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DREW PEARSON Did U-2 Reach For Close Peek? 7 1 Sh 1 A-l I SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1962 CLEVELAND AMORY EDITOR'S NOTE Drew Pearson is one of the few American newspaper' men who have ever visited the island of Sakhalin, where the most recent U-2 inci-dent took place. He here gives some background information on the probable cause of the Reds great clamor over this flight. Biggest Business: Providing Schools U.S.S.R. 17 I 1 ft ft, 4 JJJAPAN Pacific Ocean fir 1000 Miles k. i I -if" IK Marilyn Mitchell couldn't sleep EARL WILSON SSKF? IfcjE St this year that it could vote itself out of its usual rockribbed Republican status.

Everybody is calling everyone else names except the Democrats. It's the biggest election in New Hampshire history, due to the fact the late Senator Styles Bridges' seat is at stake. No. 1 name-caller is Gov. Wesley Powell, cocky president of the Conference of Governors, and the man who incurred Richard Nixon's ire when, during an election parade, he insisted on riding ahead of the then Vice President.

At a big Republican dinner last week, the Governor proceeded to blast the No. 1 publisher of New Hampshire, William Loeb, of the Manchester Union-Leader, as "that unhappy guy from Pride's Crossing" with a "tormented mind." Loeb, in turn, has been blasting most of the other Republican candidates, except his favorite, Dolores Bridges, blond, vigorous widow of the late Senator, who is running for his seat. Loeb has been denouncing the top Republican candidate for Senator, Congressman Perkins (Bigmouth) Bass, as a one-wo rider and a believer in international co-operation fighting words in Loeb's lexicon. There are four Republicans in the race for senator: Mrs. Bridges, Congressman Bass, Congressman Chester Merrow probably the best-qualified candidate and the present incumbent.

Senator Maurice Murphy. But the Union-Leader has been going after Bass with such venom it will probably help him in. IF THE PRICE of drugs remains high on the drugstore counters, you can thank, in part, the Democratic Senate Leader, Mike Mansfield, of Montana. One of the key provisions in the Kefauver drug bill was a compulsory patent-licensing provision requiring the big drug companies to license new drugs for the relief of human suffering. The automobile industry has a voluntary patent-licensing pool, whereby all companies can share in the inventions of another for the benefit of the industry, and Senator Kefauver argued that where human health and human life were concerned, a patent-licensing provision was even more necessary than for autos.

But during the closed-door debate inside the judiciary committee, the Republicans joined with Southern Democrats Eastland McClellan (Ark.) and Ervin (N.C.) to knock this out of the bill. It looked as if it could be restored to the bill in Senate floor debate until Mansfield, the Administration leader, took the initiative in moving to table Kefauver's patent amendment. Surprised, Kefauver walked over to Mansfield and said, "for goodness sake, Mike, don't you make this motion. Let Dirksen do it." Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, of Illinois, had led the battle inside committee against the patent provision and Kefauver knew that Democrats would not support his motion as they would Mansfield's. "I've got to stick by the committee vote." replied Mansfield, and went ahead with the rollcall.

Twenty-seven Democrats voted against their leader and for the patent-licensing provision. But Republicans, joining with Southern Democrats, upheld the Mansfield motion. The chance of any real reduction in the price of drugs was dead. HflMHimaDir The line gets longer BY CLEVELAND AMORY" NEW YORK Of all the back-to-school news these days, the biggest news is the actual backing of new schools. In fact, the latest wrinkle in the field of the private or, as they now like to call themselves, the "Independent" schools is that, if you can't get your child into one, don't despair, get a school.

The Old School Tie, in other words, has become the New School Try. This fall there have been more new schools started than you can shake a hickory stick at, and, in the words of Paul Hornbeck, president of the School and College Advisory Center, the boom is just beginning. HORXBECK'S CENTER handles more than 600 independent schools from all over the country, ranging from Kent School, in Kent, which bases its tuition on a family's ability to pay (nobody knows what anybody else pays and it ranges down to nothing for the scholarship boy) to the Oxford Academy in Pleasantville, which has only one student per master per classroom, teaches under the so-called "Socratic-psychological method of individualized education" and charges $7,500. This year Hornbeck has two new schools opening in Newport, R.I., alone. "An excellent place," he told us, "for school buildings." "Remember," he, said, "there were 180 million people in this country in 1960, and in 19H0 the census people estimate there'll 250 million.

The old traditional schools are groaning under the. load, and they don't want to enlarge so much they'll lose identity. "Even the military schools are getting' choosy. They want something beside the 'problem' boy who, according to his parents, 'needs The only solution is to start new schools. They can't afford to be quite so choosy." HORNBECK, WHO WENT to public school himself, frankly describes himself as "frightened" by the problem.

