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Evening star., 1963-02-21
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When the Nuelear Ship
Savannah SteaEns up Chesa-
.peake Bay on May 20 for q
call at Baltimore, IL will pass
two innocuous.lo looking beacons
above the Bay Bridge.
One is q floating. lighted
buoy In Curtis Bay. The other
is o lighthouse of Gibson Is
land. And both are, as radical,
in their way. as the ship her.
self. s, -a
Their power will be nuclear
and the fuel Is capable Of last
ing 10 years without being re-
plenished. They represent a
new step by the Martin Co.
into an uncharted ana rapidly
expanding field, the unnamed
power plant.
Such lights are relatively
small. The buoy uses only 10
watts and the lighthouse. so,
but scientists have laboratory
demonstrations that UP to 1 900
watts can be generated by the
technique. enough to light O
one-family apartment. .
Use Waste Strontium 80
Unlike the big family Of elec-
trio generation plants. these
beaeons use isotopes as their
power source. The product is
waste strontium 90 and for
merly was disposed Of by bury
ing it. Nov. scientists tie the
isotope's heat to o device called
q thermocouple which trans
forms 1t directly into electric
power, without all the inter-
mediate steam boilers and pipes
used. for example. in, the Ms
Savannah.
The advantage Of nuclear
beacons, officials say, will be in
remote. inaccessible sites such
as the Rerine Straits where re-
placing batteries In O conven-
tional buoy Is difficult.
But beyond this lies q host Of
other more sophisticated uses,
some Of them tied to naval de-
fense and disarmament talks
Evening star., 1963-02-21
TREASURY BONDS

NEW YORK CAP)-Neon over the
scgnter s u.s. Geyer9nasnt Trtesasy bonds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
WiIdIife
StrikingIy
Represented
THE W0NnER9 m WU

THE WONDERS OF WILD
LIFE. Text by Franz A.
Roedelberger and Vera l.
Groschoff, translated by
Mary Phillips and Peter
Whitehead. Two hundred
and eighty photographs by
100 photographers. viking
Press; $500
I don't see how Viking did
1t. CoSt-wise, that is.
This book contains nearly
300 photographs, color and
black-and-white, beautifully re-
produced, all unusual, some
stunning. Yet it sells for only
$3.50!
It was originally entitled
''Tierwelt Europas Feerie
Animale," and published by
the Buchverlag Verbands-
druckerei of Berne, Switzer-
land. The photo credits proved
almost as alluring, to my
American eye, as the photos
themselves: Per Haflund, Mol
Binshengen, Liselotte Dorf-
muller Laubmann, and so on.
Spectacular
The opening photograph is
q black-and-white aerial view
of about a million gannets
nesting on Garden Rock" in
Trois Vaux Bay, Attorney, off
the coast Of Brittany. The
closing photograph Is a close
in color shot Of a 10-point
Red Deer stag wading breast
deep but magnificently upper
turbed In a Swiss mountain
creek swollen with snow-melt.
Between these spectacular
terminals lies an embarrass-
ment Of riches: a silhouetted
link leaping from a black
rock at dusk; an extraordi-
nary view of a Mediterranean
Sombrero Jellyfish, with 'its
usual swarm Of Horse Mack
erel";; a Wall Gecko (''the
only reptile which squeaks");
a Glass Snake (Which, it turns
out, is not q snake); the most
beautiful color photograph
ever taken, / guess, Of the al
ways beautiful Seahorse; ct
cetera, ct cetera, ct cetera.
The whole sumptuous prof.
ect has the support, possibly
also the financial backing, Of
the World WildIife Fund, and
1t has obviously been pub
liShed in the worthy cause Of
furthering wildlife conserva-
ton.
My advice to you Is to get a
copy Of this terrific bargain
right away, before the Christ
mas rush denudes the stores
of their stocks.
CHARLES COOKE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
The JoyIessness
Of 1855 Budapest

