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GLENS TALIS TIMES, GLENS FALLSN.Y., SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1970 You Blame Laird for This? 0II fflalfo giutffi PubllaDad vary anlnf except Sunday at 100 Qln Street br alana FaU JPoat Oampanr, Olene ralla, N.T. 1201 ART BUCHWALD National Whirligig By ERNEST CUNZO ARTHUR P. IRVING HARRY H. SINGLETON JOHN E. HERLIHY ARTHUR S.

FISHER Mgr. Vice President Secretary Managing Editor WASHINGTON My friend Brightf elder is having an identity crisis. He said that no matter where he stood on the major issues in the United States today, he found himself in' UIUBII OF Til ASSOCIATED 8 8 The Associated Frees Is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of ell tbe local news printed in this newspaper as well as ell AP news dispatches. i TELEPHONES: ALL DEPARTMENTS: GLENS FALLS 792-3181 trouble. V- "Thrf fact that I'm Against the bombing of New Yrrk 'buildings, the student take-overs arid intimidation by militant.

know-nothings make me a fascist "Well, there's nothing wrong with that," I said. "Except that I think Spiro Agnew is full of hot air." 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mall boys, and within the states of New York and Vermont, lo SO per yeaji 8 50 for six months: 14.75 for three months: t2 35 per month. OthJ mall territory wltbtn the United SUtes, $12 per year: $11 for month! mr i monmi; a.w per monin. year payaoie in aavance. tMoooa-ciaaa postage paid at Client rails, "But that makes you an effete snob and a pseudo-intel-' lectual," I said.

"Exactly. 1 think Judge Julius Hoffman of Chicago is one' of the great disasters of our judicial system." "That makes you an ultra-left-wing revolutionary." "At the same time, I think the Chicago Seven are a hunch: of clowns who belonc on the comic Daces of the newspapers. ADVERTISING RATES: OmnDleU Office. The Glens Falls Times aarumea no financial responsibility to I typographical errors In advertisemente but will re-orlnt that oart oi 1 TIME THEIR -aSM MM BUDGET an advertisement In which the error occurred. Advertle-ra will please notify the management Immediately at any erroe In territories not served by oar bj earner, eoc per weex; aju.iu Information mionlleri at Bmtna matter than this simple wmcQ may oocur.

Reappraisal of China Early reaction to the successful launching of Communist China's first earth satellite has focused largely on the military implications of this feat. That is understandable, since our orientation toward Peking has for years been one of suspicion, mistrust and fear. The likely connection between this achieve-ment and China's developing nuclear weapons capability comes insistently to mind. II There is more to the JW "Which makes you an apologist for the stinking bourgeois "To my mind, Atty. Gen.

Mitchell would do anything to' violate my constitutional rights in the name of law and order and this makes me a limousine liberal." "They're the worst kind." "At the same time, I think we should beef up our police forces "Join the Silent Majority." "I believe Nixon's Southern strategy is tearing this' country apart." "This makes you a typical Northern bleeding-heart hypo-' crite." "At the same time the blacks call me a honky racist for not giving them my church." "You seem to be all things to all men." "I keep saying we should get out of Vietnam as fast as possible, and they call me a yellow neo-isolationist. But because I'm not willing to pull the troops out today, my left-wing pals say I'm a prize dupe of the military-industrial complex." "How do you feel about the economy?" "I'm against a recession which makes me a reckless free spender." "What about inflation?" "I'm against that, too, for which I've been called a Nazi conservative who doesn't give a damn about thoughts on the ABM?" "It's a disaster and as phony as anything the Defense Department has come up with." "But that means you're giving aid and comfort to the Commies." "I'm the original pinko Dove. And because I think the draft is safer for the country than a professional Army, my kid's friends refer to me as the 'war "You have to have a strong' hide to take all this name calling." "The tragedy of all this is that the radical right knows-eJtacOy where it stands, and the radical left is completely secure in the knowledge it's right. But the fascist pig, pseudo-intellectual effete snob of the radical middle is being torn apart." "You can say that again," I said. "Any country where a citizen has to choose between Judge Julius Hoffman and Yippie Abbie Hoffman is really in trouble." 1 (Copyright (c) 1970, The Washington Post Co.

Distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate.) Voice of Broadway By JACK O'BRIAN NEW YORK Memos to Myself: Check on a new "Madi son Ave. Vigilante Patrol," which cruises shops in a lS-block area to alert member-shops of heists, shoplifters, bum-check' relationship, however far more than the two-. plus-two fact that if Peking haa both thermonuclear bombs and the ability to put a satellite in orbit, it will soon be capable of lofting those bombs to very distant targets including the United States. This is merely the surface conclusion to be drawn from this event. The broader lesson in what has occurred is that we must fundamentally revise Americans' view of and attitudes toward Red China.

Most us now seem to perceive the Chinese as a backward people ruled like automatons by a regime which stifles all initiative and puts the brakes on advancement. There is some truth in this view, but enough falsity to make it a serious distortion. This myopic perception of what the Chinese are like has persisted, in large measure, despite the evidence of recent years that great technological strides were being made. Many have regarded the Chinese nuclear successes as flukes, not to be taken as indicating much in the way of general advancement. To some extent this is doubtlessly true.

China's possession of a highly sophisticated technology is now dramatically reaffirmed, however, by the satellite orbiting the planet. Much has been made of the circumstance that its course brings it across the United States; this inspires fean It could also inspire a determination to do more about improving our relations with the most populous nation on earth. China's rapid expansion of its power to do harm may point this country toward a need for mutual understanding and respect to advance our national interests and the cause of preserving world peace. vuufsi aiuidic lmj i iolci iuiu xxnan on iub new son just christened William personally by Cardinal Cooke with Bill Buckley (Tom's client) as godpop Anita Louise, the beautiful Ethel Merman's) eot an ova- 1 WASHINGTON It is th law that a man is held responsible for the foreseeable consequences of his acts. Thus, it is no defense, for a man to'east a burning match -into a tank of gasoline and then plead innocence of the ensuing explosion.

Helping to assemble and inflame a crowd is difficult to define legally. There are many possible descriptions of the actions of Yale President Kingman Brewster in connection with the trial of the Black Panthers in New Haven, one of which is that he is a concerned citizen. Brewster declared that he was "skeptical of the ability of black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the United Since New Haven is definitely a part of the United States, it was assumed by Judge Herbert S. MacDonald, who is to preside at the trial, that Brewster's remark included the proceedings. Judge MacDonald sharply rebuked the Yale President.

In an incredible answer, Mr. Brewster replied that he had not meant to "disparage the legal system" and was sorry that his statement of skepticism had been distressing to the judge. Despite the Yale president's climb-down, within the ordinary meaning of the American language, a great many people other than the trial judge were of the opinion that Brewster was skeptical of the chances of the Black Panthers to get a fair trial in New Haven. But taking Brewster's statements at face value, it is extremely difficult to understand what he did mean if he does not believe that publicly expressed skepticism of a fair trial anywhere in the United States for anybody at any time, let alone a black revolutionary, does not cast the most serious reflection on the legal system. As it happens, the Black Panthers are not on trial for being revolutionary.

They are on trial for murder in the first degree. Whether the accused Panthers committed the crime is for a jury to decide. There is no doubt whatever, however, that a man has been murdered, for the state of Connecticut has the proof of the corpse itself. No one knows better than Yale's famed lawyers that the assembly of 30,000 protesters can be granted no relief. If they are asking that the trial be called off, it is legally impossible.

On the other hand, if the history of the previous Black Panther trials is any clue, Brewster might well have expressed skepticism as to whether the Black Panthers and their followers will permit a fair trial anywhere in the United States. Brewster knows, or ought to know, that in the Chicago and New York trials, the Black Panther defendants made orderly judicial procedure all but impossible. From the extraordinary measures taken by Yale University, it is a fair inference that large numbers of the faculty, and certainly Kingman Brewster, are in sympathy with the some 30,000 demonstrators expected. Not only will Yale dormitories be open as shelter, but the Yale Chapel itself will be available for sanctuary. From what is not made clear.

But what is clear is that New Haven is virtually in a state of siege. Extraordinary police precautions necessarily have been taken, and the National Guard is alerted. Since the Yale Law Library has been set afire, and since bombings are general throughout the country, the president of Yale is naive indeed if he does not perceive that the assembly of many inflamed people, including avowed fire-bands, at New Haven is fraught with danger. The peril is increased by reason of the fact that the judicial process is involved; the state Of Connecticut does not have the constitutional power to alter its judicial process to the demands of any assemblage. It is the custom, in time of great stress, for responsible citizens to urge reliance upon the time-honored institutions of the land.

