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BOOKS IN REVIEW
Bacon Biography
ShowsVariedMan
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

FRANCIS BACON: The Temper Of a Man. biography by
Catherine Drinker Bowen. Atlantc-Ltte. Brown; $e)
Tmpeached for taking bribes dismissed. fined. mprs
oned disgaced Francis Bacon the former Lord Chancellor
Of England wrote to his friend Lancelo Andewes that he
searching history to discover how great overaken
BY adversely had conducted themselves "Demosthenes
Cicero Senecaa three that had held chief places
OF authority in their countries all three ruined not by
by other disaster but by justice and sentence
denquents and criminals all three famous writers, in
somuch the remembrance Of their calamity is to
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PROusTs BINOCULARS: A

PROUSTS BINOCULARS: A
Study Of Memory, Time
and Recognition In A Ia
recherche du temps perdu.
BY Roger Shattuck. IRAN
dom House; $3.50
November 8 next will be
the 50th anniversary Of
the appearance Of the initial
installment Of Marcel
Proust's novel known with
regret I say it. as will be ex-
planned later as "Remem-
brance Of Things Past" Dur
ing this half century the book
has taken It's place among
nine or ten peers inhabiting
the Hottest chambers In the
dwelling place Of fiction; re-
Gently its mettle has been
tested and found worthy by
the fact that a few sentient
and discriminating readers
have expressed their doubts
about 1t. Hardly any SUI
premely great work Of art is
without its detractors. The
only exceptions are Handel's
Messiah" and Cervantes'
Don Quixote "-Mozart him
self rejoices in a single dis
parager, Frederick Delius.
Among the hundreds or per-
haps thousands Of writers
who have had the desire to
explain or otherwise express
themselves about A Ia re-
cherche du temps perdu
Roger Shattuck, professor Of
French at Texas University,
is the most recent, and his
book, "Proust's Binoculars"
short, convincing and pro-
vocative, is one Of the best /
have read on the subject.
It must not be inferred
from this introduction that
Mr.. Shattuck is among those
who have become satiated
with Proust. On the con-
trary, his intense admiration,
seated in perception and ex-
pressed In controlled emo
ton, attains the noblest end
of good criticiSm-the awak-
ening Of desire to read or
re-read the book considered.
The nub of his thesis is that
Proust's art Is predominantly
visual, or rather optical. that
the device Proust uses for his
effect Is binocular vision. or
the camera, or the stereopti-
con. As the human eye con-
stantly Is In error, seeing It's
images upside down. some
times In reversed perspective,
always In q series Of one
dimensional distortions Of
reality-an error that Is ev-
cry moment corrected by the
superimposition by two eyes
OF images that taken singly
are q distortion OF the true
world-so Marcel, living his
experiences Of Swami. the
Verdurins, FRANCHISE, his
grand m o Their on the one
hand. of the Guermantes.
Saint-Loup, the Baron de
Charlus on the other, never
Is able 10 see his subject
clearly, never is able TO
formulate q person or an In
cident simply and consist
emily. But. at the close Of
his public life, at the moment
when he Is about 10 retire 10
write the book that he has
come 10 believe Is the pur-
pose Of his existence-at the
moment Of the final pages Of
A Ia recherche du temps per-
du, that is-he discovers the
great truth Of reality, the
secret Of the past. When one
iso able TO bring TO mind two
or more aspects Of a person
images Of different times and
usually from unrelated or
even antagonistic snapshots
then. as by q stereopticon.
rs by the eyes trick of three
dimensional perspective, the
man can be remembered
whole and accurately, and
time becomes in literature. In
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An Analysis Of Proust
And His Particular Vision

