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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
July 12, 19S3 (Sunday)
Soap box derby starts to
day; 100 youngsters pilot their
race cars down the hill; win'
Iter goes to Akron, Ohio.
Jackson county's first polio
victim of the year is a 5vi-year-old
boy who has a mild
bulbar case of the disease.
20 YEARS AGO
July 12, 1943 (Sunday)
One killed, two Injured In
South Riverside ave. smashup.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Old
timers report they never ran
round in finer fall weather
than experienced so tar this
summer. '
10 YEARS AGO
July 12, 1933 (Tuesday)
Young Democrats urge re
peal of prohibition law.
Valley apple and peach
growers to study price con
ditions. 40 YEARS AGO
July 12, 1923 (Wednesday)
Mr. and Mrs. F. Corning
Kenley leave for auto trip to
Victoria, B. C.
Tourist car goes over bank
near Rogue Elk.
SO YEARS AGO
July 12, 1913 (Saturday)
Contract let for trolley ties
for line connecting Medford
and Siskiyou Heights.
California Oregon Power
, company offers electric range
for sao cash, $63 on Install
ments. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er fen correct la superior;
even or eleht is excellent; five er
ii b f 004.
1. Salem is the capital of
which state?
2. Which of the original 13
states was the last to ratify
the Constitution?
3. A derringer Is a short
barreled pistol, a kind of dag
ger, or a type of vehicle?
4. Would you keep birds or
Decs in an apiary?
8. The John Day, McNary
ana wannpum Dams are on
which river?
6. Is hominy made from
wheat, corn, oats or barley?
7. Who succeeded Abraham
Lincoln in the office of Presi
dent?
8. What Is "Adam's Ale?
9. The magnetic comoasa
always points toward the geo
graphic North Pole; true or
ttlse7
10. What Is the difference
between animals that are; 1
herbivorous; 2. carnivorous;
3. and omnivorous.
Anaworsi 1. Oregon, 2.
Rhode Island. 3. Pistol. 4.
Bees. 5. Columbia, t Corn. 7,
Andrew Johnson. I. Water.
False (magnetic north). 10.
1. Vegetation eaters; 2. flash
aiers; 3. eat both.
Equine Influenza
In Portland Area
Salem-fliPli-An equine Influ
enza that has spread through
out the eastern part of the
United States has been report
ed In the Portland area, the
State Agriculture Department
saia today.
At present there Is no spe
cific treatment for the disease
and no way of Immunizing the
FRIDAY, JULY 12. 18(3
Understanding the Constitution
- We often wonder how many of the people
who go about calling for "a return to the Consti
tution" actually have read that remarkable docu-
ment.
Particularly do we
the preamble, which in
important part of it. It goes like this:
"We, the people of the United States, In order to
form a more perfect union, establish justice. Insure
domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings
of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain
and establish this constitution for the United States
, of America." . .
The preamble gives the purpose of the Con
stitution; it sets the tone; it explains what the
Founding Fathers were trying to accomplish.
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IMPLICIT in the preamble, and, indeed, through
nut, tho pnMl'0 HflPllmpnr l'a trio nnz-lovorarirlirnr
that the Constitution provides a framework of
government which must
meet cnanging circumstances and conditions.
The "general welfare" of the people, of all
citizens, is a continuing concern in the Constitu
tion. It appears not only in the preamble, but
elsewhere.
There are certain passages in the Constitu
tion which are not, on
and specific, and require interpretation, particu
larly when applied to specific cases. So the Su
preme Court, in which "the judicial power of the
United btates is vested, become the final au
thority of the meaning of the Constitution in
those cases which are appealed to it for decision.
THE ultimate authority
ment, as contrasted
states, is also made clear :
"This constitution, and the laws of the United
' States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and
all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the
authority of the United States, shall be the supreme
law of the land; and the judges in every state shall
be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws
of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
Also, long before the Fourteenth Amend
ment was ratified, to provide the "equal protec
tion of the laws" to all citizens, the constitution
declared:
"The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all
privileges and immunities of citizens of the several .
states."
THE states righters, who continually claim that
1 the federal government is usurping their pow
er, cannot have made any real study of the con
stitution, even though they keep citing it as the
basis for their arguments.
