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to charity or not accepted at
all. -
There had been reports that
Government civil service en-
ployes would also be included
in this directive. This. nat
urally, caused greater concern
among careerists, since a con-
siderable number of them earn
outside money by writing arti-
cles in various professional and
scientific journals, teaching at
schools and universities, lee
turing, etc.
However, White House sources
say that the executive order will
not apply to career employees.
1t will only apply to officials
appointed by the President,
such as agency heads, assistant
agency heads, assistant secre-
taries, etc.
The order also Is said to deal
with attendance at conventions
by Government appointive Of
ficialS. Generally speaking, the
order provides that Federal
funds should be used to pay the
expenses Of officials at such
conventions. However, leeway
is given for the organization
holding the convention to pay
the officials expenses If the
meeting involved is in direct
line with the officials duties.
%AA
SOCIAL SECURITY-Vaux
Owen. president Of the National
Federation of Federal EN-
.ployes, has urged the House
Ways and Means Committee,
which is currently considering
administration proposals to
liberalize the Social Security
Act, to include a provision
authorizing voluntary cover
age Of Federal employees.
The NFFE urged that Gov
|ernment employees have an OPP
portunity to get social security
coverage in addition to their
civil service retirement bene-
fits by paying the social secu-
rity tax. Under the NFFE pro-
Iposal. Government workers
would have the option Of
either coming under social Sc
curity or not. The American
Federation Of Government EN-
.ployes also favors such q plan.
ENCOURAGNG-Here Is a
reversal Of the prevailing prac-
ticeS In the defense agencies
of using more military per-
sonnel in civilian jobs.
Army's Office Of the Chief
Signal Officer has issued q
policy statement declaring that
civilian Jobs above grade 8
should be filled wherever pos
Sible by career employees.
Col. w. M. Lauterbach, the
Signal Corps executive Off
GER, declared that Sound man
agement makes inadviSable, ex-
cept in unusual cases, the FILE
ing Of civilian jobs above grade
9 with persons who have retired
Evening star., 1961-03-28
Wave of Strikes
PIuques ItuIy

ROME, Mar. % (AP). "A
rising wave Of spring strikes
today tied up all Italian port
operations, stopped inter-city
bus service, and sent grumbling
Romans to work afoot or packed
into trucks.
Also on strike, or threatening
to walk out, were the nations
doctors, lawyers, miners and
several categories Of govern
ment employees.
There were q wide variety Of
issues. All three strikes called
today were in protest over
broken-off negotiations for new
contracts.
Most Of the strikes were for
"a hours only.
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from careers in other fields Of
civilian endeavor or from the
military service"
Col. Lauterbach said all va
cancies above grade 9 should
be filled to the maximum pos
sible extent by bona fide civil
ian careeristS." The policy
statement said it would be the
policy to encourage the best
qualified persons to enter
civilian jobs in the lower grades
and to promote them to the
higher grades as the vacancies
open up.
GPO-Felix Cristofane, con-
troller Of the Government
Printing office since 1898, has
been promoted to administra-
tive assistant to Public Printer
James Harrison. EustiS Mors-
berger, assistant planning
manager since 1850, was pro-
NOTED to the position Of special
assistant to the Public Printer.
-
CAPITAL ROUNDUP The
American Newspaper WOmen's
Club Is giving q reception for
the Governments information
officers from $50 to 1880 pm.
tomorrow in fifth floor lounge
of The Star building, 225 Vir-
ginia avenue Sc. d. The kick.
off dinner Of the Government
division drive of the 1861 Unit
ed Jewish Appeal will be held
at $3.50 o'clock tonight at Tif-
ereth Israel Synagogue, Six
teenth and Juniper streets NV.
Stuart Rothman, general coun-
sci Of the National Labor Re-
lations Board, is chairman of
the Government division; and
Secretary Of Labor Goldberg
and Myer Feldman, Deputy
Special Counsel to President
Kennedy, are the honorary CO.
chairmen: and Asher Ende Of
Federal Communications Com
mission is chairman Of the ex-
ecutive committee. DR.. Ben
Lindberg Of American Univer-
sity will moderate q discussion
on Some Ideas About How
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tirely and absolutely unfound-
ed"
Mr.. Topchiev also indicated
that some sort Of contact with
the Soviet Venus probe had been
re-established, but it was not
clear whether this was direct
radio contact.
In reply to a question, he
said that the space vehicle was
on its course close to the pro-
jected trajectory, would pass
about $4,000 miles from Venus
about May 10 as scheduled, and
I'VE will publish reports later"
Man, Not . Woman
Mr.. Topchiev said the first
person to be sent in space
would be q man-not q woman
and that the first flight
would last only a few hours,
He declined, however, to be
pinned down on a date for
such a flight, saying that
further experiments are neces-
sary.
He jokingly remarked that
men are preferred instead of
women for the space flights
because there are mice aboard
space ships" Mice have been
among the test animals already
rocketed aloft in Sputhiks.
He said that the candidates
must be comparatively young.
Of good physique and, have
emotional stability. In reply
to another question, he said
1t makes no difference here
in the Soviet Union whether
the men were married or not.
AstrOnauts in Training
He said they were being
trained to operate and control
q space ship and how to COM
muncate with the ground. Be-
sides q general physical train
ing program there Is also a
program to increase resistance
to possible adverse factors in
space, he said.
Asked by an American cor
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respondent why the Russians
do not announce space. flights
or their goals in advance, Mr..
Topchiev replied:
"Sensationalism is alien to
US. Modesty obligeS US to an
nounce a launching when it
takes place."
Another American corre-
spondent asked If this did not
imply that American scientists
are seeking Sensationalism. The
correspondent also asked II the
Russians do not announce their
flights because they, too, have
an occasional failure.
No Reflections on U. s.
Mr.. Topchiev said:
"I in no way meant to reflect
on United States scientists and
would not like that to be at
tributed to me. We think
highly Of their progress and
rejoice in their successes.
ITO imply that we do not
announce our flights in order
to avoid admitting failure is
wrong. 1t is not in the nature
Of our thinking. We have not
concealed them (failures) so
far and do not plan to do so
In the future" iEftsst
Correspondents were invited
to the academy to meet Little
Star. the dog sent into space
and recovered Saturday.
Little Star. a smoky colored
female, appeared to be in fine
shape. She was shown to COR
respondents, along with Strelka
and Belka. two earlier space
dogs, and Strelka'S puppies.
Evening star., 1961-03-28
Senate Group
Votes Shorter
Law on Sugar
By ]. A. OTEARY
star staff Writer

