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TOKYO (liP I )-North Korea said Tuesday the United States must apologize for conducting spy activities in its waters before it will OBSERVER consider releasing the crew of the USS Pueblo. Serving the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College Community It was the first public statement on the Pueblo crew's release by VOL Ill, NG. 7 WEDNESDAY, SEYfEMBER 25, 1968 North Korea since the nat ion's 20th anniversary 15 days ago. At that time, speculation ran high the release of the 82 crewmen was imminent. Tuesday's declaration was broadcast by the Korean central ASP Unveils New Program news agency and monitored in Tokyo. The announcer said the statement appeared in the North Korean newspaper Ro dong Action Student Party leader in favor of the ASP program. "The students feel a lot of what Shinmoon. Peter r(elly last night unveiled a Boyle maintained "the basic goes on in the Senate is three part program of student thing about off-campus is that irrelevant. However, the Senate action which will serve as basis we're five years behind the rest of can be more than it has been. for the ASP Senate campaign. the university. We have a severe: Each Senator maintains a duty Priests Urge Arbitration The ASP plan presented at a housing problem and an archaic to represent those who have candidates meeting, calls for landlady system_" Blasting the elected him. It is necessary for WASIIINGTON (UPI)-A nationwide organization of Roman restructuring of the University system of certification of the ASP to offer a choice of Catholic priests moved Tuesday to exert pressure on Patrick Cardinal Student Life Council to allow housing by the Dean of Students leadership and clear stands on O'Boyle to submit his birth control dispute with 44 local priests to for greater student paricipation, office, Boyle contended "They issues. ASP must be both a impartial arbitration. legitimatization of the role of don't have to live in those vehicle of true student the off-campus student through places." representation and a vehicle of A spokesman for the 72 year old archbishop of Washington more proportional Junior Pat Barbolla supported student power- immediately made clear he had no intention of doing so. "Cardinal representation in the Student Boyle's stand, detailing his own ASP campaign chairman Hill ()'Boyle's posit ion is that this is a doctrinal matter and is not subject Senate as well as revision of efforts to obtain permission, Beyer concluded the meeting to arbitration or mediation," the spokesman said. university housing regulations, with parental approval, to live in with an outline of campaign an apartment. Bar bolla and The call for arbitration came from leaders of the National and revamping of the student procedures. Terming the Senate Junior Stay Senator Mike Federation of Priest ' Councils, whose 120 affiliates represent about body constitution. campaign "the most Kendall stressed the fact that half the nation's catholic priests. Leading off discussion of the sophisticated and best organized program, Kelly contended "Last housing decisions are made by yet," Beyer went on to outline Thursday we decided to call for the administration and not plans for both a campus-wide Senate consideration of the students. Kendall remarked ASP campaign and campaigns of Plot Against Hubie? Student Life Council. Rossie "The essential point is that no individual candidates in halls_ accepted what we called for and matter what the Administration had done we still live in a The ASP Endorsements MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) Hubert II. Humphrey charged Tuesday his thus the Senate elections are non-representative society." Committee will meet tonite to campaign was the target of highly disciplined, well organized eff6rt scheduled before the Council The candidates meeting, consider adding onto the three to wreck the Democratic Party and the United States. meets. However, this is not enough to provide for true besides witnessing the three major programs presented last night and consider additional The vice president also said Richard M. Nixon may force a consideration and basic ASP points, saw Chairman candidates to fill hall slates. As defeat of of the Nuclear proliferation treaty by his "stalling" on its representation. We should allow Kelly unveil plans for a full slate to off-campus, where a ratification. the Senate to review the SLC of candidates in the Senate profusion of ASP candidates decisions. I think there ought to elections. Kelly stated "This is llumphrey told a news conference here that those who had exists, a primary will be held be recall if a student member of our first opportunity to be a been heckling his appearances were "not just hecklers, but highly Thursday afternoon at the the Council is unrepresentative. true majority party. Only when disciplined, well organized agitators-.. sorne of them anarchists and Library coffee