THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday April 2, 1971
At the cinema
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle ‘Mall Called Sledge’ dragS
“Remember that big push you were going to make to
bring grades up? It’s about time to start it!”
By PAT GRIMES
“Man Called Sledge,” running
at the Campus, could be summar
ized in one line, but for the sake
of my pocketbook, I’ve decided to
expand this critique further.
Sledge is an Italian western,
presumably shot on location in
Spain with a cast of hundreds
(extras though, not stars). Music,
scenery, bloodshed and thorough
bred horses are capitalized up
on; story, content and dialogue
are not—as much.
Sledge is a heavier and older
James (Maverick) Garner, play
ing the current movie—trend an
tivillain hero type. He’s fast with
a gun, liquor and women—in that
order and in longjohns.
The sinister and professional
side of him bounces from drunk
(maybe stewed would be better)
to deadly sober.
His marksmanship is superb
and he knows how to ride.
To begin again, Sledge and
friend rob a stagecoach. Friend
gets killed in a poker game and
the theme song about man’s lust
for gold plays on. Sledge, rudely
disturbed by the noise (he is oc
cupied upstairs), plugs the killers,
mounts up and rides on, followed
by “the old man.”
Aware of this, Sledge faces
him and it’s tough-language,
showdown time.
It seems the old man has knowl
edge of the whereabouts of $300,-
000 in gold dust. Interested,
Sledge takes him to the “secret”
hideout, a bit of melodrama here
and louder music.
AP analysis
Supreme Court friction up
WASHINGTON <A>)_About 90
years ago Chief Justice Melville
W. Fuller decided a good way to
keep Supreme Court tempers cool
was to have the justices shake
hands before they voted.
For all anyone knows, the tra
dition is still alive in the confer
ence room behind the bench. But
there’s reason to wonder whether
the 36 handshakes aren’t an
empty gesture.
Out in the open, ip their opin
ions and on the bench, the Jus
tices are taking potshots at each
other. Those on the losing side
of a decision are quick to sug
gest the winners really don’t
know how to read the Constitu
tion.
That kind of sniping isn’t new.
But it seems to be growing more
pointed. Attacks on social phi
losophies, complaints that settled
law is being foolishly unsettled
and even unjudicial sarcasm have
become more common.
Less noticed but equally sig
nificant is the increasing division
on more secondary matters, such
as whether to stay a lower
court’s ruling while an appeal is
readied.
The best explanation for the
friction is internal stress within
the court as the old liberal ma
jority grudgingly yields to a
growing conservative force
grouped around Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger.
Secondly, personalities on the
court are a factor. Hugo L.
Black, the senior justice, never
took a judicial defeat easily. At
85, he is taking them with even
less ease.
And though Burger has the
court going more his way, he too
will thunder darkly when on the
losing side.
This week Black and William
J. Brennan Jr. took their turns
in the spotlight. Both spoke
against a backdrop of defeat,
both with extra drama.
The target of Black’s blast
was a 6-3 ruling that reversed a
Wyoming man’s burglary con
viction. The majority said po
lice did not have enough evidence
to justify the radio bulletin that
led to the man’s arrest.
Black, who headed up the dis
senters, accused the majority of
feeding public beliefs that “our
court actually enjoys frustrating
Numbers in
() denate channels
15
(12)
Sesame Street
on the cable.
(PBS)
2:30
3
(5)
Edge of Night
6:00
3
(5)
Evening News
15
(12)
Sesame Street
6:30
3
(5)
The Brady Bunch
(PBS) (Repeat)
15
(12)
Campus and
of Thursday)
Community Today
3:00
3
(5)
Gomer Pyle
7:00
3
(5)
Nanny and the
3:30
3
(5)
Town Talk
Professor
15
(12)
University
15
(12)
The Great
Instructional
American Dream
4:00
3
(5)
That Girl
Machine (NET)
7:30
3
(5)
Andy Griffith
4:30
3
(5)
Bewitched
8:00
3
(5)
Movie—Sword of
15
(12)
What’s New
Alibaba
(NET)
8:30
15
(12)
Meet the School
5:00
3
(5)
General Hospital
Board Candidates
15
(12)
Misterogers’
10:00
3
(5)
Final News
Neighborhood
10:30
3
(5)
Alias Smith and
(PBS)
Jones
5:30
3
(5)
CBS News
11:30
3
(5)
Alfred Hitchcock
Bingo—Weekdays at 5, BCS*TV/9. Nothing to
buy. You need not be present to win.
justice by unnecessarily turning
professional criminals loose.”
