RAYBURN ?G;aiThe doctors at the Baylor Medical centre ~- . used the word - Miraculous~" Referring to Speaker Sam Raybum 1 - tenacious fight for life. "Mr. Sam" went into a coma yesterday - after contracting pneumonia. They thought he might not survive - last night. But the tough o~d Texan - la still very much alive. In fact, out of hls coma. Talking I with his doctors and nurses - who now believe he may be able to go home. Back to the Rayburn ranch - near Bonham, Tem. • KENNEDY ...5 ?od&J President Kenr,edy offer~ a new slogan to the American people - and to the free world. The slogan - " neither Red nor dead. 1 1 This, the President's reply to the - -- - Pacifist line - "better Red than dead. 11 Mr. Kennedy, telling his audience at the University of North Carolina - that we are not trapped between surrender and nuclear holocaust.)'hat ) the democracies can survivej- their free institutions can survive - as long as we remain both strong and flexible. Strong - to prevent Khrushchev from starting a war. Flexible - to take advantage of our diplomatic opportunities. Strength and flexibility, adding up to President Kennedy's prediction - "neither Red nor dead. 11 BERLIN • The nine hundred A merican soldiers who arrived in West Germany today - came ready for action. Disembarking at Bremerhaven - with their equipment. All set - to take part in Nato maneuvers. Part of the European build-up -- to let Khrushchev know that we mean business. Meanwhile, in Berlin - more border crossing by the East German guards. Today ten of the Red bully-boys entered West Berlin - to search for one of their companions...,...who had fled to freedom. They continued the hunt until West Berlin police came up - and forced them to retreat. At another point along the barrier - the East Germa~kidnapped a West German newsman. ~ooting him as he ) . was covering a story, then crossing over - and dragging him into their sector. Disappearing - with him. More incidents of the type - that could touch off a shooting war. The type that we have been warning Khrushchev to consider - before he allows his East German puppets freedom of action. ATOMIC · The level of radioactivity in the atmosphere of .5 America - is not dangerous. So report•~ Surgeon General /' Luther Perry - referring to the effect of those atomic explosions in Russia. Explosions tMt have raised the iodino content - in our milk; }fut General Perry points out - that the increase is too small to be a hazard. So there's no need to worry - about handing the baby his milk bottle. Some other countries - aren't so fortunate. Above all, Japan - which is close to the•Soviet Union. And depends on ric~a grain especially vulnerable to fall out. The 1nud Japanese government,~ concerned by what the Soviet teats are doing - to the Japanese food supply. A feeling, shared by other nations of the Far East - including Red China. Khrushchev doesn't seem to care,• lflllt-"8hybNf ~hwe. Today he-... touched off - another nuclear blast. The twentieth, announced by - the Atomic Energy Commission. But President Kennedy said at yesterday's news conference "that there have been more than twenty in this series of Soviet test&• II DEFECTORS uite a f ew d e f ectors from C ommunism - are in the news tonight. / ta d by Soviet chemist, Alexoi Golub - who wants ) to stay in Holland. The latest on Golub is that he was a key figure - in the top echelon of Russian scientists. And that he brou g ht classified information f rom the Kremlin files - when he chose freedom. Which would explain the violence of the Soviet Ambassador to Amsterdam - who started that furious battle at the airport. PonamaPenko, evidently afraid of the consequences - should he return to Moscow without Golob. In Vienna - five defectors. Hungarian sport fans, in the Viennese capital - to watch their team play. The tlrat time since the revolt of Nlnete$n Fifty S1x - that they've been allowed to leave Hungary. Five of them, making the moat of today's opportunity. Asking Austria - for ad.II asylum. And there's another defector - ln Paris. Eduardo Aroca, resigning as Cuban Consul-General. Aroca, a strong supporter of Castro - and the ideals of the revolution. That ls - until recent events convinced him that the Dictator haa DIFECTORS - 2 betrayed those ideals. In the words of the former Cuban Consul General - "Castro is nothing more than a Commun1at figurehead." • . . ARABS E g y p t ~ to i g nore Syria's proposal - for a Pan -Ar ao·f e d eration. So stated in Cairo - where Nasser 1s still f uming over the indepen d ence of Syria. Nasser's . .. press an radio, asking how Arab unity can be suggested in good a1th - by the men who broke up the United Arab Republic? The idea of a federation of the Middle East - ' an imperialist plot 1 , according to one Cairo newspaper. REUTHER You don't often hear members of the United Auto Workers - jeering Walter Reuther. It happened today - in A, Detroit. Workers at the Fo1' plant - protesting agalnat the tel'llt8 of the new contract. Booing Reuther - calling hl■ "a stooge". The head of the U.A.W. -- brushing put the picketers. Asking the union council -- to okaJ the Ford contract. Which - the1 did. HOFFA The head or the AF L - c Io ls shrugglng orr - the latest threat by the head of the Teamatel'S Union. George Meany, calling himself 11 amused 11 at the thought or - JilllllJ Hoffa suing for defamation of character. Hoffa uklng - how much? A cool million dollars. 'Die head ot the Tea•tera, evidently feeling that hla good name can't be protected tl'OIII George Meany - for anything le11. WRECK A California pilot spent four agonizing days and nights on a Utah mountain - because his passenger beca• panicky. Joel Honey, of Needles, California - flying a Ceaana across Utah with William Royal next to him. Honey, forced to fly low - because of a snowstorm. Suddenly Royal shouted that they were going to hit the mountains - and grabbed at the controls. The plane, nosing downward - s1188h1~Mt, Timpanagos, near Provo, Utah. Royal was killed - in the crack-up. Honey, alive - but suffering from several broken bones. He managed to crawl back into the Cessna - and bundle himself up. Then he waited - and waited. The hours, moving by so slowly - he aaya ft seemed like an etemity. He ate snowballs - and drank melted snow. When the pain eased - he fired signal flares. Today a rescue party - found him. Pilot loney, carried out in pretty good shape - after four October nlghta on Mt. Timpanagos, 1n Utah. ARTIST The latest picture by Willem Dekooning ought to be called :. "a self portrait of the artist_> as a bar room brawler. Dekooning is considered a great master or - abstract art. But there was nothing abstract about his performance - when he too : c a awing at Raymond Maurel , an engineer tor Air France. Maurel, telling a New York COl.ll't - that he ... minding his own buainesa 1n the bar, when a coaplete stranger hauled off and punched him. The effect, rather catutrophlo - because Maurel waa smoking a pipe at the t l • . b Prench engineer had to stagger to his dentist - for 1011e quick repatn 'Dle pugilist 1n the case - artist Dekoon1ng. Who evidently has gone abstract again - not noticing auch vlllgar things as policemen and courts. Hla absence today, explained s by hi' lawyer in the•e words - "when Dekooning atarta to paint, he cuts himself orr trom society for months." ~ Whereupon, 4the Judge ordered the lawyer - to bring the defendant back to reality. Said His Honor "if Dekoonlng ARTIST - 2 ~ can take • out from his art tor a bar room brawl, he A can appear in court and answer 11 questions. "