Their chief reliance is
ment, which says, "The powers not delegated to
lliA ITU.J Ct.l.. V.. 4.U-
uic uiuicu otatea uy me
nioitea Dy it to tne states, are reserved to the
states respectively, or to the people."
But the constitutional grant of power to the
federal government is a large one, far larger
than the states righters are willing to concede.
e
THIS grant of power is
whifh are snpllpH nut
also those which are implicit, as in the preamble.
The government, in other words, may do
whatever is necessary "in order to form a more
perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common defense, pro
mote me general weilare, and secure the bless
ings of liberty ..."
If, in exercising these powers, the federal
government is in conflict with one or more
states, it is the national
.,.1,1 nnl.. .L!
yau. iiui umy iB mis speueu out in tne constitu
tion, in several places, but it was reinforced in
the blood of civil warfare, when the Confederate
states attempted to make their authority superior
to mat oi me nation as a
HERE is currently under way an effort to
destroy the whole intent of the constitution.
as it was written and as it
It is a states righters' attempt, which was
moving along very quietly until just recently,
when it has received nationwide attention. The
attack on the constitution and its historic prin-
cipies is in me lorm ot
menus, iney would:
1. Deny federal courts any jurisdiction over
the apportionment of state legislative seats.
2. Allow the state legislatures to amend the
constitution without the approval of Congress or
a state or national consensus of any kind.
3. Create a "court of the Union," composed
of the chief justices of the 50 states, with power
to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court in all cases
involving federal-state relationships.
THESE amendments could, in the words of one
1 observer, "cripple the system of federal pow
ers which Alexander Hamilton advocated, George
Washington helped to establish, and Abraham
Lincoln fought to preserve."
These three amendments together with the
even more ludicrous "Liberty Amendment,"
which would effectively emasculate the United
States government represent an attempt to un
dercut both the government and the constitution
under which it operates. As such, it docs vio
lence both to the concepts of the Founding Fa
thers and to the laws of the land which have
grown out of them.
If anyone tells you he wants to "return to
Constitutional principles," ask him which consti
tution he means the one we've lived with for
176 years, or one he imatrincs but which never
was. E. A.
T
wonder if thev have read
some ways is the most
be flexible enough to
the face of them, clear
of the federal govern-
with the powers of the
on the Tenth Amend
cuiisuiuuuil, not pro-
not only the actions
wni'rl f urm-rl hut
will which shall pre-
L 11. ...
whole.
has developed through
three proposed amend
"Oh, He's a Great Anti-Communist
It's Just That He Finds the Buddhist
Are Easier To Get At"
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Still Boiling
To the Editor: I'm still boil
lug. On July 4, of all days,
you had the nerve to write
that the "patriot of today's
ultra-right (meaning Birchers
and Dan Smoot and Dean
Mamon tans) is not a con
servative," that, "a true Con
servative ; . . values tradl
tions, customs, and institu
tions which have served us so
well over the last century and
a half." Just what do you
think the Birchers and Smoot
and Manion fans are doing?
Are we trying to socialize this
country? Or trying to disarm
it unilaterally and surrender
lis sovereignty to a Commu
nist controlled world govern
ment? Is it the ultra-right who
are destroying the Declara
tion of Independence, our
Constitution, the patriotism of
our children, and the Chris
tian heritage of America?
You know full well that it
is the rightists who are fight
ing tooth and nail to hang
onto our Independence, our
sovereignty, our Constitution,
our Bill of Rights, our great
Republic, our armed forces,
our national self respect, and
every Institution, custom, tra
dition, and freedom that our
Forefathers handed down to
the American people.
I'm a member of the "ultra
right", and when you call me
"a true subversive" I see red.
In fact your whole paper
takes on a red tinge. Let me
tell you something. You and
Congressman Udall. It was
Earl Warren who sowed mis
trust, suspicion, and hatred of
himself, when he voted ap
proximately 40 times in favor
of the Communists in the Su
preme Court. It was Presi
dent John F. Kennedy who
sowed mistrust, suspicion and
hatred of himself, when he
withdrew promised air cover
from the Invading Cuban pa
triots at the Bay of Pigs;
when he invaded and crushed
the state of Mississippi with
federal troops instead of in
vading and cleaning up the
Cuban Communist cancer on
our doorstep; and now, when
he is actually protecting Cas
tro wtth U.S. armed forces,
wh..e his spokesman, Assist
ant Secretary of Defense, Ar
thur Sylvester, tells us to our
teeth that the government
"has the inherent right to
lie" to us.