The decision, Black said, was
“a gross and wholly indefensible
miscarriage of justice.”
The attack was clearly inten
tional. Black put his glasses on
and read carefully from his opin
ion besides ad-libbing during the
15-minute discourse.
Although Brennan said noth
ing in public, his performance
was no less spectacular.
Normally reserved and an ac
complished mediator, the liberal
justice took the gloves off in a
dissent from a 5-4 ruling that
the states can deny inheritances
to illegitimate children.
“Today’s decision,” Brennan
wrote, “cannot even pretend to
be a principled decision.”
Intercourse
replaces kiss
LONDON OP) — Making love
has replaced the good night kiss
of the postwar days, a leading
London doctor told a medical
congress Thursday.
“The kiss of the ’40s and ’50s,”
said Dr. John Slome, “has be
come the sexual intercourse of
the ’60’s and ’70s.”
Slome, in a paper to the third
international Congress of Psy
chosomatic Medicine in Obstet
rics and Gynaecology, disclosed
a survey showed that unmarried
mothers in Britain account for
61 per cent of all abortion pa
tients.
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SUNDAY
Phi Eta Sigma will meet at
5:30 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom
to initiate pledges who could not
attend the original initiation
ceremony.
MONDAY
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of the MSC to initiate new mem
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Industrial Education Wives
Club will meet at 8 p.m. in room
9 of the M.E. Shops Building to
view a slide presentation on
Ecuador given by John Cabezas,
a student from that country.
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After hearing about the loot,
Sledge formulates a plan. It fails
and he formulates a new plan,
better and practically foolproof,
of course.
The plan includes a fake cap
ture of Sledge, the breakout of
500 prisoners, the successful theft
of the gold and many deaths of
“friends.”
A sudden change to wide open
spaces and no-man’s land finds
the gang, the gold and another
greedy poker game.
The old man wins it all except
for Sledge’s share and manages
to kill yet another friend.
Riled, Sledge sits down to clean
the codger out. He does after sev
eral mug shots and the use of an
overlapping film technique. I al
most forgot—more and much bet
ter music also.
After this process, Sledge
rides off, needless to say, with
all the gold.
Finally it’s showdown time be
tween Sledge and friends.
One by one, everyone but the
stalwart Sledge gets it in an au
thentic Spanish village amidst
a funeral procession.
Once again the theme opens up
and our hero exits.
Though it included every type
of western fighter and explored
all the various techniques of the
standard western, it was pretty
good in spots.
But what really made the eve
ning was the Frazier/Ali champ
ionship film excerpt. It covered
the admission fee and then some,
and was an excellent example of
the will to win.
Note: “1984” is playing at the
Coffee Loft tonight, sponsored
by the United Christian Fellow
ship.
Many cars have tires
unsuited for load, report says
WASHINGTON (/P)—Figures
from auto makers show that 50
models of domestic and imported
cars ride on tires which provide
an overloading safety margin of
less than 1 per cent of the loaded
vehicle’s weight.
Makers of the cars with the
slim tire reserve load margins
call the reserves adequate, al
though tire experts rate over
loading and its near-equivalent,
under-inflation, as major causes
of tire failure.
Running a tire with more load
than it is designed to bear is
unsafe, says a government re
port. “It shortens the life of a
tire and may lead to sudden fail
ure.” That means a blowout.
Beginning with the 1970 mod
els, auto manufacturers have sub
mitted to the Department of
Transportation figures showing
the tire reserve load, or the
amount of weight a tire could
turer’s recommended maximum
support beyond the manufac-
load.
This year’s reports, besides
showing the 50 models of domestic
and imported cars with a tire
reserve load of less than 1 per
cent of the loaded car’s weight,
also disclose that some models
of Renault, Toyota, Ford, Plym
outh and Dodge have a reserve
of 10 pounds or less.
The government requires only
that a car’s tires shall not be
overloaded at the manufacturer’s
maximum recommended load.
Auto engineers said all car
parts have a built-in safety
margin. Spokesmen for the Tire
Industry Safety Council said any
safety margin would be difficult
to compute, althought they esti
mated tires are 10 per cent
stronger than they are rated.
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