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Justice Brennan Says
Government Whittling
Away Rights of Individual
PHILADELPHIA UP> — Justice
William Brennan Jr. of the U.S.
Supreme Court said Saturday, “the
need for vigilance to prevent gov
ernment from whittling away the
rights of the individual was never
greater.-’
He said that “today, as rarely
before, case after case comes to
our court which finds the indi
vidual battling to vindicate a
claim under the bill of rights
against the powers of government,
federal and state.”
Justice Brennan, speaking at the
42nd annual meeting of the Na
tional Council for the Social
Studies, said he shared the con
cern of the council over “the high
school students and graduates to
appreciate fully the meaning of
our basic liberties.”
Brennan said that “it is indisput
able that government, at all levels,
affects ever-expanding sectors of
our lives.
“More people work for the gov
ernment and receive benefits from
the government, than ever before,
and this interdependence is always
increasing.”
Twasn't An Apple But
An Apricot That Eve Gave
Adam, Says Botanist
LONDON i# — A prominent
British botanist said today Eve
didn't give Adam an apple, de
claring, "It was more probably an
apricot.”
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potamia then,” said Dr. Tatam
Whitehead. “The only fruit were \
apricots and quinces." c
He said most people would e
agree that apricots were more a
tempting than quinces. c
Mesopotamia, the region be- h
tween the lower Tigris and Eu- d
phrates rivers, was the site of the t
Garden of Eden, according to tra
dition.
Dr. Austin Farrer, an authority 1
on church history, took issue with 1
Dr. Whitehead.
“The apple has become a sym
bol,” said Dr. Farrer. “The apri- }
cot is not acceptable.” *
But the Anglican Bishop of Lon- cr
don, Dr. Robert Stopford, com- 1
mented: 1
“It’s possible, of course if scho
lars accept the apricot theory, it *
won’t shake the foundations of ‘
faith. I imagine people will go on ]
I for years and years saying apple.”
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MOSCOW i.P> — A drastic shake
up of Soviet party and govern
ment organs Saturday divided the
Soviet Union’s Communist world
in two — City Communists and
Country Communists.
The object: To meet Premier
Khrushchev's demands for more
goods and more crops.
The Communist party’s Central
Committee, ending a week-long
meeting in the Kremlin on Friday,
ordered the sweeping measures to
"correct serious shortcomings’’ in
the economy.
A group of rising party leaders,
of the generation just after
Khrushchev’s, emerged from the
sessions as the men to make the
program work.
The top-to-bottom reshuffling,
me of the most thorough in Soviet
listory, aims also at leveling out
Inferences between city workers
ind peasants.
Ever since the beginning of the
evolution against the old Czarist
egime, the workers who did most
>f the fighting have had the best
if it.
By last year, the Soviet Union,
nee well above 80 per cent agri
ultural, had moved by a fraction
f a per cent to the industrial side
nd made more city workers than
urmers.
Under the new program a se
arate party agricultural organiza
on split will extend from the
iremlin to the farthest outposts.
The aim is to permit those party
tembers primarily concerned with
arming to concentrate entirely in
iat field to get reluctant farmers
a work harder and try to match
luropean and American produc
ion.
Party members concerned with
ndustry — and these are almost
■ntirelv in the cities — will occupy
hemseives with industrial and
wilding affairs.
The reorganization struck some
Western observers as a poor sec
nd choice forced upon the gov
rnment and party leaders as an
lternative to a much-needed
apital investment program that
as been made impossible by the
emands of space rockets and na
lonal defense.
J.S. Infantrymen Begin
Withdrawal from Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand UP) — The
withdrawal of 2,300 U.S. combat
nfantrymen began Saturday with
leparture of an advance party of
5 officers and men from the
lortheast military center of Korat.
The Army men came here in May
is part of the military buildup
ifter Communist military gains in
neighboring Laos approached
rhailand. But since the end of
’ighting in Laos, U.S. forces have
aeen leaving in phases. A Marine
contingent of 1,800 men left in
luly.
The main body of Army men
will start leaving Tuesday in a
nassive airlift from Korat.
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i Dean Francis Keppcl
| Appointed United Spates
Commissioner of Education
HYANNIS FORT. Mass. —
Doan Francis Keppcl of the Har
vard Graduate School of Educa
tion received a Presidential ap
pointment Saturday as United
States Commissioner of Education.
The position has been vacant
four months. It pays $20,000 a
year.
Dr. Sterling McMurrin gave it
up and went back to the Univer
sity of Utah. He was unhappy
in the job and the administration
found it difficult to find anyone
else willing to step into it.
McMurrin complained that the
Office of Education, and agency
of the Department of Health. Edu
cation and Welfare, was afflicted
with red tape, bureaucratic prob
lems and skimpy support from
Congress.
Keppcl. 40. has been Education
Dean at Harvard University since
1948.
William Carr, Executive Secre
tary of the National Education
Assn., issued a statement in Wash
ington praising the appointment.
He said Keppcl is “fully com
mitted to a sound program of
national school legislation as for
mulated by President Kennedy’s
1960 educational task force, of
which he is a member.”
The task force proposed ex
penditure of $2.3 billion annually
in federal aid to education.
JFK Defends Policy
Allowing Astronauts to
Sell Stories of Experiences
WASHINGTON — A Wash
ington book publisher says Presi
dent Kennedy has defended the
policy of allowing astronauts to
sell stories of their experiences in
space.
M. B. Schnapper, editor of Pub
lic Affairs Press, said the President
informed him in a Nov. 5 letter
that the latest policy was adopted
“only after most careful review
of the facts and lengthy consulta
tions both with and without the
government.”
“Efforts were directed toward
removing specific controversial as
pects of the original astronauts’
agreement and we believe this goal
has been reasonably achieved,”
the Kennedy letter said.
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| Given Preview of
'Tax Gul Proposal
WASHINGTON </P> — The ad
ministration is giving congressional
leaders a preview showing of a
double-feature tax proposal to
j test its chances in the next ses
1 sion.
The tax package, it was learned
Friday, would be presented by
President Kennedy as a single bill
to be enacted in 19(13 but would
take effect in two steps:
1- A substantial but partial tax
cut to be effective retroactively
to Jan. 1. lf)63.
2. A second stage — to become
effective Jan. 1, 1964 — which
would include both a further re
duction and tlie tax revisions and
loophole plugging wanted by Ken
nedy.
By joining the two steps in one
bill, even the initial tax cut would
not take effect until the reforms
were written into law. Yet the
economy would have the extra fuel
of a year’s tax reduction before
the revisions came into force.
The revisions would be design
ed to at least partly offset revenue
losses of the tax reductions.
The two-step proposal is de
signed apparently as a compromise
of doubts that a combined tax
overhaul and cut could be ham
mered out in one session of Con
gress and of demands for a reduc
tion next year even without
revisions.
The amount of the tax cuts and
the type of revisions under con
sideration remain a secret. Ken
nedy’s Labor - Management Ad
visory Committee recommended a
$10-billion reduction.
LOS ANGELES CP> — A bandit
who held up a service station early
Saturday morning failed to impress
two patrons.
“It’s only a toy gun,” said John
Viarmontes, 21.
The bandit fired a shot into the
ground to prove it.
“They’re only blanks, said Hec
tor Gomez, 35.
He was wrong.
The bandit shot him in the left
thigh — with a real gun and a
real bullet — and escaped, un
molested, with $60 in the station’s
receipts. Gomez was treated for a
minor flesh wound.
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