real life, truly a dimension,
as physics has found 1t to be.
4 = =
Thus for Proust the search
for lost time is not q cinemat-
ographic process. Memories
that we have on Q reel, by
which we can visualize q
person throughout stages Of
consecutive development can
only falsify the subject, since
both viewer and subject are
always in imperceptible flux.
So frequently does Mr.. Shat
tuck return to his theory that
the secret Of Proust's art is
the binocular correction Of
contradictory or erroneous
images that he speaks Of 1t
almost apologetically as an
obsession. But Proust him
self seems to bear Mr.. Shat
tuck out, for the latter cites
dozens of metaphors in
Proust's work using images
Of optics, light, and pho
Biography.
Certainly, whatever Is the
true nature Of time in A Ia
recherche du temps perdu,
it is not that Of Shakespeare's
sonnet used for the title and
the epigraph Of the only
English translation. We can
agree wholeheartedly with
Mr.. Shattuck (although I
believe he would concede
that irresponsible" would be
a more accurate adjective
than "bowdlerized"): First
Of all it is worth insisting
particularly in view Of the
bowdlerized English transla-
ton Of the title, Remem-
brdnce of Things Past, to
which Proust himself strongly
objected-that the novel does
not simply relate q pleasant
stroll down memory lane to
find the redolent memoirs Of
an era. After its complicated
chronological preliminaries,
the novel moUes forwGrd in
time even though the action
in its psychological and
social preoccupations faces
the past. :"
Mr.. Shattuck here touches
on an aspect Of Proust which,
insofar as the English reader
Of A la recherche du temps
perdu is concerned. makes all
criticism supererogatory. II
not downright superfluous,
for in English Proust Is only
a rather famous hack. Few
writer's Of distinction have
been so badly served in
English translation as Proust
has been by the Moncrieff
version. which can fairly be
called inaccurate, presump-
tuous. and stuffy. 1t is q sad
thing to hear an English
reader Of Proust complain Of
tediousness Of style when
one knows that Moncrieff's
sentences are long, amor
phous and i'm p en- etra b lie.
while Proust's are long. sinu-
Gus and inevitable. Proust
would shudder at Moncrieff's
ubiquitous "albeits" on one
hand and his out-of-place
honest Injuns" on the other.
II is not primarily Mon
crieff's inelegance that is
offensive. but his supercilious
arrogance. His title Of every
book. and OF the work as a
whole. with the exception OF
The Captive" is a conscious
misrepresentation Of the
original. Moncrieff coyly slip
ping In quotations from
Shakespeare and the Bible.
and lesser lights such as Wal
ter de la Mare and George
Meredith. Even SWANS
Way" though defensible
literally. gives no feeling Of
a place-name, but suggests q
Tennysonian Marks way.
and Glove him through the
brain" Proust did not call
the first section Of his book
Overture" the theatricality
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COSMONAUTS, COSMONETTES:
HERE'S A FLIGHT TO BEAT

MARINER: Mission to Venus BY the Staff Of the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. McGraw-Hll Paperbacks;
$1.45O
Incontrovertiby the greatest American space tr1-
umph to date last DEFENDERS Venus fy-hy of the
spacecraft Mariner-2 In the cosmic propaganda
petition this heat where the Americans beat the
Russians hands down.
The story of Mariners 109- day flight through inter-
planetary space is related in this extraordinary 49,
page paperback The compers Harold ]. Wheelock is
given principal credit have successfully walked the
chalkne of writing that comprehensive the layman
without being oversimplified to the specialist.
The publication of Mariner" is especially timely.
All cosonauts and cosmonettes aside the Soviet Union
has some unfinished business out in space-the Mars
fly-by Of Russian space probe Unlike the durable
Mariner Russias Marsnk" conked out before reaching
its target and sailed silently by Mars June 10 with
out radioing results to earth. WILLIAM HINES
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racy: on the whole, though.
probably a bit too cute for
American tastes.
FICTION
THE LONG CHRISTMAS
DINNER: And Other Plays
in One Act. BY Thornton
Wilder. Harper g. Row;
$500 These by-now clas-
sic Thornton Wilder plays
were first published in
1881. This new edition con-
tains, in addition to the
title play, Queens Of
France" "Pullma an Car
Hiawatha." Love. and
How TO Cure It." THE
Happy Journey TO Trenton
and Camden"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-12

