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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1968
Number 520
Aggies Win
Play’ Showdown
With 20-16 Victory Over Alabama
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In Space, Atom
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Texas A&M, once primarily an
agricultural institution, took
giant steps into the space and
nuclear ages during 1967.
In the early morning hours of
Dec. 2, exactly 26 years after the
world’s first controlled chain nu
clear reaction, scientists at
A&M’s Cyclotron Institute re
leased a beam of nuclear parti
cles from the massive 300 - ton
machine. The pencil-like blue
beam signaled the beginning of a
significant new capability for
scientific research in the South
west.
Two days later, Dr. Glenn T.
Seaborg, chairman of the U. S.
Atomic Energy Commission, led
a list of dignitaries in dedicating
the $6 million facility.
DURING THE latter part of
August, the university played
host to the American Institute
of Biological Sciences. This big
amalgamation of scientific socie
ties, representing almost 70,000
biologists over the world, heard
more than 1,000 papers on topics
ranging from alteration of hered
ity to possible characteristics of
plant life on Mars.
While A&M moved in new di
rections, it by no means meant
that agricultural research had
slackened. New strains of plants
were released, farming operations
were analyzed by computers and
basic plant genetic work was ac
complished.
The featured AIBS convention
speaker, Agriculture Secretary
Orville Freeman detailed plans to
cope with the urban shifts of the
population.
The university’s Institute of
Tropical Veterinary Medicine was
coming to grips with one aspect
of the world food problem during
1967. Scientists were studying
ways of combating cattle diseases
in Colombia.
OTHER WORK in fish protein
concentrate carried on at A&M
is aimed at the problem of defi
cient diets of the world’s popu
lations.
During 1967, the university es
tablished a new Institute of Life
Sciences with the purpose of
studying biological processes as
a whole, rather than as fragment-
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ed parts. The new approach
promises important new insight
as man begins to consider the
whole world as a biological unit
subject to the ills of pollution.
In July, the university was se
lected by the Department of De
fense to establish “centers of ex
cellence” in optimization and me
teorology under a large Project
Themis grant.
BEHIND MANY regimes of
research and teaching lie mathe
matical analysis. In December,
A&M’s Data Processing Center
installed a new IBM 360/66 com
puter with bigger capacity and
greater speed than the IBM 7094
which had been in use. The latter
computer was installed at the Cy
clotron Institute where it may
eventually monitor operations of
the cyclotron.
The university has operated a
nuclear reactor several years.
New cooling facilities were in
stalled this year to accommodate
new and more powerful fuel ele
ments to be added in 1968. The
new reactor core will allow con
tinuous operation at a million
watts and can be pulsed at 2,000
million watts for four thou
sandths of a second.
A npmber of experiments in
volving biological tolerance to
radiation were carried out during
the year.
THE UNIVERSITY also pro
vided support to the nation’s
space effort throughout the year.
Scientists worked on structural
considerations of the Apollo
spacecraft, the vehicle which one
day will take men to the moon.
During the summer of 1967,
A&M acquired a powerful radio
active Cobalt source—possibly the
most active for its size on any
university campus. Basic work
in physics is being carried out
with the source.
A&M is stressing the interdis
ciplinary approach to research
problems. Workers from differ
ent fields collaborate—a system
quite different from the old idea
of the lone scientist carrying out
work in a garret.
Collaboration in the disciplines
of electrical, chemical and aero
dynamics engineering produced
the successful firing of the first
sodium - potassium underwater
propulsion device during the fall
of 1967.
BY GARY SHERER
Battalion Sports Editor
Aggie Coach Gene Stallings
took a ride on New Year’s Day.
It proved to be a short trip but
the author of one of this year’s
top football stories enjoyed every
second of it.
The transportation was provid
ed by Stallings’ former coach,
boss and still trusted advisor—
Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant.
THIS WAS BRYANT’S way of
showing the 75,000 plus Cotton
Bowl spectators that his longtime
pupil deserved all the plaudits he
was going to receive. All this
came about after the Aggies had
beaten Alabama’s Crimson Tide
20-16 and put College Station
(specifically) and the Southwest
Conference (in general) back on
the map.
The Cotton Bowl victory was
a fitting climax to a confusing
1967 football season. It was the
capper to a season that had be
gun with the Aggies, Texas and
Arkansas picked as co-favorites
in the SWC.
But, all three of the favorites
lost their first two games and—
enter confusion.