"The big difference between today and the old days," he said, "is that so many of the kids these days have a lack of motivation. After all, in my day, I didn't have TV and a pocketful of spending money and my parents weren't always at cbcktail parties. They seemed to have time to answer my questions. "Nowadays these parents say 'I don't know or 'look it up' or 'see me later. The kid has to make an appointment to see his parent.

The climate of education just isn't there." New schools can, Hornbeck points out, also bring new problems. He told us the story of a Texas group which wanted a new school and came East to raid an Eastern school for a tried and true headmaster. They offered him a huge salary, a huge house for himself and family, a huge modern-equipped plant BY EARL WILSON Anybody for Eskimos? Marilyn Mitchell, a provocative but rather reticent little redhead who's well and favorably known on the Broadway beat, is just back from Thule, Greenland. For a month she sang for the Air Force fighter pilots 5,000 of them. BY DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON The long, narrow island of Sakhalin over which a U-2 plane flew by mistake is one of the most restricted areas in the Pacific.

For a long tune it was also one of the least developed. The Russians first settled It as a penal colony, dating back to about 1850. The ex-convicts mixed with the native population of Ainus to form half -civilized, lawless inhabitants, unique even for the part of Asia. The Ainus are an Eskimo type, perhaps the aborigines of the North Pacific. The men wear long: hair and the chief characteristic of the women Is a blue tattoo mark on their upper lip.

The chief communication of Sakhalin even when I was there after the first war, was by ship along the coast, or by dogsled across the ice in the winter. The narrow strait between the island and the Siberian mainland freezes in the winter, and wolf packs raid back and forth between the island and the mainland. THE JAPANESE, who occupied one half the island after the Japanese-Russian war, built a railroad in their half. But there was practically no development in the Russian part of the island until the last few years, when the Soviet government began developing oiL Russia took over the entire island after World War II, and it is now reported to be one of the most important Russian missile bases 'n the Pacific. Doubtless this was what caused the U-2 plane to get as close as possible to Sakhalin's installations, and also why the Russians squawked so loudly regarding the U-2's flight.

TINY, REPUBLICAN New Hampshire, the bellwether state in many past elections, is staging such a Republican cat-and-dog fight ERIC SEVAREID and. above all. complete freedom in picking his faculty. Then, just before the school started, they gave him and his whole faculty just 21 hours to sign one small paper one that stated they would join the John Birch Society. TODAY THAT HEADMASTER, unbe-Birched, is back in the East.

But the East too has some weird founders. Weirdest of all was the late Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle, founder of the Avon Old Farms school. A woman of enormous wealth, daughter of an industrialist and widow of a diplomat, she announced in 1918 that, in her words, "gentlemen as a class were dying out," and to resuscitate them, she spent some 20 million dollars founding not only Avon Old Farms school but also a whole Cotswold Village with its own laws, courts, post office, banks and village officers all students. As an architect she planned the Avon Old Farms school herself.

Mrs. Riddle also decreed that all her students dress exactly alike, in suits purchased at Brooks Brothers, and forbade not only "arts" but also all athletics except one polo. After various difficulties, including a succession of headmasters, the old school it is now run on a very different basis ended it3 career in World War II when the late Mrs. Riddle turned it over lock, stock, village and polo stables, to, of all people, a "friend" of hers by the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The latter promptly turned it into a place for training blinded war veterans. the house when we got there, tied together. Inside a fat little Eskimq woman sat on a cupboard with her children around her. And there was this Eskimo man with the beautiful face staring at me. He smiled nothing but gold teeth.

He was wearing pants of white fur. And this was summer I don't know what he wears winters. "I found why he kept smiling and staring. The day before somebody'd brought him a copy of 'Playboy and shown him one of the nude girls and said they were bringing that girl to see him which, of course was untrue. "I guess nudity isn't so common in Greenland with that temperature.

So he was fascinated looking at me, and nobody told him it was a hoax, I didn't tell him because I didn't know what he'd been told." TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Leo Durocher once said that nice guys finish last, and Mike Forrest figures Casey Stengel is about to qualify for sainthood. WISH I'D SAID THAT: Bob Orben claims one of his relatives has a lot in common with those Red astronauts: "He doesn't think anything, either, of spending four days on a couch." EARL'S PEARLS: Never before have there been so many goodwill tours that resulted in so little goodwill. Barbara Streisand's biography in the program of "Wholesale" notes that "she is not a member of Actors Studio." The uninhibited actress claims, with a laugh, "Well, the studio pays me to say it." That's earl, brother. Believe it or not, Marilyn kept saying, "Never mind the pilots I want to see some Eskimos and some dogsleds." "You nuts or something?" they'd say to Marilyn when she insisted she wanted to lay eyea on our fur-clad neighbors who always play it cool. "It was fascinating waiting in Thule to see them," says Pennsylvania born Marilyn, a band vocalist, cafe chanteuse' and frequent companion of comedian Joe E.