BUDAPEST AAS3S. By Ste
phan Vaida. Doubleday;
$685.
A young B I'D pes { mag
istrate becomes involved, emo
tionally and judiciaIly, with
a beautiful but empty-headed
girl accused of damaging gov
eminent property in an auto
mobile accident. The Judge, a
cOmpulsively spinelesS fellow,
is like enc Of those minor
DoStoevSky characters whose
massive mediocrity holds its
own fascination.
The author, a Hungarian
newspaperman who escaped
to Vienna during the 1856 up
rising, gives an appalling and
authoritative picture Of the
sitting joyleSSness of life in
the Budapest Of 1855.
RUTH HUME.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
THOUGHTS THAT NODDED
THE PROTESTANT TRADITION

MASTERPIECES OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE IN
SUMMARY FORM Edited by Frank NJ MagiI Asso-
ciate editor, Ian P. McGreaL Harper Row; $3.50
This Is compilation Of essays and summaries Of the
great documents Of belief by the major thinkers who have
nodded the Protestant tradition. They range from Martin
Captivity Of the Church." through Millions "Paradise
Lost" and "ow Experience Of Cod" by H. D. Lewis,
born 1870
The essays-or summaries-are brief but well written
ana designed especially to make their meaning clear to
the archaeological
The staff members Of the project which produced this
book are numerous Among the special consuItants in
Protestant scholarship 1t lists is Granville Downey profess
sor OF Byzantine literature Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library and Collection Of Harvard University e. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
Another Rich Borgoin
From Paul Smith

ther bruSquely takes over as
paterfamilias: ''You can have
any kind Of orange juice there
is in the ice box" "a shilling
is any other kid your mother
and father have around the
house. You will not like him
(her). He (she) will not like
you. Make friends with him
(her) anyhow. It evens UP the
odds with your parents. " ''Be
nice to your father and be
viii tolerate you"
Mr.. Smith probably worked
hard for an hour or so writing
the text, but only long effort
and good luck could have pro-
duced the pictures, which are
many or all from Sears Roe
buck c atalogs. In any
event, Mr.. Smith has it
made; objective tests show
that parents and children like
the book equally, and while
bachelors don't care for it,
they will buy it in quantity for
Christmas presents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
BoIefuI Celebration
Of Good Old ireland

man Of letters, shares his baf-
Element.
81 wish this celebrated
Faith Of theirs included things
like telling the truth or keep
ing their word or even getting
the laun dry right" she
mourns.
The Hunt Ball
The Outnumbered gentry try
not to let the side down. They
continue to worship in their
dusty church. In dwindling
numbers, they hunt, driven on
by the implacable Master Of
Hounds. Miss Tracy's most
inspired sequence = although
it is hard to make a choice
is a hunt ball, where the
Chairman Of the Hunt goes
down and on hearing Of the
medical advice available,
begs to be shot.
Michael's Dire am, and Il
provides the thread Of tia
plot, is to fire Atracta Smith,
chuck ireland and run away
with Dulcie. He is given some
help by the local parish
priest, who is regarded as
mad, and who indeed argues
necessarily with God and the
Devil, but futility and cross
purposes are the order Of the
Celtic day.
Miss Tracy has created a
raft of characters, any one of
whom could carry the book
the mordant Kilrany of Kilra-
ny, Dulcie'S father, Atracta's
fleeing hu S b a n d. The only
complaint a reader could pos
sibly enter is that "The First
Day Of Friday" is too short.
One hates to turn the merry
and malicious pages, know
ing they will so soon come In
an end. The professional Irish
may not like ''The First Day
of Friday" too well; every
one else will just lap it UP.
- MARY McGRORY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
European Union Seen
Bridge for the British

