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Evening star., 1963-04-24
BY THOMAS r. HENRY
Star Special Writer

True kleptomania, the un-
comfortable impulse to steal al
most anything, anywhere and
in any way, is a distinct psy-
Ghosts. Otherwise. the thief may
be a person of high moral
character.
This is reported by DR.. N. E
Isaevich of the Leningrad Psy-
choneurotic Hospital in a re-
port on studies a translation
of which has Just been pub
lished by the United states
Commerce Department. The
victim, when closely examined
the report stresses, usually
shows other signs pointing to
a brain malady.
Thus, he says Of q rather
typical patient. "he was gentle
and quiet and his conscious
ness clear and well oriented
There were no disorders OF
memory or intellect.
HE did not know what to
do with the stolen things. He
never thought to sell them. But
there was always a driving
force which impelled him to &c
and take. Before a theft he was
always every tense. When he
took something a feeling Of
satisfaction and liberation ap-
peared. He sometimes opened
his suitcase to look at the sto-
len things.
THE source Of his greatest
trouble was the fact that he
lost control Of himself. He
Evening star., 1963-04-24
MAJ. COOPER'S FAITH-7
ANPA Chief Charges
Government Secrecy

citizens, it has begun to cor
rode their trust"
1--WE are simply looking to
two of the Oldest and most
reliable weapons in the arsenal
of democracy-truth and free
DOM" he said.
"At a time when the Gov
ernment seems to insist more
and more on secrecy and con-
straint, it may we'll turn out
that our most important con-
tribution to the security of the
Nation will have been this re-
minder Of democracy's older
and more winning virtues"
Evening star., 1963-04-24
Fifth Minutemun
Launched in Tests

VANDERBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calf, April "a (AP).-
The Air Force has launched q
Min u teman intercontinental
missile in the fifth of q series
of reliability tests down the Pa
cific missile range.
The target area yesterday
was not disclosed.
The first two shots in the
series exploded, but the last
three have been successful, the
Air Force said.
The solid fuel missile was de-
clared operational last year and
is being installed at several do
mestic bases.
Evening star., 1963-04-24
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
KIePtomonio Called
A Distinct Psychosis

wanted to tell his friends but
was afraid they would not un-
derstand it properly. He some
times went to the .Aovies to
distract his attention from
theft but afterwards a desire
to steal appeared even strong
er. At this time he could not
concentrate his attention on
anything. There was a sort oi
mist in his head. He never
needed any money because he
had a good allowance from his
father"
Court criminal procedures
everywhere should be changed
in accordance with the find
ings. the report insists.
Evening star., 1963-04-24
Retarded Children
Project Announced

Manford A. Hall, formerly
executive director of the Ber-
gen-Passaic unit of the New
Jersey Association for Retarded
Children. will direct a study OF
Washington area recreational
facilities for retarded children,
the Health and Welfare Council
has announced.
The project will be financed
by $4,000 given to the United
Givers Fund last year and ear
marked for services to the men,
tally retarded.
Evening star., 1963-04-24
Senate Action Disputed
On Satellite Appointees

private enterprise handle the
American end Of q world
wide system of communication
by satellite, but to give the
Government a voice in shaping
the organization. Congress au-
thorized the President to name
the incorporators. who will
serve until the stock is sold.
After the sale, the stockhold-
ers will elect IL directors. Al
that point, the President will
appoint three additional di-
rectors.
Some Support Expected
The law provides that half
the stock shall be reserved for
purchase by existing communi-
cation companies, and the
other half by the public. Six
directors would be chosen by
the communication companies
and six by the individual stock
holders.
Several other liberal Demo-
Gratis who opposed the private
ownership law last year are
expected to Join Senator Gore
in attacking the constitu-
tionality of confirming the in
corporators. All indications are
they will lose again. Fourteen
nominees are expected to be
approved late today or to-
morrow.
Senator Gore cited an opin-
ion by Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy that the incorpora-
tors and the three directors
to be appointed by the Presi-
dent will not be Government
officials.
II they are not Government
officials, the Senator argued,
there is no reason the Senate
should confirm them.
1T may be that the Senate,
il it wishes to do so. can take
an action which, under the
Constitution, is a nullity," Sen
ator Gore continued. True,
the Constitution contains no
precise prohibition Of such
procedure. But to infer au-
thority to take any and every
action not expressly prohibited
by the Constitution is in effect
largely to dispense with a writ
ten Constitution"
A point Of order will be made
to get a vote on the conStitu-
Evening star., 1963-04-24

