NEWS & VIEWS:

...There's no odds-on nominee for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and most of those groups that are interested in the decision would undoubtedly settle now for a choice that reflected humanitarian priorities...

...I myself was in a state of distraction, and only heard his murmured words, 'towards your fine'-so distracted, in fact, that I mistook Auden for one of the needy men...

...Interior Department has reestimated the nation's undiscovered, recoverable oil reserves...

...and, conveniently there's a National Park Foundation...

...By rescinding the fine, the judge added Auden's money to our building fund...

...Chavez is cited for championing the principle of nonviolence as he carries on his organizing activities in the grape- and lettuce-growing regions of California...

...Then occurred my next meeting with Auden...

...Contributions towards the pool were channeled through it, and became tax deductible...

...The American Friends Service Committee (Quaker) has entered the names of Dom Helder Camara, the Brazilian archbishop who is a leading advocate of nonviolent social change, and of Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farmworkers of America, AFL-CIO...

...The U.S...

...Nobel Nominees Nobel Peace Prize nominations perhaps don't mean much when, for instance, someone like Senator Scott can seriously propose the name of Richard Nixon, as happened in 1971, 1972...

...Pakistani Catholics have proposed the name of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the 64-year-old Albanian nun famed for her work among the world's poor and outcasts...

...He has also asked the Trust to pay the $5,000 fine he was assessed after pleading guilty to five fund-raising violations...

...NEWS & VIEWS Auden & Dorothy Buy Under the title "The Poet and the Pauper," Dorothy Day details for Harvard folks the happy intervention of W.H...

...Now it is down to 50 billion to 127 billion barrels...

...There is, however, that new $52,000 swimming pool, allegedly built at .10 expense to the public, since the funds came from private donations...

...There is no vegetable garden on the White House grounds this summer, as many expected there would be what with President Ford running around last fall urging "WIN gardens" as inflation beaters...

...Odds and Ends In Case You Missed It Department: -Maurice H. Stans, former Cabinet member and chief fund-raiser for the Nixon '72 campaign, has billed the 1972 Campaign Liquidation Trust $18,600 ($30 per hour for 620 hours) for time he claims he spent in connection with the prosecution of the Watergate cases...

...Auden in the history of the Catholic Worker House in New York City...

...He had seen a story in the Times of my sentencing, and hastened down to the office to my aid -early in the morning before I had set out for the courthouse to pay my fine or go to jail...

...Our house at that time was at 223 Chrystie Street, just below Houston, a fine, old, double house which had been a settlement house before we acquired it...

...We knew nothing about land trusts then, and besides, buildings were not land exactly, and we had not thought of or been advised about holding corporations to be administered by such an unincorporated group called The Catholic Workers, who were doing the work and could make decisions about the property...

...He recently staged a 30-day hunger strike in a demand for amnesty for all political prisoners...

...In the early '60s, estimates ranged from 400 billion to 590 billion barrels...

...The White House, it turns out, is part of the national park system...

...Tom Sullivan had gone away to a Trappist monastery and Charles McCormack had gotten married and it was my turn to hold the property in my name, so I got the summons and was sentenced as a slum landlord and fined $250...

...We are an unincorporated group with a changing leadership, what with young people getting married or going off to monasteries or finding their vocation was nursing or law...

...I was in a state of confusion and did not know what to do...

...But, of course, it did cost the public...

...There is also a 1953 interview, previously unpublished, with Auden, conducted by Walter Kerr, the editor's father...

...Dorothy Day's reflection picks up: "There were recurring crises in the life of the Catholic Worker and one of the worst occurred when we had a visitation from the building department of New York City, pointing out all the fire regulations and violations we had at our house on Chrystie Street...

...JOHN DEEDY...

...Still, there are some interesting nominations for this year's prize-and all, we might say, more worthwhile than Senator Scott's...

...Further, the higher figure represents only 5 percent probability...

...Which is not very much oil...

...So our house of hospitality was held in the name of various individuals...

...Just under the front entrance, a crowd of men gathered each morning after the coffee line was over to wait for clothes, and one detached himself from that little crowd and pressed a bit of paper into my hand, hastening away...

...Copies of the issue are available for $2 from The Harvard Advocate, 21 South Street, Cambridge, Mass., 02138...

...The story was syndicated and helped bring in the $28,000 necessary to get rid of all the violations...

...Last year, it was 200 billion to 400 billion barrels, quite a drop...

...That special issue of The Harvard Advocate is edited by Gilbert A. Kerr, one of last June's graduates, and features appreciations by Robert Fitzgerald, William Meredith, Hannah Arendt, Phyllis McGinley, Horace Gregory, Tennessee Williams, among others...

...One would expect they would be able to presume such a focus, but unfortunately, it can't be done...

...That story-no secret before now, but frequently garbled in the retelling-appears in a special issue of The Harvard Advocate devoted to Auden...

...The Kissinger-Le Doc Tho award of 1973 still sticks in craws, and, as the AFSC has noted, that wasn't the first time that a questionable award was made by the Nobel committee under the heading of "peace...

...Catalan Catholics, meanwhile, have advanced the name of Father Luis Maria Xirinacs, the controversial cleric who refuses the monthly salary paid priests by the Spanish government and who seems to be in jail as often as not on charges of "subversiveness...

...I was late and hastened to the subway, only opening later the slip of paper, to find he had given me $250, and the signature on the check was W.H...