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Twinkle Toes! You’re Kidding Battalion sports editor Jim Butler and Shirlene Meyer rehearse for the combined BA and CE Wives Club pres entation of the “Womanless Wedding” set for Tuesday at 8 p. m. in Guion Hall. Tickets are 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children, and are available at the Exchange Store and the Student Programs Office in the Memorial Student Center. Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1964 Number 12 Cadets Squeeze Victory From Jaws Of Defeat Next Stop, Dallas For Champions By JIM BUTLER Battalion Sports Editor The Aggies came within a lung’s shout of pulling defeat from the jaws of victory Thursday night but Texas choked twice and the Cadets squeezed out a 65-63 win. With 0:42 on the clock, A&M had control and a 64-61 lead. Having a hard time finding the basket, the ball had little trouble finding the hands of Texas’ Tommy Nelms. Joe Fisher took the pass, threw the ball over his head toward the basket and turned around to watch it drop through, 64-63. Nineteen seconds remained when the Aggies inbounded the ball. UT’s Jim Bob Smith intercepted an Aggie pass and was fouled by Paul Timmins. ♦ Smith went to the free MSC SEMINAR HELD UAR Says Has Arab Special Socialism Consulate Head The United Arab Republic, par ticularly its hub in Egypt, has evolved its own brand of Socialism, a UAR government official said here during a two-day lecture visit to A&M University. Tahseen M. Basheer of the UAR Consulate in San Francisco, speak ing at a special seminar, said his government is borrowing what it considers some of the good points of capitalism and socialism in an effort to get the bloc of countries back on their economic feet. He said the main difference be tween Arab and Russian socialism is that the UAR has rejected the concept of the classless society preached by hard-line Marxists. The pure Marxist, he added, be- ‘Want Breakfast In Bed?’ Attend MSC Open House Any student who visits all of the Memorial Student Center’s committee exhibits Wednesday in the open house will be elibible for an overnight stay in an MSC Guest Room, complete with break fast in bed, Howard Head, MSC president said. Other prizes include free bowl ing and billiards, Head added. Head said any student, graduate or under graduate, is eligible for the door prizes just as long as he or she visits all of the commit tee stations and has a card that has been punched at each station. The spring open house is being held to let the new student and the students who did not get to visit the MSC in September see the Today’s Thought 0 for a faith that will not shrink, Though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink Of any earthly woe. various activities that we have to offer, Head explained. The MSC committes will set up booths on the first floor of the center between the lobby and the Fountain Room. The MSC presi dent said the students will be able to visit the individual committees and ask questions about the pro grams. Head said “We feel that ajl too often a new freshman doesn’t real ly understand the MSC activities after his first visit during the September open house.” Punch cards will be issued at the head of the committee exhibit line and students who visit the various committee exhibits can get them punched there, Head explained. The cream and coffee will be given in accordance with the number of holes in their cards. Head said hobby, special interest and literary committees are offer ed and open to all students who have a one point GPR. lieves in a one-class society through dictatorship by the prole tariat. “Instead, w e believe in recon ciliation of the classes, not classless society,” Basheer pointed out. H e explained that Egypt i s trying t o bring class reconcilia tion about b y BASHEER making laborers part owners and profit sharers of the industry they work in. The idea is to discourage one class from dictating to another and to spark individual incentive. In the agricultural field, Egypt has conducted a vigorous land re form program in which large holdings were broken up and dis tributed to the landless. “This land does not become gov ernment land,” Basheer empha sized. “The landless become land- owners by buying on long-term plans from the government. The original large land holders are compensated by the government.” To avoid land “feudalism,” no farmer is allowed to own more than 100 acres, the consulate offi cial added. Large scale food and fiber pro duction is encouraged through technical help and farm co-opera tives. Basheer’s seminar talk was ar ranged by Dr. Vance Edmondson, of the A&M Department of Agri- Baylor ITS he “Kings Three,” a jazz trio from Baylor niversity, will be one of 11 acts presented jnight at the Intercollegiate Talent Show, he performance will begin at 6:30 in G. Performers Rollie White Coliseum. Admission is $1. The 11 acts represent the efforts of 10 Southwestern colleges and universities. throw line amid a screaming 8,500 fans. Oblivious to the yelling and with an Orange aura of supreme confidence, Smith calmly flipped it up—and missed. BUT OLD LADY Luck waved her Orange cape and Fisher tipped the missed shot back to Smith. The 6-2 senior drove for the winning goal with 0:04 left but was fouled again, this time by John Beasley. The staunch Aggie supporters pushed their vocal cords to the lim it. And once again Smith blew the shot that could have given the Steers a win over the Champs. Little Billy Atkinson snatched the ball, the buzzer sounded and the Aggies wheezed. Fans covered the floor and trun dled the happy cagers off to the showers. But the action wasn’t over. Atkinson had to be retrieved from the dressing room to shoot NORMAN HANGS HIGH While Cecil Ferguson helps, Ken Norman drops one in. Henry Holleman, caretaker of G. Rollie White Coliseum, suf fered a heart attack during the first half of Thursday night’s game. Late Thursday night, there was no report available on his con dition at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan. a free throw after being fouled at the buzzer. The soph guard hit the first one and missed the second to make the final margin 65-63. A hint of the finish could be found in the action preceding it. Neither team could take a com manding lead as the score was tied 12 times and the