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nvnm kQ M4V -e 8B THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Sat July 1 1S72 Athletic White Is Charlotte Court Pivot Man By DRUMMOND AYRES JR There is nothing wishy-washy about (Byron) White Rather more than most men he has always seemed to know exactly where he teas headed (C) 197 New York Time New Servlet WASHINGTON This is a city of people watchers and the latest person being watched is Byron Raymond White White normally a very predictable man has suddenly become the unpredictable member of a Supreme Court whose eight other members frequently divide into opposing foursomes of liberals and conservatives Jimmy Snyder PresidentlSixon At Least One oman Sometimes White sides with the liberals who remain from the Warren Court Sometimes he sides with the conservatives appointed by President Nixon Whichever way he moves the result Is often a 5-4 vote Thursday for instance White was involved in three close votes First he joined the Warren Court holdovers Justices Douglas Marshall Stewart and Brennan in outlawing the death penalty as presently administered in the United States Then he switched over and sided twice with the Nixon appointees Justices Burger Blackmun Rehnquist and Powell come a partner within two years he was told not he shot back Such straightforward blupt-ness is characteristic of White It comes through in the courtroom as he tirelessly questions lawyers embarrassing them if necessary with his sharp intellect and it comes through in the decisions he writes unadorned pieces consisting mainly of declarative sentences strung one after the other White was born June 8 1917 at Fort Collins Colo Ilis family later moved to Wellington Colo a small lumber and sugar beet community in which White began to compile a record of academic and athletic These decisions held that journalists have no right to refuse to tell grand juries the names of sources and that congressional immunity does not prevent a grand jury from asking Sen Mike Gravel certain questions about his version of the Pentagon Papers This switching back and forth might be labeled wishy-washy except that there is nothing wishy-washy about While Rather more than most men he has always seemed to know exactly where he was headed He once asked a Washington law firm that was trying to hire him whether he could be- excellence that few Americans in public life can match At Wellington High School he was valedictorian of his class Then he went to the University of Colorado again graduating as valedictorian He also managed to win a Phi Beta Kappa key at that point and letters in basketball baseball and football He so excelled at football that sportwriters nicknamed him a name that has sluik and Granlland Rice made him an All-America selection lie then was oflered a Rhodes Scholarship and intended to study law at Oxford University in the fall of 1938 But the Pittsburgh Pirates (now the Steelers) offered him $15800 to play football for them a record salary in those days and he put off going to England for a year He began to set records leading the league in rushing He entered Oxford in 1939 but returned to the United States a few months later when England and Germany went to war Before he left however he met John Kennedy whose father was then the American ambassador to the Court of St James A long friendship began that eventually led to appointment to the Supreme Court in 1962 Rudolf Nureyev Valve WouldMake Vasectomy A Matter Of Or From Obsorvor Wirt Report resident Nixon says he favor use of in place of Mrs or Miss in refer-f ring to women like he said Friday Nixon nevertheless did address Mrs Douglas Cornell who still uses her maiden name Helen Thomas in her assignment as a White House reporter for UPI as at a news conference He made a point of his pronouncialion of Las Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy Snyder says Sen George McGovern is a 10 to 1 favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination and a 5 to 1 favorite to win it on the first ballot Snyder also said President Nixon was a 4 to 1 favorite to win reelectioh if McGovern were nominated Cuban Premier Fidel Castro clad in his familiar green fatigues and combat boots climbed behind the controls of a Souz spaceship trainer Thursday Castro and Leonid I Brezhnev general secretary of the Soviet Communist party inspected the 1 trainer at Star City near Moscow the Tass news agency said Gov Reubin Askew want to be nominated for president even as a favorite son Rep Robert Fi Sikes D-Fla announced weeks ago he wmuld nominate Askew at the Democratic convention news secretary Don Pride said Thursday the nor has sent word to Sikes to forget the idea currently in Mexico has threatened to picket the premiere The move is a study of personality and his dancing Anchorage Alaska police say a report that television star James Arness was with actor Steve McQueen when McQueen was arrested on a reckless-driving charge was unfounded At Los Angeles the office of the executive producer of in which Arness stars as Marshall Matt Dillion said Arness was not in Anchorage when McQueen was arrested Wednesday An Achorage police spokesman said there was no doubt as to identity but that the arresting officer