friend that
way. I am sure it was my
friend. Maybe you weren't
interesting enough to him.
and that was the reason he
wouldn't talk, or maybe he
just wanted solitude from a
chattering tongue. or maybe
he is Just plain shy.
"Yes, I guess that is it.
he is shy and never likes to
talk much. Pick on some
body else with your chatter
next time. A lot of people do
not like to talk.
I'VE had a girl in our
town who scarcely ever said
anything but Good morn
ing and she was a very
beautiful and happy person.
and lived a happy life.
Some people are just not
chatterboxes.
Let them alone. please.
"Your truly, JANE I. D."
-
OK, Jane, we'll let them
alone in the future, but you
are still wrong.
The one we meant wasn't
your friend at all!
Not everything has to be
pinned right down to one
person.
What applies to any one,
will certainly apply to many
others.
Take the matter you bring
up, the question of shyness.
What has become of the
shy child?
You don't see many Of
them any more, and that is
good.
A shy child was always a
rather sad sight, even if the
little one was beautiful.
Somehow, the beholder felt
that no child should be that
way.
= \
Today very few of them
are.
Often we hear criticism of
the way children are being
brought up, and while there
are some sore points in the
method, on the whole it
works in happier kids.
Nobody, child or adult, can
really enjoy his life when he
has to twist and turn every
time anyone addresses him.
Why, we have known chill
dren who would rather go
Evening star., 1960-01-06

TearS nave nao an lmpor-
tant part in mans evolution.
They may even be an i'm
portant factor in the sur
vival Of the race. Babies who
could weep had a better
chance of living to become
parents of other babies.
This thesis is advanced in
a report to the American AS
sociation for the Advance
ment Of Science by DR.. Ash
ley Montagu of Princeton
University.
ALI higher animals "cry"
when In pain, he explains,
but man alone can accom-
pany his crying with tears
and this apparently is a
rather recent development
from the viewpoint of evolu-
ton. Crying tends to dry the
mucous membranes Of the
nose so that they no longer
secrete mucous which con-
tains a powerful bacteria
killing agent, lysozyme.
The nose is the first part
Of the body to come in con-
tact with the disease germs
of the outside world. The
function Of the lysozyme ap-
parently is to kill them be-
fore they get farther into the
body.
Human Infant Differs
Now, DR.. Montagu points
out in his report, this defense
mechanism is common to all
the high animals. They Sc
crete mucous in the nose.
They also cry" but only for
a quite short period in early
infancy. Then they acquire
the bark, squeal, or whatever
is the characteristic Ian
guage Of their species.
The human infant is diff
ferent. It usually is at least
a year before it is able to
use any sort of language. The
only means it has to tell of
discomfort, hunger, etc., is by
crying. Some babies cry al
most constantly. The result
is that the mucous men,
branes of the nose are dry
most of the time and the
baby is left unprotected
against any bacterial invasion.
But, says DR.. Montagu,
some time in the history of
the race some human baby
was born with the ability to
shed tears. This was the re-
suit Of a mutation of some
sort. 1t was hereditary. Tears
also contain lysozyme. The
tear ducts are closely tied up
with the nose. Some of the
tears streamed down the face.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
WSTAS IN SCIENCE:
Tears Vital in Mans Evolution
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

Others leaked into the nose
and moistened the mucous
membrane, which otherwise
would be dried by the crying.
so that it was able to continue
to secrete the bacterial killing
agent.
AS a result, this baby-or
perhaps quite a few babies
was not so exposed to the
maladies likely to kill it dur
ing the first few months of
life.
1t survived while many
others without the tear-shed-
ding ability perished. The
offspring who inherited the
characteristic of the parent,
also had a better chance to
survive. In a few milleniums
all the human lines without
the hereditary ability to shed
tears were eliminated and
only the tear shedders sur
vived.
Lysozyme, DR.. Montagu ex-
plains, recently has been used
in medicine against a variety
Of infectious diseases with
considerable success. -
Protective Device -
THE function of lysozyme
in the human organism" he
says, strongly indicates
weeping as a physiologically
protective device against the
depredations of potentially
noxious organisms. In ad-
dition, it should be mentioned
that tears contain sugar and
protein which are nutritious
both to the eye and to the
paranaSal and nasal mucous
membranes. Weeping, fur
thermore activateS the mu--
cosal glands, increasing their
blood supply and causing
them to secrete additional
lysozyme.
ut is suggested that weep
ing originated as an adap-
lively valuable trait in a
species in which the crying
Of the young is extended over
a much longer period than
in any other species as a pro-
tective adjustment against
damage to the nasal mucous
membrane of the young.
Early in the development
Of man those individuals
were naturally selected in the
struggle for existence who
were able to produce an abun-
dant flow of tears as they
cried, while those who were
not able to do so would be
likely to succumb more fire.
quently at all ages, and leave
the perpetuation Of the spe-
cieS increasingly to those
who could weep"
Evening star., 1960-01-06

officer of the United States
Senate, but rather has
enriched himself with the
knowledge and ability to be
the best candidate to be the
President of the United
States for the next eight
years.
Evening star., 1960-01-06

