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Evening star., 1963-01-13

Democratic Leader Mansfield and
Republican Leader Dirksen-not
to mention President Kennedy
and former Vice President Nixon
stand among today's best
known House alumni.
Speaker Mccormack, Republican
Leader Halleck and other House
veterans, however, vince when
ever their coordinate branch Of
Congress is called stepping
stone or even a training school
for the more sedate branch.
Retired or defeated Senators,
on the other hand, show under
standable reluctance to step over
if not down into the House. In
certain States it is not as easy
as it sounds for a former Sen
ator to obtain nomination in a
House district. And solons accus-
toned to the Senate pace and
prestige might have more trouble
acclimating themselves to the
House hurly-burly.
But, be it ever so humble in the
estimation OF some onlookers or
outsiders, there is no place like
the House for a legislator to
serve his country deliberately
with dedication and distinction if
separated willingly or unwillingy
from the greatest deliberative
body in the world"
The Adams Precedent
The most impressive historical
demonstration, of course, was
that of John Quincy Adams. His
presidency from 1925 to 1929
overshadowed his Senate tenure
from 1903 to 1903. His House
service from 1881 to 1S48 never
thelesS all but overshadowed his
occupancy of the White House.
A few years after election to the
House, Representative Adams
tried unsuccessfully for the
Massachusetts governorship. He
quickly recovered from that de-
Walton and devoted himself with
out interruption and without
stint to the House. He became
one of the best members it ever
had.
Henry Clay was a Senator, then
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In Favor Of Statehood

Nevertheless, there appears to be
solid sentiment in the States for
taking in Puerto Rico as a State.
This was evidenced by a recent
Gallup poll showing that some
two-thirds of the United States
voters approve of such a move.
Puerto Ricos population of "a
million puts 1t, in size, just ahead
OF half Of the present States.
Further, the birth rate for Puerto
Rico in 1861 was 3l6 per thousand
compared with a national figure
OF 23.4. Life expectancy is about
equal.
Puerto Rican officials point
proudly (but with some worry to
the fact that net migration from
the Island has slimmed down TO
about $4,000 annually last year
from high OF rs 900 in 1868.
The attitudes of both the Demo-
cratic and Republican candidates
in next years presidential bout
may become quite firm on the
Puerto Rican question. There are
an estimated l million Puerto
Ricans now residing in the United
States, most Of whom are ardent
Shareholders.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
BY ROBERT X. WALSH
Star Staff Writer

A separate and rare roll call
awaited former Senator Claude
D. Pepper, Democrat of Florida,
when he took his seat in the
House of Representatives last
Wednesday, He Joined John
Quincy Adams of Massachusetts,
Henry Clay of Kentucky, James
w. Wadsworth of New York, Theo-
dore Burton of Ohio and few
others who were not too proud to
fight for election to the House
after service in the Senate. -
AS a former practitioner in the
so-called senatorial "other body"
enormously styled upper body"
Representative Pepper found one
other ex-senator currently in that
somewhat exclusive House club.
Representative Alton A. Len
non, Democrat of North Carolina,
filled Senate vacancy from July,
1858, to November, 1854, but lost
out for denomination. He has
been in the House since 1857.
Mr.. Pepper, well remembered as
New Deal and Fair Deal Senator
from November, 1886, to January,
1851, tried unsuccessfully for a
comeback in 1858. Last November
his success in winning a House
seat from Florida helped to lessen
New Frontier dismay at Repub-
lican congressional gains in the
South.
Let the record show that 1t
seems considerably harder, and
certainly less frequent, to go from
Senate to House than from House
to Senate.
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Bonkers Counsel, Too

At the anne time Mr.. Ball some
how found time to serve as coun-
sci for American investment
bankers who Joined the syndicate
financing the tunnel connecting
England and France under the
English Channel.
Mr.. Ball is a swift and vora-
Evening star., 1963-01-13

gregation, decrying integration
as an outsiders plot.
Mayor Arthur Hanes, a 46-year-
old former FBI agent and coach.
is Of like mind. He readily voted
TO overrule the city's parks board
and close the 81 parks, 38 play
grounds and 4 golf courses a year
ago rather than accept a Federal
desegregation order,
The impact Of all this gave
birth 10 what has been called
the quiet revolt" A number Of
civic and religious organizations
and the newspapers spoke out
against closing recreational facil-
tiles. and this was the first sub
stantial movement against the
city's racial policies.
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Schools Kept Open