that, under the administra-
tion's proposal. the District
would have $3.50 million on tap
for general construction prof.
ects.
Timing Important
The borrowing bill approved
today by the subcommittee,
headed by Representative
Whitener, Democrat of North
Carolina, is identical to legisla-
ton proposed by the Commits
sioners in the last Congress,
This borrowing bill passed the
Senate during the final days Of
the session but failed to clear
the House.
Prompt action by the Senate
District Committee On revenue
bills for the city Is expected.
1t is generally believed that
most members Of the Senate
District Committee favor the
Presidents financing legisla-
ton.
The timing on revenue-rais-
ing measures is important to
the city because of a require
ment that the District submit
a balanced budget to Congress
AS a result Of this stipulation,
the District submitted a spend
ing program for the forthcom-
ing fiscal year Of about $289
million but shelved budget re-
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quests totaling more than $50
million for lack of revenue.
The $3.50 million budget now
is being considered by a House
Appropriations subcommittee
headed by Representative Nat
cher, democrat Of Kentucky.
1t is understood that the Com
missioners may be permitted to
send to Congress their shelved
budget item when revenue
raising legislation is moving
through Congress.
The Federal payment and
borrowing proposals are au-
thorization measures only. II
they are enacted. congressional
approval must still be sought
for actual spending approval.
The bills approved by the
Whitener subcommittee would
authorize the needed additional
revenue to finance the city's
shelved second budget. What il
missing from these measures
in the opinion of city officials
is the flexible element carried
in the Presidents legislation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-12
BY ALEX PRESTON
star staff Writer

DANVILLE, Va. June 12-
Police in large numbers spent
most of last night dispensing
crowds of white men and youths
who were waiting for renewed
Negro civil rights demonstra-
tons that never materialized
The demonstrations seemed
certain to resume late today.
More than is whites were
ordered away from the steps
Of city hall. Earlier in the
day Negroes had held two
prayer meetings and had wound
through downtown streets
twice shouting and singing.
Gov. Harrison said in Rich
mond today his advice to
Negroes in Danville would be
that they conduct any demon
STATIONS in q peaceful and
lawful manner.
Everyone has a right to
peaceful protest, demonstra-
ton and assembly, he told q
news conference.
But when such large num-
bers take part so as to impede
the orderly conduct Of q city
government, then such q de-
monstration goes beyond peace
full protest. the Governor added
Gov. Harrison said that Is
the same advice he would offer
to Danville police.
Troopers on Scene
Gray-uniformed State troop.
ers moved into this Southside
Virginia city yesterday after
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REVENUE
NEVEINVE
EorIy House Action
Seen on D. c. Bill
Continued From Page Al

Continued From Page Al
at recent Joint fiscal hearings
by House and Senate District
Subcommittees because Of Mr..
McMillan's opposition to more
tax increases here. Chairman
Mcmillan has said he considers
tax raises q last resort.
The legislation drafted in
the District Building and
backed by the administration
calls for a Federal payment
ceiling equal to the taxes the
Federal Government would pay
to the District If it paid taxes.
$50 Million Maximum
For the fiscal year beginning
July /, this formula would give
the District q $50 million max
imum Federal grant.
The White House legislation
would set the borrowing CELL
ing at 6 per cent of the COM
bined assessed value of real
and personal property in the
city.
Under this yardstick, the
borrowing maximum for the
forthcoming fiscal year would
be $225 million. The city cur
rently is earmarking the final
portion of an earlier, long
range SIS million borrowing
authorization. This means
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-12
MeNumOru Moy Visit
Germany Next Month
BY the Associated Press

Defense Secretary Mcnamara
may visit West Germany late
next month.
Arthur Sylvester, Pentagon
information chief. said yester-
day Mr.. Mcnamara may go to
Bonn for continuation Of dis
cussions with the German De-
Tense Minister, Kai-uwe vor
Hassel, on Germany's military
procurement program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-12

Monday nights violence In
which fire hoses were turned
on Negro marchers. Two police
cruisers were struck by bullets
in q Negro section early Thurs
day morning.
Capt. j. w. Burrows, of Sa-
lem, division commander Of the
State police, declined to reveal
the number Of troopers brought
into the area, but a reporter
estimated 40 when the whites
were cleared away from the
city hall steps about 10 pm.
Danville's police chief. e, g.
Mccain, also refused to state
how many men are on duty
under his command. They in
clude a number of officers
specially deputized.
Police reported this morning
that one patrolman, whom they
would not identify saw icepicks
being handed to four Negro
youths who left a Baptist
church after a rally that pre-
ceded the first march yester-
day.
New Shooting Reported
Police said the officer kept
the area under watch through
binoculars. None Of the DEM
onstrators was searched be-
cause those repeatedly given
the icepicks could not be identi-
fled.
Police also we're investigating
a new shooting.
r. N. Everett, operator Of a
local fix-it shop, reported that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-12

