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Evening star., 1962-01-26

tomorrow, is little more than a
metal balloon
Its cleaning skin is thinner
than a dime, so thin that a
blow from a sledge hammer
would drive a hole in it.
The whole structure would
collapse under its own weight if
it were not held rigid by inter-
nal pressure. This pressure is
supplied by helium gas, until
the time comes to replace this
inert gas with the rockets fuel
kerosene and liquid oxygen.
Electronic Sentry
Less than 80 feet away from
the spot where Col. Glenn sits
in the Mercury spacecraft, and
near the mighty rocket engines
themselves, is a satchel-sized
electronic sentry, attached to
the skin of the Atlas.
It reaches out with slender
fingers of wire to feel the pulse
of the mammoth rocket, to
measure the pressure that keeps
it whole, to watch the electrical
circuits, to monitor the actions
Of the steering equipment thai
guides the rockets flight.
Should any of these systems
fail, the sentry is designed to
trigger the alarm in 80 to SO
thousandthS of a second. In a
flash of sudden fury barely a
second long, the escape rockets
would yank Col. Glenn and his
spacecraft to safety, 2,400 feet
away from the fiery death i'm
minent in the rocket.
Even before the Atlas is
launched, the sentry, called
ASIS watches for tell-tale signs
OF trouble. II 1t f1ndS any, the
countdown stops short until
things are corrected.
Once the Atlas is two inches
off the ground, ASIS takes over
full control, watching the great
beast of a rocket for signs that
it may run amok.
= Even a "destruct" signal from
Evening star., 1962-01-26
New System
ToC|ear Talks
Seen Needed
BY CECIL HOLLAND
Star Staff Writer

Senator Stennis. Democrat oi
Mississippi, said today three
days Of public hearings have
indicated the need for some
form of clearance on speeches
of military leaders.
But the system needs to be
improved" he added. ..
Senator Stennis expressed his
view as the special Senate
Armed Service Preparedness
subcommittee, which he heads,
took a weekend recess in its
investigation of charges that
military leaders have been
muzzled in speaking out against
communism.
Secretary of Defense McNa-
mara. Assistant Secretary OF
Defense for Public Affairs Ar
thur Sylvester and Gen. George
Decker, Army chief of staff
will be questioned next week or
later in the course of the hear
ings. Senator Stennis said he
would announce when the pub
lie hearings will be resumed.
Interested in News LeakN
Members of the subcommit-
tee expressed particular inter-
est in questioning Mr.. Sylves-
ter, former Washington corre-
spondent of the Newark IN. j.
News. after Admiral Arleigh A.
Burke testified that someone
in President Kennedy's admin
istration leaked to newspapers
that one of his speeches had
been censored in its entirety.
Admiral Burke, who retired
last August as Chief of Naval
Operations, said he never pro-
tested the cepsoring action. The
only persons who knew about
it. he testified, were the re-
viewing officers in the Defense
and State Departments and the
White House Press office to
which he also sent it for clear
ance because he considered it
was one Of the most important
speeches he ever proposed to
give.
Denies Responsibility
Mr.. Sylvester, whose office
has charge of Pentagon re-
views, issued a statement deny
ing he was responsible. He
said II wish to make it clear
I was not the original source
of information regarding" the
rejection of the speech.
1T is my policy" he con-
tinued, mot to volunteer to the
press or public details of in
ternal actions involving my Of
flee and other defense person.
mel which could be embar-
RAISING to the individuals con-
cerned."
Admiral Burke's speech was
intended for a January "a,
1861 dinner here of the Ma
tional Business Publications.
When he was informed that
it was rejected, the admiral
said he wrote another one.
What he objected to, he told
the committee, was that the
press was informed about it
Gin such a manner as to indi-
cate I was trying to get away
with something, which I
wasn't"
Gen. Thomas D. White, re-
tired Chief of the Air Staff
who was the concluding wit
ness before the weekend re-
cess, testified that he consid-
cred checking on the speeches
and writings of military lad
ers "a proper policy"
He said he found it frus-
Evening star., 1962-01-26

the range safety officer on the
ground must wait for ASIS to
do its job. The safety officer is
concerned about the path of the
Evening star., 1962-01-26
Silent Sentry in Atlas
Guards GIenn's Life