hlhDhLlh Ihu law pclHlllllilb
the closing Of integrated schools,
but unlike the laws Of some other
States 1t did not require closings.
There was no need for drive
to change the law. but the young
men who instigated the campaign
felt there was need for emphasiz-
ing that there must be no dis
orders and schools must be kept
open when integration, expected
by court order this fall, begins,
The Birmingham News and the
Birmingham Post-Herald began
10 speak forcefully for order. re-
minding their readers Of the dam
age 10 the city caused by con-
tinuing, sporadic bombings and
the riot in May, 1861. when Free
dom Riders reached Birmingham.
Then came the big surprise for
Mayor Hanes and Commissioners
Connor and j. T. Waggoner. II.
too. came from the towns younger
leaders.
Members OF the Young Mems
Business Club and some others
chose the August % State primary
as a means Of reaching the peo-
pie quickly but with little fanfare
that could bring a strong counter
attack.
on election day. after only a
few days notice. they set up card
tables near voter lines. seeking
signatures for a petition. II called
for a city-wide vote on changing
Birmingham's form Of govern
ment.
Under State law. $500 sigma
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present position when Puerto Rico
assumed Commonwealth status in
l949. He's completing his fourth
four-year term as Governor with
no visible signs Of tiring of the
Job.
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Non -TroveIing Secretary

Even before the Cuban crisis
Mr. Rusk was trying to cut down
on his travelling, to settle back
into the posture he considers ideal
for a Secretary of State. Mr.. Rusk
and Mr.. Ball knew and discussed
the likelihood that rumors would
fly. The Secretary of State was
ION the way out" someone was
sure to conclude, if Mr.. Ball were
to go to the Bahamas with the
President instead of Mr.. Rusk. The
Secretary deliberately decided to
make the break with the past if
the President approved. Mr.. Ken
nedy did and the rumors did fly.
Now both men are discouraging
the rumors and the President him
self has given a helping hand.
There is no hint that either the
President or the Secretary find
any fault with the Undersecre-
tary's performance.
At SO, Mr.. Ball has had some
Evening star., 1963-01-13
Peppers New Role on the Hill

q Representative and again a
Senator. He was Speaker of the
House longer than anyone except
the late Speaker Rayburn.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
Suit Pending

In the BACKGROUND was the
fact that a school desegregation
suit was pending, and many citi-
zens feared schools would be
closed, just as parks had been.
A significant meeting was held
May 3. Under no organization
auspices, and advertised only by
word of mouth, 1t drew more than
200 young business, labor, and
professional leaders TO the
Chamber Of Commerce offices.
They went there to talk about
Evening star., 1963-01-13
RoeioI Troubles

Birmingham's racial bitterness
was exemplified dramatically IN
two other ways during the year:
City officials announced they
were withdrawing from the
county surplus food program for
the needy, More than 30 per cent
Of the recipients were Negroes.
Mayor Hanes said that III the
Negroes are going to heed the ir-
responsible and militant advice OF
the NAACP and CORE leaders.
then say let these leaders feed
them"
And city officials denied Miles
College, for Negroes. permission
TO solicit funds in the city. The
participation OF Miles students In
the store boycott was cited as
the reason.
Some Birmingham citizens feel
that the damaging bitterness be-
tween the Negro and white seq
ments Of the community C205, ,26O
whites and 1918 Negroes inside
the city limits viii not be re-
moved until the city leadership Is
changed.
Evening star., 1963-01-13

the threat to the schools. The
chief speakers were Charles Nor
gan, jr., a young lawyer who
outlined legal aspects; Episcopal
Bishop Coadiutor George M.
Murray; and James A. Head,
president of the Committee Of
100, an industry y-seeking group.
THAT was the first time any
body had talked publicly about
the possibility Of school closings," "
one of those attending said later.
Others began to talk. and the
strategy of the leaders became
apparent: Emphasis was TO be
placed not upon desegregation but
upon law and order, another way
of saying compliance with Fed
eral court orders without evasion.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
A Quiet Revolt in Birmingham

lures were needed to force such a
referendum. Some II, 1000 were OBJ
tanned, many from citizens who
did not even know until they saw
the petition tables that such a
move was afoot.
The city commissioners were
caught in what became a bitter
fight for survival. Connor charged
that the change was Negro
inspired. About efforts were
made to persuade the voters 10
retain the commission form OF
government, which meant retain
ing the lines of power already
drawn.
But on November 6 the mayor
council form received more votes
than the commission and council
manager forms combined. On
March 5 the city is to choose
its mayor and council.
A suit has been filed contend-
ing that the three commissioners
cannot be removed from office
until they have served the re-
mainder Of their terms, ending In
1865, but the mayoralty campaign
will begin, with the presumption
that the change Of governmental
form will be made this year.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
By PAT MUNROE
Contributing Writer