And President Eisenhower?
He sowed his own seeds of
suspicion and mistrust when,
by an executive order, he
stopped a Senatorial commit
tee from investigating Com
iruinism in our defense de
partment; and by other star
tling and revealing acts and
statements which wore re
ported in the American press
and gathered together in one
book, "The Politician", by
Robert Welch. If you want
your eyes opened to the ter
ror that is now closing in on
our beloved America, get and
read this infuriating book of
incredible, but painstakingly
documented, statements of
Mr. Welch about Eisenhow
er's role In the betrayal of
America and the enslaved mil
lions behind the Iron Cur
tain. W. F. Murray,
1S SE L St.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Jcksonvllle's Gold
To the Editor: Some time
ago an article credited the
town of Columbia, in Tuo
lumne county, as one of the
best preserved of the early
mining towns of California.
We believe that Jackson
ville also can very well boast
of the best preserved town in
all of Oregon's former min
ing towns since discovery of
gold In 18M-52. After more
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE,
Mail Tribune reserves the riaht to
not exceed 400 words. The letters
the case.
than 100 years some placer
gold is yet panned, rocked or
sluiced out of the remaining
ancient gravel in the sur
rounding creeks.
Bert Kissinger
322 South Riverside
ave.,
Medford
The Hereafter
To the Editor: Speculation
about the Hereafter is futile.
Man tries to envision life in
Heaven in terms of life on
earth, during his century and
in his limited sphere. But life
changes from century to cen
tury as per customs and be
liefs. In the world beyond per
iods of time will be unknown.
There won't be days, weeks,
months, etc., because there
won't be any need for them.
Since no one will suffer from
hunger, thirst, heat, cold or
sickness, no one will need
any of the necessities of life
he experienced on earth.
I Imagine that Heaven
a mighty big place with room
enough for all of us. See you
there some day.
David Frisch
P. O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
To the Editor: This is writ
ten on behalf of The Fellow
ship of Reconciliation, re
ferred to in brief as FOR.
FOR is an international or
ganization which is dedicated
to non-violent opposition to
wrong. Their influence of non
violent resistance has had its
impact upon the present con
flict over the racial question.
They are preaching their doc
trine of reconciliation and
love because it is the only
hope of elminating the tur
moil in the world and the dan
ger of war and destruction.
One has only to stop and re
flect to realize that nothing is
more urgently needed in this
world today.
Gifts to the FOR have been
declared tax-exempt for 37
years, but now, at this ex
tremely critical point in our
history, the IRS would deny
this support, thereby restrict
ing their work. Such action
forces one to question the wis
dom and sincerity o f those
having the authority to make
such decisions. Senator Neu-
bergcr and others have of late
drawn our attention to organ
izations less worthy who are
enjoying such privileges
There are some churches
which are not as concerned
about world peace and such
vitnl issues that are not treat
ed in like manner.
To qualify for such deduc
tions an organization must
teach the existence of a divine
deity and improve the charac
tcr of the public, thus reliev
ing the government of that
much expense. With this ade
quate standard to go by we
hope that FOR will be given
the honest treatment which is
unquestionably deserved.
If you are one of those who
would like to have a hand in
preserving life upon this
earth, or in making it a better
place for all to live in, write
FOR, Box 271, Nyack. New
York, and ask for the bro
chure "Where Do You Fit In?"
Bert Harr
Route 2, Box 77
Jacksonville, Ore.
Posfor Will Present. .
Gifts To Parishioners
Warwick. R. I.-ilPP-The Rev.
Carl W. Bloomquist. pastor of
the Pilgrim Lutheran Church,
will present orchids to the
parishoners this Sunday.
"This is not just a gimmick,"
he said. "Our people here have
been really tremendous dur
ing the years. They ought to
have a little reward for it."