If this be the case, Kingman Brewster renders no conspicious puhlic service by expressing his doubts about a fair trial for those whose description fits 1 the defendants charged with first degree murder by. Connecticut. What happens in the courtroom is the legal and moral responsibility of Judge MacDonald. What happens outside the courtroom is the legal responsibility of the governor of Connecticut and the mayor of New Haven. But for what might happen outside the courtroom, the President of Yale is in considerable part already deeply, morally and eprehensibly responsible.

WELL, NOT EXACTLY -BUT THE PENTAGON MJtf'VE HAD A TIP DM YA COMING!" Washington By RALPH de TOLEDANO Fred Friendly, now of the Ford Foundation made a career of touting free speech and the free conscience of broadcast journalism. Whenever there was the slightest hint that the rampant "liberalism" of the networks was under the mildest attack, Mr. Friendly would speak out loud and clear. The broadcaster was to speak his mind, and woe unto those who raised their voices in criticism. Mr.

Friendly, obviously, has either changed his way of thinking or his principles on broadcast freedom have developed an elasticity that few suspected. For it now turns out that he was informed in advance of the imminent firing one William Woestendiek, news editor of a program on Washington's educational station, WETA-TV. Mr. Woestendiek's crime was not bad nor was it for conservative thoughts, utterartces or grimaces. He was fired because his wife took a job as press secretary to Mrs.

John Mitchell, wife of the United States Attorney General. He was therefore indirectly charged with guilt by marriage and summarily turned loose from WETA-TV. The specific bill of attainder against Mr. Woestendiek was "conflict of interest." Presumably, he was given a choice between losing his job or having his wife quit hers because she had committed the unforgivable sin of going to work for (gasp) a woman who was a Republican, controversial, a somewhat overdone as a conservative. I bring Mr.

Friendly into this discussion because the Ford Foundation, out of the abundance of its kindness, put up the money for the show that Mr. Woestendiek was producing for WETA-TV. When the station called him "out of courtesy" to tell him that it was riding Mr. Woestendiek on a rail. Mr.

Friendly did not say: "Put down the tar and feathers!" Les Midgley, the executive producer of the Walter Cronkite was not fired because his wife. Betty Furness, worked fow Lyndon Johnson. Eric Sevargid and David Brinkley were not fired when their wives went to work for Hubert Humphrey in 1968. WETA-TV did not fire Wal-terene Swanston, even though she is -married to mutt whs works for Senator Alan Ciatf-ston Calif. According to the record, Mr.

Fred Friendly listened to the news of what was in store for William Woestendiek, put the phone back on its cradle, and returned to whatever he was doing. There was no thunder from him about "fighting for the freedom of broadcast journalism" his phrase and no threat that WETA-TV would find itself bereft of Ford Foundation funds if it perpetrated this act of bigotry. Mr. Friendly now says that he did not give his offi-. cial sanction to the political lynching of Mr.

Woestendiek. But by the same token, he does not say that he lifted a finger to prevent it. I have seen too many Fred Friendlys at work to be overly exercised by the Woestendiek. case. But 1 think it is worth pointing out that had the vic-(Cofitinued on Page 12) 71 MNaM frtU, la.

Stamps In the News By SYD KRONISH World's Fairs make wonderful subjects for stamps, and EXPO 70 which just opened in Osaka, Japan, is no exception. Many nations having exhibits at the Fair will issue special stamp sets for the occasion and collectors will once more have another subject for their topical books. The Republic of China has issued two new stamps for EXPO '70, reports the World Wide Philatelic Agency. The $5 (Taiwan dollars) pictures the flags of EXPO '70 and China flying over the Chinese i arm hi pavilion with the emblem of EXPO in the background. The $8 also shows the pavilion and the two flags but in this view the entire pavilion is orbited by a ring of other nations.

The Chinese pavilion has two triangular towers of equal size on opposite corners linked together by a giant covering of light to form a gateway from the Han dynasty. Communist China does not have an exhibit at this Fair. The new stamps are available at your local dealer or stamp department. The Netherlands also has issued a new stamp hailing EXPO '70 in Osaka. This is the first Dutch stamp ever to be issued for such a World's Fair.