hour to This year the Student Life the students organize can some of these groups arc dedicated to destroying the Democratic student influence be achieved_ determine five nominees_ Party and destroying this country." Council will be the biggest issue in the Senate campaign. If it The University has come a long ASP Chairman Kelly were not for us, the SLC would way in the last three years as a announced, too, that primaries US. Guilty? have automatically begun its result of our programs_ This is a will be used to determine deliberations unrepresentative, time for students to say they are candidates in other halls. At last in favor of student power- That night's meeting, ASP candidates NEW YORK (UPI) A left wing publication reported Tuesday circumventing the duly elected is why we will run a full slate." were announced for fifteen halls that the commanding officer of the Pueblo told its correspondent he Senate, and with no popular In a fighting speech on the with assurances from Kelly that deliberately moved the intelligence ship into North Korean check on its actions." Senate, Stay Senator Kendall a full slate would be on the territorial waters under orders to test the Communist response to Concerning off-campus living, backed up Kelly, contending ballot. such an intrusion. Junior Sam Boyle spoke strongly

The Guardian, which describes itself as an "Independent Radical Newsweekly," said Capt. Uoyd Bucher made the admission Ghost Painters Whitewash Badin Sept. 12 during a five hour news conference and elaborated in a Mysteriously Monday night, private interview later with Guardian correspondent Lionel Martin. uncovered(besides the remainder should be completed by some the porch of Badin Hall, or at of the porch) was a half dozen time this morning. Presently, least most of it, was painted a size-9 white footprints and two Chief of Security Arthur Pears is stunning white (O'Brien white handprints left by an undecided as to whether an off-white as campus regulations Fortas 'Busted stipulate). Permission to paint WASIIINCTON (LJPI) In a surprise move, Senate Democratic the sagging structure had been leader Mike Mansfield cleared the way Tuesday night for the start of previously refused by the a threatened filibuster against the controversial nomination of Abe administration. Fort as to be chief just ice. Representatives from Badin blamed the men of Sorin, who llis motion to take up the appointment after days of Senate suspected Walsh Hall, who dallying on a minor tax bill sparked a flurry of parliamentary passed the buck to Stanford, maneuvering, and the Senate recessed until 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday who, in turn, pointed a finger of guilt at the girls of LeMans Hall SMC (who are infamously reknowned for painting visible No Sanctuary surfaces and then giving the brush-off). C'AMBRJL)(;E, MASS. (LJPI)-Armed forces and local police today Badin Hall president Dave removed a 21-year-old AWOL Marine combat veteran from the Ryan was forlorn, "Now that llarvard University chapel where he had been granted sanctuary. the damage has been done, and llarvard Divinity School Dean Krister Stendahl said there was the aesthetic beauty of our hall no resistance by students to the removal on a federal warrant of Cpl. tainted, my only hope is that Paul Olimpieri. 21, of Fairfield, Conn., a Vietnam veteran and twice those responsible will finish by Badin Hall half-done some time this week." Badin I he recipient of the Purple lleart. apparently clumsy prankster just rector Fr. Burke was equally investigation will be conducted. Olimpieri, who had chained himself to his 19 year old wife, Lynn, beneath the porch. perplexed and shaken by the Meanwhile, an expert from when he took sanctuary at the school's Andover chapel Sunday, had experience. Underground reports· Chicago has been called in to vowed to remain until removed by authorities. The only tangible evi dcnce indicated that the pamt job administer lie detector tests. WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 25, 1968 PAGE 2 THE OBSERVER

MBA To Graduate First Class Paul Schroeder

The Master's Degree in An integral part of the teams compete with each other Business Administration at philosophy of the program is on various problems, much as Notre Dame is alive and well in that the businessman should corporations do. Teams are not Hypocrisy the new Hayes-Healy Center. contribute his skills for the good selected on a random basis, but The charter class of of the community. "However," are arranged so that each team approximately 50 students will said Professor Sequin, "we do has a fair cross-section of The "dramatic" confrontation between the Hall Presidents' graduate at the end of the Council and Father Riehle last Sunday night was anything but current academic year. dramatic. It was long, tedious, ofter inane and virtually inconclusive. Except perhaps it proved that the HPC is not a meeting ground for According to Raymond