NEW YORK, April "a (AP)
Irwin Maier, president of The
American Newspaper Publish
ers Association, hit today at
what he called secrecy and con-
straint in Government.
He said publishers "are con-
cerned when an Administration
official speaks of using news
as a weapon IN the cold war,
of controlling and managing
the flow of news, and even OF
the Governments right to lie"
Mr.. Maier's comment OBJ
viously was directed at remarks
last year by Arthur Sylvester
Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Public Affairs.
Equally. disturbing is the
question whether this public Of
ficial reflects Administration
policy" said Mr.. Maier, pub
Usher and president Of the Mil
waukee Journal.
Speech for Convention
Mr.. Maier said in a speech
prepared for the annual ANPA
convention:
.This is not a question OF
whether the Government has
the right to time its announce
ments and news releases to
achieve maximum effectiveness
for its program.
Neither is it a question OF
the Governments right to
withhold certain items Of infor-
nation, disclosure Of which
would clearly jeopardize ma
tional security. Governments
have been doing this for a long
time and there need be no de-
ception involved.
Nor, I might add, is this a
question Of newspaper publish
ers demanding access to ma
tional security secrets which
they have no right to know or
disclose. There isn't q pub
Usher in this room who would
make such a reckless, ill-con-
sidered demand"
Sees Trust COrrOded
Mr.. Maier said the point was
that there was a moral differ
ence between withholding in
formation and spreading mis-
information. He said that III
a government. for whatever
motives. begins to deceive its
Evening star., 1963-04-24
BY J. A. OLEARY
Star staff Writer

Senator Gore, Democrat Of
Tennessee, today challenged
the constitutionality Of having
the Senate confirm the incor-
porators of the Communica-
tions Satellite Corporation be-
cause they will not be Govern
ment officials.
Senator Gore said in a pre-
pared speech, there is no prec-
edent for Senate confirmation
of the directors of a private
corporation organized for
profit.
He warned supporters of the
private enterprise system they
should be concerned over the
trend this action could start.
He called attention to recent
reports that the Federal Avia-
ton Agency was considering
sponsoring a public-private
corporation to develop a super
sonic commercial Jet liner.
But where will we stop on
this road?" he asked. "Will We
end up with a Government
sponsored corporation for each
industry? What will be its
relationship to existing COM
panies in the industry? Where
will competition and free en-
terprise be in such an arrange
ment?"
GM Situation Cited
Senator Gore posed this
question:
what about General
Motors? This giant corporation
has many Government con-
tracts. Is the interest Of the
Government such that we
ought to provide for presiden-
tial appointment with or
without Senate conflrmatlon)
of some of the directors of that
company? I dare say that
many Of those who supported
enactment of the Communica-
tions Satellite Act of 1862
would never agree that this
sort of thing has any place in
our American economy"
Senator Gore aired his views
as the Senate prepared to act
on the IA men who were named
by President Kennedy to get
the satellite corporation orga-
nized.
The law is intended to let
Evening star., 1963-01-13

for freedom. Self-government
under its carefully chosen,
French-trained native pro-
feSsor-president is, on the
face Of it, absurd. Plainly
Sebangerisque cannot even
defend itself against its own
terroriSts.
Col. Landerset, a French
officer, holding the bush
against the fanatics through
a secret guarantee, derides
the u. N. as that ridiculous
glass madhouse." The Ameri-
can, Davina Schelman. who
has come with a U. N. OBJ
server to see that freedom
is complete, finds her abso-
lutes fading before the reali-
ties of the situation. Davina
falls in love with the colonel,
If not with his ideas.
Yet too much freedom too
soon is not all of Mr.. Grif =
fins thesis. For Col. Lander
set, who halts Davina in her
willful progress through the
hinterlands to visit her STEP
brother in adjoining British
territory, represents the re-
verse side of the coin-the
fanaticism of men and ma
tions who cannot realize that
the days Of grandeur and Of
glory are gone forever.
When the terrorists strike,
Evening star., 1963-01-13