BUILDING THE ATLANTIC
WORLD. BY Robert Strausz-
Hupe, James E. Dougherty
and Willie r. Kintner. (Har-
per-Row; So
This comprehensive study
Of the Atlantic community's
growing pains contains a pro-
posal for using the almost
forgotten Western European
Union as a vehicle for bring
ing Great Britain more init
mately into military alliance
with continental Europe.
The authors hope the Union
could be developed into an in
dependent nuclear power by
persuading Britain and
France to subject theft nu-
clear capabilities to joint con-
troll within the Union. The
United States would help
create its nuclear force.
Other members of the Union
are Germany, Italy, Belgium,
the Netherlands and Luxem-
bourg.
The British decision at Mas
sau last December to proceed
with its independent nuclear
deterrent shortly after French
President de Gaulle and Brit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

iSh Prime Minister Macmillan
repeatedly discussed polling
their nuclear forces Is widely
believed to have triggered the
De Gaulle veto Of British
membership In the Common
Market.
Despite this setback to Brit
ish French cooperation on
nuclear affairs, the authors
believe the approach through
the Union could succeed. Con-
currently, they believe Britain
should make whatever conces-
sions are necessary to gain
admittance to the European
Common Market.
1.-THE issues Of nuclear shar-
ing and economic co-opera-
ton are inSeparable." the au-
thors say. eff both are settled,
the stage will have been set
for the next and climactic act
of political confederation"
EARL H. VOSS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
Robert Frost's F riends
Point Him Anew
ROBERT FROST AND JOHN

ROBERT FROST AND JOHN
BARTLETT: The Record Of
Friendship. BY Margaret
Bartlett Anderson. (Holt,
Rinehart & Winston; So
John Bartlett and Margaret
Abbott were Robert FroSt's
two prize pupils at PinkertOn
Academy in Derry, New
Hampshire, where he made
his rocky start as a teacher.
John and Margaret were high
school sweethearts. Robert
Frost encouraged the romance
when it briefly foundered. The
young couple and the poet be-
came lifelong friends. The
Bartletts' daughter Margaret
has recounted the friendship
in a gentle, appealing book,
which is as much about her
parents as it is about the
great poet.
We already have an almost
complete sef-portrait of Frost
in the haf-century of his let
tiers to his contemporary fell
low-pOet, Louis Untermeyer,
which we're published this
fall. In the letters included
here, Frost is more the coun-
selor, the harasSed parent,
than the artist, although there
is one splendidly arrogant let
ter from England about his
work: ''To be perfectly frank
with you / am one of the most
notable crafts m e n of my
time"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
BOOKS IN REVIEW
American Language,
Mencken Style,
Is Still Growing

THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. By H. L. Mencken One volume
edition abridged by Raven McDavd IT, with the assist
ance Of David W. Maurer. (Alfred A. Knopf; S12s5)
By 1885, Mencken's american Language" begun during
the World War; had reached its fourth edition leach edition in
reality an entirely bOok) and thereafter fresh material
was added In supplements (1945 and 19 each vouminous
as the original book Not only did Mencken when he died
leave considerable material for further expansion but also
since then scholars have continued to till the field which he
though he didn't first seed it, fortified and cultivated Today
Is years after the second supplement three choices avail
able for further work the great book which an outstand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

viii be the description Of Trot-
sky dying-he is ikened to a
famous painting Of Christ
being lifted down from the
cross.
But tn ere was obviously
something about the man that
inspired fanatic loyalty. Hun
dreds Of Stains purge vic
TINS went to their d e aths
crying Long live Trotsky!"
And Stain himself acknowI-
edged the mysterious power
OF his arch-rival. Not content
with exiting Trotsky and
slaughtering his followers to
almost the last man, Stain
would not rest until he had
accomplished the physical
destruction Of the man him,
self.
Mr.. Deutscher makes the
interesting prediction tn at
Trotsky eventually will be
"rehabilitated" by Stains
successors, Is other victims
of the great purges have
been. He thinks they would
have done so long cince If it
weren't that they feel q little
guilty for the part they played
In Trotsky's downfall.
BY DAVID BRAATEN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