Then, Texas and Arkansas
stopped their losing skeins but
the Aggies’ streak lasted through
games three and four. All the
scribes who had said the Aggies
were contenders now called on
their regular line of rationaliz-
N-Engineering
Gets NSF Aid
Texas A&M has been awarded
a $16,400 National Science Foun
dation grant for a nuclear engi
neering summer institute.
Dr. Robert G. Cochran, A&M’s
Nuclear Engineering Department
head, will direct the institute in
volving 20 college science and
engineering teachers.
Cochran said the institute
hopes to receive a $10,460 grant
from the U. S. Atomic Energy
Commission, a co-sponsor for the
past six institutes.
A&M received approximately
$160,000 in grants for earlier
institutes.
Aiding Cochran in teaching the
six-week institute which begins
June 3 will be Dr. James D.
Smathers and Dr. Richard D.
Neff.
‘Paul Revere, Raiders 9 Set
For 8p.m. Performance
“Paul Revere and the Raiders,”
rated in a national survey as top
group in the country during 1967,
will be featured in a Town Hall
"Extra” program Friday at Texas
A&M.
The performance at 8 p.m. in
G. Rollie White Coliseum also
spotlights two additional popular
groups, “The Dream Machine”
and “Michael.”
In the Current Scene Magazine
survey, “Paul Revere and the
Raiders” finished first over
groups including “7]’nd\.Monkees,”
“Diana Ross and ut eacupremes,”
“The Beatles,” v> find'Herman’s
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PAUL REVERE, RAIDERS
“Hard-rock" singing group Paul Revere and the Raiders,
led by Mark Lindsay (lower left), will present a Town
Hall “extra" at 8 p. m. tonight in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Appearing with the group will be “The Dream Machine"
and “Michael."
Robert Gonzales, chairman of
the sponsoring Memorial Student
Center Town Hall Committee,
said a member of the group, saxo
phonist and guitarist Mark Lind
say, was listed high in the survey
for most outstanding instrument
alist. He was edged out by Herb
Alpert, but was in the midst of
such company as A1 Hirt, Bob
Crewe and Ravi Shankar.
Other members of Revere’s
group are Freddy Weller, Joe Jr.,
and Charlie Coe. Some of their
best-received records are included
in an album labeled “Revolution!”
Included are “Him or Me . . .
What’s It Gonna Be?,” “Reno,”
“Upon Your Leaving,” “Mo-
Reen,” “Wanting You,” “Gone—
Movin’ On,” “I Had a Dream,”
“Tighter,” “Make It With Me,”
“Ain’t Nobody Who Can Do It
Like Leslie Can,” and “I Hear a
Voice.”
Tickets are available at the
MSC Student Program Office.
Gonzales reminded students and
patrons that season tickets are
not applicable for the Town Hall
Extra.
Interest in the show has spread
to surrounding high schools,
Gonzales announced, with sev
eral to send busloads of students.
ing, “well (ahem) you know the
Aggies.”
STALLINGS, however, didn’t
rationalize, he improvised.
That improvisation may well
parallel the job done by the ‘min-
utemen’ militia on the British
back in revolutionary days.
Combining many offensive and
defensive changes along with
some good old-fashioned luck, the
Aggies won their last six games.
All of those games were SWC
contests and the Maroon and
White grabbed its first title in 10
years.
Then, after the dust cleared fol
lowing the 10-7 Turkey Day vic
tory over Texas, Bryant and Ala
bama were selected as the Aggies
opponents in the Cotton Bowl.
It was Alabama that provided
the competition for A&M the last
time the Aggies had been invited
to the Dallas Classic. At that
time, the Tide topped the Aggies
29-21. That New Year’s victory
26 years ago, still is the only
time Alabama has won : n the
Cotton Bowl. The Tide also lost
in 1953 when an off-the-bench
tackle by an excited Alabaman
provided the oily anxiety for
Tide rooters as Rice topped Ala
bama 28-7.
IN THAT 3^”ie year of 1953,
Gene Stallings entered Texas
A&M and Bear Bryant was still
a year away from taking over as
A&M head coach.
However, in 1954, the opposing
coaches of the 1968 Cotton Bowl
game, started an association that
continued until Stallings came
back to College Station in 1965.
During that 10-year period,
Stallings learned from Bryant
and the Bear turned out to be a
good teacher.
All this preparation came to a
head four days ago as pupil and
teacher met for the first time, in
the ‘arena.’
The oddsmakers looked on this
game as a victory for the teacher
as Alabama was installed as a
six-point favorite. Bryant’s sea
soned veterans (third bowl in-a-
row) were looked on *s too tough
for Stallings’ big play miracle
workers.