CAPE CANAVERALl Fla, jan 26 (AP).-In the dramatic
moments when John H. Glenn jr rides 100 burning
rocket fuel into space his life will depend silent sentry
man match. 49, $50.
The huge Atlas rocket which, If all goes WELL will boost
Col Glenn into hour flight three times around the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

Note: AS TV moves into its summer
schedule, you'll find the Index pages
So, so a quick way to see If your
favorite prime-time show is con-
tinuing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

tinuing.
1000 am. q cabeza De Vaea. World
premiere of the late George AntheiFs
last work.
300 pm. q Directions, 81. Repeat.
Paul cIaudePs "The Death Of Judas"
A brilliant performance-B. n.
500 pm. q Invitationa Golf. Final
three holes.
500 pm. q World of Sports. The
Grand Prk de Monaco.
7:3o pm. @ Walt Disneys World. Re-
peat, "Sancho the Homing Steer"
Zone Of Disneys best.l
800 pm. Cd Festival of the Arts.
(Series finaIe) Cyril Ritchard and
Hermione BaddeIey.
$50 pm. q Hollywood Special. "The
Wonderful Country" Robert Mitchum.
1000 pm. q Show of the Week. Dane
Clark IN "The Movie Star"
11:30 pm. q Play of the Week. Shake
speare's "Heny w." Part I. Donald
Davis and others.
MONDAY
1000 pm. @ Julie and Carol at Carnegie
Hall. Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett.
11:30 pm. q Tonight. Mort Sahl, host.
TUESDAY
1000 pm. q cIose-Up! Political Satire.
Mort SAIL, Dick Gregory and Wash
lngton's The Uniquecorns.
WEDNESDAY
900 pm. "a Mystery Theater. (como's
summer replacement) Jan Sterling,
Beverly Garland costar.
1000 pm. q U. S. Steel Hour. "You
Can't Escape" Mark Richman.
6 The Sunday Stor N Mosozine,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

IkNocEi%T-Why she's os innocent
os her cot, Actress Beverly GorIond
(left) informs Jon Sterling in this cpl
sode from I'm Close Pursuit." the
Kroft Mystery Theoter premiere tele-
ploX Wednesday, 9 pm. WRC-4.
Note: The body of Jon's husband wos
found in BeverlYs apartment.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
ObeIisk

It's always a Joy to see
sculpture and painting to-
gether and the Obelisk now
has a fine combination show:
Paintings by Max Gunther,
a young Swiss painter living
in Rome, and sculpture by
Leslie Burden, a young Wash
ington sculptor living in
Washington.
The show is good, too, be-
cause it presents us with two
artists whose work comes
across Immediately. pleases
on sight and yet has prop
critics that live on in the
memory.
Mr.. Gqnther's paintings
are related to work by Viera
da Silva, Richard FlorSheim
and Gabor Peterdi, yet are
sufficiently original to en-
chant by themselves. He
paints cities mostly in a
fairly abstract way. Striated
paint suggests the looming
buildings without specific
references. Within these ver-
tical patterns, little blocks of
color are placed, in no par
ticular pattern but making
total visual sense. Often, in
fact usually, the impression
Is of a city on the waters
edge. a river or the sea, in
which the towers repeat
themselves downward. The
combination of vertical lines
and bright color blocks is
abandoned only in one pic
ture. that Of Positano, the
Italian coastal village, and
here Mr.. Gunther conveys to
perfection the rocky feeling
Of such a place and does it,
as with his cities, with no
single object you could prop
erly call a rock or a house
on a rock or even waves
washing the rocks. From his
own feeling for color. tex
ture and line, the artist sue
cessfully evokes a compelling
feeling for place and time
of year.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS

NOTE: WRC will carry to-
days NBC broadcast of the
New York Times Of the Air
and has tentatively set the
program from 1880 to 1890
pm.
1880, WWDC-Mass for Shut
ms. The service is celebrated
from GEORGETOWN University
1880, WMAL-Message of Is
rael. Highlights from the
program of dedication of the
Emily and Kivie Kaplar
Building in Washington.
9:15, WRC-Art of Living. DR.
Norman Vincent Peale
speaks on Living an Excit-
ing Life"
9:15, WMAL-Over the Gar
den Gate. DR.. Betty Bradford
Bloom discusses winter gar
dening and interviews horti-
culture specialists.
1O:0O, WQMR-Music in the
Air. Selections from my
Fair Lady"
1:OO, WQMR-Matinee at One
Rodgers and Hammerstein'S
"Flower Drum Song" is fea-
tured. Ed Winton narrateS
the story.
900, WWDC-Football. Th {
Washington Redskins VS.. the
Pittsburgh Steelers.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
2:OO, WTOP-Football. Balti-

