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4A The Manhattan Mercury Sunday, November 14, 1971 In The Nation P7 The Manhattan Mercury Political decisions for Court? and libertarians are desperately 4 1 7 0 FIKST IN KANSAS Edward Seaton, General Manager James Findley, Advertising Manager CLEVELAND the spectacle of Sen. Edward Kennedy defending the reputation of William Rehnquist against allegations by Joseph Rauh of the American Bar Association suggests the painful dilemma in which liberals and civil libertarians have been placed by Rehnquist's nomination to the Supreme Court. This nomination is not like that of Clement Haynsworth, whom President Nixon earlier tried to put on the Court. Judge Haynsworth was not confirmed by the Senate on the ostensible grounds that his record on the bench showed a lack of perception of possible conflict of" interest situations. Nor is the Rehnquist case similar to that, of Nixon's other rejected nominee.

G. Harrold Carswell. JtflJge Carswell was found to have made "mis-statements to a Senate Committee, and his confirmation hearings disclosed a glaring lack of qualification for the Supreme Court. The Rehnquist matter is not even like that of Lewis Powell, whom Nixon has also named to the Court. Powell is a pillar of the Southern Establishment, a good credential in the Senate; he is 64 years old and his tenure on the court will be limited by that; he is not expected by most observers to become a powerful leader within the court.

Rehnquist is a horse of a very different color. At 47, he can look forward to a long and active tenure on Up Against It Sunday Stuff Service, with real smiles It was my privilege and pleasure last week to be in Wichita to appear on the program of the KANSAS OFFICIAL COUNCIL, an organization of the state's county officials. is no big thing for the KOC, but it was for me and it gives an excuse to tell you how proud I was of the manner in which IVAN SAND, our longtime County Commissioner and the outgoing president of the council, conducted the goings-on. the least of the pleasures of seeing Ivan operate was the way he introduced speakers no long, flowery junk that bores everyone stiff; simply a few facts, ma'am, and then on with the program. could tell that Ivan had done his homework right well, as, of course, he's done in the multitude of many things he's worked on while heading up KOC.

.1 was right proud of him, as, I'm sure, were the other Riley County officials who were there. in Wichita I don't know who, for sure, but probably the convention bureau of the Chamber of Commerce is to be highly complimented on an exceptionally fine courtesy idea. the KOC's program there was a note that if persons desired transportation around the city they should check in front of the hotel for a marked courtesy car and if none were there a number could be called and one would be dispatched. as to whether it really worked, we checked in front and sure enough there were cars available, the one in which we rode being driven by an off-duty fireman and just about the pleasantest chap you'd ever want to meet. out that the cars are either off-duty ones belonging to the county or are furnished by Wichita automobile dealers.

are equipped with walkie-talkies and operate during the day and up until 11 or 12 each night. service is designed to supplement the local cab firms' abilities and not to beat them out of any business. more, jt's only provided for the extra-large gatherings that put too much of a strain on the cabs. at any rate I found it a real nice touch, especially with the congenial attitude of the drivers and whoever dreamed up the idea deserves a solid pat on the back. be something worth considering here when we have a large convention.

few weeks back I was putting the needle to DEV NELSON about his boast or bet-loser, as the case may be, about climbing the KMAN TOWER and yodeling a tune the title of which is dependent on where the Cats finish in the Big Eight. turns out now, as I've learned, that Dev really was in a boastful pre-season mood, because he did the same type of teaser commercials for KSAL in Salina and KUDL in Garden City. the inimitable information director for K-State sports has three towers, and not just one, up which he must be prepared to shinny or so it would seem, because the'word is going around that Dev is trying to weasel out of the thing by claiming that FCC regulations don't allow climbing radio towers. about the guys who replace the light bulbs, Umput really does fuglt Commentary by Tom Wicker The New York Times i It was, in fact, Kennedy rebuke Rauh. The latter had suggested that the nominee had been less than candid in denying ever having been a member of the John Birch Society.The Senator could hardly be sympathetic to a man of Rehnquist's views, but he insisted that the nominee's basic integrity was unchallenged.

So the real question before the Senate is whether it can, or should, reject Rehnquist solely because of his political views. by Brickman fife THAT-THEY WILL tl-IS By MIKE ROYKO often being outwitted, in a friendly way, by his friend, who is a city sewer worker. In the final segment, however, the bus driver gets the last laugh because Norton fails to bring in the vote in his precinct and is fired from his sewer department job with two minutes notice. Planet of The Apes: A science fiction story, in which a space ship crew, in suspended animation, travels for centuries before landing and awtkening. They reach the outskirts of a most unbelievable city.

The population is made up of apes and humans. But the apes are definitely in charge. They wear clothes, talk, carry firearms, practice religion, and have an organized, highly disciplined society. On the other hand, humans are treated as little more than slaves or cattle. They can't talk and the apes enjoy kicking them around.

The apes, in thus strange society, consider themselves to be the superior beings. On second thought, this Isn't science fiction. It could be filmed right here as a political documentary. By R. M.