Lewis. "I got what they call 'the Thule Big As the sun never goes down, you get wide-eyed and you can't go to sleep. I asked some of the Air Force parents, 'How do the children know at 10 o'clock it's time to go to bed when the sun's still shining' The parents said that when a child got tired, that child went to sleep. "THE PILOTS themselves were very nice," Marilyn reports. "I expected mayhem.

But I had figured I'd never get lonesome with being one girl among 5,000 guys and I didn't But the husbands never got out of line' and I only ran into two bachelors." She'd do three shows a day with the Rody Monty trio following the pattern set in Greenland by such stars as Arthur Godfrey and Bob Hope. At night, after work, off they'd go to "the key clubs." "About those Eskimos," she kept insisting. 'It's summer," they told her. "The igloos are too far north to get to "At last they said we'd take a car to Dundas Village to see the oldest Eskimo and was he going to be glad to see me! They didn't, tell me why. "I saw the huskies outside America Position Better Than Ever PROFILES IN SCIENCE Put Wings On Sounds i BY ERIC SEVAREID IF POLITICAL -thinkers find joy and surcease in the sports pages it is not only because most sports authorities write better than most political writers.

It is because a baseball inning, game or season comes to an end and you can add up the score. In politics, especially in world politics, all you can do is add gains, subtract losses and try to estimate the general drift of the contest, which never ends. For the last month this reporter has been ALLEN-SCOTT REPORT Price Climb Is Forecast 4 V', BY ROBERT S. ALLEN AND PAUL, SCOTT WASHINGTON President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers is forecasting a continued rise in consumer prices this fall and early winter despite the slowdown in the nation's economic growth. Headed by Chairman Walter W.

Heller, thi3 council of economic experts is sending a report to the President stating that the con HEDDA HOPPER UBnnstteir (IDdii Mey sumer price index, now at an all-time high of 105.5, will rise by approximately two per cent before Janu- sitting with groups of public servants, business men, writers and historians engaged in this cosmic guessing game. No nose counts were taken, and certainly there was not unanimity; yet there seemed to be a consensus in each group and it was, on the whole, optimistic about the prospects for America and Western ways of living. RULING OUT A FATAL push on the wrong push button, because that is as unpredictable as an earthquake, there was a deep feeling that the gathering of Western military, political and economic strength is now, and is going to be, more than the totalitarian oppositions can cope with. The rise and thrust of American, European and Japanese economic power and pressure seemed to most of the discussants a giant fact, hardly susceptible to overestimation. The Irresistible contagion of Western popular arts and materials could not be projected in its final political Influence; it could only be noted in some awe, with the Inescapable conclusion that in this realm, at least, the West has already won the world.

None thought the Soviet Union "ahead of us in science," not even in military science, except for rocket thrust. Very few expressed fears the United States would break its democratic stride and fall under the essential control of any military cum scientific elite, while virtually all accepted that Soviet society has become measurably more liberal, more open to foreign influences, and in its ideological operations abroad more the cautious established church than the church militant. Most discounted the alleged deadlines of Soviet propaganda, observing that no "newly emergent" people in the world, since the war, had voluntarily chosen the Communist road. ALL SEEMED AGREED, however, that strategic regions of the globe could still be lost to subversion and coups, and that still other regions could become unmanageable either from within or without by reason of population growth and the foundering of political and economic controls in the face of this gigantic phenomenon. When we considered the course of American foreign policy In this century, agreement emerged on what seemed fundamental alterations, but other uncertainties remained in our minds.

It seemed clear this nation has permanently put behind her notions of political imperialism; the flirtation with that kind of power, beginning: with Theodore Roosevelt, was both brief and embarrassing. The American people, as George Kennan has observed, can deal with others only within the "citizen" concept, not in the "subject" concept; it's simply not in our blood. There seemed agreement that in terms of "economic imperialism" there has been a great change, however gradually (and imperceptibly, to hostile young idealists abroad) it has come about. American private business abroad, as in Latin America, 6imply does not, on the whole, operate as it did 50 years ago. We saw the end of an illusion which has probably done more harm than good in the last 60 years, since Americana re-emerged on the world scene after a century of protected concentration on building a domestic society so successful that we have automatically assumed its by-laws are not only the highest work of man but universally desired and universally workable.