lead changed hands 16 times. Both teams were extremely cold from the floor and UT’s frigidity extended to the charity line. A&M hit 37.9 per cent for the distance while the Longhorns had a 39.7 per cent. Texas hit 17 out of 31 free throws. The Steers went through the first three minutes (See Dallas, Page 3) Grads May File For Council Seats Graduate students desiring a position on the Graduate Student Council should pick up nomination forms in the graduate dean’s of fice, Herbert L. Ernst, vice presi dent of the council, said Thursday. The present council members were appointed by Dean Wayne C. Hall last November when the council was organized. Ernst said the deadline for fil ing the nomination with Hall is March 24. He added that the election is set for April 1. The council vice president said the newly organized council will be composed of 12 graduate stu dents. The council will have three students representing the College of Agriculture, three for the Col lege of Engineering, four for the College of Arts and Sciences and one each from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Institute of Statistics. The council by-laws define a graduate student as a resident stu dent working on an advanced de gree and registered for at least eight hours. Ernst said the new council will take office the last of April. He said the executive officers of the council will be elected by the new council. Officials Study Rule Book, OK Dallas Trip For Band After scrutinizing a whole roll of red tape, A&M officials have decided that the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band will attend the NCAA play-off games in Dallas Monday night. The Band received an invitation to attend the game in force from the Dallas A&M Club. Its 190 members immediately voted to ac cept the invitation, but whispers were soon heard of rule infrac tions. CONCERN AROSE when the University Information Office re leased a story Wednesday which stated that an NCAA regulation prohibited competing schools from having organized bands or yell groups at the play-off games. However, certain people lept into action to be sure that no rules were violated. It turned out that the ruling had been mis-interpret- ed. In a story in the “Dallas Morn ing News” Thursday, Matty Bell, athletic director of host-campus SMU, explained: “The NCAA encourages the re gional home team to bring only small rhythm bands — about 15 — and tickets for these band mem bers must be paid for. But if A&M wants to buy 190 tickets for the band at $2 each, we’ll rope off a section in the balcony for them.” PLAY-OFF OFFICIALS at SMU said they would like for the band to be present not only for the A&M-Texas Western game but also for the preceeding game between Rifle Safety Program Set Firearms and hunter safety training programs for area boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 21 begin Saturday at Pleasant Acres. The 27th such school conducted by the Twin City Junior Rifle Club, this marks the first time that all schools sponsored by the club are combined into one. Although em phasis will be placed on Marks manship and Safety, the class also offers classes in Firearms Safety, Home Gun Safety and Hunter Safety. The class will have an opportuni ty to fire shotguns on the MoSkeet range at miniature clay pigeons thrown by foot operated traps. Graduates of the school will re ceive certificates and will be eligi ble for selection to membership in the Twin City Junior Rifle Club. Pakistan Movie Scheduled For MSC Showing Sunday A two and a half hour movie from Pakistan, titled “Shaheed” (meaning martyr), will be shown at 7:30 p. m. Sunday in the A&M University Memorial Student Center Ballroom. M. O. Farruk, secretary of the Pakistan Students’ Asso ciation, said the public is invited to see the movie free. He said Shaheed is the story of how people have fought internal despots and external colonists in restoring their freedom and sovereignty in many of the Asian and middle eastern countries. “Although the story is fictional, it attemps to portray a pattern and sequence of events common to the history of such countries,” Farruk pointed out. He said that to make the movie entertaining, the film’s producer, Hassan Shah, has included a number of songs and oriental dances. “One of the prettiest actresses of the Ind-Pak sub-con tinent, Mussarrat Nazir, plays the leading role, while another famous dancer of Pakistan, Husna, is in the supporting role,” Farruk added. The PSA secretary said the film dialogue is not in Eng lish. but a synopsis of the story will be presented to the audience. The show is sponsored by the Pakistan Students’ Asso ciation and the Memorial Student Center. OCU and Creighton. Two Dallas A&M Club members, Bill Douphrate, '52, and Ben D. Cambell, ’62, are former Band members and have been making the arrangements with Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, director of the Band. The club is paying for the Band’s tic kets, transportation and a pre- game barbecue. WITH THE TEAM’S first out right basketball championship since 1923 will come the Band’s first trip to an out-of-town basketball game. Except for football games, the band has gone to only one out- of-town athletic contest. This was in 1956 when the Aggies won the conference baseball championship in Austin. Col. Adams mentioned that al though 196 seats have been re served behind one of the baskets, Coach Shelby Metcalf would like them to sit behind the Texas West ern bench. “It makes it harder for the other team to hear their coach,” Adams added. Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS GENEVA — The United Sta announced Thursday that one its largest nuclear power react will be placed under permanent temational inspection in a m designed to halt the spread of clear weapons. U. S. delegate Adrian S. Fis told the 17-nation disarmam conference the United States invited the International Ato Energy Agency—IAEF—to pi an inspection group in the Yan Atomic Electric Co.’s $57-mill power plant at Rowe, Mass. U. S. NEWS CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. — ’ first Project Gemini spaceci was joined with a Titan 2 roc Thursday for extensive checkc leading to an unmanned launch expected about March 24. Only a few internal componc will be aboard, primarily ins! ments to measure such things heat and pressures.