was 0utmaneuvered by Stain
In the struggle for power after
Lenin's death In 1924.
The final volume recounts
the years Of Illustration that
began with Trotsky's deporta-
ton from Russia in 1929.
Stripped Of political power,
TrOtsky could only cry QUITO
an ever-d inishing au-
dience- against Stains
betrayal Of the Revolution.
The fact that Stain, after de-
feating the Trotskyites, pro-
ceeded to adopt the programs
for which they had been de-
nounced as b eretics, only
made the defeat more CALLING.
A Bit Thick
Personal tragedy was added
to the political debacIe: One
after another, Trotsky's chill
dren and closest friends died
or were killed as direct or in
direct results Of Stains OBJ
sesSiVe vendetta.
Mr.. Deutscher is a frank
admirer Of TrOtsky, and i'm
plies that the bloody excuses
of communism would never
have occurred II Trotsky had
won out over Stain. This may
be q bit thick for some read
ers to swallow, as no doubt,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
EDITORIAL PAGE
DAILY COLUMN

The editorial page feature,
"a Book for Today this
week:
MONDAY: Stigma: Notes
on the M a n a ge m emit of
Spoiled Identity" by Erving
Goffman. (Prentice-HaI.)
TUESDAY: The Crosscur-
rents-Modern Critiques Series.
(Southern Illinois University
Press
WEDNESDAY: 1.-THE Leav-
en- of D ocracy: The
Growth h of the Democratic
Spirit in the Time of Jack
son." selected and edited by
Clement Eaton. (Braziller.)
THURSDAY: 1.-THE Nation
Transformed: The Creation of
an Industrial Society,"" select
ed and edited by Sigmund Di-
almond. (Braziller.)
FRIDAY: "And There Was
Light" by Jacques LuSsey-
ran. little, Brown
=
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
THE FIRST DAY OF FIR

THE FIRST DAY OF FRI
DAY. By Honor Tracy.
Random House; $4.s5.)
Honor Tracy has enter
tanned US before, but never SO
richly, deliciously or wickedly
as In this baleful new celebra-
ton Of Ireland.
Many people, as we all web
know, are fearfully sentiment
tai about that eountry-Moth-
er Machree and all that. Well,
Miss Tracy, praise be (born
in England and resident in
Ireland) is not one Of them.
She has created a folk-her-
oine who personifies all her
reservations, irritatiOns and
downright fury with the local
folk, one Atracta Smith, a
loathsome and fascinating
lump. Atracta, stupid, snivel-
ing, slovenly, derangedly
pious, Is, by designation only,
the servant Of Michael Duff of
Georgetown, a m e m Der of
what must be laughingly
called the Protestant Ascend
ancy In Ireland; for If Miss
Tracy has a point in this delir-
ious comedy it is that the
E glis b never really con-
quered the place at all, or at
least its devious people.
Alien Land
Michael, reIict Of a great
old family, proprietor Of a
crumbling estate, is baffled by
his native land, and in fact,
feels he has lived all his life
in a foreign country. ireland
has all the cosy warmth of a
reptile house." he muses. at
one point. ''You were Tapped
in blarney and butter until the
moment your means of liveli-
hood were seized or your ia
Their was shot"
His delectable fiancee, Dull
Gle Browning, daughter of a
selfish monster who fancieS
himself as an 18th century
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
Some Lively
Entertainment
Throughout

THE SEASONS OF GOD. By
Edythe Latham. Double
day; $4.95.)
An unlikely affair between
England's leading actor, Sir
Robert Sibley-he is in New
York playing Hamlet-and a
fey free-lance writer named
Media st. John, develops
complications when the lady's
past begins to obtrude. There
is more substance to this adj
venture than meets the eye in
Chapter l, and If the reader
accepts mad Melba as a pos
Sibility in the first place, then
everything that follows seems
credible enough. The author
scores most heavily in two
areas: The heroine's agonizing
struggle to raise a vital $50,
and the explosive but pathetic
relation that develops between
her and an honest cop named
Detective Spoleto.
r. H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