SKA TON 4 Chicago films make the bench. Moreover, his record is that of a hard working and vigorous champion of conservative political causes, both in Arizona and within the Nixon administration. Persons in and out of the administration who know his work credit him with superior intellect and skill in the law. Thus Rehnquist on the court is altogether likely to become a driving force for the principles he espouses. There are those who believe that as the years go along he will be a more formidable leader than Chief Justice Burger in the conservative wing of the court a wing that may already be in the majority on some issues and will almost surely become dominant if Nixon wins another term in the White It is no wonderr then, that liberals the small society Woo Ml Wothlnflon Star Syndicate.

Inc. off that funeral to spend two weeks in Las Vegas. Zorba The Greek: The story is about an aging, but life-loving and vigorous man, who befriends a serious young scholar and teaches him to live joyously. After a series of adventures, some poignant, some hilarious, they fail in an outlandish engineering project. But instead of brooding over their failure, Zorba and the young man laugh it off and the 2 of.

them do a lively Greek folk dance on a beach. Just then the vice squad! happens by and shouts: ''Getout'a the park, you queers," and Zorba winds up doing 30 days for resisting arrest Frankenstein: A medical story about a Dr. Frankenstein, who becomes obsessed with the idea that there is no need to waste dead bodies. He pieces parts of a several of them neatly together and uses electricity to bring his creation to life. The experiment is only a partial success, however, because the big fellow is inarticulate and docs little more than grunt and occasionally bellow.

He is also nasty-tempered, having been given the brain of someone who has inclined toward criminality, these shortcomings cause him to lumber about readily, making ordinary people nervous and frightened. As the the average, 1.000 people settle on or near the San Andreas Fault each day, according to the authors: "Nowhere in the United States is the density of population greater than In San Francisco and it environs. Nowhere is disregard of the danger more apparent." Civic leaders and leading businessmen tried to play down the huge damage in 1906, fearing it would hurt the city's image as a great shipping port. It was then and still isall part of a psychological block the city has about the San Andreas Fault, the authors maintain. Animals and birds seemed to sense the coming of the earthquake by hearing its sounds before humans.

Horses became excited, dogs howled, sea gulls flew away from the land in l'6 some lime before the "sound" of earthquake something between a low moan and the distant rumble of a freight train came to human ears. "It came out of the tea at seven thousand miles an hour," the authors relate, "almost directly beneath the liehthousc on Point Arena, ninety miles north of San Francisco. the rip raced south. down on 6an Francisco, shifting billions of tons of earth, sending masses 0f rock rising and falling to form cliffs where only a second before there had trn Oat The authors tell about an eyewitness: "Jess; Cook, the police sergeant on duty in the produce market, saw it a moment after he Ifcame aware of panic among the horses all around him. Year later .1 19 71 i FIRST i IN KANSAS Vk tt dull Bill Colvin, Editor Steve Burris, Circulation Manager trr ft Pim-tmt fv e9 TV twvH pfxw t4f prm it Tnn, -tmv I iiniiili CHICAGO Several TV and Movie producers are moaning because they can't film crime stories in Chicago.

City Hall won't co-operate because it doesn't wa nt Chicago portrayed as a place where crimes occur. I have to support this stand. For too long, this city has been shown as a violent place. A friend of mine recently was so irritated by a visitr, who kept carping about in Chicago, that my friend finally split the man's head. The mayor's publicity staff suggests that the producers should try making movies and TV shows in Chicago that are not always about crime.

I see no reason why this can't be done. There are many plots that could have been made here as well as anywhere else. A few that come to mind: Love Story: The plot is simple, and touching. A well-to-do young man and girl of humble origin meet and fall in love. They marry and are happy.

Then tragedy strikes. The girl becomes ill and, in a heart rending scene, she dies. There is a happy ending, though, when the deputy coroner has the body removed to a funeral parlor that is run by his brother-in-law, and they make enough Random Reading casting about for means of defeating the Rehnquist nomination in the senate. Rehnquist's record of opposition to civil rights measures, his strong advocacy of state powers that would threaten bill of rights guarantees his guarantees his youth, and his obvious leadership qualities might alter the course of the Supreme Court for decades to come. But the hai lact is that no one here has as yet produced any evidence of the kind of ethical tangles that ruined Judge Haynsworth's chances and before that led to the resignation of Abe Fortas from the court; nor has anyone been able to identify misstatements like those that sank Judge Carswell, let alone a lack of legal or intellectual qualifications.

IF PSIMI-5T AFWT HAPPY NtfW- the grade movie ends, the citizens all get together and, by a landslide vote, elect him alderman of his ward. And Dr. Frankenstein is rewarded by being appointed to the Board of Health. Young Abe Lincoln: A natural, because it is an historical movie with the setting in Illinois, dealing with his early years. In it young Abe, a struggling lawyer, takes a case defending a young man who seems to be as guilty as sin of killing somebody in a knife fight.