mental giants. They blew the golden opportunity to watch the Murphy, Dean of the College of Administration rationalize the obvious paradox which exists here. Business, the program is "a good In less than a month the Student Life Council will meet with full integration of the Chicmgo and powers to legislate on all areas of student life. This could be an Harvard type program." historic step in the right direction. It is more than a concession to stude'nt power on the part of the Administration. It is a real "We are training our students admission that students deserve a voice in deciding how their lives for managerial positions at the are to be regulated. division level rather than for staff positions," said Dean How then, can the Administration justify the new prefect system, Murphy, "The emphasis of the in theory or in practice? Just as everyone gets set to move ahead and program is on the business grow up, the Dean of Students seems to be taking a giant step back mechanism as a whole. This into the dark ages of paternalism. Why couldn't he have waited six means that there is little month or a year until the SLC could consider the issue? This was the specialization in, say, question which could have been asked. But it wasn't. Now we are accounting. This has become faced with the delightful prospect of living for at least another year fairly standard in the MBA under the aegis of aggravated hypocrisy. programs." The new prefect system is an attempt to treat the symptoms and not the disease. This is a disease peculiar to ND that encourages us to Under the direction of John live like hypocrites. We are asked to sustain certain rules which are R. Malone, Assistant Dean of the intolerable. Then we are tacitly told to go ahead and break the rules College of Business, the graduate on football Saturdays as long as we don't get caught. What possible program is rapidly becoming one good can a prefect do in the Hall while he is saddled with of the best in the country. perpetuating blatant hypocrisy. This is a gross injustice to both the Students have been recruited· prefect and the student and the addition of more prefects to enforce from 38 universities and more unenforcable rules can only serve to increase the tension. than 20 states. There are also What must be done, and done by the SLC, is an innrediate students from Europe and latin reapp:aisal of the rules. America. Assistant Dean Vincent R. Raymond, Dean Thomas T. The new prefects are here to stay and undoubtedly they can be of "We think that we are already Murphy and Associate Dean Dr. John R. Malone talk over immeasurable aid and assistance to everyone concerned. But their competing with the more the new business building. value is severely diminished so long as they must work under existing established programs," said Dean not WISh to reinstate the undergraduate skills. "We feel conditions. Malone. "We have the already company-town system. The that the obvious advantages of excellent reputation of both the Epithets like "gestapo" are absurd and dangerous. I can't help businessman must make his the team system make it almost College of Business and the feeling that certain Student Government leaders are being forced to contribution as a private citizen, indispensable, as the Moot Court whole university to draw on." resort to name calling only to cover up their own political who is as socially aware of system is to the law School," incompetence in permiting the Administration to establish the conditions in the community as Dean Malone's enthusiasm has said Professor Sequin. system unopposed. So, lets face it, you were outmaneuvered anyone else. In this respect the infected the entire program. We politically. But no amount of political power struggling is going to business school must do more A startling aspect of the have a very ambitious program solve this problem. The solution must come from an entirely than merely teach business." program is that only about 30 here," said Business Professor different arena - an arena in which hypocrisy is recognized for what per cent of its students are Joseph Sequin. "Thecourses are it is. And I believe we all have a right to expect this type of honesty The Hayes-Healy Center itself graduates of business programs. from the new Student Life Council. environmental. We are training reflects much of the underlying our students to assume the role design of the MBA. The interior EI.KTROCUfE THE BOilERMAKERS of a businessman in all realms of is functional, but by no means CAPTIAN EI.KTRlC AND IllS FLYING lAPELS community life. This includes spartan. Classrooms are laid in a The Mail the social and human elements semi-circle to facilitate the as well as the day-to-day Guiseppies 9:00-1:00 Saturday Sept. 28 mingling of the professor and problems on the job." Sponsored by M.B.A ExecutiveCiubGra.d' School of Business Editor: students, as in a seminar. There A Notre Dame pep rally Members $2.00/couple Non-members ·$2.50/couple "There is a very challenging is also provided a room in the comparable to a Nazi program here," said Ronald style of a corporate board Stags $1.75 Girls .75 Reichsparteitag rally at Malanga, a first-year student. meeting room, in which Nuremberg? Outrageous? Not Ted Jacobs, also a first-year meetings of a mock Board of really. These spectacles of fanaticism differ not in kind but student, feels that "this could Directors can be held. only in the degree of theatrical become one of the best business 8th Week Last Week sophistication. May I schools in the country. Dean Another facet of the congratulate the author for Malone is doing an excellent job environmental type of training is 2 P.M. Matinees Sat.