2:O0, WTOP-Football. Balti-
more VS.. Minnesota.
$3.50, WRC-Meet the Press.
McGeorge Bundy is inter-
viewed.
1888, WTOP-Capitol Cloak
room. An interview with
John M Bailey, chairman of
the Democratic National
Committee.
$500, WMAL-Broadway Melo-
dies. The original cast re-
cording of mo Strings" is
featured. Richard Kiley,
Diahann Carroll.
800, WAMU-FM 1885 Mc.)-
French at Heart. A discus
sion Of Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian-born writer.
1880, WTOP - Conversational
Russian. Natasha Clarkson
Of George Washington Uni
versity is instructor.
11:O0, WMAL-ISsues and An
swers. An interview with
Senator Symington, Demo-
crat of Missouri.
1880, WTOP-City Side. An in
terview with John Pember-
ton, jr., executive director of
the American Civil Liberties
Union.
Evening star., 1962-12-16

dom Of loving art. The
animals are often stylized
just enough to create a
smooth and flowing pattern
of surface, never enough to
depart from reality. Seals,
dolphins, penguins and bears
are sleekly modelled and the
eye takes pleasure in their
graceful bulk.
In the main departure
from conventional cast
bronze, Miss Burden shows a
bit of welded work, but that
too is linked to marine ma
ture and very ingeniouSly
uses the nature of welding
technique to call our atten-
ton to the nature of the
creatures from the sea. An
enormous welded seahorse,
for example, identified the
visible skeleton with the
welded bits of rod. The same
thing happens, to even
splashier effect, in a huge
StarfiSh.
Between the two of them,
you couldn't ask for a love-
lier, Hvelier exhibition.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Adums-Morqun

One OF the very few one
man shows in town is that
of serigraphs by Douglas H.
Teller at the Adams Morgan
Gallery.
Serigraphs have fallen into
disfavor In recent years
through no particular fault
OF their own but as the re-
suit OF a wholly commend
able revival Of interest in the
oldesr print media. Serigra-
ply, like Jazz. is one of the
extremely few real contribu-
tions America has made TO
the arts. having been devel-
oped for art purposes by the
WPA artists project. II is
good TO see a young American
working In this most Ameri-
can OF art forms.
Mr., Teller. who heads the
art department OF Montgom-
cry Junior College, prints
distractions and figures with
equal competence and vision.
A kind OF trademark, ap-
pearing In quite a few Of
the prints, is q swirling net
OF lines, handled always with
great economy and a strong
sense Of graceful motion. A
student Of Jack Perlmutter's,
he more often recalls STAN
ley Hayter and, In the finest
pair Of large prints, Augustus
Tack at the Phillips.
He has a completely en-
chanting tiny print, Morn
Ing MoSses," which miracu-
lously brings you down to
Evening star., 1962-12-16
TODAY'S GOOD
MUSIC DIAL
1900, WMAL-FM ClO7.s Nc }

