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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 2

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The Fresno Beei
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Fresno, California
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Politics THE FRESNO BEE Friday October 27 1967 Rubaiyat Version Halves Bread Cuts Finger I In tha lull In the HHH Departs For 3-Nation Tour Of Asia Moderate GOP Unit Gathers For Parley try can quote from the FitzGerald translation such lines as: "A loaf of bread beneath the bough A flask of wine a book of verse and thou LONDON At 72 British than the one used by FitzGer-poet Robert Graves is putting aid It is to be published here his considerable literary reputa-Nov 9 and may prove to be one tion on the line He is about to' of the most controversial literary works in years Millions who know little poe- British Spurn Russian Offer For Spy Swap I by conservatives Recently a (conservative slate of officers By Richard Rodda Mcl'lNtrUy nruttpaiwr editor publish a new version of one of the best known poems of the last century the Rubaiyat of WASHINGTON (AP) Vice Omar Khayyam Since Edward FitzGerald translated it in 1858 no other Vmhnv Jr i ns An naion Asian tour that includes 'English poet has dared chal Matthew Rae Jr Los An- his version als0 Was eectPd the CaJifor' President Hubert Humphrey Federation of Republican 'I women embarked today on a three-j san niFrn Tfnrm SAN DIEGO Tax reform nia top- Post Office Will 'Stamp Out1 Washington's Warts LONDON (UPI)-The Soviet Will Union has offered to swap a cs of discussion at the biennf ill be one of the principal al convention of the California British teacher jailed for subversion for Peter and Helen Kroger two Soviet spies geles attorney is CRL the inauguration oL Craves dismisses Fitz- terelSitL opCTInsaral He ill cMivtr an ddrea the newly elected South Viet-Lj amateur 0ient eu-j Assemblyman John Ven'TVJ overnmtM to tenced in 1961 to 20 years im- man of Stanislaus County onelconvcnt'jon chairman- next Tuesday jtionary mid-Victorian poem of bis own from an ill-understood Beside me singing Ah wilderness were paradise enow" Or: "The moving finger writes and having writ moves on:" These are gone In the Grave? version For the first of these quotations he substitutes: "A gourd of red wine and a sheaf of A bare subsistence half a loaf not more-Supplied us two alone In the free desert: What sultan could we envy on his throne" And: "What we shall be is written and we are so Heedless of God or evil pen write mi 1" The free verse of Graves though perhaps hewing closer to the original Persian text has not the exquisite melody that made FitzGerald's version so widely known and popular Humphrey planned a over of several hours stop-' in El'cassical Persian text i "For four generations In- Paso Tex to testify at a heap by a curj0us paradox prisonment for their roles in the of the legislature's leading pro-Gordon Lonsdale spy case jponents of tax legislation will participate in the panel discus- A statement by the foreign of-: Mexican-American af- giving George Washington a face lift a shave and a more heroic nose Officials said they were getting complaints about the warts and Washington's looks in general Hyde who previously designed a Lincoln stamp said he got $1000 for his Washington stamp He said he offered several other designs for it but ceived the Peale portrait to work from The artist said stamp they put out was not a duplication of the art they got from me though my art did show the bumps and so China Growls But Gives No SAN FRACISCO (UPI) A local artist says he doesn't mind if the Post Office takes the warts off George face in the five-cent stamp he designed But said artist Bill Hyde "Everything on the stamp is on that He referred to a painting by Rembrandt Peale which was given him as a model for the stamp millions of which have been sold since last February when it came out The Post Office plans to issue a revised version next month aa a rambling pro-Indonesia fession of the hedonistic creed" Now Graves in collaboration with Persian scholar Omar Allcapital Shah has written a completely new translation from what they claim is an older manuscript sions on taxes Veneman is fice said the Soviet offer bad)Cjiajrmal the Assembly Rev-1 been rejected enue and Taxation Committee The foreign office called thej Sen Thomas Kuchel exchange of the Krogers for will be the convention's key- teacher Gerald Brooke jailed! note speaker His address is I i Af A two years ago on charges of scheduled for a banquet tomor- Him Mr Arflfln subversive activities "out of the' row night III 1 1 VI IUI I question" Other speakcrswill be As- HONG KONG (UPI) Com- jInd tour The American-born Petersembiyman Pete Wilson of Sanmunist China today called US: Indonesia until Nov 7 Kroger 57 and his 54-year-old Diego County tomorrow morn Indonesia until Nov 7 bombing of fresh targets in ing on fairs The vice president plans talks with leaders of South Vietnam' and Malaysia His schedule calls for visiting! Kuala Lumpur the Malaysian! from Nov 1-3 Then Hanoi grave step of military escalation" but gave no hint it would do anything about it Instead the Peking regime said wife were transferred last year ing and Sen Clair Burgen from a mainland English prison er of San Diego County Sun to a more secure one on the 'day morning Isle of Wight I Assemblymen George Milias Several times Eastern Euro-! of Santa Clara County and Rob-pean lawyers presumably act-jert Beverly of Los Angeles' it waJ countig on antiwar sen- to the United State to have tried to arrange deals toPnel meeting tomorrow on exchange the Krogers for of Private Enterprise in helP give Communists a victory tured British intelligence agents 1 i Governmental Prob- The Krogers were sentenced after a secret trial at which 0ny Group they were accused of handing' The league has attracted mod over secrets of British under- crate Republicans to its men-across the border gave more bership Many observers say it details of the Communist na- water weapons A major figure in the ring was Lonsdale later tion's own internal dissensions The journal told of "obdur- is the 1 statewide GOP vol-exchanged for British business- junteer organization remaining man and self-confessed spy'w i is not controlled by the ate" refusal by a purged mili-Greville Wynne conservative wing of the party jtary leader to admit sins against Last year the CRL supported the party One of his sins the the unsuccessful campaign of paper said was to claim that Red China had provoked most of the recent incidents along Terrorist Grenade Kills 2 In Viet Movie former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher for the GOP nomination for governor In the the Chinese-Soviet border SAIGON (AP) A terrorist hurled a grenade into a crowd campaign for the November of people attending a show In election the organization a Mekong delta village the entire GOP ticket day night killing two Vietna-j beaded by Ronald Reagan mese civilians and wounding 29 The GRL was formed in 1964 others as a haven for the party The attack occurred in Binh Due village 36 miles southwest of Saigon The terrorist escaped moderates many of whom felt they had been driven out of the California Republican Assembly the party's toidest volunteer group The CRA as well as United Republicans of California and the statewide Young Republicans are now controlled The Bee Want Ads Way thrifty habit Step A Radio Peking broadcast said American warplanes bombed residential areas of Hanoi for three consecutive days This was a grave step of military escalation by US The broadcast claimed 23 USi planes were shot down in the bombing raids and that many( of their pilots were "captured The broadcast quoted Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung as saying American people should rise up to resist the attack by the American re-lactionaries I believe they even-'tually will do Referring to recent antiwar demonstrations the broadcast said many Americans "have joined the camp to oppose the! imperialists of their own coun- Fbr stayathomes For a way from homes Weyerhaeuser wall paneling specials! 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