-Sun. Only calling a spade a spade---and Doors Open 1 :30 of setting up a first-rate program the division of the classes into Evenings: Sun. Thru Fri. 7:30 hope that. he will be safe from right off the bat." teams of about five each. The Saturday 8:00 rep r is a Is by the I o ca I Doors 7:00 brownshirts. A.H. '33 South Bend

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On the Feast of St. James (Third of a jive-part series by 1\fichae/ 1/ol/erich and Michael over the prospect ol a new crocodile dung in fermented mucilage; of children docs not constitute Patrick 0 'Cowu>r) pregnancy when they were unable to honey and sodium carbonate to be successful marriage, conjugal love bei care for the children they already sprinkled in the vulva: and a substance, csscnt ial for the proper cduca t ion had. They stood in dcspcra te need whose name is now undcciperable, to be children; Catholic teaching "has The interests of the Notre Dame notubly refined," now that the Gnost ommunity in the questions of birth of help. "Liv~ as brother and sister" mixed with mucilage and sprinkled in the in continual continence was not the vulva." threa~ has saf~ly passed, thereby lation by no means began with the ncccss1tat111g a re111terprctation of the lication of 1/umana Vitae. The longest answer to their problem. !lis major thesis is closely related to Dr. O'Brien likewise differs from other the conclusions of the majority report of Natural Law argument; and in the raalm volvement has been that of Reverend of public policy it was deemed imprudent hn A. O'brien, now a research professor commentators on the subject that he did the papa I commission. lie stresses not foresee the necessity of breaking with throughout the historical rather than the to agitate for a ban on the sale of theology. llis work in the area has con I raccpt ions because of the pluralistic ranged from the days of the Depression Church's teaching authority. In a book doctrinal, "on the assumption that that was in press when the encyclical was historical investigation of secondary nature of our society. There was to last July when he signed the considerable disagreement, however, as to Washington statement disavowing the pub I ish ed ,Family Pia nni ng in an causes could be fruitful in exploring h"xpluding Popularicjn, Dr. O'Brien similar questions which also have the infallibility of the encyclical Casli encyclical. Connubi. Denials of its infallibility were Father C''l'rie.l has devoted his life to expressed confidence that the Holy t heologica I solutions." Consequently he characteriz~s his history in terms of unsuccessful. Haring's more liberal pastoral work in the Church in t~ e fullest Father might approve "all physically "tension, reaction, option, and recommendation with regard to the pill sense of that term. lie has served in harmless met hods of birth control was also untypical. various activities, such as Catholic excluding sterilization and abortion." ' dcve!opment," with regard to the move m c n I bet ween doc t r ina I Demography proper was teh focal Co-Chairman of the Commission on But this confidence did not prevent concern at the second conference held in Rei igious Organizations of National Fa I her O'Brien from defending his development and heresy. lie prophesizes by. indirections, then, one might 1964. The report is showered with the Conference of Christians and Jews. But position by signing the Washington usual myriad statistics on birth rates, the he is probably best known as a writer, as statement and further explaining the penphcrally suggests that the way out of tl.c present tension will be in the long run s1<11~dard cry for action, and the in fact, what usually pejoratively referred possibility of going against the encyclical. ha 11-hearted recommendation of 1he one fuvorable to the Church as a whole. to as a popularizer. The far-reaching Another aspect of the work on birth rhythm met hod as a stop-gap measure. effects of his three decades of work on regulation done at Notre Dame is But only so by indirections. The last session dealt with educational birth control should serve as a warning to illustrated by the massive work of Dr. In a series of conferences throughout policy and seemed to be the