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
Representation without taxa
ton"
This is the goth century twist
given by Puerto Rico's Gov. Luis
Evening star., 1963-01-13
TRAVELLING UNDERSECRETARY
BY EARL H. VOSS
Star Staff Writer

George Wildman Ball is no wild
man, The graying, curly-haired
Undersecretary of State moves
fast; he has crossed the Atlantic
more than 160 times since World
War II and is in Paris and Bonn
this week end. He talks fast: he
is we'll chosen to reaSsure NATO,
French President de Gaulle and
the German government that the
oversold Pact Of Nassau was not
a United States British deal be-
hind their backs.
But there is nothing wild about
him. He is surefooted like a
mountain goat, cool and calculat-
ing, monumentally self assured,
ready to carry the ball or pick
up the tumble, by friend or foe,
eager to turn all to advantage,
for country and self.
Efficient and ambitious, he is
the kind of man one could easily
imagine taking the last remaining
step to the Secretary of States
chair, in the unlikely event its
present occupant ever made a
mistake.
In the first 10 months Of the
Kennedy Administration he moved
from No. to No. 2 position in
the State Department without los
ing a beat. Thirteen months after
that last promotion he has Dean
Rusk's unhesitating cooperation
in becoming the Secretary's alter
ego.
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Ball a Fast Moving Negotiator-

cious reader. His wife says he
reads anything" fiction, eco
nomics, politics-you name 1t. De-
spite his already heavy load in
the State Department he stiIl
finds time for an occasional novel.
Considering the long days at
the State Department and the
number of books he finds time
to read, one might suspect that
Mr.. Ball is a four hour
night sleeper. He claims 1t isn't
so. He can and does sleep any
where, any time, for any stretch
he can. Certainly, he seldom
looks tired. During the Cuban
crisis he spent every other night
on the sofa in his office.
Like many another man with
heavy responsibilities he has been
known to wake up in the middle
of the night with a brilliant idea
the key to the problem, per-
haps, with which he had wrestled
all day. He doesn't let these gems
slip away in either sleeping or
waking hours. Scattered around
his home at Thirty-fifth and
Woodley Road are tape recorders
into which he pours his sudden
thoughts as they come. A glib
speaker, he can dictate q near
finished paper in a few minutes,
and, it is said, drop back to sleep
in minutes.
He frequently carries two or
three tapes to the office Of a
morning for his secretaries to
transcribe. Some are letters, some
are memoranda for his staff or
officers in the Department.
Although he does not smoke he
finds a tall scotch and soda re-
laxing at the end of the day.
Golfer and Carpenter
Golf and trough carpentering, \
two old pursuits of a younger,
George Ball, have gone un-
happily neglected while he was
about the business Of helping
Europe into its present integrat-
ing mold. The carpentering he
was able to keep up a little BID
until he Joined the Government
in 1861. Rooms in the Ball home
are lined with bookShelves, monu-
ments to Carpenter Balls spe-
cialty.
There has been a longer hiatus
in the Ball golf career, but Secrel
tary of State Rusk has coaxeo
him onto the Army-Navy Country
Club course in nearby Virginia
on four occasions in the last
year. There was another golfing
interlude at Nassau last month
when White House Press Secre-
tary Pierre Salinger arranged q
round between negotiating ses-
sions.
His long years Of committing
between Washington, Paris.
Brussels and New York has
turned Mr.. Ball and wife Ruth
into gourmets. They have a slight
preference for French food but
also appreciate Chinese and TIA
lian dishes in that order.
One of the Undersecretary's
newest acquisitions, which he
keeps on the coffee label in his
office, is an elegant 4 by 3 inch
silverplated calendar for october.
1862. All the days from Tuesday
the 10th until Sunday the 28th
are deeply etched, in memory of
the almost -sleepless 13 days Of
the Cuban crisis.
At the top left corner Of the
calendar are engraved Mr.. Balls
initials: G. w. B., in fancy script.
In the right hand corner. in the
same fancy script. are the ini-
tialS j. F. K.
The President has presented
each of the IA men who shared
with him the trauma of the
Cuban crisis this simple memento
of their days of trial.
For George Wildman Ball 1t
could we'll be the stepping stone
to increasing responsibility In
the Kennedy years.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
House to Senote

Almost half the membership of
the Senate in the 88th Congress
came from the House. Practically
every congressional election shows
some Representative running for
the Senate. Perhaps many more
long to take the journey from the
South to the North side of the
Capitol.
Those who make 1t generally do
well. Vice President johnson,
Evening star., 1963-01-13
In Europe Now

