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Evening star., 1961-09-12

carried winds of 235 miles an
hour.
If Nancy stays on her
present course and hits the
Ryukyus with her full power
she will be the strongest storm
to hit the islands since Sep
tember. 1857, when Typhoon
Faye ravaged Okinawa with
winds clocked at 148 miles an
hour.
Faye killed So persons and
left 12,4l4 homeless, destroyed
1904 buildings, damaged 4,900
and left another $50 persons
injured.
Nancy was located SIG miles
northwest of Guam moving
weSt-northwest at Is miles an
hour.
It is expected to be 449 miles
southeast of Okinawa by
Wednesday morning.
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the Pentagon said in response
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not specify what may have
brought this about.
The Berlin crisis and the
prospect of the United States
Russian tensions for some time
to come undoubtedly were
factors.
Also, display by the Russians
of some advanced planes at an
air show in late June may have
prompted second thoughts
about holding fun ther United
States bomber purchases.
The production line of ESQ.,
mile-an-hour B-52s is about to
run out, Air Force officers
said. If allowed to halt, they
contended, it could take up
to IA months to resume build
ing these nuclear bomb car
riers.
Evening star., 1961-09-12
$140 or z Months
Melted Puncher
Of WiIIiums

LUSAKA, Northern Rhodesia
Sept. IL (AP).-A punch on the
Jaw Of G. Mennen Williams
here two weeks ago is going to
cost a swaShbuckling white
businessman $14O or two months
in jail.
Stuart Finlay-Bi So, was
given the choice by a judge
after he pleaded guilty today
to common assault for roughing
up the United States Assistant
Secretary of State for African
Affairs. Finlay-Bissett doesn't
Evening star., 1961-09-12
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff Writer

An impressive list of wit
nesses and organizations will
testify tomorrow and Thurs
day before President Kennedy'S
task force committee on estab-
fishing an official labor man.
agement relations policy in
Government.
The hearings will be open
from 10 am. to 4:30 pm. both
days in hearing room B of the
Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion building. Secretary of
Labor Goldberg is chairman of
the task force. Other members
are Defense Secretary Nc
Namara, Postmaster General
Day, Budget Director Bell, Civil
Service Commission Chairman
Macy, and Special Counsel to
the President Sorensen.
The opening witness tomor-
row will be Andrew Biemillel
legislative director of the AFL-
CIO, to be followed by James
Brownlow. president of the
AFL-CIO Metal Trades Council.
Rounding out the morning wit
nesses will be Jerome Heating,
vice president of the Naional
Association of Letter Carriers;
and Roy Hallbeck. president OF
the United Federation of Post
Office Clerks and chairman of
the AFL-CIO Government EN-
ployes Council.
Tomorrow afternoons session
will hear testimony from James
Campbell, president of the
American Federation of Gov
eminent Employees; Vaux Owen
president, National Federation
of Federal Employees; Eli Rock
arPhiladelphia labor consultant
and James Watson and Bernard
Gladieux of the non-partisar
business-supported N tiona.
Civil Service League.
= Thursdays witnesses will in
clude Rocco Siciliano. a promi.
nent Washington attorney who
was special personnel adviser
to President Eisenhower; Prof
Sterling Spiro of New York Uni.
versity's School of Government
officials of the Veterans o.
Foreign Wars and the Dis.
abled American Veterans; Msgr
George. Higgins of the Ma.
tional Catholic Welfare Con
ference; officials of the Ma
.1onal Council of Churches; of
flcers of the National Posta
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HOLDUP ATTEMPT
IS PROFITABLE
TO THE VICTIM

PORTLAND, Greg. (AP).
"A gunman lost SIS in a
holdup attempt at a Port
land service station.
Attendant Steven Sta
bier, 81, told police a man
walked into the station
Monday night, handed him
a SIS bill and asked for
change. The visitor then
pulled a revolver.
Thinking quickly, Mr..
Stabler shouted: There's
a police car. You're not
getting anything from me-"
There was no police car.
but the ratified gunman
fled empty handed.
Evening star., 1961-09-12