IT LOOKED like the pickers
were correct as the Tide scored
on their second possession and
took a 7-0 lead. The Aggies how
ever, used one of their most po
tent weapons this year, the inter
ception, and came back with a
score. One of the parts of Stall
ings’ improvising, Tommy Max
well, grabbed a Ken Stabler pass
and the Aggies turned the break
into a touchdown.
The six points came on a come
back pass from Edd Hargett to
Larry Stegent and the game was
tied. Alabama came right back
with a field goal and Aggie fans
held their breath. It looked like
the 10-7 score would last right
up to halftime but Hargett hit
the all-purpose Maxwell with a
bullet aerial with just seconds
remaining in the second quarter.
Charlie Riggs continued his
losing battle with the right side
of the goal post as his extra point
try bounced off. This made it 13-
10 Aggies with another two quar
ters to play.
HOWEVER, a three-point lead
over Alabama is not too safe so
Wendell Housley made it six
points bigger with a third quar
ter run that left the field strewn
with would-be Alabama tacklers.
Then, the last twenty minutes
of this game provided a lot of
excitement for the chilled (40 de
grees at game time) assemblage.
Included in these exciting mo
ments were: an Alabama touch
down, the officials forgetting how
to count, and a crucial intercep
tion by Curley Hallman.
Finally, when the clock read
no time left, the Aggies were still
four points ahead and the Cotton
Bowl championship returned to
the SWC after a two-year ab
sence.
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Aggie wingback Bob Long looks for daylight upfield after taking a flat pass in the first
half. Moving in from behind is Alabama’s Charlie Harris (82). In front are David Bed-
well (48) and Eddie Propst (49).
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STEGENT THROUGH THE MIDDLE
Tailback Larry Stegent grinds for short yardage as two Alabama defenders hang on.
Bobby Johns (37) moves in to help David Bedwell (48). Action was in the first period.
CONARC Chief Will Speak
At Jan. 20 Commencement
Gen. James K. Woolnough,
commanding general of the U. S.
Continental Army Command at
Fort Monroe, Va., will be the
honored military guest at com
missioning exercises Jan. 20,
President Earl Rudder an
nounced.
General Woolnough will make
the principal address and present
commissions to new officers who
will graduate that morning.
The January commencement at
10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. commis
sioning will be in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
A veteran of 35 years Army
service, the general has been
CONARC commander and a four-
star officer since July. Before the
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GEN. WOOLNOUGH
Fort Monroe assignment, he was
deputy chief of sttaff for person
nel, Department of the Army,
Washington, D. C., two years.
GENERAL Woolnough has had
numerous command positions
among 26 assignments since mid-
1942. He commanded the 393rd
Infantry Regiment through lat
ter stages of the Battle of the
Bulge, the Army Personnel Cen
ter at Schofield Barracks, the
base section of the U. S. Com
munications Zone, Euurope, and
the 1st Cavalry Division in the
Pacific and Korea.
As a lieutenant colonel, Wool
nough commanded the 1st Regi
ment at the U. S. Military
Academy, from which he gradu
ated in 1932.
The general was a West Point
math instructor at the outbreak
of World War II and subse
quently served on the War De
partment General Staff, opera
tions division, and with the 1st
Infantry Division, becoming its
executive officer shortly after the
D-Day Normandy Beach landing
in 1944.
GENERAL Woolnough was
deputy plans and operations offi
cer of Joint Task Force Seven
which performed the first atomic
bomb tests at Eniwetok and after
wards served principally in the
Pacific, Far East and with the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion in Washington until he be
came assistant division com
mander of the 5th Infantry Divi
sion in 1954.
His decorations include the
Combat Infantry Badge, Silver
and Bronze Star Medals, Belgian
Officer of the Order of Leopold
and French Legion of Honor.
The general was born in the
Philippine Islands while his
father, the late Col. James B.
Woolnough, was assigned with
the 21st Infantry Regiment.
General Woolnough and his
wife, the former Mary Agnes
Porter of Waycross, Ga., have
three children.
Gift Wrappers
Set New Record
Gift wrapping proved to be
big business this Christmas for
YMCA personnel and volun
teers at A&M.
J. Gordon Gay, YMCA gen
eral secretary, announced a
record 817 presents wrapped
free of charge, erasing the old
mark of 727 gifts wrapped
last year.
“We wrapped everything
from electric heaters to wash
cloths,” grinned Mrs. Alma
Lewis, office secretary. “The
biggest gift I wrapped was an
enormous stuffed lion . . .
about the size of an office fil
ing cabinet.”
The YMCA service has been
provided for 27 years.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
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