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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, January 4, 1962
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“I had such a wonderful time that two more days would
have killed me!”
| BATTALION EDITORIALS
Why, Not Us?
pare Dancers
Begin Workshop
Here Today
Square dancers from all over
the nation get together this after
noon to kick off the 11th annual
square dance workshop with a buf
fet supper at the home of. Man
ning Smith, local professional
dance instructor.
These 40 to 50 professionals and
hobbyists will meet tonight from
8 p.m. to midnight and tomorrow
and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon,
2 to 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. to midnight
for instruction and practice ses
sions.
Joe Lewis, a nationally known
caller from Dallas, will arrive
Friday to lead the square dance
instruction, according to Smith.
Smith and his wife, Anita, will
lead the round dance instruction.
The number of dancers will in
crease to about 150 by Saturday,
according to Smith. A final meet
ing Sunday morning will end the
workshop.
T\wo - Ma n Spa ce Sh ip
Plans Released By NASA
You Too Can Be An Alan
The Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Committee
met in Dallas this past weekend to vote on the recipient of
the 1961 Sportsmanship Trophy. Results of the secret bal
loting, based on each school’s conduct at football and basket
ball contests during the past year, revealed that Texas Tech
had again won the award.
Tech’s winning the sportsmanship trophy is significant.
This past season was the Lubbock School’s second in SWC
football competition—and the second year in a row Tech has
carted home the big three-foot “good sport” prize.
Why? How can Tech, newest SWC member, jump in and
walk off with this coveted award the first time she tries,
then come back the next year (and without really trying)
walk off with it again?
More important, why didn’t we win ? Why has A&M won
the award only once in the 14 years it’s been in existence?
One A&M student leader brushed off the fact we had
again lost the sportsmanship cup by candidly remarking that
“we’re Aggies. By nature, nobody likes us and we don’t like
anybody. We aren’t expected to be good sports.”
No! By nature, Aggies are leaders, and as such ARE
expected to be good sports.
An example of Aggie leadership is the SWC Sportsman
ship Committee itself. The committee was developed at A&M
in 1948 by Jimmy K. B. Nelson, ’49, then a co-editor of the
Battalion. Working through the Student Life Committee of
the Student Senate, Nelson got authority for The Battalion
to appropriate from its fuhds enough money 'to buy a three-
foot trophy to be presented annually to the SWC school that
showed the best sportsmanship each year.
Since then, the committee has grown in importance
and the Conference’s recognition of good sportsmanship and
fair play has increased in proportion.
Competition for the 1962 award began with the first
basketball game of the season Dec. 1. It’s high time the stu
dents of A&M brought our trophy back home.
WASHINGTON (£»> — The Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration released Wednesday
the first artist’s conceptions of a
two-man space craft designed to
rendezvous with other space ve
hicles while in orbit.
It was given the name “Gemi
ni” after the thh'd constellation
in the zodiac.
Gemini is to be built by Mc
Donnell Aircraft Corp., St. Louis,
Mo., manufacturer of the one-
man Mercury craft in which as
tronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and
Virgil L. Grissom made 115-mile
high suborbital flights. Lt. Col.
John H. Glenn is scheduled later
this month to orbit the earth
three times in the capsule.
Gemini will have the same
shape as the one-ton Mercury
capsule, but have 50 per cent
greater volume and weight two
to three times more.
Scheduled for flight tests in
1963 and 1964, it will provide
training for the crews that will
man the three-man Apollo moon-
craft late in 1964 or 1965.
Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr., Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration associated adminis
trator, said Gemini was the most
appropriate of many names con
sidered, and had been proposed
independently by a number of
persons. In the zodiac, it is rep
resented by the twins Castor and
Pollux, two bright stars in the
Milky Way.
The drawings released by
NASA showed two astronauts
seated side by side on contour
lounges of the type used in the
Mercury capsules.