mittee today approved a Is
month extension Of the sugar
quota law, which Is due to ex-
pire Friday night.
Although the House voted
for q 2l month extension,
Chairman Harry F. Byrd of the
Senate committee said he urr-
derstood House leaders will 60
along with the shorter period,
which would still put off any
permanent new sugar law until
next year.
The Senate Com mite e
adopted unanimously another
amendment which Senator
Douglas. Democrat OF Illinois,
said will save taxpayers $3.50
million q year by requiring i'm
porters to accept a lower price
on the additional sugar they
ship to the United States to
make up for the Cuban crop.
World Price Set
This bill continues the Pres
ident'S authority to cut off all
Of the 8 million tons Of Cuban
sugar and also will bar the
Dominican Republic from get
ting a windfall by making, UP
the Cuban deficit.
At the present time, most of
the Cuban deficit is being made
up by the Philippines. Peru.
the Dominican Republic and
Mexico.
Under the Douglas amend
ment, the countries shipping
in requirements for the Cuban
sugar would be required to ac-
Cept the world price Of 3 cents
per pound instead Of the United
States price Of Sc cents. The
difference would 60 into the
Treasury.
Senator Douglas, who said he
was surprised when the COM
mittee adopted his amendment
unanimously, said it would
avoid giving these other areas
a vested interest In the sugar
taken away from the Castro
regime. He said 1t also would
give this country more free
dom Of action in dealing with
Cuba in the future.
Anderson Defeated
Senator Anderson, Democrat
Of New Mexico, was defeated,
II to S. in an effort to have
about 100000 tons Of the Cuban
quota reallocated to domestic
beet growers in Arizona, New
Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas.
Senators who want Congress
to write a permanent new sugar
law later this year were de-
feated. 10 to 9, in an effort
to limit the extension bill to 3
months.
The Senate will debate the
sugar bill later today or to-
morrow, since the two houses
must agree by Friday.
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More Effective Use Can Be
Made of Our Critical Scientific
and Engineering Skills', at a
round-table meeting Of the So
ciety for Personnel Administra-
tiOn at $3.50 pm. tomorrow in
room B-300. General Services
Administration building.
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Degree for Kennedy

President Kennedy has ac-
cepted an invitation to appear
at the University of North
Carolina October IL to receive
an honorary degree, the White
House said today.
Evening star., 1961-03-28
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Coreerists to Escape
Outside Activity Ban
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff WFiteF

Federal employees will be exempted President
Kennedys executive order within next few days
on outside activities by Government officials
The order is expected to prohibit Government appoinve
officials from pockeng fees received for outside articles books
speeches lectures etc. These will to be turned
Evening star., 1961-03-28
Russian Denies Trying
To Send Man in Spoce

