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Other top winners from Snyder and their divisions were the fol lowing: Architecture, Jimmy Spardlin; ceramics, Betty Joe West; leather, Rusty Rieger; machine shop, Ed die White; open division, Tommy Cooper; plastics, Karen Robinson, and jewelry, Frank Younger. Their teachers are Frank Miller, W. E. Raborn and W. A. Mayfield. LITHE APS mas WANTED! We are not looking for Law Breakers but we are want ing USED BOOKS. If yon have one you are tired of, detest, or associate with an unpleasant memory, come into the BOOK DEPART MENT of THE EXCHANGE STORE and SURRENDER! Not yourself, of course, but the BOOK, for the REWARD we are offering. You won’t get rich off the REWARD but you will get gasoline money to go home to MOM’S cooking. After two or three of her cooked meals you’ll feel we overpaid you for that unwanted book. 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A descrip tion of the work is scheduled for the international gathering of nu clear scientists that will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, this coming fall. ‘Wonder’ Metals Practical application of the work is related to analysis of such sub stances as the new “wonder” met als, used in the nose cones of rock ets, in space satellites, in jet en gines and high-speed missile com ponents. These metals are ex tremely valuable, complex alloys in may cases, and must be abso lutely free of impurities that might cause them to break up or suffer metal fatigue under ex treme heat, speed or altitude con ditions. Because of the value of the met als, and the need for their recov ery, undamaged, analyses must be done in a non-destructive manner. Kuykendall’s research deals with the use of irradiating the samples, which are placed in a 256-channel analyzer. Information on the amount and type of materials in the sample is fed back to the op erator. In turn, this information is put into the high-speed IBM-704 electronic computer at the A&M System’s Data Processing Center, and the answer can be typed out in a matter of minutes. The samples are recovered undamaged. Can Be Traced Minute amounts of an element can be traced in this manner, ap plicable at present to 68 of the 92 elements. Kuykendall’s pro gramming for this type of cal culation covers a range of sub stances containing as many as 25 elements in combination, and re searchers here expect to hit com binations with 35 to 40 elements within the near future. Analysis for unknowns, using the nuclear training reactor, and the 256-channel analyzer (a $26,- MSC Summer Slate Released Summer- social activities spon sored by the Memorial Student Center will be greatly improved and expanded, according to Mrs. Rosalie Johnson, MSC Student Program Advisor. The summer program is open to the public. Three major musical presenta tions will highlight the summer months. The Gulf Coast Giants of Jazz, a 15-piece band, will perform in the MSC Ballroom at 8 p.m., June 21. “Oklahoma” will be pre sented in the Grove at 8 p.m. on July 12 and 13, under the direc tion of Dr. William Turner. Mar shall Izen, pianist-humorist who has been featured on both the Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen TV shows, will entertain at 8 p.m., August 2, in the MSC Ballroom. On Thursday, August 11, author- explorer Neil Douglas will narrate a technicolor film he is currently producing in Europe. Dougles is well known for his documentary film on Russia, said Mrs. Johnson. To complete the summer calen dar, Mrs. Johnson announced that dances will be presented Monday evenings at 8 o’clock throughout the summer. Bands will play for several of these functions to be held on the MSC Terrace. Movies will be shown in the Grove Monday through Thursday nights and will feature one techni color film per week. 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Wainerdi, As sistant to the Dean of Engineer ing, and overall director of Kuy kendall’s research, says the meth od developed is unique in its use of high-speed computers, and that it makes for a much faster, more precise method of analysis than heretofore done. “As a matter of fact, the method is so accurate that right now there are very few practical applications. In manu facture of transistors, the method is very important and, the future potential is tremendous.” Paper Being Accepted “The fact that the American Nuclear Society is accepting Kuy kendall’s paper for presentation is indication of the importance at tached by scientists to more pre cise activation analysis methods. For a graduate student to present a paper before the American Nu clear Society is like the bat boy hitting the winning home run in the series.” Kuykendall, to accomplish his research studies, also built a spec- ti'ometer, which feeds information into the multi-channel analyzer, “. . .providing better data than that now being reported from other spectrometers.” Kuykendall is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kuykendall, 956 North Davis, Sulphur Springs, and a 1954 graduate of Sulphur Springs High School. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1958. THE BATTALION Thursday, May 26, 1960 College Station, Texas Page 3 BE WISE BE ECONOMY MINDED BE SURE Get The Biggest Return On Your Used Books * LIBERAL CASH REFUND * 50% ADDITIONAL REFUND If Taken In Merehandist At loupots It Pays To Trade With Lou Do hbuThinkforlrburself? (PUT THIS QUIZ IN YOUR THINK-TANK AND SEE WHAT DEVELOPS*) if you had to write the advertising for a small car, would you say, (A) “Hard to get into? 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