Featured on the new stamp is a stylized representation of the Netherlands pavilion at the Fair. The structure is situated in ami near water, appropriately for the low coun-trv on the North Sea. In addition to the pavilion the stamp design shows the country name and denomination plus the wording "EXPO '70 Osaka." It is interesting to note that Wim Crouwel of Amsterdam who designed this new stamp is also one of the designers of the Netherlands Fair exhibit. of the Forty Years Ago The highest temperature of the year was reached in Glens Falls when a mark of 88 degrees was recorded at the Glens Falls Post Company building at 2:30 p.m. Although they could not be confirmed, reports were current that two circuses, Sells-Floto and 101 Ranch, would be vying for popular favor in Glens Falls in June.

Twenty-five Years Ago Mrs. Arthur Leigh Brown was reelected president of the Woman's Civic Club at a luncheon meeting in The Queensbury. Capt. Sterling R. Nesbitt, who left Glens Falls with Company National Guard, was awarded the Silver Star tor gallantry in action on Leyte in the Pacific with the 11th Armored Division.

Ten Years Ago John J. O'Brien of Whitehall was aDDointed Washing- Hudson River Bridge By MARK W. FREEMAN Many Glens Falls players are making plans now to attend the Summer Nationals in Boston. Although National Tournaments, of which there are three a year, are supposed to be held equally often in all areas of the United States, it often seems to us here that they are farymore often in Los Angeles or Miami, or some such place, than within driving distance of Glens Falls. The last National Tournament in the Northeast was held in Montreal, and was heavily attended by area bridge players.

Since a bridge player who is very lucky, or very skillful, or both, can win more points at a National Tournament in a week than in Glens Falls in a lifetime, its attraction is understandable. North dealer, East West vulnerable: North AAQlOx VA9fixx. AK10 West East Axx 4 9 KQ87 Vx 9 A 9 South A 10 The bidding: North East South 'West 1 Pass 1 NT Pass 2 A Pass 3 A Pass 3 NT Pass Pass Pass The Monday night game of the Glens Falls Bridge Club has recently returned to the Four Quarters Restaurant on the Lake George Rd. Playing accommodations here are spacious and attractive, as a great many local bridge players learned when the club met there before, when the restaurant was known as Milfrank's. A good crowd enjoyed the game last Monday night.

When the above hand occurred, most pairs found their way to four hearts, a reasonable contract which makes even with the bad trump split. Several played three nos: trump "and all made it, no East-West players finding key defensive plays. With the bidding as given above, West usually led a diamond. South played the ace and led the queen of clubs, taken by the ace. Dummy took the diamond return, and led a spade to Smith's, king.

South now cashes two club tricks, and eventually made three spades, two clubs, two diamonds, and two hearts lor game. East can ruin declarer by simply refusing to play the ace of clubs on the queen. Although South can now still make the bid by leading a low heart toward his hand and guessing the enemy distribution exactly, it is unlikely, to say the least, that he will do so. He will probably go down. It is remarkable how strong the instinct is to take a trick, even when it is surely the wrong play.

(C) 1970 Mark Freeman ton County district attorney by Governor Rockefeller to succeed John A. Leary of Hudson Falls, resigned. A raise in salary for all permanent members of the Police Department was asked at a meeting of the Saratoga Serines Citv Council. 'w actress who died the other day at 53, certainly didn't die of boredom Never have we known a more consistent party, first-night, any-event spectator; Anita was a very nice lady who simply never quit being starstruck, loved the limelight, and having her name and picture in papers, and attended the openings of everyone and everything We kidded her about it in the column, and she loved that, too; during N.Y. newspaper strikes, she subscribed to our newspapers to keep up with the gentle teasing, even when we suggested if anyone announced they'd open a can of sardines, she'd be there, too As beautiful in her fifties as in her teens, she walked with a slight limp she camouflaged neatly and no one ever mentioned, and Bdwy.

will miss one' of nicer citizens. Gypsy Rose Lee's death from cancer came as no surprise to her friends; Gyp called them all up and announced it blithely, as she managed most things in her 56 years of flamboyant life Gyp was never as good an actress as her sister, June Havoc, but she did have that intangible "talent for being noticed," as Noel Coward once said about Gertie Lawrence. Hal Prince's new musical "Company" is a fast, brilliant, fascinating abstraction, its thin-strong theme (relations of Where the Buck Stopped Former President Harry S. Truman, soon to be 86, has just been quietly celebrating the 25th anniversary of his accession to the presidency. Many still remember the shock of Roosevelt's death after his unprecedented 12 years in the White House, and the bewilderment at his succession by a little known man -from Missouri.

