THE BATTALION
Pag-e 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 4, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Sour Grapes?
You Bet!
Coach Hank Foldberg is a man of few words. But we
feel sure that if he had been permitted to freely discuss ehe
A&M-Texas ballgame after it was over he would have had
some choice words to say about some choice subjects. And
those subjects would not have been any of the Texas Long
horns.
Coach Foldberg was restricted by rules of the South
west Conference from saying anything about the officiat
ing in the Turkey Day game. But, The Battalion is not
restricted by such rules.
We have seen the films from the game, and we are sure
that Jim Willenborg intercepted a TU pass in the last few
minutes of the game, we are sure that Jim was in bounds
when he caught the ball, and further more we are certain
that the official made a mistake when he said that Jim
was outside the bounds marker. We also feel reasonably
sure that had the Aggies been given possession then they
would have been able to run the clock out with only two
minutes and 41 seconds left in the game.
We don't care to take a thing away from Texas for the
game they played. They played a fine ballgame. On Tur
key Day, The University of Texas Longhorns were second
only to the Fighting Texas Aggies from Texas A&M Uni
versity. TU’s undefeated season should go down in the
record books with a big black question mark right next to
it.
However, too much could not be taken away from the
officials who called that football game on Kyle Field on the
afternoon of Nov. 28, 1963. Apparently everyone in Kyle
Field that afternoon, with the exception of five men dressed
in white trimmed with black, saw Jim Willenborg catch
the football well within the bounds markers. At least photo
graphs and movie films from the ballgame indicate that
such was the case. The least that can be expected of the
officials from that ballgame is an excuse and an apology—
an explanation would be impossible.
There are very strict rules in the Southwest Confer
ence governing the actions of coaches and players. It might
be well for the Southwest Football Officials’ Association to
consider some very strict rules which would eliminate in
competent personnel from their generally competent ranks.
Alliance For Progress
Vindicated By Election
Not even the vicious terrorist campaign still being con
ducted by the communist FALN, the Armed Forces for
National Liberation, can take the sting out of the resound
ing victory for the free, democratic election recently held
in Venezuala.
As a leading practitioner of the late President Kennedy’s
Alliance for Progress program, President Betancourt’s
coalition government has set a commendable example to
the rest of South America by ensuring that the electorate
had a vast mantle of protection by the armed forces, not
withstanding some fatal sniper action.
The point is that the people did turn out, despite threats
that they would be shot or bombed. No one could fail to be
impressed by the sight of mothers with children in their
arms, waiting patiently for their turn at the polling station.
President Betancourt seemed determined to ensure
that his coalition government would be succeeded by a
government that was truly representative of the wishes
of the people.
This is indeed a milestone for South American politics
and a fitting tribute to President Kennedy’s determination
to do all in his power to aid and encourage the emergence
of civil liberties in South American states, and to ensure
the taking of their rightful place in the Western hemisphere.
Finally there is the gratifying result that the Vene
zuelan electorate gave a fitting slap in the face of pro-Castro
advocates by voting heavily for both Rafeal Caldera and
Raul Leoni, out spoken enemies of Castro’s Cuban regime.
—JRW
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CADET SLOUCH
by jim Earle Khrushchev Promises His
Cooperation For Peace
MOSCOW <A>) — Soviet Prem
ier Nikita Khrushchev declared
Tuesday night the Soviet Union
will match President Johnson’s
pledges to work for a more secure
world peace.
The Soviet leader said:
“We note with satisfaction
that Lyndon Johnson, the new
President of the United States,
speaking of his intentions to con
tinue President Kennedy’s poli
cy, emphasized he would strive
for a peaceful solution of inter
national relations and for better
relations between the Soviet Un
ion and all countries.
“As regards the Soviet Union,
it will not relax its efforts in
search of a solution to major in
ternational problems and will
press for the further consolida
tion of relations with other coun
tries.”
Khrushchev gave this pledge
at a farewell dinner in the Fin
nish Embassy for visiting Presi
dent Urho Kekkonen.
The Finnish president came to
the Soviet Union on an unof-
fical visit. He and Khrushchev
and other Soviet leaders spent
most of their time hunting
in the snowy woods west of Mos
cow, knocking over Elk and
boar.
IF th’ sips are No. 1, we’re bound to be No, 2!”
