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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1961
NO 21
Firestone Offers $250,000 'Race
INSTRUCTOR SAYS
Heart Surgeon
Khrushchev Fears Cites Advance
Uncontrolled War0verDeferts
By FRANK L. KAPLAN'
The fear of a war breaking out between West and East Ger- | many was a major reason behind Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's new proposals last week to "settle diflicultics.” a USC po- j Iltical science instructor said Friday.
Joseph L. Nyomarkay, specialist on studies of European countries, said that Khiushchev ] is definitely concerned with the uncontrollable element such a war may present.
Settle Difficulties
The instructor made the remarks following a United Press International release which indicated lhat the Russian leader was ready to meet with western leaders to settle vthe present difficult situation facing the world lod-n”
"I believe that there is an overwhelming sentiment for peace on the part of the Rus- ; sian people, because the experience of World War II is stili in theii memories,” Nyomarkay j said.
Distrust Germans
The Russian people particular- j ly do not trust the Germans, for | they are not sure that Germany does not want to provoke a war. he pointed out. That is why Khruschev is so interested in discussing disengagement in Central Europe and particularly wants nuclear disarmament in the area.
Nyomarkay expressed his belief that the Russian leader genuinely fears that West' Germany has plans for starting a clash by arms in the future which might spread into another world war. Khrushchev’s desire to meet with Western leaders was made in a letter to Kaoru Yasui, Japanese Council Against Nuclear Weapons chairman.
Guarantee Access
In another letter to members of the British Parliament, the premier pointed to steps on the East-West settlement, that would:
‘'Ensure guaranteed access to
Berlin; recognize the existence of both East and West Germany snd admit both to the United Nations and ban nuclear weapons bo ng supplied to both East and West troops.”
The reason that Khrushchev wants these and other points recognized is to have the United States acknowledge status quo in this aiea. Through this he hopes to stabilize the situation in Central Europe, Nyomarkay remarked.
The situation in Central Europe and the German problem will be unsatisfactory until a united Germany is recognized, Nyomarkay claimed.
The important point is the immediate problem facing the United States and Russia, which is finding means to handle the explosive situation at the present time.
Dr. Topping To Welcome Troy Heads
The third annual President’s Dinner for student leaders will; be held tomorrow night at 6 in Town and Gown Foyer.
The dinner, which is sponsored by the administration, is designed to promote better relations between the university administration and students who have demonstrated leadership on campus.
Attending the dinner will be President Norman Topping and other members of the administrative staff of the university.
Students who will attend the, affair will include the Executive Cabinet officers, Senate members, Daily Trojan executives, administrative committee heads and the El Rodeo editor, j
Presidents of classes, dormitories, schools and service organizations such as Knights, Squires, Amazons, Chimes and Spurs will also attend the President's Dinner.
Mutual Interest
"This dinner gives a fine op- j portiinitv for student leaders to meet with admin is tar tors on a social basis to discuss problems ! of muiual interest,’’ Hugh Helm, ASSC president said.
It is through such programs *s this that a better under- i standing and relationship can develop between the student body and the administration, he commented.
Last year’s dinner featured a question and answer period during which the student leaders interrogated administrators for more than two hours. USC’s future and present role as a university was discussed by President Topping.
In addition <o the President's Dinner, a rpec al gathering was held la~t semester fcr student leaders to heajr about the Master Plan.
Aviation Films To Highlight Noon Reading
Aviation in the arts will bs the subject of the second lecture in the English Reading series to be conducted today at noon by Dr. Kcnnett Moritz, assistant professor of English, in 129 FH.
The talk, “The Wild Blue Flame-Out—Re-Ignited,” will be dedicated to Antoine de St. Ex-upery, a French air pilot, and. the basis of Dr. Moritz’s lecture will concern the military's refusal to promote actor James Stewart from colonel to brigadier general until 1957.
Brilliant Films Dr. Moritz plans to begin with a brief motion picture film sequence that he describes as one of the most brilliant films of aerial warf-ire. He will then review the history of aviation, air combat of the world wars and the historic and present aircraft types. He will also discuss the merits of air war movies.
“There is a convincing spuriousness in these air war films,” Dr. Moritz said. “The problem of the American public is to discriminate betwreen the illusion which is presented as reality on film and the actual reality of aviation.”
