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John F. Kennedy
PARIS (AP) —John F. Kennedy’s love of “pleasure and
women” made him skirt the edges of scandal during his
years in the White House, writes former French Am
bassador Herve Alphand.
Alphand was a personal friend of the Kennedy family
and the French envoy to Washington published his dairy,
“The Astonishment of Being.”
Alex Haley
HENNING, Tenn. (AP) — Alex Haley hasn’t done for
Henning what Jimmy Carter has done for Plains.
The 605 Henning residents had hoped the success of
native son Haley and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book
“Roots,” would bring a great tourist business.
“Henning is not another Plains, Ga.,” said Mayor Billy
“Poe” Brandon. “Haley gave us a boost, but not what we
anticipated.”
Haley’s last visit to Henning was in May as part of a
three-day statewide celebration honoring him. The small
West Tennessee town prepared for 10,000 visitors. About
1,500 came.
Gov. Mandel
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Marvin Mandel moved
out of the governor’s mansion, but wouldn’t say where he
was going.
Mandel and his wife, Jeanne, have rented a house in
nearby Glen Oban Estates, but it was not known whether
they were going there after their move from the executive
mansion on Wednesday.
Mandel faces sentencing Friday on mail fraud and
racketeering charges. State law requires that Mandel
vacate the mansion before he is sentenced.
Indications are that Mandel does not plan to resign his
office.
Friends say he is optimistic his conviction will be over
turned and wants to be in a position to reclaim his office if
the appeal is successful before his term expires in 15
months.
Prince Charles
ATLANTA (AP) — Prince Charles will be given a
“crash course on the South” when he is guest of honor at
the Fox Theater Oct. 22 for a presentation entitled
“Atlanta Arts Salute the Prince at the Fox.”
The 22-year-old Prince of Wales, heir to the throne of
Great Britain, will visit Georgia Oct. 21-23 and, among
other things, see a University of Georgia football game.
After the game he will attend the show, developed at the
request of the British government.
Word from London was that the prince wanted “nothing
heavy,” something that would entertain him and inform
him about the South.
The show will include Southern vaudevillian songs such
as “Basin Street” and “Sweet Georgia Brown,” a
multiscreen slide show on the sights and sounds of
Atlanta, and instruction on how to speak and dress as
Southerners do.
Califano to revamp
drug regulations
WASHINGTON (AP) - Too
many Americans take drugs
they do not need and don’t know
enough about, says the
secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare. He wants a “top-to
bottom, thorough overhaul” of
government regulation of
drugs.
HEW Secretary Joseph A.
Califano Jr. said Wednesday he
will begin by revamping the
Food and Drug Administration,
but also urged Congress to re
write the 40-year-old law which
governs the agency.
Califano said consumers often
are not supplied enough infor
mation about drugs, both the
prescription and over-the
counter varieties, and “our
regulatory process itself is
closed and secretive.”
The result, he said, is that too
many consumers take drugs
that do not help them.
“Little dispute exists that
much prescribing (of drugs) in
this country is done for symp
toms for which the drug is not
recommended or is not effec
tive,” Califano told a luncheon
sponsored by Public Citizen Fo
rum, a consumer group.
“Too often doctors automati
cally write, and patients auto
matically expect a prescription
for every ailment. Unnecessary
Crasher doesn’t
apologize to Klan
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)
— Buddy Cochran says he’s
sorry he drove his sportscar
into the stage at a Ku Klux Klan
rally in President Carter’s
hometown, but he doesn’t
apologize for disliking the Klan.
“They say I’ve been insane
for 30 years,” Cochran said in a
speech to about 50 Florida State
University students earlier this
week. “That’s what they say.
They say that attacking the
Klan was the first sane thing
I’ve ever done. I’ll go along with
use at a minimum wastes mon
ey and contributes to already
soaring medical costs,” he con
tinued.
Califano said that since the
law governing the FDA was
enacted in 1938, sales in the
drug manufacturing industry
have grown from about S3OO
million to more than $7 billion a
year.
“Today, more than 1.5 billion
prescriptions are written every
year — an average of 5.7 pre
scriptions for every man, wom
an and child in the nation,” he
said.
And he said the growth of the
industry and scientific develop
ments which have resulted in
the development of many new
drugs have made the current
law archaic.
Califano said manufacturers
should be required to disclose
tests they make of drugs to as
sure that they are safe and ef
fective. The results of such tests
are withheld from the public on
the grounds that ‘‘trade
secrets” might be divulged.
“Not only should the (test)
data be public but decisions
should be made in open pro
ceedings to provide interested
groups an opportunity to submit
views and to participate before
the FDA,” Califano said.
that.”
Cochran, a one-time mental
patient, faces eight counts of
aggravated assault and $1.5
million in civil lawsuits stemm
ing from the July 2 incident in
Plains, Ga., when he drove
his sportscar into a platform
used at the Klan rally.
Among those injured were a
woman eight months pregnant,
a television network reporter
and a 12-year-old boy who suf
fered almost fatal head injuries.
Spanish poet wins Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) '
— The 1977 Nobel Prize for Lit
erature was awarded today to
Spanish poet Vicente Alei
xandre.
The Swedish Academy
awarded the prize to Alei
xandre, born in 1898 in Seville,
“for a creative poetic writing,
which, with roots in the tradi
tions of Spanish lyric verse and
in modern currents, illuminates
man’s condition in the cosmos
and in present-day society.”
Aleixandre belongs to the
same group of Spanish writers
as Federico Garcia Lorca. But,
like Italian poet Eugenio Mon-
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tale, who won the 1975 prize, he
is not widely known outside his
homeland. The last Spaniard to
win it was Jacinto Benevente in
1922.
The prize’s cash award this
year is $145,000.
On Wednesday the 18-mem
ber academy suddenly dis
closed that the winner of the
literature prize would be an
nounced within 24 hours, break
ing long tradition. The liter
ature prize in the past usually
was announced after other No
bel prizes.
Last year’s literature winner
was American novelist Saul
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Bellow.
Aleixandre had not even been
mentioned in advance specula
tion about the 1977 award win
ner.ln winning the prize he
bettered such well-known au
thors as Doris Lessing of Brit
ain, Guenther Grass of West
Germany and Gabriel Garcia
Marquez of Colombia.
The 79-year old poet first
gained notice with the poems
“Ambito” in 1928. This was fol
lowed by “Espadas como
Labios” — “Swords as Lips” —
in 1932, and two years later he
was awarded Spain’s top liter
ary prize.
I —Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 6, 1977
In 1935, shortly before the
Spanish civil war broke out,
Aleixandre’s “La Destruccion o
el Amor” — “Destruction or
Love” — was published in Spain
and later the same year
“Pasion de la Tierra” — “Pas
sion of the Earth” — in Mexico.
Both works were carefully
cadenced free verse, the latter
changing to prose poems.
Jorge Luis Borges, Argen
tina’s most noted author, said
today the selection of Alei
xandre was “very good news.”
“Aleixandre is an excellent
poet. I am very pleased,” said
Borges,