“I cannot but express again
my profound condolence and in
dignation at the heinous assas
sination of President Kennedy
whose policy on a number of
Bulletin Board
WEDNESDAY
The Aggie Wives Bridge Club
will meet in the Memorial Stu
dent Center at 7:30 p.m.
The Baha’i Faith will meet in
the Cashion Room of the YMCA
building at 7:30 p.m. There will
be an informal presentation of
faith to the public.
THURSDAY
Hometown Clubs
Bay Area will meet on the front
steps of the Memorial Student
Center at 7:30 p.m.
Galveston Island will meet in
the Lounge of the Memorial Stu
dent Center at 7:15 p.m.
Hill Country will meet in the
Gay Room of the YMCA Build
ing at 7:30 p.m.
Texarkana will meet in Room
223 of the Academic Building at
7:30 p.m.
Wichita Falls will meet in the
Second Floor Lounge of the Mem
orial Student Center at 7:15 p.m.
—Job Calls
Merit System Council, The
State of Texas — Accounting,
business administration, biology,
chemistry, entomology, physics,
biochemistry, dairy science, agri
cultural economics and sociology,
history and government and edu
cation and psychology.
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DECK THE HALLS
The time has come to think of Christmas shopping, for the
Yuletide will be upon us quicker than you can say Jack Robin
son. (Have you ever wondered, incidentally, about the origin
of this interesting phrase “Quicker than you can say Jack
Robinson”? Well sir, the original saying was French—“Plus
vite que de dire Jacques Robespierre.’’ Jack Robinson is, as every
one knows, an Anglicization of Jacques Robespierre who was,
as everyone knows, the famous figure from the French Revolu
tion who, as everyone knows, got murdered in his bath by
Danton, Murat, Caligula, and A1 Capone.
(The reason people started saying “Quicker than you can
say Jacques Robespierre”—or Jack Robinson, as he is called in
English-speaking countries like England, the U.S., and Cleve
land—is quite an interesting little story. It seems that Robes
pierre’s wife, Georges Sand, got word of the plot to murder
her husband in his bath. All she had to do to save his life was
call his name and warn him. But, alas, quicker than she could
say Jacques Robespierre, she received a telegram from her old
friend Frederic Chopin who was down in Majorca setting lyrics
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Georges Sand’s help desperately because he could not find a
rhyme for “Warsaw.” Naturally, Georges could not refuse
such an urgent request.
(Well sir, off to Majorca went Georges, but before she left,
she told her little daughter Walter that some bad men were
coming to murder Daddy in his bath. She instructed Walter
to shout Robespierre’s name the moment the bad men arrived.
But Walter, alas, had been sea-bathing that morning on the
Riviera, and she had come home with a big bag of salt water
taffy, and when the bad men arrived to murder Robespierre,
Walter, alas, was chewing a wad of taffy and could not get her
mouth unstuck in time to shout a warning. Robespierre, alas,
was murdered quicker than you could say Jacques Robespierre
—or Jack Robinson, as he is called in English-speaking countries.
(There is, I am pleased to report, one small note of cheer
in this grisly tale. When Georges Sand got to Majorca, she did
succeed in helping Chopin find a rhyme for “Warsaw” as every
one knows who has heard those haunting lyrics:
In the fair town of Warsaw,
Which Napoleon’s horse saw,
Singing cockles and mussels, alive alive o!)
But I digress.
We were speaking of Christmas gifts. What we all try to
find at Christmas is, of course, unusual and distinctive gifts for
our friends. May I suggest then a carton of Marlboro Cigarettes?
What? You are astonished? You had not thought of Marlboros
as unusual? You had regarded them as familiar, reliable smokes
whose excellence varied not one jot nor tittle from year to year?
True. All true. But all the same, Marlboros are unusual be
cause every time you try one, it’s like the first time. The flavor
never palls, the filter never gets hackneyed, the soft pack is
ever a new delight, and so is the Flip Top box. Each Marlboro
is a fresh and pristine pleasure, and if you want all your friends
to clap their hands and cry, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus!” you will see that their stockings are filled with Marl
boros on Christmas morn. © 1963 Max stuum&n
The holiday season or any other season is the season to be
jolly—if Marlboro is your brand. You’ll find Marlboros wher
ever cigarettes are sold in all fifty states of the Union. You
get a lot to like in Marlboro Country.
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