Union and the National Alli-
ance of Postal Employees.
Most of the witnesses and
organizations are expected to
join in indorsing official bar
gaining procedures between en-
ploye unions and the Govern
ment's departments and agen-
cies, although there is expected
to be some divergence of opin-
ion as to how broad these bar
gaining rights should be. Vir-
tually all the witnesses are
expected to urge that a presi-
Dental executive order be
issued to carry out these OBJ.
jectives, with some of the EN-
ploye organizations expected tc
request that such a presidential
order be augmented with legis-
lation by Congress.
Il 4 4 4
PAY AND RATES-Althougt
Government and postal employs
unions are not taking an oper
part in the postal pay rate
battle in Congress, they have
compelling reasons for hoping
that a postal rate increase is
enacted this year or next yeal
at the latest.
The reason is simple. A
postal rate increase will i'm
prove the chances of a postal
pay raise next year, since il
will reduce the postal deficit
In turn, this will aid the
chances of a classified enploye
pay raise, since classified and
postal employees have always
had their pay raised at the
same time.
Some postal employe leaders
are prepared to work behind
the scenes to lire up some votes
for the. postal rate increase
forces in Congress if the votes
are needed to assure passage.
i 4 \ \
30-YEAR RETIREMENT
The Senate Civil Service Com
mittee has filed with the Sen.
ate the report of the bill il
approved permitting retire.
ment of Government employe!
on full annuities after 80 years
of service. regardless of age
The committee had approved
the bill some time ago, bu
didn't file the report until now
/ The committees action il
filing the report gives rise tt
expectations that its chair.
man. Senator Olin Johnston o.
South Carolina, will soon offel
Evening star., 1961-09-12

1H6 H1dIG6T Is uIlueI SCuuy
to a query from a reporter
who noted that almost month
has passed since Mr.. Kennedy
signed the 46,662 ,556,000 de-
fense appropriation bill.
Since the bill took effect
August Is, there has been no
word on what would be done
with the nearly .$7O0 million
Congress added on for more
long-range bombers. which the
administration said were not
needed. and for accelerated
development of the BIO,
which the administration
sought to cut back.
Air Force officials said they
were optimistic that Mr.. Nc
Namara would change his
stated opposition to spending
added millions for these pur-
poses.
Could Be ImpOunded
While Congress was consider
ing the bill, Mr.. Mcnamara let
it be known he was inclined to
recommend against spending
this money. The President has
authority to impound funds
Congress votes for programs he
deems are not necessary.
The Air Force, it was under
stood. has been presenting its
arguments for another wing of
B-52 nuclear bomberS-about
so planes-to Defense Depart
ment Controller Charles j.
Hitch.
The United States now has
about 500 B-52s.
1t was expected that any new
bomber purchases would be
accompanied by procurement
of additional KC-135 jet tank
ers to fuel them in flight.
In a parallel action, the Air
Force has been making presen-
tations to Mr.. Mcnamara back
ing up it's contention that the
BIO should be restored to a
full-Scale development program.
Sources indicated research
and development specialists at
the Defense Department level
were being won around to the
Air Force position on the still
in-the-future BIO.
Hint at Shift
Air Force officials limited
there had been a shift in top
level thinking on the B-52 and
BIO questions, but they did
Evening star., 1961-09-12
AdmiruIs Shifted

NORFOLK, Sept. IL (AP).-
Rear Admiral Wallis F. Peter
sen became commandant of the
5th Naval District yesterday,
succeeding Rear Admiral w.
o. Burch, jr.
Evening star., 1961-09-12
OKINAWA AWAITS
235 MPH WINDS

NAHA. Okinawa, Sept. IL
(AP).-This United States
fortress island was bracing to-
day for approaching Super
Typhoon Nancy. Watchin 6
United States Air Force
weathermen reported the storm
Evening star., 1961-09-12
Pentogon Seen Shifting
Bomber-Buying Stand
BY the Associated Press

strong possibility today that the Pentagon may
itself to recommend buying B-52 and
push development the 2000-mile- -an-hour bomber
Final decision will be up to President Kennedy, acting
any recommendation Secretary Of Defense Mcnamara
might make
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Seasonal New Novels
Claiming Attention