MEDFORD, OREGON
North Vietnamese Guerilla War Genius
Masterminding Red
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Mews Analyst
When France lost the bat
tle for Indo-China with the
fall of Dien Bien Phu in 19S4,
the guiding
genius behind
the Commu
nist attack
was Gen. Vo
Nguyen Giap.
Giap, whose
tactics gave
new meaning
to g u e r i 1 la
warfare, now
is the defense
minister of Communist North
Vietnam and chief strategist
for the Communist Viet Cong
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
it) 1063. The
THE POST-POSTWAR ERA
Things are moving so fast
in both the Communist world
and ours that it is hard for
the observer
to k e e p up
with them.
Yet there is
already suffi
cient reason to
ask ourselves
w h ether,
along with
and no doubt
a f f e cted by
the runture in
side the Communist orbit.
there is not also, long before
most people expected it, a pro-
iouna cnange wiliiin the West
ern system.
We can begin to see dimly
that events are overtaking the
standard conception of West
ern unity as preached for the
past 15 years and preached
again recently by President
Kennedy.
The standard conceDtion nf
western unity is that of a'
rally of beleaguered forces in
a dire emergency. It origin
ated in the years immediately
after the war when Western
Europe was devastated and
disarmed, and there was noth
ing but a meager supply of
American atomic bombs be
tween the Red army and
Paris. In that climate of im
minent peril, there were con
ceived and constructed in a
dazzling display of statesman
ship the postwar institutions
of the Western world, the
Marshall Plan, NATO and the
Common Market.
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A S IS evident from the flour-
ishing condition of West
ern Europe todaly, these post
war institutions accomplished
wonders. But they contained
within themselves an obvious,
but unavowed, difficulty
which wag destined to make
them transitory. The difficul
ty was that the Federal Re
public of Germany is not
"Germany," but the Western
section of a divided Germany;
the six countries of the Com
mon Market are not "Europe,"
but only one part of the non-
Communist part of Europe.
And non-Communist Europe
is only a part of Europe.
Unless I am misreading the
present course of events, we
are looking backward when
we base American policy on
the revival of the partitioned,
divided and fragmented post
war "Europe. There is much
ground for thinking that the
main movement of affairs is
away from a closer organiza
tion of postwar Western Eu
rope and toward a loose asso
ciation and increasing inter
course with the whole of Eu
rope. The exclusion of Britain,
together with Ireland and
Scandinavia, from the six has
been followed by many signs
of stagnation and even frag
mentation within the six.
' a
IF CERTAIN indiscreet, of-
the-record remarks of Gen
eral De Gaulle have been cor
rectly reported, he-as so often
before - has been one of the
first to see a new develop
ment. He hns recognized that
there is not much of a future
in the Paris-Bonn axis within
a very small Europe. In any
event, as the recent visit of
the general to Bonn showed.
the two countries collaborate
as well, but no better than
most neighbors. The West
Germans are not only looking
to Britain and across the At
lantic, but are looking also to
Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union. The post Adenauer
Germans like Erhard and
Schroedcr and Brandt are not
interested in the small post
war "Europe." They have no
passionate enthusiasm for a
close political integration of
the partitioned Germany in a
truncated Europe.
In this connection, there is
great importance in the chang
ing relations between tne
Catholic Church and the East
European States. There is
much evidence that in Poland
and Hungary and perhaps in
KENNEDY PLANS TRIP
Washington - HOT -President
Kennedy planned to fly to
Cape Cod today to join his
wife and two children for the
week end.
LlDDmarm
in South Vietnam and the
Communist Fathet Lao in
Laos.
Like Mao Tse-Tung, the
Red Chinese leader whose tac
tics he adopted and improved
upon, Giap has set forth his
theories of war in a book,
Guerilla warfare causes
many diffiiculties and losses
to the enemy and wears him
out," Giap writes. "To an
nihilate enemy manpower and
liberate land, guerilla war
fare has to change gradually
to mobile warfare."
The change is made, he
says, when scattered bands of
guerillas can be grouped for
lippmann
Washington Post
the other Central European
States the church may be on
the way to winning freedom
for its pastoral, and perhaps
even for its teaching, func
tion. This is certain to dimin
ish the antagonism between
the peoples on both sides of
the iron curtain.