War Movies Some of the films he feels are important to the discussion are “Strategic Air Command,” “God is my Co-Pilot,” “Purple Plain” and “The Bridges of Toko-Ri.” Dr. Moritz said that he feels “there is a deep split in the American consciousness between fact and objectivity and our il-lusionary concept of who we are and what we are as a nation.” Dr. Moritz, who is currently teaching the lecture series “Ernest Hemingway on TV,” invited all flyers, aviation and film fans to join the general public at the noon reading.
Such spectacular progress has been made in heart surgery in five years that there are now few' defects that cannot be corrected by an operation, according to the chief of cardiac surgery at the School of Medicine.
Dr. Jercme H. Kay, who is also chief of cardiac surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Ccunty General Hospital, made this statement Friday as guest speaker before the annual Nebraska Heart Assn. meeting in Omaha.
Hcart-Lung Machine
Speaking from his experience in more than 500 open heart operations, in which he used a heart-lung machine he invented, Dr. Kay said that his patients included persons born with heart defects and those who suffered heart damages from rheumatic fever.
The heart-rung machine Dr. Kay developed is a simple, compact, stainless steel apparatus which performs the functions of the heart and lungs during an operation. While the heart is opened and drained of blood the surgeons repair defects in the organ under direct vision in a relatively dry field.
By-passing the heart, the machine pumps blood to the brain, liver, kidneys, heart muscle and other tissues gf the body and saturates them with oxygen just as the lungs would do.
Lesions Corrected
Congenital lesions such as atrial septal defect (a hole between the upper chambers of the heart), ventricular septal defect (a hole between the lower chambers) and pulmonary stenosis (a narrow valve in the artery leading to the lungs) are now being completely corrected by his surgical team with less than 1 per cent risk, Dr. Kay said.
Patients with the more complicated tetralogy of Fallot — typical blue babies — can now be operated upon with a 10 per cent risk, the USC surgeon said. In these patients it is frequently necessary to use two patches in the heart to correct the large hole in the heart, the abnormal aorta and narrow pulmonary valve, he said.
Two-Stage Operation
In a small child less than two years of age and weighing 25 pounds, Dr. Kay prefers to perform a two-stage operation .
The first consists of suturing a systemic artery or the aorta to the pulmonary artery. This allows the child to grow several years and to improve physically. At the end cf two or three years the complete open heart operation can be done with no added risk, he reported.
Of particular interest to the older person is the ability of surgeons to correct abnormal-ties of the mitral and aortic valves that have been ravaged (Continued on Page 2)
Trustee to Match Alumni Donation In Unique Plan
Leonard K. Firestone, chairman of the Board of Trustees, challenged USC alumni to increase their annual giving to the academic Master Plan Friday with an offer to match this year's gifts with a $250,000 “challenge gift.”
Firestone will match gifts of $50 or more three for one with his challenge fund. For gifts
between S25 and $49, he will give two dollars for every one. Gifts of S3 through $24 will be matched dollar for dollar.
The trustee’s gift was announced by President Topping, who said the offer will encourage the entire aiumni-giving program.
’ Chairman Firestone’s unique pledges will simulate our alumni to give more than they have in the past,” Dr. Topping said. “It will add a quarter of a million dollars to the Alumni Fund if they accept the challenge, which I am sure they will do.”
First of Kind
TOP FLIGHT - Lt. Col. Howard N. Tanner Jr., professor of air science, explains jet features to AMS President Gil Garcet-
ti. Air Force will help AMS kick off Armed Forces Week today with an "Off the Ground and into the Air" show.
Faculty Probe Survival Value In Atomic Age
Is survival the main issue in a society faced with a thermonuclear war?
This question, one of the many raised in a recent symposium of “Western intellectuals” published by the monthly Commentary and later rehashed in last week's Firestone's “challenge gift-' was issue of Time maga2ine, was giv-
AMS Will Sponsor Series Of Armed Forces Programs
Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine representatives will visit campus this week with displays and information as part of AMS-sponsored Armed Forces Week.
Air Force officers will open the program, which will be devoted to informing students on the four branches of the service.
“The purpose of the program is not to recruit students, but to let men students know where they stand in relation to the draft board and the armed services,” Garcetti said.
Each' branch of the service will have one full day to advertise the basic aspects of its program.
“Off the Ground and into the Air” is the theme of t he Air Force display, which has been set up on University Ave. in front of the Administration Building. The display consists of a booth from the Officer Procurement Office of the Recruiting Service and a cutaway view of a jet and a reciprocating engine from the orientation group at Norton Air Force Base, San
Bernardino.