THE WORLD THEY
WANTED. BY Herbert D.
KaStle. (St. Martins;
$4.95.)
Matt Swain, an architect
turned builder, plans his ideal
suburban development (bas-
ically, one in which the
houses do not sit on the lots
at the same angle.) For
tunately for the reader, only
one section of Mats dream
community concerns us di-
rectly. Come settlement day
the split personalities out
number the split levels, and
1t is positively exhausting to
keep track Of the assorted
neuroseS Of the residents.
Matt himself compounds the
confusion by his dalliance
with a lady tenant whom he
visits on the flimsy pretext
Of checking the plaster in the
basement. There ought to be
something in the building
code about that! This Is one
OF those irritating books in
which the authors talents
for developing and moving
along a story are obvious, but
who cares?-RUTH HUME.
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FostMoving Adventure
Story Is Like Western

an airfield and missile site
but it seems each has a
secret secondary or, rather, a
primary motive.
The English officer, Capt.
Oliver, is charged with seek
ing a way to spirit some
physicists out of the USSR
The batman wants to get
away from his termagant
spouse. The Frenchman is
there to further his ma
tion's interest in controlling
the future of Qajar and the
Yankee boy is, sub rosa, an
engineer looking for oil.
All but the English officer
find death. He, on the other
hand. finds love in the un-
likely person of a beautiful
Hungarian girl living among
the wild Turani tribe.
But, after all. in adven-
ture stories like this one,
verissimilitude is nothing If
the dialogue is crisp and the
action is fast. Who cares If
beautiful Hungarians with
sweet dispositions are as like
ly to be found as a subway
station in the desert?
JERRY O'LEARY, JR.
Evening star., 1961-12-10

Of the day Troy burned. "Os-
sian" recounts the mythic
past of the Celtic daylight.
Here, as in the included
lyrics, mastery command
controls undiminiShed gusto,
and high romance is reborn
to force our suspension of
disbelief"
Robert Hillyer's COL
LECTED POEMS (Knopf;
$4.75) demonstrates the
range Of this prolific poet, in
more than 100 examples of
light verse, lyrics, sonnets,
discursive letters" not to
mention a long narrative
fantasy after Jules Verne
THE Death of Captain
Memo" Most of these poems
have been published previous
ly In distinguished peri
odicals, a telling justification
of Hillyer's intrepid advocacy
of traditional poetic values.
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BOOKS OF POETRY FOR CHRISTMAS
The Poets Plight in 81
Is Widespread Acceptance

Confronted with the prof
ligate display Of poetry pub
lished this year by solvent
commercial houses-and not
the spoondrift press-one can
only conclude, with Horace
Gregory. that modern verse
enjoys a market and is osten-
sibly enjoyed by a leadership.
In A DEFENSE OF IGNO-
RANCE, an aXe-grinding
TRADE, Karl Shapiro deplores
the poets plight: He is mis-
read, unread, unreadable.
This broadside blast has it
that the poet is abused by
all critics and ignored by any
public, because he has will
fully sacrificed artful pur-
pose, in the name of culture,
to a hankering after the
truths of history and philos-
ophy. Obscurity is the conse-
quence, anonymity the con-
comitant. There may be
squirting validity to this ar
gument, but the evidence be-
fore us would seem to weigh
heavily in the balance.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
RIDE THE BROODING
WIND. BY Madelaine Duke.
walker & Co.: S3.95)