THE confusion and the dis
array, the aimlessness and
bewilderment, which are more
or less prevalent everywhere,
are the concomitants of the
break-up of an established or
der. We are living amidst the
break-up of the established or
der of the postwar world, and
we are finding that much of
our thinking is no longer able
to explain the facts.
This intellectual and moral
upheaval is not caused by the
intransigence of General De
Gaulle. But he has been the
first western statesman to re
alize that the established post
war order was breaking up,
and he was the first to act
upon this insight.
It is a fascinating question
now which western statesman,
if any, will be the first to lead
the way into the post-postwar
era.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises. Inc.
WHITTLING THE
LANGUAGE
In a recent magazine ad,
the company mentioned "the
enormity of our effort" to ob
tain a certain
product. What
the company
m cant was
" enormous
ness," and not
wick edness,
which "enor
mity" has al-
w a y s meant.
Why complain
Harris aooui a muiui
error of this sort, ask the
modernists in speech? As long
as people know what you
mean, what difference does it
make which word you use?
Besides, words change their
meanings from century to cen
tury sometimes, almost
from generation to genera
tion.
There is some truth in their
position, but not enough to
outweigh the disadvantages of
using words loosely and slop
pily. If "enormity" ceases to
mean a kind of large wicked
ness, and comes to mean the
same as ' enormousness, then
we have lost a valuable word,
and gained nothing. One tool
of language has been dulled
beyond repair.
Consider another more
prevalent example the
modern use of "disinter
ested" to mean "uninter
ested." Properly speaking,
a judge it "disinterested"
in a case that is. he is in
terested In an objective and
impartian manner. This is a
most valuable word to de
scribe the role of a "dis
interested party." If, how
ever, it it used interchange
ably with "uninterested."
we have limply given up
something for nothing.
I don't beiieve that words
should be preserved mere
ly for their antiquarian or
traditional value: the only
test should be whether they
till a verbal need. When
they do. we should resist all
efforts to eliminate them or
modify their meenlng.
"Imply" and "infer" are
also losing their distinction:
I "imply" by whet I tay,
and I "infer" from what
you say. If these two are
used interchangeably, then
communication becomes
even more confused. Since
semantic confusion it al
ready to great in our socie
ty, loosening the bonds of
meaning even further can
only create greater mil
chief. a
We cannot prevent lang
uage from changing, nor
should we. But the changes
should be gradual, sensible
and advantageous. Purists, for
instance, object to "contact"
as a verb ("I contacted John
yesterday"), and indeed it is
an ugly construct; yet it
Forces in
swift, hardhitting attacks over
a set battlefield.
Arthur Domen, a UPI vet
eran at reporting the war in
Laos, says this is about what
the situation has become
there today.
The Geneva accord by
which it was hoped to turn
Laos into a neutral state, gave
the Pathet Lao guerillas army
status by recognizing that
there were three armed forces
in Laos, the Pathet Lao, the
royal Tightest forces under
Gen. Phoumi Nosavan and the
neutralist forces of Kong Le-
In the past year, according
to Domen, it has been dis
covered that the Pathet Lao
possess armed camps with
their own supply dumps and
field hospitals. In the strate
gic Plain of Jars which pro
vides access not only to
South Vietnam but to Cam
bodia and Thailand as well,
they have fought in unit
strength up to a battalion,
carrying relatively heavy
Sin Lines Us Up,
At The Box Office
By Arthur Hoppe
There's no denying we're
having a great moral revival
in this country. You can't go
anywhere without hearing
everybody angrily condemn
ing Mr. Burton and Miss Tay
lor for their appalling con
duct during the filming of
Cleopatra. Never has our Na
tion been more staunchly
united on such a burning
moral issue. Where will such
indignation all end?
Well. Mr. Darryl F. Zanuck
now figures happily that the
picture ought to gross better
than $100 million.
So I guess it's another
smashing example of the old
law that everbody's four-
J. Harris
avoids the cumbersome "got
in touch with" and does not
muddy the waters of mean
ing. The other evening, a friend
mentioned the phrase "the
lion's share." Everyone uses
it today to mean the larger
part, when actually it means
the whole part, in Aesop's
fable. By distorting this
phrase, we are left with no
expression to indicate the sit
uation in which the lion grabs
the whole part.