James Foreman Of Atlanta,
executive secretary Of the Stu
dents Non-violent Co-ordiDing
Committee, held up a dead
snake which, he said. was
thrown into the group of Ne
groes as they knelt in prayer
on the city hall steps earlier
in the day.
1T was thrown from a group
of policemen and they just
laughed" Mr.. Foreman said.
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while he was in a market on
South Main street at the edge
OF the Negro section he heard
q gunshot. He found the roof
OF his parked red station wagon
had been creased by q bullet,
which police confirmed.
The vehicle resembles two
pieces of city fire department
equipment which had been used
Monday when high pressure
water hoses were turned on
demonstrators at the city hall
steps.
Two Negro leaders at last
nights rally slept in the lobby
of the Holiday Inn Motor Hotel
after they had made reserva-
tons earlier but were denied
IA room when they appeared,
they said.
"Camped in Lobby"
They are DR.. Milton A. Reid
of Petersburg, Va, a regional
representative of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer.
ence, and the Rev. Virgil Wood
a Lynchburg Baptist minister
Mr.. Wood said they tele-
phoned the motel about $3.50
pm. and said they would ar
rive before midnight. Although
their reservation had been &C.
cepted on the telephone, Mr.
Wood said they were turned
down at the registration desk
$50 we just camped in the
lobby for the rest Of the night.
He said no one asked then
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Troopers Reinforce Danvi||e Police

/ to leave and the only time he
saw a policeman was when he
awoke about 5 am. and saw
Ian unmarked cruiser outside
with the driver talking to q
motel employe.
Until early today. groups Of
State and city police were
posted at several downtown
intersections and were alsC
stationed in the city hall area
BY yesterday. a total. of II
Negro demonstrators had beer
arrested and many of these
have remained in jail at the
rear of the city hall building.
| Shortly before noon today
Corporation Court Judge A. M
Aiken ordered the release Of
10 juveniles under $500 bono
each. They are charged with
violating his injunction against
racial demonstrations.
-Four other juveniles were
released late yesterday under
similar bond and all are
ordered to appear before Judge
Aiken at a hearing next Mon
day.
The Judge, previously had
refused bond for about Sc
juveniles and adults still
remaining in jail.
A mass meeting called for
0 am. today, prior to marches
and sit-in demonstrations, drew
only about 80 Negroe teen.
ayers to a church building
They spent the morning sing.
ing and were served sand.
wiches and soft drinks at noon
Leaders were trying to round
up more youngsters to stage
sit-ins at local chain restau.
rants.
Negroes Hold Rally
\ Leaders Of the civil rights
movement, meanwhile, drew {
crowd of about $50 Negro
citizens at a rally on thu
grounds Of a church, about {
mile away from the downtown
section.
A spokesman, who asked no
! to be identified, told a reportel
that efforts would be made +,
limit future demonstrations Il
daylight hours.
He cited the incident II
which two white policemen
cruisers we're struck by bullet
in the Negro district. It wa
. apparent from his comments
that if a policeman were killet
In the Negro district the figh
for civil liberties would be lost
The Rev. Lawrence Campbell
head of the Danville Christian
, Progressive Association whicl
! sponsored the rally. was anon
those arrested Monday TO
violating a court order pro
hibiting racial demonstration
here.
Beaten, Wife Says
His wife displayed a tori
dress and told the crowd, "
was beaten by Danville police
: The water from their fire hose
|, knocked me to The ground.
: am under a doctors care"
D Mr.. Campbell said, "Anytim
: any man will take a nightsticl
: and beat a helpless woman, h
4 is less than a dog"
y Without identifying them b
name, Mr.. Campbell produce
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three boys and a girl who, he
said, were injured in Monday
nights melee in which the fire
hoses were used.
Dead Snake Flung
The young people all wore
bandages on their faces and
arms.
IF we stop fighting now,
we're going to be beaten like
dogs all our lives" Mr.. Camp
bell said.
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French Shocked
By Thunt Words