most academicians who scorn O'Brien's work. John T. Noonan, Jr., called 1963-65. the University hosted scholars 1 profitable of I he I hrec. Discussions The most distinctive thing about Contraception: A , /istory of Its from throughout the country to deal with centered around the genera I themes of O'Brien studies of birth control is that Treatment by Catholic 111eolugians and "The Problem of Population." Each of how the debate should be conducted in they reflect his concerns with the Church Canonists. Published as a result of work the three sessions related to a different the future. A general resolution was done largely here during his stay of as it actually exists today in America. I lis facet of the contraception dispute in the d,rafte~ .and submitted to the Papal concerns are with the community of the several years :.~t I he Law School, the work CommiSSion wh1ch worked under John 1 is a definitive history of the way the ideas Church: moral and theological, practical, Church in process. Speaking, for example, and educational. and Paul. Unfortunately the statement of his early involvement he says: I have of birth regulation have developed. must have been deemed unl'it for public Dr. Noonan traces the existence of Amont the participants in the been deeply involved with the conference on moral considerations were consumption, because, in the words of problem of birth control for more contraception to Egyptian documents the moral theologian Bernard llaring, the editor, "courtesy and indeed than thirty years. During the Great di.!ting around a millenium and a half reverence for the position adopted by Depression in the early '30s, I was 1before Christ'. The Kahun Papyrus, while sociologist, Andrew Greeley, Dean Frederick Crosson, and two dozen other Pope Paul VI require that this statement greatly concerned with the pi ight of la~king practical applications today, representatives from Catholic universities. be released, if it is to be released, by the Catholic families. With mill ions m1ght be cited as an example out of pure Papal Commission and not by us." unemployed and on public relief, historical interest. Its three different A consensus was reached with regard to f nsiblc nthood" the ion

Police Arrest ND Student In Truck Theft Tuesday. lie was arrested only A Notre Dame senior was was not injured. The fire around the engine was arrested Tuesday morning of after a twenty mile gun-fire When it crashed, the truck quickly extinguished. Ryan was riddled police chase that ended vehicle taking. Apprehended in spun off the highway and t·.;<~o a physically uninjured. Ryan is a when the stolen truck crashed. the early hours of the morning pile of boulders. The driver was native of Hamilton, Ohio and a Ryan was chased through by the Indiana State Police, apparently in shock, state police four th year Arts and Letters various communities by four Raymond N. Ryan, was held said. I mrnediately following the student. He usually goes by the police cars. Several shots were approximately twelve hours in crash, Ryall did nothing to turn name "Dean." investigation of the theft of a fired by the police before Ryan the truck off and was apparently pick up truck, later charged, and lost control of the vehicle and incapacitated since he remained At's Typewriter Service released on bond from the crashed about one mile south of motionless until state police Argos on ll. S. 21. The driver Clean and adi ust any portable $5 County Jail at 2:32p.m. removed him from the truck. Used typewriters for sale $20 up Same Day service 8 am to 10 pm Get Thee To a Nunnery, Girl 2905 Mishawaka Ave. 288· 7368 BY lloor: something that, in the for forming close friendships and DIAMONDS MARY MICHAEL FARNUM words of one of the freshmen, good study habits. There was m fashion forever "should get us all acquainted on Iy one seriously negat ivc The St. Mary's College answer with each other." response. A girl wailed: "I mean, to overcrowded living conditions how do you tell an ND guy to is not sending upperclassmen off *Send any black & white or color Senior Resident Counselor pick you up at the convent?" photo (no negatives) and the name campus to fend for t hemsclves. Nancy Enright expre~scd "Swingline"cut out from any Swingline Instead they send 75 Freshmen Succeed in Business optimism at the prospects for package {or reasonable facsimile) to: to live in the convent.. POSTER-MART, P.O. Box 165, Regina llall this year. "It's no before graduation. Woodside, N.Y. 11377. Enclose $1.95 longer a convent. That's cash, check, or money order The girls, part of the 413 something that we'd like really Take over I 0 yl:ar olu C.O.D.'s). Add sales tax where member freshman class, were to make clear to both St. Mary's 288-5%7 z:::::- cable. chosen randomly to be assigned and Notre Dame students. We're Poster rolled and mailed to Regina llall. Regina llall is thinking of giving the dorm a ")y· paid) in sturdy tube. Original ayailable the old novitiate. There heing nickname---something like 'the OP£Nl '. ;1 -,;;; _;_, '') rial returned undamaged. Satisfa,cti