Truman himself was appalled. As he told reporters, "I felt like the moon, the stars and the planets had fallen on me." Undreamed-of problems faced him, among them the question whether to drop the atomic bomb. It took courage to remove from command in Korea that popular idol, Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Truman also had to confer with Churchill and Stalin on the war and what might follow it, with only the hastiest of briefings from experts in the State and War departments.

Somehow he managed in foreign affairs, depending on Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his own native shrewdness. His chief fault as President was that he was only a fair judge of men. Some unfortunate appointments led to the term "cronyism" being unjustly attached to his career. His choices for attorney general and the Supreme Court were not more than fairly good. On the whole, however, Truman did better than all but a few of our presidents.

One commendable trait to which he owed much of his success was epitomized in a sign which he kept on his desk: "The buck stops here." tion for her "Another Hundred People" song in the first fast-half; star Dean Jones and the whole company stopped it al the start of the second act with "Side By Side By Side'' Donna McKechnie, who has been the most brilliant Bdwy. and TV dancer from early TV (The Hit Parade) to "Promises, Promises," by sheer terpsichorean beauty danced "Tick Tock" to bravos that kept the next sketch from its comments for many minutest Then Elaine Stritch pen formed one' almost impose sible feat: after so many show-stopping numbers, in the. next-to-closing spot, Elaine sang "The Ladies Who Lunch," and topped them all one of the smartest feats we've ever seen in any musical, with a simply superb, very New Yorky needling of Manhattan's assorted femi, nine habits "Company" is a very spe; cial musical, smartly staged by producer Prince And a very special tip of the top' hat to Jonathan Tunick whose, orchestrations are as good as you'll hear from any Bdwy, (Continued on Page 12) Letters to the Editor 1 Philo Avenue Glens Falls, N.Y. April 30, 1970 Editor, The Glens Falls Timei; I am sending letters to President Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, Representative King and Senator Goodell, vigorously sup- war as noming is io De gained by continuing the half-hearted prosecution of it. It is also time to face up to mumst aggression throughout 1.Loss.,lof Inneaii and Australia will certainly be next lwe don 1 take "tand noW.

would be catastrophic. All the arguments and bickering over how and why we are in Vietnam completely overlook this real motive, wnicn is uie preservation, of the free world against communist' domination. We only have to recall Charri-berlain's appeasement of Hitler to know this policy doesn't pay! hope to see your newspaper take a very vigorous stand ip this matter as we cannot con tinue this divided national attitude on the war. 4 a 35-year-old bacnelor with his porting the President stand many irritably married and action in sending our troops friends) awash with wonder- to search out and destroy com-fully-'pfertlnent''comicalltlesintfntsit- bases aleng the Cambo and comments It is author dian border. It is high time George Furth's first Bdwy.

that action was taken in this show, and he is the Rookie of the Year with the best musical of the season, stylishly sracra.fi (in a most attractively. gadgety Bauhaus setting where ct that we are really nf rn nr ing to stem the tide of corn- CheapSnqwrMaking Machines to make "snow" are not new. Today more than 200 ski resorts use such machines to bolster Mother Nature's efforts. To date, however, snow-making machines have been expensive and wasteful. Comes now a Swedish-born inventor an ocean-ographer, of all things with a device which turns out snow cheaply that it may revolutionize winter sports.

The machine developed by Goesta Wollin of Columbia University, along with two colleagues, is based on an idea derived from his study of what caused the ice ages. The Wollin snow-maker, able to convert 20 gallons of water per minute into snow, requires no compressed air, high water pressure or chemicals. It is expected to cost $1,500 a urn-considerably less, if mass produced. The low-cost snow maker should do wonders for winter sports. The machine's manufacturers even predict that skiers will be able' to afford to buy snow for their own backyards.

Some day, a white Christ-Eyia may be available on order. performances in themselves Stephen Sondheim's lyr- ics are warmer and better than his music, which has the cool unmelodious, semi detached mood mostly laid on by the modernists who expect audiences to have the aural sophistication--of mod-peers. It's delightful to see so expertly created a musical not only work in alMits parts with a true point of view for today -r- but also to see so fine a show literally stopped four or five major times in a row; little Pamela Myers (another Rookie of the Year making her Bdwy. debut with a voice entertainingly piercing at Sincerely, Dick Dean.