PARIS, Sept. IS (AP). -
French official sources today
said they could hardly believe
that United Nations Secretary
General U Thant had made
comments on French foreign
policy attributed to him at a
news conference.
Mr.. Thant was quoted yes
terday as saying "as I under
stand it, French foreign policy
is based on the conviction that
there is no danger Of the Soviet
Union launching a nuclear at
tack on Western Europe and
the French government feels
that even NATO might not be
necessary"
A French spokesman said, 1T
is not up to the secretary gen.
eral of the United Nations, an
international civil servant, to
publicly give his Interpretation
of the foreign policy of France. "
He added that ut is clear
that the position of France
with regard to the Atlantic Al
lance and of the role of the
United States in the defense of
Europe, such as it has been Of
ficially defined on many occa-
sions. has nothing in common
with the description Mr.. Thant
is reported to have given"
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ly Buddhist population. Mr..
Thant is a Buddhist.
fer with any visiting Wet
Namese leaders, Mr.. Thant
said none had requested a
meeting with him, but that II
they asked Il would be glad
to receive them here"
Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister
in-law of President Ngo Dinh
Diem, is planning to come to
New York after her European
visit. Roman Catholic Arcn-
bishop Ngo Dinh THUG, brother
Of the President, arrived in
New York on Wednesday and
left for Paris last night.
Plans Congo PulIOut
Mr.. Thant gave his views in
advance of the opening Of the
18th General Assembly session
next Tuesday.
He said that he plans to
withdraw all U. N. forces from
the Congo at the end Of the
year unless the General AS
sembly acts quickly to provide
funds needed for further
operations.
He expressed hope the United
States, British and Soviet for
eign ministers attending the
Assembly would consult pri-
vately on further disarmament
including a total
test ban treaty, in the wake of
agreement on a limited test
ban.
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tense Of Buddhism" the state
ment continued, where almost
all the pagodas have been de-
stroyed and the BONES assas-
sinated or reduced to a state
Of slaves by the Communists. :.
"The Committee for the De-
tense of Buddhism, making use
Of methods that escape CEN
sorship, sent out calls for help,
based on calumnies, to the
world Buddhist organization.
Charges Calumnies
This organization used its
influence with the governments
Of Buddhist countries such as
Ceylon and Cambodia, who in
turn appealed to the United
Nations. Most of the inter-
national press services outdid
each other in repeating these
calumnies."
The archbishop said he con-
ferred with Bishop Fulton j,
Sheen in New York, but had
been unable to meet with
Francis Cardinal Spellman,
Archbishop of New York. He
had come here hoping to meet
with both.
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DAM Dol MAY DIE
Wet Cong Kill 100 in Town

that time there were no troop
carrying helicopters. It took
three days to relieve the town.
Attack Was Bad
That attack was bad. The
district chief led IS troops in a
desperate counterattack against
the enemy in the dark jungle
outside the Notifications.
No one returned from that
mission and the Wet Cong cut
off the head of the district
chief.
But the few defenders left
inside the earthwork stockades
held out until help came.
This time, the survivors want
to leave Dam Dol, and let the
jungle claim 1t.
The district chief was killed
by one Of the first shells.
Two months ago, an Ameri-
can adviser in Ca Mau. the
province capital rs miles to
the north, predicted some
thing like this.
I'VE just can't hold on IN
Dam Dol, Cal Nuoc or a dozen
other places in An Xuyen Prov
ince If the Wet Cong ever
makes one big push" he said.
A few weeks ago, another
American adviser in the area
blew out his brains with a
pistol. No one knows why.
But the jungle closes in on
people down here.
The government has tried.
Last year there were some
huge operations in An Xuyen
Province, with tanks, planes,
helicopters, armored river
boats and upwards of 5000
men. There was another big
operation early this year.
Both were billed as victories.
! But the Wet Cong came back
las strong as ever.
IF and when we win this
war;" a weary, mud-spattered
American said, "the last place
we're going to win is down
here"
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killed. They also lost some
machine guns and rifles.
AS usual, the enemy came
up the canal in sampans in the
dead of night and crept to with
in yards of the flimsy barri-
cades before attacking.
This time he came ir
strength-with recoilleSs can
non, machine guns, mortars
and 500 battle hardened Wet
Cong regulars.
Reeks of Death
Dam Dol reeks of death. The
bodies of women and children
lie rotting on corrugated iror
filters, waiting for the buria
squads. The few buildings still
standing have been turned intc
morgues.
In the two biggest Wet Conf
onslaughts of the night in Dan
Dol, more than 100 government
soldiers and civilians died
Probably another 100 were car.
ried off by retreating Com.
munistS.
The enemy took along -four
mortars and more than II
smaller weapons captured from
government posts.
Dam Dol, a jungle settlement
Of 1000, about 10 miles south
of Saigon, has lived with death
and the Wet Cong for years.
In February, 1852, this cor.
respondent watched another Of
its agonies. Only jungle traill
and canals connect Dam Dol
with the outside world, and al