ways of life. The author,
chairman, department of
anthropology, Northwestern
University, attempts to ex-
plain the world as the Hin
dus see and approach it, and
he does this by comparing
their way Of life with that
Of the Chinese and Ameri-
cans.
THE GREAT BEACH. BY
Allan W. Eckert. little,
Brown; $4.95.) A natural
list explores the frontier
between land and sea on
the outer reaches Of Cape
Cod.
CLASSICAL UTOPIAN THE
DRIES OF EDUCATION.
By Robert T. Fisher.
Goodman Associates; 81
The classical utopias rep
resented in this volume in
clude Plato's Republic"
Thomas More's utopia"
Campanella's "The City of
the Sum-" Andreae's
"Christanopolis, Francis
Bacon's ''The New Atlantis"
and ] lie an Jacques Rous-
Seau's ''The Emile.
NORTHERN EXPOSURES.
By Cyril Harris. Morton;
$3.50 Memories of a Nova
Scotia boyhood around the
turn of the century.
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE
OF HABSBURG. BY Ed
ward CrankShaw. wi
king; $500 A historical
study of the fall of the
Habsburg monarchy, from
anz JoSef'S accession
during the 1913 revolution
to his death on the verge of
AuStria's defeat in World
War /.
THE IRVING STONE
READER. Doubleday;
$685. An anthology of
some Of Mr.. Stones men,
orable scenes and sections
from his novels and nom
fiction works. Included also
are a number of shorter
pieces that have never be-
fore appeared in book form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
Good PusseI
Of HorribIes
And MiserubIes
A DAY IN LATE SEPTEM-
Der. By Merle Miller.
(Sloane; $4.5O.)

"A DAY IN LATE SEPTEM-
Der. By Merle Miller.
(Sloane; $4.5O.)
Nearly all the people who
live through the day In ques-
ton are either horrible or
miserable. Some are both.
And like so many Horribles
and MiserableS before them,
they live in the State of Con-
necticut, which o obviously
needs a good public relations
man to improve its image.
Don't these things ever hap
pen in Yonkers or Babylon,
Long Island?) The action CEN
tiers around a 40-year-old
writer with a nasty divorced
wife, a teen-aged son in need
of rescue, and a beautiful but
ndependable mistress with a
nasty husband. By the end of
the day all those concerned
have looked back with vary
ing degrees of diStaste on
their past lives, and a few of
them have come to some kind
Of terms with the future.
In exploring the conscious
ness Of his characters the au-
thor adopts a first-person
technique that may be valid
but that does give rise to a
number of thoughtS-we-doubt-
ever-got- thought. ("And now,
thought Clyde, / have got to
call on DR.. Lars van der Zee.
What he wants to see me
about / cannot imagine. We
have never been close, al
though at one time we worked
together on the county medi-
cal board.
Mr.. Miller Is not the aloof
type of author who stands
a sid e and compassiOnately
surveys his GRANDCHILDREN
from a distance. His fierce in
Movement with them gives
his writing a kind Of relent-
less drive that is positively
exhauSting. But In the process
he comes up with some dis
concerning accuracies on the
equivOcal nature Of human
relations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
GENERAL