did not try to identify others in the car McQueen was driving As to Arness police said the mistaken identity was attributed to bystanders in the area McQueen pleaded innocent to the reckless-driving charge and left town to go fishing near Ken-ai south of Anchorage Gov George Wallace will be moved from a hospital in Silver Spring Md to a hotel suite in Miami Fla next Friday his aides announced here The partially paralyzed presi-dentical candidate is to be flown in a US Air Force Hospital plane provided by President Nixon first to Montgomery Ala for an airport speech and then immediately on to Florida where the Democratic National Convention begins three days later His scheduled address at Dan-nelly Field in the Alabama capital would be his first public appearance since May 15 the day he was gravely wounded in a burst of gunfire at a shopping center in Laurel Md Phaser is a simple device It is a gold tube that fits within the vas deferens A tiny valve is fitted within the tube If the valve is turned in one direction sperm can travel normally through the vas A twist of the valve stops the flow of sperm So far the Phaser has been implanted in 30 human volunteers by Drs Joseph Davis and Matthew Frend of New York Medical College Some of the volunteers have used the device for as long as a year As Dr Davis described it the 4 Spruce Goose May Go On Block Sir Francis Chichester alone in the Atlantic on his Gipsy Moth yacht rebuffed an attempt by a French vessel to come to his aid Friday despite his message that he was and after a bout with illness away No assistance or doctor the 70-year-old adventurer flashed with a signal lamp when the French weather ship France II tried to put down a launch alongside his ketch Chichester was heading for the French coast after dropping out of a singlehanded transatlantic yacht race Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev was so unhappy about his performance in the movie Am a he tried to buy it back for $125000 to keep it from being shown the producer EMI said Friday EMI refused to sell and has scheduled the movie for a royal premiere next week to be attended by Princess Margaret Queen sister Now the Russian ballet star By EDWARD EDELSON (C) 1972 New York Time New Service The most perfect male contraceptive may prove to be nothing more complicated than a tiny gold-plated version of an ordinary plumbing valve After years of research scientists are ready to begin large-scale testing of such a device a valve that would enable a man to turn his potency on and off at will search for a male equivalent of the birth control pill has been fruitless so far Right now the most effective male contraceptive method known is sterilization In an operation called a vasectomy the doctor ties off the vas deferens the tube through which sperm travel Vasectomy leaves virility unimpaired and it is almost perfect insurance against having children Vasectomy is generally regarded as irreversible That creates problems Suppose a man decides he has enough children undergoes vasectomy and then is divorced and remarries and wants more children Or suppose his children die in a tragedy? Those kinds of considerations have held back an untold number of men from having vasectomies It was flown once across the Los Angeles harbor on Nov 3 1947 by Hughes himself rising only a few feet above the water for a mile Since then it has been investigated ridiculed and certainly discussed But it been seen The day after the flight Hughes had it locked up in a hanger alongside the Long Beach harbor He has been paying the General Services Administration rent up to $800 a month for rights to keep the craft and has a $26000-a-year lease on the 72 acre hanger site United Pres Intemalionel LOS ANGELES The $58 million part of the Howard Hughes legend for more than a quarter of a century may be sold to the highest bidder next year by the federal government The eight-engine plywood seaplane with a 320 foot wingspan was built by Hughes during World War II under an $18 million military contract Hughes is reported to have put another $40 million of his own money into the project It was long the largest aircraft in the world Politician Should Strip Truth Bare Not Gloss It Over Only 1 in 10 Will Find a Home The little valve is an answer to such problems Developed by a small New York firm called Bionyx Inc and going by the name of it is designed to allow men to undergo a vasectomy that can be undone in a matter of GRAFFITI the has always baffled me) It is not as an art but chemistry as a science that makes (he big difference in disease between today and our generation not so much what the doctors have learned as what has been handed them by exponential advances In chemico-Iherpy The less a person has to do the less time he can find to do what has to be done Thoughts at Large: When will the electorate begin to learn that the only politician who deserves their ear is the one who tells them unpleasant but necessary truths not the one who tells them what they would like to believe? Speaking of leaders the reason that the ship of stale seems to be foundering so often is that difficult to discern a good sailor until the sea is rough by then commonly too late If you don't like someone his finest action will