WIND. BY Madelaine Duke.
walker & Co.; $3.50
A young English novelist
makes a distinguished Amer
ican debut in this story of
China and Russia at the turn
of the century. Powerful
historical material, like the
building Of the Trans
Siberian Railroad and the
Boxer Rebellion. could easily
have overshadowed the char
acters, had the author allowed
them to do so. But she
avoids at all points the dis
tressing historical-note-intro
duced-into-the- so
common among current his
torical novels. Few current
novels in any category ap-
proach the level of this one
in its evocation of mood and
character. But since the au-
thor is not we'll known and
the publishing house is small,
it will probably get very little
promotion. 1t would be a
shame for anyone who ad-
mires beautifully written fic-
ton to miss it on that
account.
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fies the mind. Mr.. Todd's
erudition is that of an i'm
passioned naturalist.
All these poets can "see the
world in a grain of sand" by
looking hard and close, not
by prosthetic magnification
ugh intellectual BIZ
locals. Isn't it miracle
enough that a primrose is
a primrose land nothing
more?" AS George Boas says,
read Tillich if you want to
know what God and man
is" Don't violate a Flower
in the crannied wall"
Since the detection of Sha-
piro, FARRELL and Viereck to
more Olympian concerns,
DerS de societe has suffered
an eclipse. Thus the astring-
ent wit of x. J. Kennedy,
NUDE DESCENDING A
STAIRCAS Doubleday;
$2.50) refreshes as it scores.
His slim volume is divided by
an "Intermission with Pea
nuts" and after he has
caught his breath he returns,
to take on not only the
postal clerks, the winos, and
the ghostwriters of society,
but also Archibald MacLeish,
in an "Ars Poetica" that
should settle the issue for all
time.
Maxine w. Kumin, HALF
WAY CHolt, Rinehart, Wins
ton; $3.50 ingeniously swims
before us a "400-Meter Free
Style" from dive to finish:
Time: 4:25:9."
Ned O'Gorman, ADAM BE-
FORE HIS MIRROR (Har-
court. Brace; $3.75, dazzles
with a metaphysical wit that
is pervasive, as is his scin-
tillating imagery. THE Day
the Steuben Glass Building
Breaks"
The Uitric turret SplinterS.
cut-glaSS tloWers bloom IN
the blood. The hours RING in
hiUh C as milletiori cross
hatch The chest.
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Collections

Gratefully, the years
turning" is marked by the
appearance of collections
representative of yet an
earlier generation. Robert
Graves, COLLECTE ID
POEMS doubleday; $3.50.
for almost five decades has
gone his own way in defiance
of a specious "modernity."
That ne continues to do so,
in Majorca or in the OK
ford Chair of Poetry, re
fusing to adopt a synthetic
period style, or join any lit
erary racket" is commend
able. What is more, there is
evidence among the younger
poets that his attitude, to
paraphrase Faulkner, not
only will persist-it will pre-
vail. This cumulation of his
verse attests to the vital
integrity of his conviction
that his work must have a
handmade, in dividual
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craftsmanship quality" and
that 1t must convey the in
tention of COMPRISING vital
experience into the most
economical and lucid form"
Otherwise
Fetch the book here
And burn it without fear,
Grateful at least that, hdving
gone so TAR,
You still knotD tDhdt truth
is and iDhere you are,
With better things to say
In your opn bold, unmarked
able iDdy.
Virtually Of an age, John
MaSfield, THE BLUEBELLS.
& OTHER VERSES Mac
milan; So and John Hall
Wheelock, THE GARDNER
(Scribner'S; $3), are still
capable Of arousing more
than nostalgia. First volumes
by the present English Poet
Laureate and the incumbent
Chancellor of the Academy
of American Poets appeared
in 1911, Their present work
can only weigh favorably in
any estimate of their au-
tumnal careers.
Unequivocal opinion, al
ways a feature of Wheelock's
disciplined declamatory man
ner, is softened throughout
these poems by contempla-
ton in an atmosphere and
tone of grand serenity.
Ringing personal changes on
conventional themes. he pro-
duces a stately music of
FURNISHED lyric luster.
Those of Masefield'S audi
ence who can remember
when such celebrated long
poems as Dauber graced the
"modernity" of Edwardian
and Georgian letters will be
pleased to see two long mar
ratives in this most recent
collection. "Odysseus Tells"
Evening star., 1961-12-10
BY PHILIP HERZBRUN
Contributing Writer