1 NOWADAYS YOU can pick up the telephone and dial the number of a relative or business acquaintance who lives thousands of miles away. This is the latest improvement in the telephone, a device even our grandparents knew as children. The telephone of 1876 did not look much like the sleek instrument of today. Nevertheless, the clumsy contraption was our present telephone's direct ancestor. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was a Scotsman who lived most of his adult life in Canada and the United States.

He was born in Edinburgh in 1817 and studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and London. He died in 1922 in Canada. BELL. WAS A STUDENT of sound, especially that of the human voice. His father and grandfather were scientists who had studied sound, too, and Bell followed in their paths when he accepted a post in Boston helping the deaf and dumb learn to talk.

While teaching, he began experiments with transmission of sound by wire. During one experiment, he learned that small, very thin metal disks attached to the ends of electrified wires would vibrate in such a way as to reproduce the actual sound of the voice even its tones and subtle inflections. In talking into the telephone speak- For Students A great aid to the student will be a copy of the "Profiles in Science" book, which tells in easy-to-understand language the personal stories of 52 great men and women of science. If you have a student in your home or know a person attending school why not order a copy? Send only one dollar ($1) in check, cash or money order to "Profiles in Science," Detroit Free Press, P.O. Box 1111, Los Angeles 53, Calif.

Ip-? This price boost during the next four months will BY" HEDDA HOPPER HOLLYWOOD Buster Keaton, who plays his career by ear, sails for Italy on the Leonardo in two weeks and phoned to give me a delightfully vague account of a musical he's signed to start in Rome on the first of next month. consumer price index during the first 20 months of the Kennedy Administration. During that period, prices Heller "They offered an eight-week contract" he said. "I accepted. They said: 'The star is opera singer Anna I said: The only ones I ever sang with were Jimmy Durante and Andy "They told me not to worry about that and I wouldn't even have to speak Italian.

For all I know I may be going through the whole thing Alexander Graham Bell er, the voice makes a metal disk vibrate. The vibrations travel through the wire by means of electricity and when they reach the other end they reproduce the same vibrations and same sounds in another thin metal disk in the receiver. WHEN THE TELEGRAPH was invented, the first words transmitted over it were suitably solemn: "What hath God wrought!" The first words spoken over the telephone were more commonplace "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Bell spoke them to his helper, Thomas Watson, who was in the next room.

A year later, in 1877, Bell and Watson were shouting to each other over wires strung between New York and Boston. By 1915, the lines stretched from New York to San Francisco and from Paris to Berlin and Rome, and there was no need to shout. In 1926, the first call was made from New York to London. The telephone made its debut at the 1876 exhibition in Philadelphia that marked the 100th anniversary of the independence of the United States. It was a popular and amusing toy, but it wasn't long until businessmen realized its practical value.

NEXT WEEK Elmer perry and the gyroscope. in Italian someone mentioned doing it phonetically. "I've been over there and watched those fellows work. When they say eight weeks, I may not be through until Christmas. They'll tell me the story when I get there, no why worry about the script.

'The General' will be releasing in Rome about the time I get there. I wrapped up a small part in that picture with all the Mad's in it, and have a Route 66 segment coming on TV later this month." Then, with a burst of fake Italian, he rang off. BOB nTCHUM was on hand in Paris, and Tony Curtis flew in from Germany, for their parts in "The List of Adrian Messenger," but Liz Taylor didn't show. Said Kirk Douglas, swalling his disappointment: "I don't blame Liz; too bad it didn't work out but it required too much preparation." jumped from 103.5 to 105.5 or by two per cent. The new forecast of the Council is based on estimates that the cost of services, which has been rising twice as fast as other costs, will continue to be the main inflation valve.

OF SERVICES, the cost of medical care is climbing fastest. One of the reasons for this is the increases in costs of non-profit private health-insurance plans. In many states higher insurance premiums will go into effect Oct. 1. Another reason is the boost In hospital costs caused by the payment of higher wages to non-medical help.

Slight price rises in rents and non-durable goods are being by the Council. Food prices, which have held steady for months, may rise slightly, the Council says. THIS PROSPECT of higher prices in fall and winter is one of the key factors behind Chairman Heller's unsuccessful fight to have President Kennedy propose an immediate nation-wide personal tax cut to Congress. Heller argued such a cut was needed to stimulate the economy by increasing the purchasing power of consumers. Otherwise, he warned, price increases would act as an additional brake on the economy in the face of rising prices.

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