Both Secretary Rusk and Un-
dersecretary Ball are quietly
amused at the curious stares both
are getting since Mr.. Ball went to
Nassau With the President for the
pre-Christmas talks with British
Prime Minister Macmillan. Mr..
Rusk stayed in Washington to en-
tertain the diplomatic corps. The
curiosity has mounted now that
Mr.. Ball has been dispatched to
Europe to build on the Pact of
Nassau, which formalizes the
United States offer of a multi
lateral NATO deterrent for the
European powers.
The official explanation for Mr.
Balls recent rise to unusual prom
inence has the ring of logic. When
Mr.. Rusk took the job of Secretary
of State, it is recalled, he had
definite views on the need for the
occupant of that chair to stay in
it, to supervise and to think. The
Secretary of State, he thought.
should insulate himself from the
distractions and potential corrup-
ton of personal negotiation with
foreign diplomats and concentrate
instead on the job of distilling
the national interest.
Yet in the first 10 months of
his tenure. Secretary Rusk trav-
eled 10000 miles, somewhat more
than John Foster Dulles in his
first year and a half.
Evening star., 1963-01-13

given by Puerto Rico's Gov. Luis
Mr.. MunrOe Is Washington
correspondent for several news
papers, including Ell MundO Of
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Munoz Marin to the slogan that
led the United States Colonies to
seek freedom from Great Britain
In the 18th century.
The complicated political system
of the Island - plus the nearby
presence of Communist dominated
Cuba makes us take a closer look
at what on the face of 1t seems
an impossible proposal.
For what Gov. Munoz and his
followers are proposing is that
Puerto Ricans be able to vote in
United States presidential elections
yet escape the burdens OF Federal
taxes. This is TO be presented per-
sonally by Mr.. Munoz TO members
OF Congress on a visit here later
this month.
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edge without effeminacy;
wealth we employ more for use
than for show, and place the
real disgrace Of poverty not in
admitting to the fact but in re-
fusing to struggle against it,"
When we pay compliments to
Hazam, incidentally, we mean
Hazam and his entire team: Di-
rector Ray Garner, photog-
rapher Brad Kress, film editor
Constantine GOchis, conSultant
Paul MacKendrick, and the
many others. Towards nara
ton was excellent, as were the
contributions of Norman Rose,
Lester Rawlins and other &C
tors as the voices from the past.
On the debit side, we thought
the inclusion Of the scene from
0edipus with live actors) too
brief to be effective; also that
the program started a little
slowly, and that some Of the Sc
quence dealing with the 0lym-
pics was unclear and hesitant.
These are minor flaws, how
ever.
Hazam's tour de force, in ly-
ric prose and stone, must be
ranked with some of the medi-
um'S finest achievements.
Great Lines Dept: In case you
missed the Hall Of Fame's dis
appointing 1.-THE Patriots" last
Friday (NBC4), there was a
line of dialogue that bears not
ing. 1t occurred near the close
Of the Kingsley drama and was
spoken by John Fraser, as Alex
ander Hamilton, to Charlton
HeSton, as Thomas Jefferson.
Fraser turned to Heston (who
has played Moses, in "The Ten
Commandments" as well as
other heroic-sized film roles)
and advised in words approx
mating the following:
"You have got to stop looking
at the Constitution as something
that was handed down from Mt.
Sinai"
HeSton took the line like a man,
standing up.
TV Reflections: II that's the
best Nancy Sinatra Tommy
Sands wife, can do - that in
ept song-and-dance turn with
the dancers and Tommy on
Ed Sullivan's show - she truly
ought to forget the whole bit. &.
Especially after that unfor-
tunate booking on the same
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TODAY'S GOOD
MUSIC DIAL

1900, WMAL-FM (1O7.3 Me-
Heritage Concert. Handers
Organ Concerto No. 5 in F,
Opus 4, No. S; Falla's FL
Amor Brujo.
1880, WHFS-FM (102.3 Mc.)-
Stereo Concert Time. Charles
Munich conducts the Boston
Symphony in works by Men,
delssohn, Provofiev and Pou-
lenc.
sos, WGMS-AM-FM (57O Kc.
and 1885 Me- - Concert
Stage. Bononcini's Sinfonia
No. 8 in D; Mozart's Sym
phony No. 20 in A.
S:05, WASH-FM (S7.1 Mc.)-
Symphony in Stereo. Tchai-
kovsky's Symphony No. 4
in F Minor; Rachmaninoff' rs
Rhapsody on a Theme Of
Paganini.
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WOOK-TV
(ChunneI ~