MOSCOW, Mar. % (AP).-one Of the Soviet Unions top
space scientists said today that ian utter fabrication
that the Russians had tried and failed send into
Vastly Topchev vice president of the Academy Of Sciences
told news conference that Western reports saying
would-be asronauts had peshed zen.
Evening star., 1961-05-18

Sci includes rodio. corrfne coss. bonev
ond sorphons, viii give hours and hours
Of listening pIeosUrs,
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Set includes rodo, corYine cose, botteY
and eorphone. With noenfyine optic Iens
built in back eoseI stond. high mpoct
pIostie cose. Volume and tuning controlled
by single finger.
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glory CnaC was Cne olo country.
AS a travel book, Greek
Horizons" is unsurpassed.
The visitor is introduced to
the country, shown the prin-
cipal sources of information
museums and monuments
and taken on a fascinating
journey of revelation. Along
the way he learns much of
the Greek past and of the
modern inquiry which has
uncovered that past. There
are encounters with present.
day Greeks and with ancient
poets. Mrs. Miller even in
cludes notes on where and at
what time she stumbled on
transfiguring views of this
landscape of the human spirit.
The story of Greece, for
this unusually well-informed
and sensitive traveller, begins
well before Pericles and his
peers and comes on through
the missions of st. Paul, the
Byzantine epoch (the final
capture of Rome by Greece
and the non -Benedictine mo-
nasticism which goes on to
this day. The light that went
forth from Greece came back,
often enough, as a torch
with the Romans, the Vene-
Evening star., 1961-08-13
Their Houses of Ice
Have Melted Awoy

the exercising of devils to the
innocent games of children.
An honest portrait, the
book also d ais with the
grimmer side - including in
cidentS of cannibalism - Of
perhaps the worlds most
rugged people.
The overall impression he
leaves, however, is one of
immense admiration and re-
spect for these warm, friendly
inhabitants of our hemi-
spheres most inhospitable
shores.
AS Freuch h e n concludes:
There can be no siSsies
among the people whose
neighbor is the North Pole"
WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
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Oil and Politics Mix
In This Texas Twister

learns after a series of en-
counters with political film
flamming, personal neuroses
and country club orgies that
are notable for their shock
value.
Paul RAIDER writes with
considerable assurance of the
intricacieS of a vast financial
deal. His story pivotS around
John Garland, an Gilman
who seems to carry much of
Texas political and business
burdens with philosophical
calm. Garland is a schemer,
also, who brings Compton
into the arena and wins a
round or two from the forces
of evil.
But somehow the idea
won't go away that while the
forces of evil have lost a
skirmish they will soon come
surging back to resume the
war. JOSEPH O'KEEFE
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best, better than any con-
coction of gin or rum" He
eats peSch'rei, and announces
that "it is the gourmet'S
favorite among all Pacific
fishes" He is greatly inter-
ested in Havana's fighting
cocks, not because of any
attachment to the sport, but
because in his youth he
owned a fine collection of
birds rds-"ginger-breasted reds,
spangleS, Cornish hennies,
blue Furnaces, silver duck
wings, and smock-breasted
bloodwing pyles, no less >"
So the reader travels about
with a curious and rather
garrulous guide. and discov-
erS odd things he little
expects. No less important to
the book than the text are
the pictures, which are ex-
ce'l0nt and profuse.
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F renchmon Finds Road
Free Algeria

writes, can the dream of
France and Algeria bound
closely together become a
reality.
On Both Sides
Her sympathies in what she
calls "the war for nothing"
lie with the sufferers on both
sides. She blames both sides
for their tactics of terror,
but UNDERSTANDABLE looses her
strongest criticisms on the
colons and their allies.
She finds it impossible to
conceive of two populations
(Frenchmen and Algerians)
whose mutual dependence is
more certain. We are bound
to them, and they to us, for
we can deprive them of all
they desire, while they can
critically endanger all we
aspire to. Neither side has
the means to protect itself
against attack, though each
has a thousand means to in
flict it."-BURT HOFFMAN.
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books made up of his news
paper stories and a successful
novel, "Chita." Returning to
America, he discovered, as
anyone could have told him,
that New York and Philadel-
phia were not cities in which
his soul could exfoliate, and
in 1890. with promises from
Harper's and free tranSpor-
tation by the Canadian Pa
cific, he made his final
migration to Japan.
Hearn's life in Japan is
now what is most universally
remembered about him
the glamour of the story
has perhaps been a detri-
ment to the reputation of
his books, which today are
among the most readable of
late nineteenth century
American literature. Settling
III the small town of Matsue
as a teacher of English Ian
guage and literature, he at
once captivated the Japanese,
who saw in him a combina-
ton of saint and friend.
English in Japan had been
largely in the hands of Chris
tian missionaries; for Hearn
Japan had much more to
save and cherish than the
West could ever bring to it.
His Japanese friends
brought Hearn a japanese
wife to take care of their idol.
The match was perhaps un-
likely, but was in fact one
that never suffered a rift.
Hearn became a japanese
citizen and took a Japanese
name. He became the father
of four children and twelve
books about Japan-some
attempts to explain the coun-
try to the world, but most
masterful reworkings of
japanese lore and fairy-tales.
1t may be that Japan
would not have been Hearn'S
final home. In 1904 he was
thinking of trips to America
or England, but he died very
suddenly of a heart attack.
Evening star., 1961-08-13
A GurruIous
And Curious
TruveI
GOLDEN WALL AND MIRA