strike you as if you like someone his worst action will strike you as good In a constricted slum environment virtually the only avenue open to and the entrepreneurial spirit is that of crime thus the criminals we most deplore are simply those who take our preachments about most seriously What enough Americans learned yet is that Bobby Fischer Due In Iceland dictators become such by placing themselves above the crowd but by pretending to be one of it only more articulate Over-answering a question stifles a child's curiosity quite as much as ignoring or evading it Sexual liberty on the stage is a self-eliminating process as Peter Ustinov himself a playwright wittily observed: increasing the size of the keyhole playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door" It puzzles me why so many persons say could care when it seems to me that they mean "I care tin the same vein the expression at half Shy people are often shy because they are anxious that they might be bores if they spoke up more: but such anxiety is unrealistic since it is the hallmark of the true bore that be has no such anxiety or insight The sentimentalist will tell you how many home runs Babe Ruth hit during bis career the cynic will tell you how many times he struck out while the realist is the only one who knows how many runs he batted in The greatest barrier to discovery lies in knowing a subject thoroughly 10000 puppies and kittens are born every hour in the United States Most of them will end up homeless spending their lives searching for food dodging cars and fighting disease Many are put to death by animal control officers and animal shelter operators All because there are just too many Be a responsible pet owner Have your female cat or dog spayed Have your male cat or dog neutered For further information call the Mecklenburg County Humane Society at 377-1714 US Chess Champ Gels Warning United Press International HAMBURG Germany US chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer may lose his rights as challenger for the world title if he doesn't show up for his Sunday match with Russian world champion Boris Spassky the president of the World Chess Federation said Friday he doesn't show up he will lose his rights to play in the world said federation head Max Euwe of Holland be my decision alone but the rules of the The temperamental Fischer has canceled or missed three flights to Reykjavik this week from the United States Meanwhile a Tass news agency dispatch from Moscow said actions made it uncertain whether the series with Spassky begin on time or Whether it will be held at all" Earlier sources in Iceland reported Fischer had given an ultimatum to the Icelandic Chess Federation that he show up unless it agreed to guarantee him 10 per cent of the gate receipts on top of the existing contract giving the winner five-eighths of $125000 in prize money Christianity Thrives On Competition By BILLY GRAHAM Do you believe it is possible to live a Christian life in our competitive society? BL Christianity has always thrived in a When the first disciples were dispersed at Pentecost throughout the w'orld society was as competitive as it is now But the disciples filled with Spirit made Christ relevant to the problems of that day While the of the is diametrically opposed to the selfish competitive spirit of the world it has been a satisfying answer for all those who have tried it down through history With its ethic of self-denial rather than the natural ethic of sclf-centcredness it has helped people get outside themselves and develop a love and concern for others Senior By PAUL HIGHTOWER My wife ai I will retire later this year and plan to move out of New England to one of Hk Southern stales We want an area where wc could get a couple of months more outdoor living and where the winters would be less severe lhan in New England Our preference would be Virginia North or South Carolina or Georgia We would like our opinion as to which state would meet our desires weatherwise LDC A Georgia would be a bit warmer than the other three states but actually detect little difference in any of them They all would give you long summers and moderate winters But are you sure you want to base your move on just the weather? All lour states are good and many people have retired to each of them But after Fonim a w'hlle you may not pay much attention to weather In New England once you retire central heating could keep you snug for days on end In the South you now have air conditioning all over and this wmuld keep you out of the outdoor heat for days on end The four states you mention w'hile all Confederate are different barrels of fish North Carolina for instance is known as the valley of humility between two mountains of conceit meaning Virginia and South Carolina a little cruel but it points up the difference in the people in the states There also are different histories and different economies So get in your car and go size things up Nobody can tell you what you will like or where your particular New England personality will fit best (If your question can be answered in this space send it in) Published os a public service by the Knight Publishing Co publishers of The Charlotte Observer and The Charlotte News I A TT ft" i.