5:OO-Teen Dance Party.
6:3O-News, Weather, Sports.
7:OO-The Pendulum.
7:3O-Uncovered.
8:OO-Mahalia Jackson.
S:3O-Oscar Brown Jazz.
9:OO-Movie. Love in Exile.
(British.) 1886.
1O:3O-News, Weather, Sports.
11:OO-Mahalia jackson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-19
EDUCATIONAL V
(ChonneI 26)

S:3O-Kindergarten.
6:O0-What's New. Children.
6:3O-American Economy.
7:OO-0peration Alphabet.
7:3O-Georgetown University
Forum.
Subsistence Reporter. Look.
ing Back on the Bomb"
S:3O-PTA Night. Crowded
Out"
9:OO-Photo "ProfeS.
sional Photography"
9:30-Survival in the Sea. "Ai
the Bottom.
TOmOrrOW-AM
(In SCHOOL,
s:15, Science Reporter; Gas
FIR. l; 10:15, FIR. II (R); 1890
Window on Our World; HOO
Language; 1850, Kindergarten;
lis, Window on Our World;
las, Science Spotlight (R);
2::3O, FIR. II; Sis. Sets and Sys
TENS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-19

night, same channel, on which
Judy's daughter, Liza Minnelli,
was impreSsing so with her
youth, freshness, and talent. Z. q.
Liza came to TV the hard way;
her apprenticeship in
schools and the theater. Bob
Horton, incidentally, ought to
forget his singing career. .
Counting the Miss America pro-
gram documentary with Miss
Texas, on NBC, / haven't heard
so many clinkers in one night
since TV was live.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-19

simplicity itself. His two maj0l
ingredients: The stones left By
the master craftsmen Of the
matches age; the words left
by its Spokesman. The catalyst.
Imagination.
For example, when the scrip
has narrator Trevor Howard
saying that the first taste Of
Athens to home-bound sailors,
as they rounded Cape Sunium,
was the magnificent temple t.
POSeidon, this is what you see.
Hazam's camera, aboard q
ship, rounds the cape to show
you what the sailors saw.
HaZam did this for his Var
Gogh special; wherever he
could, he photographed the
scenes the artist had painted.
Again, for Greece, Hazam
chooses to show the memorable
battle of Marathon with a field
of wheat representing the Athe-
mans, and a field of peoples
the red-plumed Persians. AS the
battle is recounted by historian
Herodotus, the wind whips
through the wheat, shaping il
as if to the attack, while anOth.
er wind causes the peoples tC
tumble in disarray.
This is a variation of a Ha.
Fam technique employed for
Shakespeare: Soul Of an Age
and since copied by other docu'
mentary makers. Instead of at
tempting to simulate a battle
with actors, he employed the
armor and the banners in q
manner to give the impression
of tumult and action.
Since some of the treasures Of
Greece are in museums In
Rome, Munich or London, Ha.
zam's hour show conveys much
more of the relics of the Golden
Age than the visitor to Greece
could discover in a vacation
month. AS impeccably selected
were the quotations from Pau
sanias, who wrote a guidebook
in 179 AID. and left another clue
for the 18th century archeolo.
giSt, Heinrich Schliemann; He.
rodotuS, the father of history;
the poet Pindar, Plutarch, Thu.
cydideS, PericleS and, finally
Socrates. The excerpt from
Athenian Pericles-from his
immortal funeral Grafton - is
happily generous. Where do YOU
find such meat as this, in one
sentence
I'VE cultivate refinement with.
out extravaganza and knowl
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TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS
500. WAAIU-FM (Ss.5 Me-

800, WAAIU-FM (Ss.s Me.)-
International Balladeer.
Love Songs Around the
World" Maria 0Ilo, folk
singer in 20 languages, sings
and plays the guitar.
500, WGAY-FM (S9.S Mc.)-
Seminar for Senior Citizens.
Discussion Of proposed med
ical care legislation by John
Calico Of the National Council
Of Senior Citizens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-19
ON THE AIR
Hozom's Greek Show
oniqht's Must
BY BERNIE HARRISON
Star TV Critic

We the Lou Hazam show last Friday Greece: The
Golden Age and confirm what many of you might have
suspected another marvellous wedding Of sight and sound
the eleviSiOn documentary at its brilliant best Don't miss
tonight 70 o'clock, WRC-4)-in color, you swing it.
PrOducerWriter Hazam's approach is like Doric line
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