We are continually whit
tling down the language in
this way, and it is up to
teachers, writers and other
guardians of speech to protect
us from the consequences of
our verbal folly.
Ike Denies Report
Of Excluding Names
Washington-UIPD - Former
President Dwight D. Eisen
hower has denied a report he
excluded Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller and Sen. Barry
Goldwater from his list of ac
ceptable candidates for the
1964 GOP presidential nomi
nation.
It had been reported that
Eisenhower considered only
Gov. William Scranton of
Pennsylvania, Gov. George
Romney of Michigan, Sen.
Thruston B. Morton (R-Ky.)
and former Gen. Lucius D.
Clay as potential candidates
for the Republican nomina
tion. It was learned that Eisen
hower's denial was relayed by
a friend to both Rockefeller
and Goldwater as well as to
GOP congressional leaders.
. ?v 7"t i;
"When I grow up. I wan to topple
governments!"
Laos Fight
weapons and working with
radio equipment.
Giap's advisors work right
up with Pathet Lao forward
units. '-
In addition to training;
Pathet Lao officers in North
Vietnam and building up local
military units, the Commu
nists are proceeding rapidly
with the indoctrinatfon of
populations under their con
trol. In Laos' capital of Vietiane,
Western observers concede
that a hard-core regiment of
North Vietnamese veterans
of the Indochina war could
sweep the Plain of Jars now
if they wished.
By the end of the current
rainy season or by May of
1964, the Pathet Lao may ba
ready for the job themselves,
thus maintaining the fiction
of Laotians fighting for Laos.
The Communist countries
then might call for another
international conference to
ratify the battlefield victory.
square for morality. But no
body's going to pay out good
money for it. And all that wor
ries me now is how such a
smashingly smashing example
is going to affect Hollywood.
I shudder to envision the
scene.
e :
(The scene: The Idea Room
of Wonder Westerns, Inc. -"If
it's A Good Western, It's
A Wonder!" Seated around the
inlaid Formica idea table afa
Producer Cecil B. DeCecil and
his brain trust of Idea Men,
headed by Copley S. Plaza.)
Mr. DeCecil': All right, lel'i
have it. It better be good.
Mr. Plaza: You'll love it.
Chief. First of a,ll, we. shoot
it in the Middle East. .
Mr. DeCecil: A Middle Eat
em Western? What's wrong
with good old Lonesome Pine?
Mr. Plaza: No .romance.
This one we film in the mys
terious Casbah, with side
trips to Capri, Venice and
Coney Island.
Mr. DeCecil: It'll cost mil
lions! .
Mr. Plaza: (proudly): Scores
of millions! The public will
decry such extravagance.
With luck, we'll upset the gold
balance and hit the financial
pages, too.,
Mr. DeCecil: Good thinking.
Who's the cast?
Mr. Plaza: We figure Shir
ley Temple as the lead. She's
just a simple American house
wife, see? But she is overcome
by the heady mystique of the
Casbah and then-bang-o!-she
meets Walter Brennan. ,
Mr. DeCecil: Walter Bren
nan! He's old enough to be her
father. '
Mr. Plaza: Right, Chief. It
gives us the Lolita angle. It'll
outrage housewives, fathers,
little girls and the League of
Decency. He wants her to fly
off to Venice with him, see?
Illicitly. But shall she leava
her children? What conflict.
Mr. DeCecil: And in the end
she forsakes her lover, eh? V
Mr. Plaza: Gosh, no, Chief.
She forsakes her childrej.
Mothers everywhere will be
up in arms. But in Venice sHe
takes up with this Italian gofl
dolier driver, which will of
fend American male pridf.
Then, addicted to heroin
she . r . j
Mr. DeCecil: Marvelous!
Let's start production. It'll
outgross "Cleopatra." Yoji
men are to be commended fqV
coming up with such a grejt
story line for what happens
off the set. By the way, have
you given any thought yet to
what the actual movie itself
will be about? . 1
Mr. Plaza: Oh, we'll thinjt
of something. i
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