Similar informative exhibits will be set up tomorrow by the Army, Wednesday by the Navy and Thursday by the Marines.
Students may discuss the various program available to them through the Air Force with Sgt. Larry Smith, officer procurement representative for USC.
“Many opportunities are opened to students through our program.” Sgt. Smith said. “By considering the various aspects now, students will know what they are eligible for and can apply for positions before it is too late.”
Among the features of the Air Force program are the Officers Training School; the Judge Advocate General's Dept.; a student program for medical students; and a nursing program.
The Officers Training School is a three-month orientation course resulting in a commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. Under the program, a senior may apply 210 days prior to graduation for such fields as engineering, intelligence, pro-curement, photography and 'guided missiles.
“In addition, the top 20 percent of the O. T S. graduating class will be afforded an opportunity to further their educa-
tion by being assigned directly to the Air Force Institute of Technology,” Sgt. Smith explained.
Seniors may apply for ‘he Judge Advocate General’s Dept, program 90 days before graduation Under this program they will have a four-week orientation course and then a direct assignment to an Air Force base as work as a Judge Advocate.
“Our Judge Advocate program has been highly popular with college students,” Sgt. Smith said, “because it gives them an opportunity to practice their chosen profession with the many diversified fields that Judge Advocates have in the Air Force.’’
Tickets Grow Scarce For Avant-Garde Plays
Tickets to the four avant-garde one-act plays to be staged by the drama department this Thursday, Friday and Saturday are almost completely sold out, drama lecturer Bill White reported last Friday.
The Friday performance is completely sold out and only about 25 seats remain for the Thursday and Saturday performances, White said.
He attributed the rapid advance sales to high local interest in the four plays chosen and a reduction in the number of seats available in the newiy redecorated Stop Gap Theater.
“Most of the tickets have been sold to persons outside the USC community,” White said. “We hope students will try to buy their tickets before we are
sold out, since the plays are mainly for them.”
The four plays chosen for presentation are “The Zoo Story” by Edward Albee, “The Lesson” by Eugene Ionesco, “The Square” by Marguerite Duras and “The Love of Don Perinplin and Belisa in the Garden” by Frederico Garcia Lorca.
Albce and Ionesco are leaders in the avante-garde comedy field, while Lorca has often been regarded as a forerunner of modern European drama. Miss Duras is also the author of “Hiroshima, Mon Amour.”
White said that Stop Gap Theater holds only 93 persons in the audience since it was redecorated. Previously, more than 110 persons could attend the informal arena.
Top Newsmen Win Alumni Awards
* Editor Henry R. Luce, publisher Ralph McGill and broadcaster Walter Cronkite have been named to receive the USC Journalism Alumni Association's second annual achievement awards.
Association President Barbara Trister announced the winners, w^io were selected by professionals in the news field. Presentations will be made at a banquet in the Beverly Hilton Hotel next Monday night.
The awards are given-annual-ly to three persons w’ho have made major national contributions in journalism through newspapers, periodicals and broadcasting.
“In light of the present international situation, accurate and complete world-wide i eportmg assumes even greater importance,” Mrs. Trister said.
“Our awards are intended to give iceognition to exceptional news woik and to encourage journalistic excellence,” she added.
Luce, founder of Time maga-
RALPH McGILL
. . . Southern leader
zine and editor-in-chief of Time, Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Architectural Forum and House and Home, has been called one of the most influential editors of the century.
Bom in Shantung province,
WALTER CRONKITE
... TV newsman
China,, of American parents, he holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University. He also studied at Oxford University.
Luce also hclds honorary degrees from 11 colleges and uni-verities.
HENRY R. LUCE
. . . honored publisher
McGill, a journalist for 32 years, has been recognized as the leading voice cf the “new South.” Publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, he has served as editor, sports editor and executive editor of that paper.
McGill served in the Marine Corps for two years and in 1937 was awarded a Rosemvald fellowship for travel in Europe.
CBS newsman Cronkite has acted as the network's anchorman on television coverage of major national and international news stories, including the I860 political conventions and the winter Olympics.
He also has had a distinguished career in newspaper journalism.
As a correspondent for United Press, Cronkite covered many phases of World War II. including the Normandy invasion, Battle of the Bulge and the North-w-est European surrender.
The award winners will make acceptance remarks at the Oct. 14 banquet, which will be attended by 700 persons in the news media field.