GILKERSON ON WAR: From
Rocks to Rockets. BY Bill
Gilkerson. (McGraw Hill;
$500 A tongue-in-cheek
review of war from man.
kinds beginning to the nu-
clear age told in really
first-rate drawings. They
are light In approach but
they make a very serious
point: The abSurdity of men
killing each other. A good
job.
BENNETT CERF'S TAKE
ALONG TREASURY. Ed
tied by Bennett Cert and
Leonora Hornblow. (Dou-
bleday & Co., Inc; $3.50
A collection Of stories and
essays by a wide variety of
writer's from Aldous Hulk
ley to Truman Capote. The
inclusion Of Villa Gathers
my Mortal Enemy" (the
first time it's appeared in
an anthology insureS it of
being worth the price.
SELECTED PREFACES AND
INTRODUCTI0NS of w.
Somerset Vaughan. (Dou-
bleday & Co., Inc; $4.5O.)
A collection of papers which
reveals Mr.. Maugham's lit
erary philosophy. They were
originally published as pref
aces and introductionS to
his own works and to books
he edited: Travellers
Library" ''TeIlers of Tales"
and ''Maugham's Choice of
Kipling's Best"
THE FASCISTS IN BRITAIN.
By Colin Cross. (St. Mar
tins; So A study of British
faSciSm and Sir Oswald
MoSley, from its heyday in
the 'SOS to the present. Mr..
Cross is foreign correspond
ent for the London Sunday
Express.
CLAN, CASTE AND CLUB.
BY Francis L. K. Hsu. (Van
NoStrand; $7.95.) A full
length study Of three distinct
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

tile to the guiIIotining Of
RobeSpierre, this is an eve
witness account, from hun
dredS of On-the-spot reports,
diaries, letters and official
papers. (Reprint.)
LETTERS FROM THE.
EARTH. By Mark Twain.
Edited by Bernard De Voto.
"a Crest Book; so cents
The best seller, published
just last year for the first
time, IS a collection Of some
of Twain'S uncenSored writ
ingS, considered too contro-
versial to be published be-
fore. (Reprint.)
THE MEDIEVAL WORLD.
By Friedrich Heer. "a Men
tor Book; 95 cents.) An IL
lustrated panorama of the
politics, religion, science
and art in medieval life.
(Reprint.)
SEEDS OF MODERN
DRAMA: A Laurel Master
pieces of Continental
Drama, Vol. III. (DeIl Pub
fishing Co.; rs cents.) Five
plays which gave express
sion to the rise of realism
in the late 18th century Eu-
rope. They are: "Therese
Raquin" by lola, can
Enemy of the People" by
IbSen, Miss Julie" by
Strindberg, ''The Weavers"
by Hauptmann, and 1.-THE
Sea GULF by Chekhov.
CAST A COLD EYE. Bv
Mary Mccarthy. (Signet
Books. New American Lii
brary; go cents.) A book of
stories by the author of
"The Group" 1t includes
her famous short novel,
"The Oasis"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

Generally, however, be is
heartening the young couple
through their incredible vicis-
STUDIES, Johns asthma and
jOblessness after a journals
tic foray in Vancouver. The
tone is paternal: "You and
Margaret we're my favOrite
kids at Pinkerton you know
whether taken singly or as a
pair. / shall still write
you letters oftener than / do
anyone except my very own
children"
Even more touching are the
letters Of Elinor. FroSt's wife,
who clucked over John and
Margaret and wrote practical
advice: do not try to cook
much-wash dishes only once
a day and use no rooms ex-
cept kitchen, bedroom and sit
ting-rOom, and hire someone
to come in and sweep Up once
in two weeks"
John and Margaret after
they moved to Colorado eStab-
ished a syndicate service,
and Margaret, when her day
of taking care Of four children
and the house were done, took
herself to a typewriter and
turned out a quota of a thou
sand words a night three
nights a week.
, This picture of prodigious
New England industry, grit
and determination is almost
as interesting as the great
poet which touched the two
Woodworking lives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
PAPERBAcKS

THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY.
By John Kenneth Galbraith.
"a Mentor Book; rs cents. }
A reprint edition Of the
beSt-Selling study of the
economics of opulence, writ
ten by the former United
States Ambassador to India.
BARRY GOLDWATER:
Freedom Is His Flight
Plan. By Stephen Shadegg.
"a Macfadden Book; 60
cents A reprint of the biog-
raphy of the Senator from
Arizona.
THE ENCH REVOLT
TON. By Georges Pernoud
and Sabine Flaissier. Trans
lated by Richard Graves.
"a Premier Book; rs centS.)
From the attack on the BaS-