1900, WMAL-FM (1O7.3 Me-
Recital Stage. Cellist An
tonic Janigro perform S
works of Bach. Boccherini
and Schumann.
1906, WASH-FM (97.1 Mc.)-
Masterworks in Stereo.
Mahler's Song of the
Earth.
2:O5, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc.
and 1895 Me- - Boston
Symphony Orchestra. Erich
Leinsdorf, conductor. Works
by Mozart, Debussy and
Bartok.
$3.50, WASH-FM (97.1 Mc.)-
Stereo Time. The music of
Frederick Chopin.
$500, WMAL-FM (1O7.3 Me-
The Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra. Beethoven's Pi-
ano Concerto No. l in c.;
Brahms Symphony No. 2
in D.
3:O6, WASH-FM 1911 Mc.)-
Opera House. Humperdink' S
"Hansel and Gretel."
4:3O, WHFS-FM (1O2.3 Me-
Great Sacred Music. (FM
Stereo) Bach's The Mag
nificat in D Major.
$500, WAMU-FM 1855 Me-
Concert from the Phillips.
Piano recital by llama YER
ed. Live broadcast.)
$3.50, WHFS-FM (1O2.3 Me-
Pops Concert. Smetana's
Bartered Bride Overture;
Borodin'S Polovtsian Dances.
7:O5, WASH-FM (97.1 Nc.
Sunday Stereo Special. Ber-
lioz' Requiem.
$500, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc.
and 1925 Mc.)-National
Gallery Of Art Concert.
Pianist Jacques Abram in
an all-Chopin program.
Live broadcaSt.)
$3.50, WTOP-New York Phil
harmonic. Conductor Lorin
Maazel makes his first ap-
pearance at the Lincoln
Center. Violin soloist Ferras
Christian plays the Con-
certo for Violin and Orches-
ira by Alban Berg.
1O:15, WMAL-FM (1O7.3 Me-
The World of Records.
Horn Concerto in D by
Stei nmetz; Tchaikovsky's
Piano Concerto No. 8 in E
Flat, Opus rs.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Art Notes

On Tuesday the COrcoran
Gallery Of Art opens the
third Of this seasons one
man shows for Washington
area artists, works by Ed
McGowin OF Alexandria.
The 25th annual Metro
politan Art Exhibition, spon-
sored by the American Art
League, opens today at the
Smithsonian's Natural His
tory Building foyer gallery.
B'nai Birth is exhibiting
20 oils by the late Lisa
Shapiro OF New York.
George Washington Uni
versity Library is showing
works by Is modern Italian
painters, sponsored by the
Standard Oil Co. OF New
Jersey.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
IFA Galleries

In honor Of the Christmas
season the IFA has turned
its cornucopia of art upside
down all over the place. The
effect may dazzle the eye,
but the material that makes
the effect is well worth your
getting past the initial burst
of confusion into individual
examination.
The galleries show large
and small examples from
their own group of painters
and especially from their ex-
traodinary group of Ameri-
can printmakerS. In the lat
ter, Dean Meeker is seen in
a powerful serigraph Of a
bull stuck by the pics, Paul
Schaub in a group of quiet,
effective woodcuts Of boats
and horses, Leonard Baskin
in Autographs from his IL
Illustrations for the Iliad, and
Harold Altman In a COM
prehensive collection of his
delicately etched market
scenes.
Harold Altman also figures
prominently among tn e
painters normally handled at
IFA. Over from Baltimore is
one of the outstanding
painters In the group, Ben
nard B. Perlman, with an eff
fective impasto view OF that
city's C&O station.
Among work of merit not
seen before are very sensitive
charcoal drawings by Rachel
Roth and paintings of boats
on water by Charles Grippe,
a
Evening star., 1962-12-16
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew.

CoRCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven.
teenth street and New York avenuI
NV. Daily. 10 am. to 4:30 pm.
Saturday, q am. to 4:30 pm; Sun.
day and holidays, 2 to 5 pm; CLOSED
Monday.
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH Ii.
BRARY AND COLLECTION, ZOO
Thirty-second street NV. Closed
indefinitely
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive SW
Daily, 2 am. to 4.30 pm.
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ARTS, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily. 8 am. to 4:30
pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue at Sixth street NV
Daily, 10 am. to pm. Sunday. 2
pm. to 10 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1912 Twenty
first street NV. Daily, II am. to
pm; Monday. IL am. to 10 pm;
Sunday, l TO 2 pm.
WASHINGTON GALLERY OF MODERN
ART, 1903 Twenty-first street NV.
Tuesday through Saturday, IL am.
to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 to pm;
closed Monday. Admission so cents.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Bronze Menagerie