Col. Landerset, for all his hu-
manity, charm and intelli-
gence, does not think first Of
the endearing Creoles under
his protection, he wants only
to save the name of France,
and consequently his own
military career. The love of
Davina. the care of the fu-
gitive children, all take sec
ond place to his desire to
spare France yet another hui
initiating colonial defeat.
His obsession is revealed in
a h heartbreaking flight
through the bush with Dav-
ina and the children and a
spoiled child of a French
junior officer. All is changed
utterly by their terrible
odyssey.
1t is difficult to praise Mr..
Griffin too highly. He is a
born story-teller who does
justice to both ideas and
emotions. His characters are
arresting and become more so.
His dialogue is crisp and hui
morouS. No one has described
more affectingly or dramat-
ically the clash of intran-
Sigences which makes Africa
a truly devilish continent to-
day.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
Best of the Big-Nome
Authors of War Stories

porting of such as Cecil
Brown and Leland Stowe -
well known to the Fourth
Estate but not household
names - than of the big
name authors who donned
the war correspondents garb
and did some hit-and-run
reporting.
The real war correspond
ents. in the reviewers opin-
ion, are the ones who came
to stay; the men VINO landed
with the first waves in an
invasion and remained with
the riflemen until the cam
paign or battle had ended.
Rebecca West and Carlos P.
ROmulo are no doubt excel
lent writer's and fine people
but they are not war re-
porters.
Still. this is an excellent
compendium of the great
moments of World War II
and it includes more than
$50 classic examples of war
Journalism from reporters of
both the Allies and the Axis.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1963-01-13

dustrialist takes the beauti-
full dancer as a preliminary
to love. He keeps up an un-
changing cGntuS tirmuS Of
win you sleep with me to-
night" while she says no in
every known polite inflec-
ton, meanwhile eating every
thing in sight, including her
own and her escorts orders
of crepes suzette.
The inferiority of the last
half Of the book. where the
wit Is less polished and the
situations sometim e S
touched with banality (the
word is too strong a one) may
be the result of Mr.. Bemel-
mans death before final re-
vision. Where the Heart
Lies" is the last welcome gift
to his readers from the
author, who died last Oc-
tober /.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
MASTERPIECES OF WAR

MASTERPIECES OF WAR
REPORTING. Edited by
Louis L. Snyder. Julian
Messner; $685.
Without agreeing for a
moment that this book pre-
sents all the outstanding
journalistic efforts of World
War II, it is perfectly pos
sible to concede that there
are many fine samples here
of some of the most brilliant
reporting of that war.
This is a chrestomathy of
the big names among the
war correspondents - Hem
ingway, Pyle, Shirer, Murrow,
Whitehead and others. And
there are many represented
in this 553-page book who
were not, of course, war cor
respondents. or even re-
porters, at all.
These would include John
Steinbeck. Gertrude Stein,
William Saroyan and writers
of that ilk. Personally, the
reviewer thinks much more
highly Of, let us say, the re-
Evening star., 1963-01-13

had himself said that Powers
was a spy, but Powers firmly
maintained that he was only
pulling levers and pushing
buttons the functions Of
which he did not know. The
Russians led him to en-
phaSize this point, drawing
him carefully to their prime
propaganda question: "Then,
for all you knew, you might
have been dropping an
atomic bomb?" NO" said
Powers, and the skill with
which he handled his simple
but difficult reply can easily
be overlooked, "it wasn't the
right kind Of plane for an
atomic bomb"
y
Like all spies, Powers car
ried with him the means of
instantaneous suicide, but he
was under no patriotic obliga-
ton, according to Mr.. Seth, to
use it. Certainly at the time
it was less publicized, If men,
toned at all, that he had a
supply Of Russian rubles to
spend If forced down, super
fluous to a spy morally bound
to suicide. All in all, Powers
can feel a certain pride that
a colleague thinks him ex-
traordinarily intelligent, ca
pable and brave.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
Immigrants
ConVertedto
Americans
THE LAST LETTER HOME.