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, t968 PAGE 4 THE OBSERVER ~-- llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll • .• Sweet and Sour: Cream's .• Last Stand .• • BY BILL THIEMAN . • The names of band groups usually scrawled in all sorts of established), and "'s" greatest ment 1S 1ts lyrics; it is .• .. imaginative ways on their bass drums in live performances. However effective both in its portrays! of the loneliness of a lover deserted at . it was an exception last April when Cream appeared in South Bend the railroad station("Where shadows chase themselves") and in its with "" gilded on the twin bass drums. But this characterization of the captivating girl that has left him("yellow peculiarity is an insight into the unusual composition of the Cream. tigers crouched in jungl;:s in her eyes."). Clapton's leads display his For Cream is not just a group but rather three individuals, each a best use of wa-wa to date. If I neglect to mention Ginger Baker's virtuoso in his own right, paradoxically playing with and against drumming, it is only because he plays to perfection on every cut(as each other simultaneously. usual he plays as though he has seven arms, and squeezes in more I am not inclined to review an that has been released as unique breaks than seems humanly possible). long as (thrcc months). Two circumstances however, As a writer, Ginger Baker makes up in Imagination what he lacks .• have changed my mind. In the first place, the individuality Eric in lyrical and poetic capabilities. His "Passing the Time" opens and . C1apton, , and Ginger Baker has overcome their group closes with a Currier and lvcs portrait of a mother waiting for her . affiliation, and in October( after their current tour) Cream as a band traveling husband in a warm living room in the dead of winter. The . will be no more. Secondly, an unfavorable review of the album in gimmick(and that it is) is that the lluid movement of the song, . tye an above-the-ground underground teen magazine, has inspired a reminiscent of the Beatles' "She's leaving home" is interrupted by a . defense. burst of raucous, orgasmic music("passing the time, drinking some wine, everything's fine"); suddenly the model wife is "lonely no more"(but her husband still hasn't come home). "Pressed Rat and Warthog"(worthwhilc for Baker's thickly accented "recitation") is little more than an updated, fantastic fable of two blokes who own a shop selling "eternal apples, amplified heat, an a pressed rat's collection of dog's legs and feet." .• , himself a talented musician, produced and .• played on the studio album: it is on the live sides that his genius is revealed. He has captured perfectly all the vibrations that Cream emitted when they were here last year. In stereo, the channels are arranged to give exactly the effect that the live concert did. Guitar is heard on the right, bass on the left, drums and vocal in the center. For those who have seen Cream perform, this album is a must; for those who have not seen Cream perform, this album is a must. The four cuts capture everything that is a Cream concert. "Crossroads" is Claptun's song. His vocal is more than adequate (in the concert last year it was drowned out by his guitar). The guitar • work is Eric at his best; the two extended guitar breaks excel (as was the case in the April concert) in both speed and range. For those who haven't heard(cxpericnced is a better word)it, Clapton leaves the stage for Bruce's vocal-harmonic solo of his Wheels of Fire is a , with two studio sides and two own composition "Traintime". Against the subdued background of sides recorded live at Frisco's Fillmore. h)'e panned the studio album . Baker's excellent brushwork, Bruce's vocal is enhanced by his ability and gave the live sides moderately enthusiastic acclaim. I found most . to rnakc the harmonica do everything but talk. Bruce's creativity in .- irritating their comment that Jack Bruce(bassist and . this area was more eviJcnt in the actual concert, but the album cut is . vocalist)attempts a poor imitation of a black soul singer. Bruce's . certainly worth hearing. 'Traintimc" leads directly into "" .- voice drips with his own special brand of soul, and any resemblence . . which features ten minutes of Ginger Baker going wild. This is the • . to blackness is purely co-incidental. To identify soul with the Black . most superbly engineered cut on Wheels of Fire. Pappalardi has • .