Another- drawing showed the
huge Titan II Gemini launching
Driver Fed Up;
So Kids File Out
PITTSBURGH <A>> — A Pitts
burgh bus driver, fed up with the
antics of high school students
riding in his bus, halted his ve
hicle at a busy Pittsburgh inter
section Wednesday and walked
off the job.
“I can’t stand it anymore. I’ve
had it,” Frank Seitz told police
at the scene.
Seitz, a driver for the Pitts
burgh Railways Co. for 15 years,
ordered the students off the bus
and then telephoned his office to
come and get the bus because he
was going home.
Bulletin Board
HOMETOWN CLUBS
Lavaca County club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 106, Aca
demic Building.
Galena Park club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Stu
dent Center main lobby (by the
fireplace) for Aggieland picture.
POLITICAL GROUPS
Texas A&M Conservative Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
MSC Social Room. The film,
“The Communist Encirclement”
will be shown.
Harris Wins Camera
Robert E. Harris, ‘62, of D-l-B
College View won a Polaroid Land
camera in a drawing held Dec.
15 in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Bowling Lanes. The drawing
was sponsored by Philip Morris
Cigarettes, according to Robert
Lee, campus sales * representative
for Philip Morris.
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1962 AGGIELAND
Texas A&M College
College Station, Texas
Civilian Yearbook
Portrait Schedule
Civilian students will have their
portrait made for the AGGIE
LAND ’62 according to the fol
lowing schedule. Portraits will
be made -at the Aggieland Studio
between the hours of 8 a. m. and
5 p. m. on the days scheduled.
COATS AND TIES SHOULD
BE WORN.
Sr. and Grad. Civilians
Jan.
4-5
8- 9
9- 10
10-11
11-12
15- 16
16- 17
17- 18
18- 19
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vehicle, a two-stage, 90-foot-tall,
10-foot-diameter rocket.
Shown with it was the Atlas-
Agena B rocket combination,
slightly taller than the Titan II-
Gemini assembly, which will be
used in practicing space-rendez
vous techniques.
Other sketches showed how the
Atlas would launch the Agena B
into an orbit, and after its course
had been determined, how a Ge
mini would be placed into a sim
ilar orbit by the Titan II rocket
and the two would be maneuv
ered together.
This rendezvous techniques is
to be developed as a step later in
sending Apollo crews around the
moon. If the space docking
should prove to be impractical,
the United States would have to
await development of a Nova-
type superrocket before attempt
ing a manned landing on the
moon.
If you’ve ever been surprised
because you’ve told yourself you
wanted to wake at a certain hour
and then did, psychologist Jack
Arbit of Northwestern University
has an explanation for it.
You can “set your mind” for
a certain waking hour, Arbit
writes in the American Medical
Association Journal. It is based
on an elaborate set of learned
cues you’ve assembled from in
fancy.
One such cue is body tempera
ture. When you’ve established ii
your mind when you want t
wake up, the mind waits for tli
body temperature associated ivitl
that number of hours or |
depth of sleep. Then it fires
“wake up” alarm to the waki
fullness center and there you an
blearily staring at the face
your clock and wondering hoi
you did it.
Read Battalion OassiMs
PIONEERING
Somewhere out there, beyond the realm of man’s present
understanding, lies an idea. A concept. A truth.
Gradually, as it comes under the concentration of
disciplined minds, it will become clear, refined, mas
tered. This is the lonely art of pioneering.
In the Bell System, pioneering often results in major
breakthroughs. Planning the use of satellites as vehicles
for world-wide communications is one. Another is the
Optical Gas Maser, an invention which may allow a
. controlled beam of light to carry vast numbers of telephone
calls, TV shows, and data messages.
Breakthroughs like these will one day bring exciting
new telephone and communications service to you. The
responsibility of providing these services will he in the
hands of the people who work for your local telephone
company. Among them are the engineering, admimstrative
and operations personnel who make your telephone service
the finest in the world.
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
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