ONvAtL-l~!~-l~-12~ (Given by Ri chard~. ottelet) GOOV EV~NlN E V ~ Y~OVY: They buried a legend in \ 0 a hin g ton today - with the interment of Mrs. •oodrow •ilson. The ~ighty-nine year old widow of the late resident, as you know - died on Thursday. The last rites were held in lashington ~athedral - as three hundred mourners looked on~ Among them, Secretary of ~tate 4 usk and ~rs. ~usk - and members of the ashington diplomatic corp. The legend of ars. •ilsan was th a t of a shy, retiring widow from Virginia - who became one of the most outspoken partisans ever to presid over the •bite House. The change in her personality was cuaeed, needless to say ' - by her marriage to •oodrow -ilson auring his first ter■ of office. The new first Lady defended the President - · in all of his furious battles with ~ongress, the p ress, and t,he public. LEAJJ - 2 -- After his death, she continued to defend his memory - until she herself succumbed on Thursaey. N ow gone from the ashington scene tot ke her lace in American • history - Mrs. Woodrow -ilson. HO ORS ---~ l f you h a ve a ny d oubt a b o ut G reat Jjrit e in be ing a LJemocracy - t a ke a look a t the list of honors p ublished in London today. Th e m en a nd wo men receivin g titles - from He r Ma j es t y the ~ueen. Not so long go, titles were reserved for aristocrats, P rime Ministers - a nd an occasi o nal steel king or railroad m a gnate. But in the T w entieth ~entur7, and es p ecially since World War I I - British honors have been filtering down to the masse s . A p erfect exam p le, today - Miss ~elly ~ennion, who grades cheese for the dairy board. N elly the cheese gr a der, receiving the O.~.t. - the Urder of the ~ritish Em ire. An d test ilot John Fifield is a lso - a brand new o .~.t. Then there's Learier ~onstantine - a cricketer, and a West Indian. ~ecause of his skill at hitting a cricket ball with a bat - he becomes a Kni g ht. S ir L earier N R ~ - 2 ____ _ . . _ (.; o nst ntine. There a e t w o n e w b a ro n s - in t h i s n e year's honor' s l ist. e i the r - an a r i s t o c r a t . t> i r A us s e 11 ~rain, often ca l l ed the world' s ost brilliant nerve s p ecialist - and ~ir Leonor d L ord, a n a utomobile tycoon. A ll of these titles are granted by ~ueen Elizabeth - a mid the stately form a lity of the Britis h monarchy. ~ut - a cheese grader and a cricketer? 1 wonder what ~ueen Victoria - would have thought of thea. n \..ity in 1962 - i 1 OS t t i c e t he i z e i t c- n 19 61. o ub li n g - at L e ti ck of t } c 1 o c k . s idni ~ ht tolled - the Missouri metro p oli s ex anded north of the i s souri river. lt ann e xed \, la y nd latt counties - thereby adding a hundred-and-twenty-t,o square miles to the city limits. o ulatiou increase - ~i g ht-thousand- four hundred an d fifty. Actual.lq, this is only the last ste p - in a continuing p rocess. A s recently as nineteen-forty-seven, Kansas ~ity wa ~ - only sixty-two squa r e miles in size. Hut like most of our cities it was caught in the trend to wnat sociologists call - Nmegalo p olis.• eaning - the ) fantastic mushrooming or our p o p ulation centers. 80 Kansas ~ity added to its domain - county by county. Growing in fourteen years from sixty-two square miles - to two-hundred-and-eighty-nine square miles, on this New Years day of 1962. r n · \.,ity ·n 1962 - i o s t t i c e t, e s i e i t n 19 6 1 . ub 1 in - a L ick of L clock. As i ni e ht l olle d - L i so uri me tro oli a e x a nded north o f the i souri river. lt annexed '-' la y nd latt counties - thereby ad in g a h un d red- a n d- t en ty-t vo squ re miles to th e city l imits. o ul a tion incr e e - ~i ht-thousand- four hundred and fifty. Ac tually, this is only the last ste p - in a continuing p rocess. A s r e cently as nineteen-forty-seven, Kansas ~ity wa s - only sixty-two squa r e miles in size. ~ut like most of our cities it was caught in the trend to wnat sociologists call - Nmegalo p olis." ~eaning - the fantastic mushrooming of our p o p ulation centers. 80 Kansas ~ity added to its domain - county by county. Growing in fourteen years from sixty-two square miles - to two-hundred-and-eighty-nine square mil es , on this New Years day of 1962. T at attem p te c cou p in " ortu ga l got nowhe re - because th e overnment h d b n w a rned. rime ini s ter 1 z a r, rec ei vin g n intelli · ne e re o r t - th at the t ar e t was a n army b r rack s more than a h un d red miles from Lisbon. Te re be s , ho p in g to storm the arracks - and st a rt a national in urr e ctlon. The fir st p art of t h eir • l~n - s ucceeded. They got in - becau s e the p lace was undermanned during ~e holid a y. The trouble was - th t they couldn't get out. a lazar's troops m oved up q uickly - n d encircled the barracks. The rebels WP.re overwhelmed - in the battle that followed. Tonight, the P rime ~inister announces - th a t he has the situ a tion under control. ~till, there's tension on the banks of t he Tagus hiver - becau e of recent events. First, thehijacking of th e luxury liner - tia nta Maria. Then, the loss of Goa - to 1ndia. It does n't help , 0 rtuguese nerves - to have arm e d rebel s ins ide ~ ortugal. ~ J.JY ------- J.. e ic al 1 e tin on ' le > resi ent' s f at er in ic tes - th a t ust be a f a n of the G reen b y t ackers. 