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PERSISTENT SHADOW PAGE 4 VLNCENNES SUN-COMMERCIAL, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1972 Vincennes Sun-Commercial "Where the spirit of the Lord it, therm it Liberty" -II Cor. 3-7 7 ON THE RIGHT ft 1J Eugene C. Pulliam, Publisher I 1 "Let the people know the facts and the country will be saved." Abraham Lincoln r- The Great Emancipator First Saw A Free Press At The Western Sun In Vincennes In 1830. titral WiPixXAJAt- Youth Revolt? found sufficient demand to publish regular columns by chess experts. Now comes Bobby Fischer, fierce in his demands for recognition and money, forcing the championship match onto the world's front pages.

Brought to the attention of general readers, the match has attracted much attention from readers who know nothing at all about the game but are interested in the international implications and of waving the flag. There are said to be more chess players in Russia than in the rest of the world put together. This may be a result of the long, cold nights and a lack of entertaining television in that country. However we look at it, we might as well admit that the comparative youth of the main participants, the controversy over prize money and the attendant headlines are likely to bring a resurgence of interest in a game that is almost as old as man's wish to show himself better than his neighbor. But it is going to be a long time before there are more schoolboys walking to school with miniature chessboards in their pockets (ala Bobby Fischer) than are bouncing basketballs or tossing footballs.

The mention of chess invokes visions of bearded patriarchs bending over checkered boards in gilded drawing rooms. The high rank for chess players of "grand master" status has some indication of old age. Yet the focus of the chess world today is on the world championship match between Bobby Fischer, age 28, and the defending champion Boris Spassky, age 35, while the British financier and chess wizard who bankrolled the match out of its early controversy is Jim Slater, age 43. Which recalls that 50 years ago the Vincennes YMCA was sponsoring annual chess tournaments for teen-age players. Current interest in the Fischer-Spassky affair likely will bring a renewal of interest in the ancient game.

"Pawn to Queen's Four" may come to have meaning to more and more Americans as the months pass. There always have been many chess players, even in midwestern America. But the game often is a family affair, played at such events as family reunions and sometimes to entertain grandpa, who isn't particularly interested in water-skiing. Big-city newspapers have KINO rXATURKS TJTOICAT By I wish our literary moralists would come to a formal conclusion on the question whether a ghostwriter is entitled to go on and write a book in which he blithely divulges what after all was said to him in a confidence that grew out of a professional relationship. Emmet John Hughes did it, at Eisenhower's expense, and got some sort of a prize, and it has all become quite routine, though the feeling that something is wrong persists in the pit of the stomach.

This said, let me recommend Richard Whal-en's book, "Catch the Falling Flag." There is altogether too much there, now that it is published, that people should not deprive themselves of. Whalen is the young author of "The Founding Father." When in 1967 Richard Nixon was assembling his staff, something Whalen wrote in Fortune magazine caught his eye, and he asked him to come around for a talk. Forthrightly, Whalen reminded Nixon that the excruciatingly critical review of his book, "Six Crises," published in National Review in 1963, had been written by Whalen, whose services Nixon was now soliciting. Nixon appeared not to mind at all, and the collaboration began and, briefly, prospered. But days after Nixon was nominated, and 10 months after Whalen's frustration began, it ended at a motel in San Diego where Nixon's staff was holed up after the triumphant nomination, to re-consolidate for the campaign against Hubert Humphrey.

There the staff was subjected to parietal regulations that sophomores at Harvard would rebel against, so that when he decided he had had enough, Whalen had to pack his suitcase and slip furtively out the side door. This bitter book is a documentary of disillusion. Whalen expected a great deal from Richard Nixon, and slowly he came to the conclusion that Richard Nixon was purely a political functionary, without any thought at all except to enhance his fortunes. Whalen's account is, of course, highly colored by armour propre. It is for that reason all the more fascinating, precisely because, as a sensitive man, he notices and reacts to slights which others would accept as a matter of course, or in any event, would not dwell upon.

On one occasion, at the conven A WORD EDGEWISE Season Of Eclipse William F. Buckley, Jr. tion in Miami, Whalen found that the Nixon bureaucracy had given him an identification badge that denied him access to the floor occupied by Nixon's top team in the hotel. He made a fearful row, there and then, and got his credentials hiked. One thinks of life at Versailles, or at St.