Last year’s winners were Henry Shapiro, UPI’s chief Moscow correspondent; Herbert Mayes, publisher of McCall’s magazine, and Chet Huntley, NBC news analyst.	*
the first of its kind to USC, and one of the largest of this type to any university in the
nation.
Firestone's $250,000 fund was created only two weeks after he announced an unrestricted commitment of $500,000 to the Master Plan from the Firestone Foundation.
Aims of the Master Plan are to encourage able and eager students instructed by wise and dedicated professors wiio plan imaginative and stimulating courses of study. Another aim is the development of facilities to make all this possible.
Quality Rise
Seeking more full-time students, USC plans to increase its enrollment only 25 per cent in the next 10 years compared with an anticipated national increase of up to 100 per cent.
The plan also calls for a faculty increase up to 50 per cent.
Endowment of professional chairs in specialized fields of teaching, higher salaries for present distinguished faculty and the attraction of other great scholars to the teaching and research staff are other goals of the Master Plan.
Good Start
Since fund-raising for the Master Plan began in September, almost $4 million has been donated. Gifts have included a $2.2 million engineering building by the Olin Foundation, and $640,-000 from trustee H. Leslie Hoffman for creation of USCs first endowed academic chair, in addition to Firestone's two gifts.
The Hoffman Chair will be held for a year or more at a time by world-renowned authorities in five academic areas.
Broad Field
The academic areas concerned are history and philosophy of science, business ethics, American history, solid state sciences and English literature.
Firestone's S250,000 “challenge gift” and the alumni contributions it matches will be for the most part unrestricted funds for use throughout the university where the need is greatest. Donors, however, will be able to designate that their money be used to aid specific professional schools on 'the campus.
Since the Alumni Fund was established in 1949, graduate.; and former students have giver. $1,359,264 to the university in support of its educational programs. The amount given each year has risen steadily and reached about $90,000 last year.
Boosters Due For Tetanus
Students who received their first immunization shots for tetanus toxid last month were reminded recently by Mrs. Lucille Dadisman, director of nurses at the Health Center, that their booster shot is due.
“If the second shot is not given now,” she said, “the thiee-injection series will have to be started all over agan.”
The majority of students who received the initial shot at the time of entrance were freshman, graduate and transfer students. Price of the booster is $1.
en varying answers Friday by two USC religious leaders.
Dr. J. Wesley Robb, head of the undergraduate department of religion, and the Rev. Jack Shaffer, campus Methodist pastor, presented local attitudes on the value of survival.
Man's Values
Dr. Rcbb proposed that physical survival is not the main issue for society, but rather the survival of man's values, while the Rev. Mr. Shaffer said that value alternatives other than the extremes of life and death are involved.
“What man dies for may have greater significance in the history of civilization than the compromising of man's convictions for physical survival,” Dr. Robb contended.
“To assume that cur survival as a nation in the present conflict is inseperably bound up with the survival cf the values that we represent is perhaps an unwarranted assumption,” he continued.
Moral Universe
“This is so, particularly if one believes that it is a moral universe and that truth will ultimately triumph-”
Dr. Robb agreed with anticommunist theoretician Sidney Hook, professor of philosophy at New York University, who maintained in the Time magazine article that “the free man is one w’ho in certain situations refuses to accept life if it means spiritual degradation.
“The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally deal,” Professor Hook charged.
Dr. Robb noted that the impasse between defending freedom and preventing war could be dissolved if more courage were exerted in initiating disarmament.
No Assurance
“I feeMt is important that we defend freedom, but there is no assurance that by defending freedom in a nuclear war anyone will benefit,” he said.
“As man studies history, he sees that freedom has evolved as part of man s development,” he continued. “Because man's freedom is rooted in the nature of things, I am confident that despite any setback caused by war or a victory- of Communism, progress would demand that freedom emerge again. ”
The Rev. Mr. Shaffer claimed that the issue of survival is not limited to the problems of disarmament or a choice between being “Red or dead.”
“It is unfortunate that so much time is spent by people casting views about being Red or dead.’ ” the Rev. Mr. Shaffer said. “People with religiou3 convictions should be involved in creating better alternatives than a formation of arms control to combat the present threat.”
He listed increased reliance on schools of international relations as an alternative to emphasis on the military.
“These schools should teaci# genuine concern to pull togetn*f minds to find out alternatives
j and solutions," he said.