mon. & Schuster; $495O
Most Americans are de-
scended from poor and sup
pressed people of Europe who
had the courage to break
away and come to a wilder
ness where men could at least
be free.
Mr.. Moberg. a distin-
guished Swedish novelist, has
told this story simply and
knowingly by following the
life Of Karl Oskar Nilsson,
a Swedish peasant who emf
grated TO Minnesota.
This is the third book Of a
great trilogy. The Emil
grants" described Karl Os-
kar's family in Sweden and
their difficult trip to Ameri-
ca. Unto a Good Land" took
the family through their
first years of hardship on
the farm Karl Oskar cut out
OF the forest. The Last Let
ter Home" completes the
conversion Of Karl Oskar's
family from immigrants to
Americans.
Karl Oskar's story is the
story OF most Of our grand
fathers or great-grandfa-
theirs. These men and their
wives had nothing but cour-
age and intelligence. They
risked their lives not for
themselves they faced a life
OF backbreaking work on the
frontier or in the cities but
for their children.
Their childrens children
those OF us whose American
way OF life" is the harvest Of
the work Of men like Karl
Oskar have forgotten
largely why their ancestors
came here and how II was.
These books tell the story.
All OF Mr.. Moberg's broth
ers and sisters emigrated 10
America. He, the youngest,
stayed home 10 care for his
parents. But his heart was
always half In America. and
he Travelled extensively in
Minnesota and Wisconsin
among the people who did
emigrate. Kari Oskars story
is a composite OF the lives OF
those people.
Mr.. Mobergs work is a
powerful monument not only
10 his own skill as a novelist
but TO the people who made
this country.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1963-01-13

necessarily an instrument of
sadism, but a recognized and
accepted tool in an occupation
which is governed by prece-
dent If not by law. An in
ability to withstand prolonged
torture is, in Mr.. Seth's opin-
ion, not a sign Of lack of
bravery. Some completely
courageous men in spite of
themselves crumple under
prolonged pain, while others
are able to fortify themselves
with the knowledge that when
pain saturates the entire body
1t is endurable because an in
crease would bring uncon-
sciousness, a black -out that
defeats the purpose Of the
torturers.
&A&
Francis Powers, the Amer
lean U-2 pilot, was a spy who
wins Mr.. Seth's unstinted
admiration. A Spy's first duty
is to get the desired informa-
ton; his second is to come
back alive. Powers, who at his
trial had only one factor in
his favor-the desire of Rus
sia to make imperialist Amer
lea the true culprit, not just
a single aviator under orders
was extremely smart in his
answers to the prosecutors
questions. A spy can always
admit what he is certain that
the enemy knows. Eisenhower
Evening star., 1963-01-13
Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

dealing with the turbulent
life and times Of the
frontiersmen who helped
open the great West to
civilization. The other two
are THE Arizona Story"
and Arizona: The Last
Frontier"
s&s
ONE BOYS BOSTON, 1887
1901. BY Samuel Eliot
Morrison. tHoughton- -Mif-
film; So The eminent his
torian writes of his boy
hood in Boston.
THIS is OUR STRENGTH:
The Selected Papers Of
Coda Meir. Edited by
Henry M. ChriStman.
Macmillan: $4.95) The
story Of modern Israel re-
Elected in the speeches and
writings Of one of its most
dynamic figures.
ESSAYS IN SKEPTICISM. BY
Bertrand Russell. (Philoso-
phical Library: $2.750
Some Of Lord Russell's old
Evening star., 1963-01-13
The EdseI'
And Other
Bad Guesses
THE FATE OF THE EDS

THE FATE OF THE EDSEL
e. OTHER BUSINESS AD-
80 VEN RES. BY John
Brooks. (Harper & Row;
$4.50O
Wags said its grill looked
like an OldSmobile sucking a
lemon. A consumer magazine
reported 1t had a tendency to
shake like jelly.
Mr.. Brooks, though more
charitable, admitted it was
clumsy, powerful, dowdy,
gauche, well-meaning "a de
Kooning woman"
The product in question
was the Edsel. Four months
after it was introduced in
1857, the Ford Motor Co.
Jumped the EdSel division
into the Lincoln Mercury
division, and insiders ad-
mitted it had become a STEP
child.
Eleven months later it was
discontinued, a $3.50 million
mistake.
What Happened?
In a fascinating piece of
research, Mr.. Brooks has ex-
humed the whole story Of
why the unhappy auto was
conceived, the comedy of er-
rors in picking its name out
of 5000 suggestions, the fate
full time lag between the mar
ket study and its debut.
Most intriguing of all, the
author answers the question:
What happens to executives
identified with a mistake
costing a third of a billion
dollars? Most have quietly
left Ford. One retired: an
other got a Ph.D., a third
Joined an electronics firm.
The Edsel's stylist stuck
around Detroit for a while,
designing cars and tractors
for Ford in England.
HE insisted that this post
didn't represent the Ford ver-
sion Of Siberia, the author
reports.
Other Calamities
Other essays describe the
late Clarence Saunders, luck
less speculator in stock of
Piggly Wiggly Stores; the
recent price : fixing case in
the electrical industry, and
an amusing profile of Walter
K. Gutman, florid writer of
stock market advice.
Most of the material ap-
peared e earlier in the New
Yorker.
TRUMAN TEMPLE.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
NEW ART BOOK SERIES
INCLUDES COLOR SLIDES