- performer is pointless,(as the likes of Wilson Pickett readily . . managed to duplicate the of the drums in stereo . demonstrate). exactly as they are arranged onstagc. Leonard Bernstein has called r,:Ye's approach to the studio cuts is unjustly harsh. The album Baker a great percussionist and this cut alone establishes him as perhaps does fall short of the quality of . Apparently, Cream's basic problem has been the lack of identity caused by the probably the best. Little more can be said. diversity of musical interests. The variety of music that this has "" is one of the most outstanding achievements in produced continued from Gears to Wheels. modern music. For once in their concert, the three stop There are two fairly basic numbers among the studio cuts playing against each other for their rendition of 's blues (neither are original compositions). ""{ on classic. Bruce's vocal is nothing more than inspired (he had laryngitis : which Booker T. of the MG's fame collaborated)has a heavy and at in South Bend), and his bass and Clapton 's guitar complement each • the same titne witty blues lyric(''lf it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn"t . 5 other perfectly throughout the 17 minute cut. The song spans . : have no luck at all") that merits better treatment than Cream gives .• countless moods, tones, and rhythms. A bass lead by Bruce and a . : it. The is a little too up-tempo, and Bruce's . counter-play between bass and lead approximately three quarters of . : incongruously joyous vocal is his only inferior effort on I he album. ::: the way through highlight the arrangement, the most startling aspect : "Sitting on Top of the World,, reverses the situation. It bestows a of which is that it is improvised. : terrific delivery on a Jess meritorious composition. The song is really : a vehicle for Clapton's outstanding super-reverb lead. Clapton, Baker, and Bruce arc going their separate ways, forming 5 The nonch€1lance of the persona in "Sitting on Top of the World,, separate groups. If they could not find fulfillment in Cream, it : contrasts effectively with the sufferer on the preceding cut, "White almost staggers the imagination to think what might result when : Room." Recently released as a single, "White Room" is the best of they arc free to do their own things. At any rate, in Wheels of Fire, • E Bruce's four compositions on the album. The Cream are capable of they h<1ve left behind an unapproachable landmark to their collective ~ : good poetry(as Clapton's "" clearly 'alent • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••l••••••••••••r••••••• •~•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Petulia, Thou Liveth • • • Company, Archie meets Petulia hippie, Alcatraz, amusement that would misconstrue Petulia's adoption of a Mexican child as BY DAVID KAHN (Julie Christie) who in a matter park, and Roller Derby, his of seconds boasts that she invective is stilted, obvious, and her disparaging comment on intends to marry him. ''I've been sometimes simplistic. For their childless marriage. But all is Richard Lester's Petulia is a married six months and I still example, what could be more well that ends well. Petulia gives tainted vision, a sluggish haven't had one affair with superficial than Lester's birth to a child. spectacle, an utter another man." She drives off, depiction of the Haight-Ashbury To make men I ion of Petulia 's d i sap poi ntment. Lest cr( Help. and Archie left in amazement, phenomenon which docs not lack of chronologie, the /lard Day's Night, Knack, etc.) shakes his ancient, balding head, extend beyond "I love you. I am subliminal llashback is used once the master of the blinks and sighs "The Pepsi on a Polish trip, man." indiscrimantcly. If Lester desires instantaneous sight gag and the Generation." The Pepsi But what emerges from this a rendering of Archie's world prodigy of the cutting Generation such a script oppresivc urban milieus is a subjective state, the plurality of room, has directed a tragicomic proves the message of the petunia I mean, Petulia, that individual subliminal flashbacks fable which is neil her funny nor exploitation blurb. ' 'Petulia is shining philanthropist who with undermines the cohesiveness of dramatic, and even more for mature adults only." tears, real tears desires to make Archie's single point of view. surprising Lester's Young and callow student Archie feel young again and at Which is to say that the cinct echnique is incorrect if not critics perhaps cannot fathom the same time cares lovingly for Lester-Marcus technique of repulsive. I h e b I i n d alleys a n d her neurotic, but ever so inter-subjective cutting is George C. Scott, with slickum world-weariness of American, beautiful hubby. Richard confusing and self-defeating. haircut and corrugated brow, leisure-class marital and post Chamberlain, once the flawless, California skies are grey and plays Archie, a middle-aged marital relations. Frankly, I lind superhuman hero of the TV Dr. this film even more grizzly. And physician and divorce. And to them boring. And when Lester Kildare, now portrays the what makes things worse is the the soulful sounds of Big caricatures the San Francisco fist -clenching psychopathic ugly realization that Julie Brother and the Holding Universe of buy-and-exchange, spouse you know, the type Christie is growing old.