Petersburg, and the agony and the ecstacy brought on by the emperor's chance snub, or smile. Whalen tells us, in effect, that such a life is bearable for those engaged in grand purposes, but that no such purposes are being served by Richard Nixon's court. It is the principal failure of the book that he does not really make the indictment convincingly, either to liberals dissatisfied by Nixon's conservatism, or to conservatives dissatisfied by Nixon's liberalism. The book is less ideological than personal. Indeed, Whalen closes it by writing a memorandum to "RN," in the style of the dozens he had written during the months before the political conventions.

"What the yea-sayers and your Republican apologists do not dwell upon," he tells Nixon chillingly, "is the direction of much of (the) progress made by your administration.) It is away from the goals you proclaimed in the 1968 campaign. The difference between what your administration has done and proposed to do, and what a Humphrey administration would have done is not very significant. What is sadly significant is that a liberal Democratic administration would have acted out of mistaken conviction. Your administration's slithering to the left to borrow a phrase from our common political hero Churchill is prompted by mistaken calculation. "In the course of the 1968 campaign, you declared: I seek the presidency, not because it offers me a chance to be somebody, but because it offers me a chance to do something.

I believed then that you sincerely meant that, and so did others around you. In June, 1968, you may recall, you confided to a visitor that you expected to be a one-term president. Somewhere in the transition from citizen to monarch, your principled determination truly to govern, rather than merely reign, faltered. For that reason, I am bound to say, the chance that you will be a one-term president is perhaps greater than you realize." vide the Democrats with a reason to hold news conferences. The concern expressed to the court contrasted with a statement by former Nixon campaign manager John N.

Mitchell, who earlier had said the Democrats' suit was a "political stunt." The suit claimed damages on grounds that the break-in interfered with rights of all Democrats. The five men allegedly were arrested inside the Democratic headquarters and were charged with burglary. Police aLo seized a quantity of electronic bugging equipment. Kenneth W. Parkinson, attorney for the re-election committee, told the court that hearings prior to the Nov.

7 election would "allow Mr. O'Brien and the Democratic National Committee to utilize this lawsuit as a forum from which to accuse this committee of complicity in criminal conduct throughout the election campaign." political party deficits in money when campaigns are ended, but the plight of the candidates who lose often is worse than that of the party. Like the party, the friends who are eager to help when the political sun is rising disappear when the orb of hope sinks below the horizon. This is the week of the Big Eclipses. First, there was the solar eclipse Monday which attracted thousands of scientists to Canada for further studies of the space phenomenon.

Then there is to be the eclipse of the Democratic candidates who turn out to be also-rans. We hear a lot about the As the only American political journalist who is not in Miami Beach, I think that perhaps an explanation is in order. You see, I have a service-connected disability: mob scenes give me claustrophobia. Of course, I have never tried to collect on it it is my problem, not the Army's. Against my better judgment, I went to Atlantic City in 1964, spent two days playing soccer in a Turkish bath with about 10,000 players and literally packed fled between dusk and dawn.

I was schedulated to go to Chicago in 1968, but came down with an authentic but quite suspicious Arena, Combatants Ready For Chess Opening Today AT bought For Today And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. St John 5:36 Damage To Nixon Feared In Hearing Honor is most capricious in her rewards. She feed us with air, and often pulls down our house to build our monument. Colton. Crossword By Eugene Sbeffer By John P.

Roche attack of bronchial pneumonia. This time I have a legitimate excuse I recently underwent foot surgery and am hardly in condition to pursue rumors from hotel to hotel. But what cinched my decision not to try was a dream. It was vivid: there were the delegates assembled and suddenly from the balconies came a shower of paper. Not confetti but injunctions, legal orders that duly elected dege-gates who had, for one reason or another been displaced by the Credentials Committee, must be seated.

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Rich fabric 12. Coral or being led off to the paddy wagons for contempt of court. This is not beyond the realm of possibility. A federal district court held a while ago that the Daley delegation, having been elected under the laws of Illinois, had a right to its seats. On the first appeal this determination was not, as most papers had it, "overturned." What the Court of Appeals did was to suspend action until the Daley delegates had, as the lawyers put itexhausted their administrative remedies.

In other words, until the Credentials Committee and the full convention reach a final decision, there is no issue to Itigate. Subsequently, the Court of Appeals threw out Daley, but returned the California question to the district court. The legal situation finally was resolved when the Supreme Court said the Democrats had to resolve their problems themselves. The question went back to the convention. But once that body acts, presumably Daley and others could resume legal action on a new track.