MPRESSIONIST PAINTING. BY Albert Chatlet
Director OF Lille Museum, France and DUTCH PAINT
INGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. BY Emil R.
Meier Director Of the Educational Service of the Riks-
museum, Amsterdam Holland (McGraw-Hill: S795
each) The first two in series of art books with color
slides, replacing color plates Each title has "a color
slides in transparent slip cases, for with hand
viewer (suppied) for projection on home screen
These slides designed for the projection of an image
the size the original art work -HG.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Behind the Disguise
In the Spy Trade
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic
ANATOMY OF

ANATOMY OF SPYING BY Ronald Seth. (E p Dutton &
Co.; $3.50
There are good spy stories in this excellent book
written by successful de ve) British spy of the Second
World War but the main value Of the book lies not much
IN its narratives the explanation of the techniques and
tricks OF the trade Of profession that in full swing in
every civilized country in the world during cold war
or peace
1t is interesting to know for example that
Evening star., 1963-01-13
Shakers for Thirsty
Short-Story Fans

Of him at the present is that
ne writes like a paper towel.
1t appears that to him writ
ing is only a necessary labor
to tell a story, and not yet
an art.
Mr.. West writes about what
anyone could expect a 30
year-old American living on
the small island of Ibiza near
Majorca to write about: The
Outsider. There is the ado
lescent outsider, the artistic
and sensitive outsider, the
romantic outsider, all paraded
about at the same tempo,
all just a half-step behind
the big bass drum Of truly
great writing.
And the Insider
The reader is treated to
one brief look at the Insider,
but II is through the outsid-
er's eyes that we see him
as complete atrophy over
takes him and he sits In front
OF the television. his face
frozen In an eternal smile.
1t was expected.
Mr.. West is a good writer,
or rather gives one the i'm
preston that he could be II
he would only quit fussing
with II. He has a point. and
II may be a bit tired for all
the mileage II has been forced
TO travel In recent years, but
he pursues II with a dedica-
tion that communicates IT,
self as a determination 10 be-
come a good short story writ
er.
II is apparently a time in
which writer's are more con-
cerned with themselves than
their art. Mr.. Vests self
concern is all too evident.
But there is throughout his
work the promise that when
this self-consciousness Is
overcome, much good work
will follow.
JAMES LEE.
Evening star., 1963-01-13
Ludwig BemeImuns' Last
Fine Gift to His Readers
THE STREET WHERE THE


Ludwig Bemelmans. (World
Publishing Co.; $3.50
One of the many things
the French do better than
anybody else is the naming
of streets. In Paris one can
live on Rue Chat Qui Peche,
or Rue Monsieur lie Prince or
Rue Git-le-Coeur. This last
street Ludwig Bemelmans
has moved from the Left
Bank to the middle Of the
Seine and made the scene
Of his new novel, which bears
its name.
1t is the amusing and witty
story Of a nude dancer and
her astute husband-manager
"a Colette-Willy team-and
is not inferior to the best of
Mr.. Bemelmans' earlier novels
in the extent of the types
(the word should be under
stood as French) it draws to-
gether. There is the wealthy
American who throws his be-
longings out Of his penthouse
on the Quai d'Orleans and
settles down to live under a
bridge, a taxidermist who
fashions G-string adornments
out Of cat fur, a wealthy
Mohammedan nabob, a police
inspector, a lecherous Italian
industrialist and many others,
all in love with the dancer,
whose heart belongs to her
husband, and whose body
bears the tortures inflicted by
her maSSeur.
OF the many funny Incl
dents possibly the best con-
Germs a dinner at Tour d'Ar-
gent, where the Italian in
Evening star., 1963-01-13
Birth Of q New Nation
Is VividIy Described
BY MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

FREEDOM OBSERVED. By Gwyn Griffin. Holt, Rine-
hart & Winston $495)
African-born Gwyn Griffin is a frst-class novelist.
He writes with combination Of insight authority
would command readers attention any topic Luckily
his subject in Freedom Observed of acute
He is describing the emergency of new African nation
His mastery narrative in its early pages be
a brilliant defense of coonasm. Obviously Sebanger-
isque. feverrdden stretch Of West Africa not ready