Have we doctors forgotten
that things equal to the same
or equal things are equal to
each other? In demanding
that the state reimburse our
nonprofit hospitals the full
fair cost for treating the
medically INDECENT, organ
lied medicine recognizes and
comedies a basic social and
economic identity: There is
no known method of sepa-
rating community duty to
the sick into the tax subsi-
died. the proflt-motive sub
sidized and the nonprofit
subsidized. Imitation, confis-
catory taxation and the gen.
eral bankruptcy Of the def
cit-spending healing arts
have made community med
ical needs an indivisible bur-
den which must be borne by
every shoulder. No longer
may organized medicine in
sist that human medical
needs are divided into three
social and economic seq
ments: Cd The solvent IA
vorable risks who support
private, prof1t-motivated en-
terpriSe, including insurance
companies which only un-
derwrite risks which guaran-
tee dividends; (2) those of
the marginal economic group
who must combine low-cost,
prepayable self help with
complete medical service in
surance benefits provided at
a discount by nonprofit Blue
Cross and Blue Shield; 90
and the INDECENT who, by
reason of underprivilege or
the misadventure of bank
rupting catastrophes, have
lost all right Of free choice
and veto-to become the di-
rect responsibility of the
state.
Now the state is default
ing in its solemn obligation
to its indigents. The state
now demands that the nom
profit system assume the
states burdens at less than
fair cost to those whose So
cial conscience refuses to de-
fault. Let this contemplate
default by the state remind
doctors that there is only
one purse which eventually
pays every health security
cost: That purse is yours.
And the basic community
medical needs which our
common purse must finance
is not, like all Gaul, divided
into three parts. Nineteen
hundred and sixty is the time
for all doctors to realize we
may not logically have three
solutions to an indivisible
problem. Things equal to the
same or equal things are
equal to each other, even in
medical economics.
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

around the block than pass
someone they knew.
This is all wrong.
1t always was wrong, and
1t is even worse today, be-
cause the few shy children
that exist stick out like sore
thumbs.
There may be some mis-
takes in the process Of TAX
ing away the repressions Of
the old days.
If adults today are SPAR
ing the rod and spelling the
child, as the proverb puts it,
they at least are bringing up
fewer shy ones.
ShyneSs is a sort of dis
ease. 1t has some start, in
something or other; it is diff
f1cult to pin it down.
Then it builds up.
The truly shy child be-
comes the repressed child.
You see this repression
everywhere in frozen adult
faces. astoniShed eyes if a
talkative person happens to
regard them as human and
talks to them without being
introduced.
We will never forget the
time our friend Temp Jones
was going home on a crowd
ed bus.
He had forgotten that q
crowd is a crowd. whether
large or small, in an elevator
or street car-fortunately
there are a few of these left
or in a raging mob. =
1t is all the same mental
thing, in essence, and it is
bad.
There were no seats, and
Jones was pushed and prod
ded here and there and
everywhere, landing last on a
seated passengers toes.
81 am so sorry" said Jones.
The passenger said moth
ing.
"I couldn't help it," expos
tulated Jones.
The man said nothing
again.
Suddenly, Templeton Jones
was angry. 1t must be the
English in him.
You so and so," snorted
Temp Jones, or words to that
effect. II wouldn't sit beside
you if y had to stand up all
the way home"
He did.
And the man in the seat
never said a word. That was
what made Templeton Jones
mad.
Evening star., 1960-01-06

singing festivals CEiStedd-
fodS) have a history of
many centuries. A charac-
teristic World War I anec-
dote told of eight Britons who
were found safe in a dugout
after a long bombardment:
"The two IriShmerr were still
fighting, the two Scots were
holding a debate, the two
Englishmen had not yet been
introduced, but the two
WelShmen were busy organ
izing an Oratorio Society,""
@. In preparing a public
dinner, how many servings
should we estimate for each
baked ham?-S. D.
A. Quantity recipes usual
ly figure on 40 to SO servings
from a ham weighing from
IL to Is pounds before bak-
ing.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Thanks q Lot

Wanted to tell you of a
little thought I had the first
day of 1860:
1t looks as though we will
have the Three Wyse Men
running for the Presidency
soon-Kenned (y, Hum
phre (y), and S(y)mington.
E. b.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
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