1 t sa y , that Jo e p h en ne dy njoyed w a tching y e s terdayt football game - on televi i on . nd if he enjoye the way the Gi nts were st mroll e r d a n s ut o ut t irty-seven to nothin - t e im p lication is t l the mu s t ave been r otin for the home team. nyway, the elder Lennedy is now able t o move around - in a wheel c 1air. The aralysis caused by his stroke - ha s ~rtly cleared u p . The d · te of his de p arture for home - already under discussion. ~o the whole enneay clan is more o p timi s tic - about 1962. t' resident ~ennedy, of course, has a number of ~ olitical reasons - for limitin his o timism. ue ex ects another tough year - of aan g erous internati nal problems. Khrushchev won't go away - or Laos or ~uba or he ~ongo. U r, indeed - a aozen other p oints of conflict between l!:ast an d West. 'fh a t s why the resident is resuming his c e aul tomorrow - ith hi n 1 vel a iscu ins concernin g our milit ry needs for 1962. y own so t in JJ ix i e - no , o t · noli a n d o ckin bird s - ut now . ot s o f it . ~ i ght · nches - in t he ' r e t o mokie s of o rth "' r ol in a . Th ree to six i nc es - from Vir g ini to l bama . t, · avy no f l in in reat m sea . "reakin tele ~ hone l in es - forcing t raffic to standstill in many cities. tree~i n g into tr acherous ice -th at i c a usin c rs to sk id off the i h~ays . M ount a in communities - snowbound. The s unny s outh - not quite so sunny. e n w hile, the idwest is still - t he nation's icebox. The thermometer, p lum m etin g to nine below zero in tisconsin a nd innesota. .rive below - in ichi g an a nd 1llinois. lts not th t cold in the ~as t - wh ich~ ~ing 1 ued by m o ~ e snow from the Great Lakes to ~ew ~ngland. ln ~uffalo, wbere they were just dug out of ye s terday's horrend ou s bli z rd - they' 1 e back di :J in a ~i n toni . ht. e n overn m t f t, e i n i c n f e ub 1 i c - is int rim re i lt ~ ur . o e - to a int in order until e e ct ion c n be · e 1 d in JJ c m e • .1. n t · e b r u a r y , the s ven m n junta nov e e br resi ent ~ 1 uer - will give ay to official chosen by he .uominican . eo le • .ti la uer, o ·ever - will be ut sooner than t at. e says that he intena to resign s ~ r sident - once the sanctions are lifted b y t e Urganiz tion Uf American ~tates. nhich should be soon - now th~t the appar tus of democracy is re a dy to function. The ap aratu of - free elections, free s~eech, free J ress, n •••soon. " he fate of Jjalaguer remains - undecided. s a oldover · rom Trujillo regime - he has many o eJ , onents in the vominican Hepublic. As a chief architect of the new nti-Trujillo system - he doubtles feels that he has a erha s - even run for elective office. A possibility that i m kin lot of vo inicans - feel rather jittery. l,~ l ..., ... ____ ... __ _ 1 t v O U C ,J r " i c o u r h in g V r 1 . 11 a in rev r tren i n t e . t rn of o 1 id y cc i en t . T · p Y e a r' w e end rte out - so n of the t o 1 record. e in to t e · o · th e t we ulan't h v the tra ica ly f , miliar o l o c aus t o n our l i ghiays . Th en t e toll icked p - ou r by our. Pi t the r ent rate, traffic fatalities my exeeed the ~ouncil rediction of - three-hundred an t irty. dd the de ths from all causes - and the fin 1 fi ure will go far above that. ~w Year's may be a time - for cele · rating. The terrible irony is ho; many cel eb r~tions end - in trabedy. iere's a remarkable figure. Over in London; the number or drunks p icked up on •ew Xear•s day - was exactly six. Halt a dozen, hitting the bottle too hard - in one of the biggest cities in the world. ~ut - there's a catch to it. un y six were able to get stoned, and make themselves a public nuisance - because the others couldn't stand the weather. ~ritain is in the grip of - it's worst freeze in more than a century. ~ine degrees above zero at ~ondon A ir ~ ort - where all planes were grounded today. A reoor• three inches of snow, falling on th• British capital - whioh isn't used to that sort of thing. tven ~ondon'• celebrated subway - 1 mean, underground - was slowed to a crawl. Two hundred hospitals are on emergency duty tonight - because ot the number of influenza c a ses. the fear is - that an e p idemic may be in the making.