court. Brace; $3.75 from
"gardenclub verse" the
noted lyricist Richard Will
bur says:
There are fen things so
rare. nowadays, as nature
poetry. The poets continue to
deal in trees and stones and
birds: but for most OF them
nature has become a set OF
symbols Which they employ
in the presentation OF
their inner experience.
Miss Evans crystalline OBJ
servations derive from an
impulse to write nature po-
etry-that is, to say some
thing about nature" This
rare capability and drive she
shares with Lionel Wiggam,
The LAND OF UNLOVING
IN a cmillan: $3.50 and
Philip Booth, THE ISLAND
ERS viking; so. Their
landscapes and Seascapes are
charged with the truths i'm
plicit in external nature.
Thomas Vance, SKELETON
OF LIGHT CU. of North Car
olina; $500 and Richard
Campbell Pettig rev, A
TABLE OF GREEN FIELDS
Zine Editions: $3.50 also an
chor their verse in expert
ence of the natural order.
Most noteworthy in this re-
gard are the casually elegant
poems of Ruthven Todd.
GARLAND FOR THE WIN
TER STICE Little,
Brown: $4. Like the limpid
verses of a 10Th century vicar
poet, this volume delights the
eye and the ear. It also graft
Evening star., 1961-12-10
A SOUND OF TRUMPETS.
BY James Wellard. Little,
Brown q Co.; $3.50

by James Wellar0. Little,
Brown q Co.; $3.50
Although the plethora of
international intrigue in this
novel would assure it a place
among the more average B
Movies Of all time, yet the
author has managed to put
together a highly readable
book.
The adventure sequences
are plentiful but so pat as
to be well nigh predictable
as tomorrow's sunset. The
novel is saved by the authors
knowledge Of his setting,
which appears to- be back
country Iran, and the people
one encounters in the myth
ical nation of Qajar.
1t appears that four men
an English captain and
his batman, a French major
and an American lieutenant
set off in a jeep into the
unexplored regions of the So
called Qajar bordering on
the Soviet Union. All are
supposed to be looking for
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In Translation

Lowell's unique collection
of versions and free trans
lationS" actually comprises
striking adaptations of pas
sages and poems deriving
from Greek, German, Italian,
French. and Russian. With
varying success he strives to
create from the original a
poem not acclimated. but
native, to English. Best are
the poems from the French
of Villon, Baudelaire, and
Rimbaud and the "Orpheus.
Eurydice and Hermes" of
Rilke.
In a long, fanciful narrative
poem, Hyam Plutzik tells of
Horatio'S mission in fulfill
ment of Hamlet's dying plea:
Absent thee from felicity
dtDhile,
And in this harsh Dorld draW
thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.
The journey becomes a
philosophical quest for truth,
in the face of mortal insult
ficiency. AS opposed, say. to
Kazantzakis's modern Odys-
sey. this poem with all its
echoes is a contemporary
commentary, however much
it may intrigue the students
of Hamlet, its pretext.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Audience Is Wide

The recent enterprise of
the academic and CONNER
cial presses alike signifies the
happier view. For instance,
the volumes of verse by I'M
celebrated poets being pub
lished in paperback. as we'll
as hardcover, are aimed
without condeScension at a
wide audience. Especially
commendable series are The
Macmillan Poets. The Yale
Younger Poets, The Athen-
cum Poets and Evergreen
Originals in their astute
selection. editorial RESPONSE
bility, and attractive pres
entation. 1t is encouraging
that profit, not prestige or
charity, is the motive. These
ventures are amply justified
in that the quality of the
work deserves retrieval from
the dim recesses of obscure
literary quarterlies.
The posthumous appear
ance of Dilys Laing's POEMS
FROM A CAGE Macmillan:
$3.50, paperback. $l.75) is a
case in point. increasingly in
the last 20 years of her life,
Mrs. Laing was turning from
the light verse that delighted
"NeD Yorker" readers, to
mordant stress on the con-
fines of life-this "cockeyed
clockwork ZOO" with its in
exorable cages and Homo"
ridiculous trying to pick the
lock with this cut quill
snatched from escaping
wings.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Light Verse