Miss Burden exhibits a
small menagerie in bronze,
many Of the pieces Of quite
formidable size. She knows
her material and her friendly
beasts and brings them to-
gether in a peaceable king
Evening star., 1962-12-16
ART AND ARTISTS
Mount Vernon Well Represented
In Chapman Show at National

because Of a shred of great
ness in his work but be-
cause, in 1921, he painted
five Plains Indians who were
received by President Mon
roe.
Art for its own sweet sake
at the White House con-
tinues to be represented by
Cezanne and other Euro
peanS. The message is clear.
American painters of the 10Th
century are valuable because
they were on hand when the
camera wasn't; for the White
House Fine Arts Committee,
as for poor old John Gadsby
Chapman, fine art is some
thing you get someplace else.
The National Gallery has
done its usual firSt-class job
on assembling the show, in
stalling 1t and putting to-
gether a. catalogue, with a
fine, informative essay by
William P. Campbell that
could make you believe, if
you didn't see the pictures,
in Chapman'S worth.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
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Evening star., 1962-12-16

tered around Chapman's son
Cooney. At l8 the boy fled
Rome to enlist in the Rebel
army here. Then, in 1871,
while painting a ceiling in
England, Cooney went loony
and had to be locked up. The
old man drifted back to
America in his late 70s, Wis
tied Cooney in Mexico and
died in 1889 on Staten Island,
a long way from Rome and
even from the remnants of
Cavalier Virginia in his
boyhood.
1t is the remnants, finally,
that We are asked to focus
in on. Such as his blossom
ing was. Chapman's came
early. In his mid-20s he did
a series Of pictures of ole
Virginny with special atten-
ton to George Washington
country. Prominent among
the 10 pictures in the show
are many views of Mount
Vernon, including interiors
and the first tomb. At this
point we get our first real
clue as to why the show is
on.
White House Influence
It's the pernicious influ-
ence of the White House.
This may seem far
fetched, but If it is reasonable
to blame the White House
for the eroded journalistic
standards of the Saturday
Evening Post, 1t is much more
reasonable to do so for the
rapidly eroding standards Of
appreciation of American art.
It's true enough that Fred
Waring has been replaced by
Isaac Stern for musical eve
nings, but in visual art, let's
face it, cowboy movies have
been replaced by Indian pic
lures.
For the first time In our
history someone in the White
House is making a serious
effort to deck those halls
with American paintings, but
the paintings. in the over
whelming majority of cases,
are Of interest primarily, If
not exclusively, because Of
their historical subject mat
ter. The recently added Rem
brandt Peale is in not be-
cause Peale was a member
Of Americas first family of
artists, but only because he
had the good luck to paint
Jefferson from life. Last week
Charles Bird King was given
the implicit immortality Of
White House installation not
Evening star., 1962-12-16

moss size without being
either cute or microscopic.
a
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tell by the attitude of our
handsome male. competitors.
PRESIDENT DE GAULLE
could tell, though, because
he held a press conference
open to all accredited report
ers of both sexes. The French,
of course, have long recog-
nized there were two sexes.
Khrushchev could tell too,
because he spoke at a lunch
con to which "a newswomen
were admitted - over a few
dead bodies of newsmen, to
be sure, but still they were
admitted.
Even Winston Churchill,
who comes from the coun-
try of male clubs, made his
last press appearance here at
a joint press luncheon at the
Statler. I can remember the
mist in my eyes when the
doughty old titan stood and
held up his fingers in the
victory sign. But Sir Win
ston'S chief of state is a
woman so he can be expected
to take cognizance of the fe-
male of the species.
PRIME MINISTER NEH-
RU, who held an open press
conference in the National
Press Club auditorium attend
ed by many women on a pre-
vious official visit to Wash
ington, spoke there again last
November at a luncheon ap-
parently unaware that this
time women were excluded.
For, when the club presi-
dent congratulated him for
having shown "the good
taste" to speak at the club,
adding that the Club policy
of non-alignment will con-
tinue," Nehru quickly disas-
sociated himself with the
policy. II do not know the
facts or the reasons" he
said, "in India we are try
ing to eliminate purdah.
Among journalists women
function more or less equally
with men"
Actually, this whole So
called battle" arises from a
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NeWsmen vs.. Women Battle Nears End

and thus has put an end to
this strange situation.
THE OTHER REASON for
newsgirl gratitude stems from.
a statement made by Presi-
Dental Press Secretary Pierre
Salinger and the press
spokesman of the Brazilian
Embassy Vasco Mariz. Both
said this past week that if
there should be a press lunch
con for President Goulart
during his forthcoming visit,
it would be held under the
sponsorship of the White
House Correspondents As
sociation mot the National
Press Club.
However, it looks as if the