European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes stripped to bonc9 idea is barely plausible by Dick West Washington up ill swear i Don t know what gives with Margaret Mead. Sometimes i suspect she says some of the things she says just to shake people up. In a Magazine article the outspoken lady anthropologist is suggesting that we All Start swimming in the nude. I Public. In Broad Daylight. In mixed the connection Between anthropology and co educational Skinny dipping snot readily apparent i Point out that the science embraces Man s Environ ment and social relations. Nevertheless mrs. Mead s suggestion does t sound very scientific to says nude swimming and Sun bathing would help people accept their own bodies and the bodies of others of both sexes and All Ages without this in turn could mean a reduction in puritanism and prudery that would ultimately Lead to a decrease i neuroses and certain kinds of chances Are it could Lead to a num Ber of other things As Well but i won t go into that. I submit that the Basic premise itself is faulty. The important thing to consider herein that some bodies look better than other bodies. And this probably is the cause of More neuroses than prudish is also a known fact that the differences Between bodies becomes More apparent or glaring As the amount of covering is the great equalizer with clothing Many of nature s mistake scan be either hidden or neutralized. Which May be the reason Mankind be Gan wearing clothes in the first place. Take for example a couple of girls on the Beach. One is flapping around in a Bikini. The other wears a relative decorous one piece suit with a fits built in girders i beams Crosse keystones and other structural am tenancies. M did the second girl choose her Sui because she is prudish or because does More for her figure you know the answer As Well As i w thus we see the fallacy of mrs Mead s Assumption that resistance to Public nudity is based on prudery p women the key Factor is vanity p men it s a matter of aesthetic scan you imagine splashing around in the altogether with Phyllis Diller Abc urges acc to void Hughes bid Washington up the american broadcasting co. Charged monday that billionaire Howard Hughes offer to buy control of the network violate the Law requiring Federal communications commission approval of All broadcast License urged the acc to offer a declaratory ruling that the proposed acquisition of two million shares of Abc Stock would constitute a Prima Facie violation of the Transfer Section of the communications that Abc asked the acc to direct Hughes to place any shares of common Stock so acquired in Trust with specific directions to the trustee to vote the shares in accordance wit the recommendations of the Abc management proxy com Mittee. Public hearings the acc announced last wee kit would hold Public hearings on Hughes offer to Purchase 43per cent of the outstanding Abc common Stock for $74.25 offer expires july 15. James a. Mckenna jr.,attorney for Abc sent a five Page letter to the acc stating the network s opinion that the acquisition is More than sufficient to exercise de Facto acc has ordered Hughes not to exercise any voting rights or in any Way to seek to influence the policies or operations 9f Abc if his Purchase offer is consummated prior Tofic approval. Under the state corporation Law governing the new York based network Mckenna said approval of two thirds of the outstanding shares of Abc i required for certain key corpor ate by Hughes of approximately 43 per cent of the presently outstanding Abc shares would be sufficient Tob lock various corporate actions even on the Assumption that Hughes did not vote the Abc shares Mckenna told the acc. Candidate mrs. Charlen Mitchell 38, of new York City acknowledges cheers of communist party delegates in new York City after being nominated to run for civilian planners blamed sub Washington up the House armed services commit tee warned monday that the United states faced the possibility of a major submarine it blamed the situation on civilian planners recruited by former defense s e c r e tar Robert s. Mcnamara and said it was time some of them were bounced out of the Pentagon in a report accompanying a$21.6 billion military procure ment Bill recently approved bythe committee chairman l. Mendel Rivers d-s.c., and his colleagues chose S.C. words As alarming critical menacing an to describe the growing soviet submarine flee which according to the panel now numbers More than 350vessels. Some of them carry ballistic missiles which can be aimed Atour cities and other strategic targets some carry missile which can be used against our aircraft carriers and other Cap ital ships. Many of these sub marines moreover Are regularly stationed off our coast lines within missile firing Range the report said. Stacked up against the More than 350 soviet submarines most of them less than 13 Yea sold Are 104 american attack submarines Only 34 of which Are nuclear powered and two thirds of which were built during world War ii. The committee claims nuclear at tack submarines Are the primary defense against the Russia submarine threat. Furthermore the committee report noted systems Analy a theme recen Holby vice adm.1 Senate votes millions to combat delinquency Washington a the Senate went beyond the House but pulled up Short of the administration s goal monday in approving a three year $150-Mil-lion program for combating juvenile passage was by voice Johnson originally sought a four year program costing $250 million. The House version of the Bil Calls for a one year authorization of $25 million. This conflict must be resolved and the Money finally allocated must be appropriated. The final authorization will be somewhere Between the House and Senate funds would be used for various state and local project aimed at preventing delinquency and rehabilitating youth who had become delinquent. The department of health education and welfare which would oversee the program would have More latitude in dealing with local governments and agencies under the Senate Bill than under the House ver Senate rejected an Amend ment to give states far More Ofa role in setting up programs and apportioning funds to . Peter h. Dominick r Colo., successfully moved to trim the program from the $250-million, four year level sought by the administration to the $150-million, three year plan adopted. Sen. Joseph s. Clark d-pa.,floor manager for the Bill accepted the the Bill passed states could receive Block Grants for redistribution to their localities by submitting a plan acceptable to the Federal government and paying the Cost of the , states would com Pete equally with localities for Grants or could apply directly for funds to supplement other programs S.C. As education and Job training related to preventing juvenile delinquency. Pennies put in human Piggy Bank port Washington wis. Up the secret service i watching Dennis l. Uranis 37. They think he s a human piggyback. Uranis was arrested Zauke county authorities said after trying to sell a Man 11 deface pennies for $250. That s a fed eral offence. He put a mint Mark on the Copper coins to make them look More valuable to collectors authorities said but apparently swallowed them before the could get a Good look. A rays disclosed a metallic object something like a Roll of pennies in Uranis stomach officials said. Is a committee or civilians brought int Pentagon by Mcnamara set a limit of 69 nuclear Atta subs by 1973. The committee there inserted in the Adi ministration i budget $16.4 million for Rel search and development for ii new class of submarines to Btl built in the 1970s. Echoing enunciated Lyman Rickover the commit be said that we must Contin Ixl o build More submarines of new classes if we Are not til encounter sooner than we Rize a major submarine although not directly tying Ilo the submarine Issue thelic of m i t t e e recommended strongly that a 10 per cent reduction be made in the lumber of civilians working ill he defense agencies and the office of the Secretary Oil defense contending that the office was now substantially t the committee also said us effect that too much decision making Power now lies in the lands of the civilians and not enough in the hands a experienced military officers. Although the committee Saij bus so Nice Normal again Chicago a bus an train service was Back to nor Mal monday As striking Driver returned to work after a week end session with mayor Richardj. Daley. Basic differences be tween the bus Drivers Union an dissident members however remained to be negotiated it did not want to beat dead horses scattered through Tim report were uncomplimentary allusions to Mcnamara and i computer like efficiency a brought to the Pentagon riven and other senior members Flthe committee made Clear to Neil pleasure Over the new Secreta try Clark Clifford. _ Short wave blanketed by Sun flare or , Colo. A the largest brightest solar m1966 interrupted non radio radio own k. Around the world monday . Space disturbance f i interruptions from to flare on wednesday. Other frequencies so t m Cape the noise storms. 620 died in Holiday traffic Chicago a Ridente during the four dependence Day weekend 620 people