GOLDEN WALL AND MIRA
DOR: Travels and Observa-
tionS in Peru. BY Sachev-
erell Sitwell. (The World
Publishing Co.; $7.500
Last year, at the suggestion
and with the assistance Of
Don Fernando Berkemeyer.
now the Peruvian Ambassa-
dor to Washington, Sachev-
erell Sitwell and his wife
m ade an extensive trip
through Peru and visited
other South American coun-
tries and Cuba. This book is
a record in words and pic
lures of the journey.
The account is highly per-
sonal, conversational and COL
loquial. It must have been
dictated, not written it
everywhere betrays the sound
of UiUa Doce. Mr.. Sitwell says
of the Miami Airport hotel:
"On the other hand, if it is
so noisy that you cannot
open a window and must be
insulated from the outer
world something has to be
done about it, and in this
change of mood the buzzing
of the air-conditioner is to
be preferred to the hum of
a mosquito even without the
mosquitoes sting" a.. Tegu-
cigalpa, a town which must
vie in difficulty of pronunci-
alton with Antananarivo-
or is it Tananarive? - the
capital of Madagascar" "Ha-.
vana, like fifty or a hundred
other towns in the modern
world, has a million people
living in it,"
But to the encyclopedia for
facts, and to Sitwell for i'm
pressions-the impressions of
a cultivated traveller more
interested in art, architecture,
scenery and history than in
the unfamiliar people he
must have met but seldom
mentions. He is fascinated
by, and talks for several
pages about, tupedaS, a wom-
ans attire of the nineteenth
century in which only a
single eye is exposed - and
truly the paintings Of j. M.
Rugendas 1802-1858) repro
duced in the book make the
girls seem extraordinarily
fetching. Sitwell wonders
about the fantastic city of
Machu Picchu, near Cuzco,
strangely deserted in the
middle of the sixteenth CEN
tury and discovered, still
. well-preserved, in 1911.
He drinks piSco, a grape
brandy, and finds it, at its
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ion tells the story of the
fighting war in the East,
briefly, and with Gen. Lee
in the foreground. Reprint.
BEST PHOTOS OF THE
CIVIL WAR. BY Hirst Dill
Ion Milhollen and James
Ralph johnson. (Fawcett
Publications; rs cents.)
Nearly $50 magazine-size
pages of contemporary
photographs selected from
the best collections, and
eminently satisfying for
low-budget buying. A mar
rative teams them together.
UNIFORM REGULATIONS
FOR THE ARMY OF THE
UNITED STATES, 1861.
smithsonian Institution;
81 Died in wool war bluffs
should enjoy the 36 con-
temporary photos of the
principal types of Union
uniforms as modelled by a
full-bearded CT. Some of
the written regulations,
spelled out in Pentagon-
like detail, are included
along with introduction
and notes by Edgar M.
Howell, Smithsonian's ex-
pert on military history.
CIVIL WAR PHOTO
GRAPHS, 1861-1S65, COM
piled by Hirst Dillon Mil
hollen and Donald H. Mug
ridge. Library of Congress;
rs cents.) Highly methodi-
cal, useful cataIog of Loaf
of the best and most rep
resentative photos in the
Library'S so-called Brady
Collection, which includes
not only old Mathews work
but that of Gardner, O'Sul-
livan, Barnard and Gibson.
With introduction and
plenty of orientation ma
terial.
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FRANCE AND ALGERIA. By