But by clever reasoning and courtroom questioning, he not only gets his client acquitted, but the real killer blurts out the truth on the witness stand. After the trial, young Abe accepts a couple of dollars from the young man's mother as his fee, and walks slowly into the sunset. Later, the sun comes up again, as it always and he gets elected to the Illinois Legislature, where he winds up owning some race track stock, and is run out of public life in disgrace. The Honeymooners: This is a TV situation comedy, with the setting usually in the kitchen of a small apartment, occupied by a city bus driver and his wife. The comedy usually revolves around the bus driver doing something dumb, and destruction Cook recalled.

'There was a deep rumble, deep and terrible, and then I could sec it actually coming up Washington Street. The whole street was undulating4 It was as if the waves of the ocean were coming towards Before Cook could move, the fchock wave sent him reeling." Another eyewitness, the artist Bailey Millard, lay slunnedhigh up on Russian Hill, his canvas ripped, his easel smashed, his paints scattered by the force of the jolt. Below the hole cit wrmed to be "rocking and rolling under the most fantastic motion." "It was as if San Francisco were being pushed into the sea," the authors write. "The sound accompanying the movement reminded some of whiplash. Each crack would be the signal for more chimneys, more spires, more cornices to lie snapped off.

Millard and many others, Judgment Day was tolling for a city that dferved it." "From where he sprawled, held fast by fear, he had a panoramic view of the destruction below. Brick walls crashed to the ground frame building splintered. "Then slowly, the area south of Market fx-gan to move whole skyline wa Water mains were ruptured, street car rails were twisted up into grotesque shapes, the fire hydrants were dry. Without water, firemen watched helplessly a much of the city burned Chinatown went up like the tinder it was, but stone and steel crumbled 8nd melted, too, in the Of all who'd tver think of Btrnie Holbert old enough to quit? Remember qualdng dawned sadly on me the other day when I learned that BERNIE HOLBERT, of all pccple, is retiring this month as chief engineer for KSAC, the -Stale radio station. not known Bcrnie for all the 30 years he's been associated with KSAC, but I can tell you this I've enjoyed every minute of the times I've been around this effervescent and sometimes irascible-guy ho can do more things around a radio transmitter with pliers and bailing wire than many can with all the sophisticated stuff in the world.

and ZELMA, that great wife of his, arc going to do a lot of traveling, I understand, and no couple I know of deserves it more. Needle People who have worried about possible earthquakes and tidal waves caused by the Amchitka Island atomic test are not just crying wolf for fun. They remember only too well the quaking destruction at Anchorage, Alaska, a few years ago. And much has been recorded aboul the granddaddy of all American temblors the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. A book, just out, THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE by Morgan Witts, is the latest and perhaps (he best written about that disaster.

Fire finished what the quake started: 400 dead, over S.ODO Injured, loo.cxio homeless, property damage of nearly half a billion dollars. Most of the town burned down. The last big earthquake in the I'nited States came at 5:13 A.M. on April IB, 1900, in San Francisco. "No one knows when the next, even more devastating, earthquake will come to San rranciRco." the authors warn, "but it will come." The reason they are sure of their prediction of doom is the San Andreas Fault.

This great fault in the earth passes ithin eight miles of the center of San Francisco It is a car that runs most of the length of California. "For years now," they say, has been mounting steadily along the fault. Whole areas of California have been slowly moving as a result of the strain." The fault has caused major earthquake three times that we know of Scientists differ as to how it happen again; thy agree that it will come eventually. And yet now, on Have you ever wondered how it will sound down at the office when liberated housewives take over the business world? "Just leave that typing, Mr. Jones, and gel the vacuum cleaner.

The auditors are arriving at ten and this office is a mess!" "Now where can that contract be? I know it was here in my purw just a minute ago tause I saw it whrn I was looking for the "Take a Idler, Mr. Smith. No, you'd better make it a telegram. Or maybe 111 telephone." "I'd just love to meet you for lunch to discuss the merger of our two" companies, but I haven't a thing to wear." terrific flames. The Kansas war hero, Brig.

Gen. Frederick Funston, had his troops dynamite fire breaks, but in too many cases the blasts scattered burning debris that set more fires. Anyone the troops thought to be looters were shot on the spot, a fact that afterwards dimmed the lastcr of Fusion's image. The book is constructed like a ymphony. Major themes of earthquake and fire, are mixed with minor themes of the adventures of Enrico Caruso, the great operatic tenor, A P.

Giannini, founder of the Bank of America, and the forty hour drunk of actor John Barrymore. The authors ask some disturbing questions about the present-day city. Why is there only one fireboat in the Bay? Why ha the new subway tunneled through the San Andreas Fault? WTiy have new skyscrapers been built in the area most likely to Eo? And they warn that earthquakes HAVE been sparked off by nuclear explosions, minor ones it is true, but bo knows what the next effect' will be1 Will earthquake tome again out of the Ike a monster rushing to cruh ihf city in its jaws? Sooner or later it I hound to happen, according to THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. And such a lovely town! SUBSCRIPTION RATES tt! rKTw fl I r. oMwt rn pm -it uti tJi rir w4 w-m r'r it )hnHlti.