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LEXINGTON,

KY., TUESDAY,

FER. 20,

Twist'

p.m. My date arrives to
take me to the Mardi Gras Dance.
8:00 p.m. We arrive
at the
dance. The crowd is fairly small;
It's still early. The decor fits the
theme lots of grillwork and the
Usual fountain with running water.
Can't tell when the regina and
rex will te announced. So far President and Mrs. Kennedy haven't
arrived.
8:45 p m. There is a nice-siz- e
crowd. We actually have room to
dance! The band is good a little
loud, but . . . The Kennedys
. still haven't arrived.
Evening ruined my date Just
destroyed one good red balloon.
9:08 p.m. Intermission
The
Kennedys aren't here yet. The
twist is officially in. Dresses have
all kinds of gadgets made for accenting movement. There are not
too many people wearing flowers
that's odd.
The cordiality during intermission is very syrupy. Couples renew
old acquaintances
even though
they may not wkh to. The Kennedys must be waiting to make
a grand entrance. Even President
Dickey isn't here. Chaperons are
also scarce.
9:20 p.m. Intermission is over.
More people are twisting so the
crowd must be warming. The
couple across the way must be
on their first date. They talk
too much about serious and
practical matters.
9:30 p.m. The lights Just came
on inside the throne. Facial expressions while twisting are good.
The tongue goes out, the hands
swing wide, body motion starts,

and

wow.

Here comes a slow dance; time
to take a breather. So far "Sentimental Journey" has been best.
The females are taking advantage of the situation. It's not often
that they get so much attention.
Have Just noted a new craze. One
of the musicians in the band is
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Shirer To Speak
On Government

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At Dance
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University of Kentucky

Vol. LIU, No. 67

By JACKIE FLAM
Kernel Staff Writer

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William L. Shirer, correspondent and author, will speak
at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Coliseum for members o
the Central Kentucky Concert and Lecture Series.
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Julia Wardrup, a member of Alpha Delta Pi, and John Batt,
assistant professor of law, reigned as queen and favorite professor
of the Mardi Gras Dance sponsored Saturday night by the
Newman Club.

Young People,
Vote Morton
Sen. Thruston B. Morton, speaking Friday to the Young
Republicans Club, emphasized the importance of young
people voting.
He said if our representative form of government is to
continue, young people will have to take an active part in local
as well as national government. "One of the best ways to do
this is to register and vote," he added.
"I think our basic freedom is the
freedom of choice," the senator
told the group of students. "This
is Dest exempnuea at tne Dauot
box."
He continued by saying that
the burden of making the right
choice lay with the young people of America. "But high school
and college graduates are far
better equipped to judge and
choose between candidates and
issues than the average citizen.
Young people should feel an additional voting responsibility."
Senator Morton commented
briefly on Kentucky's minimum
voting age of 18. "I am pleased at
how successfully it has worked so
far," he said. "I hope we will be
able to lead the nation in getting

au the states

to adopt similar
legislation."
jn a question and answer period
which followed, the senator was
asked what action the Republican
Party could take in order to become stronger.
"First," he replied, "we have to
do a better job of organization.
That has definitely been one of our
weaknesses.
"Then the Republicans have to
get their story across to the public more articulately. This is difficult for either party when it
is out of office."
When asked about the California
gubernatorial race, Senator Morton
said, "I think Mr. Nixon will face
a difficult race, but I do not doubt
that he will make it because of
the tough race which he is able to
execute."

Shirer, author of "The Rise and
Fall of the Third Reich." will
speak on the problems now before
the American people from both
the national and international
point of view.
An able reporter on the state
of the nation and the world,
hirer's lectures have come to
be known as vital front-pag- e
reports of the day's developments.
His experiences as a foreign
correspondent, radio commentator, and author have enabled
him to present insight into the
problems that need to be brought
to public attention.
To those who have listened to
his broadcasts and read his books.
Shirer is regarded as a reporter
who has the facility of being on
the scene when anything important and newsworthy occurs.
Mr. Shirer was born in Chicago,
but moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa

ln 1913 wnere he attended Co9
College. After graduation, he went
to Europe and remained there for
more than two decades.
He worked with the Parts office of the Chicago Tribune in
1925. In 1927. he was moved from
the Paris office to Chicago as a
reward for his coverage of the
Lindbergh flight. He was then
sent bark to Europe where he
covered the Olympics and various international conferences.
In 1941. he joined the staff of
the Columbia Broadcasting System
in Berlin at the invitation of Edward R. Murrow. "Berlin Diary"
was also published that year.
Shirer has been the recipient of
many honors. He received the
George Foster Peabody Award for
broadcasting, the Wendle Wilkie
One World Award for achievement
in Journalism, and the Legion of
Honor from France.

Indian Graduate Is
Student Of Month
Virenda Barot of India, a
graduate student in
the College of Commerce, has been chosen February Student
of the Month by the Student Union Board.
Dr. Kenneth Harper, assistant
dean of men. said Barot was chosen
for his outstanding work in the
India Night Program, "Friendly
India Evening," held in January.
Barot, called Vic, was director
and star performer of the program. He said, "The success,
what it was, was due to the full
cooperation and help of all the
Indian students and our American friends and families."
While in high school and college,
he participated in thirteen plays
and won several prizes for outstanding performances. He has also
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Showcase

Dr. Snow Studies Prehistoric Life Span

of early Indian Knoll people in Ken
tucky by Dr. Charles Snow, professor of anthropology, and Dr. Francis
Juhnson, a former graduate student.
The study, appearing in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, was made after the two men had made reassessments of more
"shell-heap- "
located on the
than 800 skeletons found ln a
Lanks of the Green River in Ohio County.
The original study, made in 1911, was based upon closures of
and led researchers
the cranial sutures of the lines of skull-bone- s,
to believe the people had died at a young age.
dates from the excavated material have set
The use of carbon-1- 4
the age of the skeletal material at about 5,302 years.
Improvements in the past 20 years have permitted the wear of
teeth and the age characteristics of the pubic face of the hip bones of
the skeletons to be studied. These developments have led to the
of the ages at which the Indian Knoll people were believed
to have died.
The study bhowed that these people were "have nots," and 48
percent of them died before reaching 21.
"These people are similar to other, more primitive,
in terms of
groups and exhibited little overall-similaritage distribution, to more economically and technologically advanced
groups," Dr. Snow reported.
These
people did not have pottery, bow and arrows,
and did not grow coin or tobacco. Tools found in the burial mounds
Indicate they ate very tough foods, such as fish, fresh water mussels,
and deer meat, which made their teeth wear deeper, even to the
pum line.
The research was financed through a UK grant-in-aiA study has been published

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Dr. Charles E. Snow, professor of anthropology,
used 392 adult skulls of the early Indian Knoll
population to determine the average length of
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life of Central Kent m Wans who lived more than
5,000 years ago. These skulls were chosen from
800 sktletons.
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