Edward Corey, that heir
of Aubrey Beardsley and Max
Beerbohm, illustrates two
volumes of light verse hand
Somely in the best Punch
tradition: a satirical pot
pourri by Felicia Lamport.
SCRAP IRONY (Houghton-
Mifflin; So and ghoulish
parodies of familiar rhymes
by Paul Dehn, QUAKE,
QUAKE, QUAKE (Simon &
Schuster; $3.50. These
rhymsters dabble in fission-
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Modern Times

Elsewhere there is no re-
luctance to project the mani
fold immediacies of modern
life in a recognizably shared
Language the "linguG
trdncd' of letters in our time.
It is no longer remarkable
that a generation aware of
the triumph of an idiom,
who seek magazine publica-
tion, and who are weaned on
anthology snippets will share
characteristics, perhaps to
the detriment of unique
growth. But only in default
of conviction does manner
deteriorate into mannerism.
Many voicings on the same
instrument can produce lit
erary orchestration.
Speaking to us (never at
us) and for us, on a ground
bass that we have come to
think conventional, the fol-
lowing poets locate the world
Of our experience in time.
With the knowledge that
others have suffered and
written, loved and died, they
evoke other epochs and alien
myths to discipline unman-
ageable experience. ulysses
Oedipus" is a starting place
for Eugene T. Maleska, SUN
AND SHADOW Zine Edi-
tions; $3.50. The grandeur
that was Rome" prompts the
G.I. reflections of George
Garrett, ABRAHAMS KNIFE
CU. of North Carolina; $500.
For William Goodreau, THE
MANY ISLANDS (Athe-
neum; $3.50, $1.75), the key
to our world and its mean
ing is provided by David,
Telemachus, and Mark An
tony. In versatility, virtuos-
ity, and intensity the poems
of Irving Feldman, WORKS
AND DAYS little, Brown;
$3.50, are singularly accom-
plished. He strikes the heart
in hiding, and his sounding
board is the ringing presence
of Antiquity, biblical and
Greek, and the lasting elo-
uuence of all ages.
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Strategy and Idiom

AS ic-apologist John
Ciardi has vigorously con-
tended in the cause of poetry.
AS translator and poet he has
already proved himself a
master of verse strategy and
idiom. With this volume of
short poems, IN THE STONE
WORKS (Rutgers: $500, his
stature is heightened. For
here the note of compassion
tempers his accustomed witty
verve, clever irony and in
fallible craft.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Urban Life

The poems of David Schu-
bert, INITIAL A macmillan;
81. $3.50, who in 1916 died
tragically at the age of 33,
also might have evaded pub
lication between covers, and
we would have been denied
his anguished vision of frag-
mentary urban life and the
rare poignance of its tender
moments.
Phases of modern con-
sciousness are likewise the
substance of thoughtful re-
Elective verses by other
Macmillan Poets: Harold
Witt, BEASTS IN CLOTHES
($4.25; $1.95: Frederick
Book, THE FOUNTAINS OF
REGARDLESSNESS ($4;
$1.65); and Francis Golf
ing, SELECTE POEMS
($4: $1,65). In form as in
content there is little here to
startle. but much to admire.
Then again, in any of these
poems we may likely discern
ourselves with a certain
shock of recognition.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
IN BRIEF REVIEW
Selected Books for
Christmas Reodino

ical reporters, Senator Nc
Carthy's aims, his accom-
plishments and his short
comings are outlined. Re-
print.
SPICES AND HERBS
AROUND THE WORLD.
BY Elizabeth s. Hayes,
Doubleday; $685. The
history, legends and uses
Of the spices and herbs.
COLBY. BY Oscar Sherwin.
CTwayne; So The life
and times of Oliver Gold
smith.