As was suggested here some months ago, I can see absolutely no legal basis for unseating a body of legitimate Democrats who hav? been elected under state even if they are all Armenian women. By the same token, Sen. George McGovern won all the California delegates. Maybe, given his belief in reform, he had to wrestle a bit with his conscience before accepting them, but he won that wrestling match. Thus I suspect that in addtion to all the delegates, the would-be delegates (there are more than a thousand challenges), the wise old elderstatesmen, the candidates and their staffs and every journalist in America but me, there will be a sudden influx of judges to Miami Beach.

If McGovern doesn't have a judge in the wings, he shouldn't be running for alderman in Pierre, S.D. (He has already initiated one suit.) And Mayer Daley has never been known to spnsor an amateur hour. The point of the convention is to nominate a candidate, not stimulate legal full employment. But what precisely can the delegates do if the injunctions begin to sail in? If, for example, Daley is excluded, his postponed litigation automatically starts up. And, since the courts are working in largely uncharted waters, it will he hard to dispose summarily of the merits.

The convention could adjourn while the lawyers slowly work their way through the issues and up the appellate ladder, Or It could go merrily on its way, risking punishment for contempt of court. This may just be a self-serving nightmare, but in any event I will be siting in a cool room watching TV, confident that my colleague on the spot can handle the rejorting assignment adequately. As my wife says, mord.iiitly, it's better I should disappoint you on this occasion than come down wild bronchial pneumonia WASHINGTON (AP) The Committee for the Re-election of the President is worried that a hearing on a suit involving the break-in and bugging attempt at Democratic headquarters here could cause "incalculable" damage to President Nixon's campaign. For this reason, the committee asked U.S. District Court Monday to postpone the hearing on a $1 million damage suit against the committee until after the Nov.

7 election. The suit was filed by Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien after it was revealed that one of the five men arrested in the May 15 break-in was James W. McCord the security coordinator for the re-election committee. However, to hear the suit before the election, the committee said, could deter campaign workers and contributions, force disclosure of confidential campaign information and pro supials Cougar Circus Yellow Carnival attraction Wild animal Austra 45 48 13.

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American humorist olullon: 24 min. tiations and war of nerves that preceded the encounter, originally set to start July 2. Spassky, 35, drew the white chessmen and with them the first move. Fisher, 29, of Brooklyn, N.Y., had the black pieces. One game will be played each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, starting at 5 p.m.

(Noon EST). National prestige was at stake for the defending Russian. The Soviet Union subsidizes chess and has dominated the game for decades. Fischer is the first foreigner to make it to the finals since 1948. For Fischer, it is a question of money and personal prestige, of proving his claim that he is the best in the world.

London oddsmakers rated the lanky American the favorite to win the 24-game, two-month competition and capture more than $180,000 of the estimated $300,000 at stake. The winner gets five-eighths of the $125,000 put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation, or $78,125, plus another $75,000 of the $120,000 provided by London investment banker James Slater to persuade Fischer to end his holdout last week. Organizers calculate Fischer and Spassky will divide at least another $55,000 from the sale of television and film rights. Both players stayed in secul-sion. Spassky was reported nervous and upset.

Fischer, who favors sleeping are tf "'-'3 in the daytime, was last seen at 1 a.m., Monday, when he visited the sports hall. He demanded that the mahogany playing table be shortened and that the overhead lights be changed. The challenger also agreed with the Russian's complaints that the squares on the chessboard were too large in relation to the size of the pieces. Today In History By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Tuesday, July 11, the 193rd day of 1972. There are 173 days left in the year.

Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded the American statesman Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel at Weehawken, N.J. On this date: In 1767, the sixth American president, John Quincy Adams, was born in Braintree, Mass. In 1810, the Napoleonic Empire annexed Holland. In 1814, a British fleet captured the town of Eastport, Maine. In 1944, President Franklin D.

Roosevelt announced he was available for an unprecedented fourth term. In 1952, a Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for president. In 1955, the new Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.

Ten years ago: The Kennedy administration announced a revision of federal tax depreciation schedules with the aim of stimulating business growth. Five years ago: The Moroccan government said the leaders of a coup against King Hassan had been slain or arrested. Today's birthdays: Actor Yul Urynner is 52. Tenor Nicolai Gedda is 47. BISHOP TO RETIRE INDIANAPOLIS (AP) lii.shop Ruben Mueller of Indianapolis is one of two retiring bishops who will fx replaced next week at the North Central Area Convention of the United Methodist Church About -i'M) delegates are expected to at tend the convent ion here.

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