= VI ~ kAANAS AASANAAs DJ
Germaine T'illion. (Knopf;
So
"Frenchmen and Algerians
seem to be unaware of the
fact that they must under
stand one another and that,
by not doing so, each is as
phyxiating his own country"
To Germaine Tillion, a lead
ing French ethnologist who
spent many years in the wild
Aures Mountains of Algeria
where the revolt began, un-
derstanding will lead to a
free Algeria and a mutually
satisfactory and beneficial
relationship.
In a sequel to her we'll re-
ceived book of two years ago,
Algeria, the Realities" she
gently and persuasively ar
CUES that there can be no So
luton to the revolt that does
not provide Algeria with in
dependence. Only then, she
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NAOASAA GAANA SeA4 AAtAoN SAANb AOAAN
SO years ago.
The story concerns SOL
diers engaged in the messy
business of battle and civil
ians caught in wars imme-
diate fringe. The characters
are seen close up. There is
an unmistakable feel and
smell of Sweaty men tense,
fearful and determined as
they move to the field where
Staying each other is the or
der of the day. Mr.. Long
streets troops behave like
human beings. The author
is also careful that his back
ground details are accurate.
Civilian Life
His civilians come off less
well. Certainly civilian life
in Gettysburg had to go on,
battle or no battle. But too
many of the good burgherS
find time in these pages to
continue seX-aS-uSual during
combat lulls. One such cpl
sode involves the central
character who, when not out
scouting for Gen. Meade, is
becoming involved with an
innkeeper's wife. This sort
of thing only mars the driv-
ing pace of the narrative
and the convincing picture
of men in battle.
Evening star., 1961-08-13

made the mistake of read
ing her husbands diaries of
his licentious years, after he
had made the mistake of
showing it to her. That may
have been the start of much
of their trouble, for it sparked
the jealousy that racked
Sonya for the 48 years of
their union. TolStoy was
also jealous without cause.
Although the early bliss gave
way to a celebrated bitter
ness, neither of the tor
mented principals was ever
unfaithful. Leovochka and
Sonichka loved and tortured
each other for almost half
a century.
Her Terrible Energy"
If Tolstoy as a husband
lacked tact, Sonya as a wife
lacked humor, a quality that
might have helped immeaSur-
ably in dealing with a literary
genius who insisted on be-
coming a social reformer.
But much can be said for
Sonya. She had. according to
her husband, a peerless OBJ
server of character, "a GER
tain narrowness and a ter
rible energy" She was
harrowingly overworked. She
bore 13 children, ran the
estate Of YaSnoya Polyana,
managed the money, copied
the manuscripts, operated a
publishing house, tried to
keep her husband from "play-
ing Robinson Crusoe," tried
and failed to follow him
through the spiritual crisis
that brought him to Chris
tian anarchy" adored him,
deplored him, feverishly
watched his reactions and
her own and generally did
not deserve what the aging
Tolstoy said of her: MY ILL
ness is Sofya Andreyevna."
BOils With Feeling
Whatever the internal
stresses and strains, outward
causes contributed to the
turbulence of their later
years. An importunate dis
ciple, Tchertkov, wangled
Tolstoy's diaries, cut all lov-
ing references to Sonya.
Sonya in her SOS became in
fatuated with a pianist. The
old people quarreled and
made up with distressing
frequency. Sonya, who
wanted only to be an artists
wife, was obsessed with the
need to justify herself.
Toward the end she was de-
mented. Tolstoy at 80 fled
her scenes and suicide
threats, went off to die alone
in a railway station, while
Sonya ragged outside in the
snow.
Cynthia Asquith does not
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THE FRAUD. BY Paul RAIDER
Viking. S4.95.l

THE FRAUD. By Paul RAIDER.
Viking. $4.950
Texas appears to snuggle
up to Hollywood in this novel
OF opulence and degradation
in the oil country.
THE Fraud" presents pretty
girls sunbathing in Bikinis;
a platinum blond drug ad-
dict finding refuge in a pent-
house; a mysterious and
unlovable petroleum tycoon
and a politico-medical quack
deluding the public via tele-
vision.
All these creatures fit into
the setting for a big, big oil
deal in which a wondering
Bostonian is drawn. He is
Charlie Compton, and all
those uncouth Texans wanted
was his fine old New Eng
land name, his Back Bay as
sociates warned. They were
correct, ton finally
Evening star., 1961-08-13
ANoveI of Egypt
1000 Years AGO
THE BURNING Bush. B,

THE BURNING BUSH. BY
Paul Hoffman. (Muhlen-
berg; $4.950
The biblical account of
Moses calling is supple
mented in this fine novel
which is to be the first of a
trilogy. We meet with Moses
in the prime of life and Mr..
Hoffman makes Egypt of
1000 years ago a real and
startlingly interesting place.
In this work, already ac-
claimed in Europe, the great
lawmakers career progresses
to the point of accepting his
commission as the deliverer
of his people.-H. A. LYON.