Coeds Agree 6 New Style 9
Topless Suit In Bad Task
Some A&M summer coeds de
plore the “new style” of swim
ming attire introduced this month.
If the coeds interviewed are any
indication of the coed group at
A&M, male Aggies will not be
able to see the topless bathing
suits at the P. L. Downs Natator-
ium.
Irene Worthington, graduate stu
dent in Earth Science, from Zanes
ville, Ohio, said she thought the
topless swim suit was “very
gross;” and in very poor taste.
She added that she thought that
quite a few will be sold but most
ly for a joke, never to be worn.
Martha Cox, of Baton Rouge,
La., said that “anyone should be
ashamed to be seen in the suit.”
Sally Keller, a North Little Rock,
Arkansas, student in Oceanogra
phy Research said that the suit is
“a little too bare.” She said she
thought the suit was terrible.
Jo Grennan, graduate student in
physics from Nebraska, said she
wouldn’t be seen dead in one. She
also said she did not believe that
there would be many sales made
on the suits.
The coeds were in general agree
ment that the new swim suits were
in poor taste.
The Cops Didn’t Even Peek
A topless bathing suit caused little stir on the Santa
Monica, Calif., beach although it was worn by well formed,
23-year-old dancer Miss Lucki Winn. However, Miss Winn
kept an anxious eye on the police car parked at the beach
edge. Miss Winn stayed only long enough for photographers
to take her picture. No arrests were made because no one
complained. (AP Wirephoto)
Physics Researchers Study
Control Of Plasma Energy
Mention plasma to the layman
and he usually thinks of blood
plasma.
To physicists and engineers,
plasma is an exciting potential
source of energy, with ionized
gases so hot they can “burn”
through any container.
Research underway at A&M
University is expected to provide
a buildup of knowledge leading to
the control and use of plasma for
such things as power for rocket-
ships and electricity.
A&M’s Department of Physics
recently received a $80,000 grant
from the Texas Atomic Energy
Foundation to sponsor basic studies
involving plasma characteristics.
Dr. Melvin Eisner, a physics
professor who heads a six-man re
search team, describes plasma as
a collection of atomic particles
created when gases are heated to
extremely high temperatures.
Although the term plasma is
more than 30 years old, the prac
tical importance of plasma only has
been realized during the post H-
bomb days in a race with the Rus
sians on controlled thermonuclear
research.
What to do with the hot plasma
mixture is a perplexing problem
not only for A&M research special
ists but others. Generally speaking,
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the threshold to the plasma world
is crossed at 7,000 to 10,000 de
grees F.
One of the morte perplexing prob
lems involves the confinement of
plasma, which is not simply a “hot
gas” but a mixture of charged
particles.
One promising technique, Eisner
said, in keeping the plasma from
escaping is by means of mirror
machines which use a magnetic
field to divert the escaping gases
back into the mixture.
Eisner, who has worked for three
years in the plasma physics field,
said the department’s major project
involves bouncing a laser beam off
a plasma to learn more about the
physical properties of the mixture.
Why a laser?
“Because it produces a tremen
dously compacted beam of light
that provides us a profile once it
comes in contact with the plasma,”
Eisner commented. “Other beams
of light would not permit an accu
rate picture.”
Since the entire operation is over
in less than a second, the physicists
use high speed photograyphic
equipment to record the experi
ment.
Electrons that hit the plasma
produce a profile of the plasma
collections, thus enabling the
physicists to get a closer look at
the new energy’s composition.
Other goals involve the creation
of plasmas with various gases, and
another objective is to pinpoint
volume distribution and tempera
tures. Another step involves the
collective behavior of plasma.
There are several schemes for
producing plasma,' Eisner ex
plained.
One method used by the A&M
staff is to create a vacuum in a
steel box with a glass window.
They inject gas into the box and
ionize it with a spark. The plasma
is formed and is dissipated within
one one-hundred thousandth of a
second.
What does plasma look like?
Its glow resembles that of a
fluorescent light, which is, in ef
fect, a low-energy plasma.
Chemists expect that plasma may
help produce new materials that
cannot be produced at lower tem
peratures.
Dr. Toby Eubank of A&M’s De
partment of Chemical Engineering
is interested in transferring the
heat generated by plasma, once it
can be controlled.
Eubank, in his laboratory that
includes homemade equipment, has
produced plasmas ranging from
10,000 to 20,000 degrees. Six gal
lons of water per minute flow
through the outer portion of the
foot-long pipe to keep it from
melting, once the plasma has been
generated.
A&M’s Department of Aerospace
Engineering is interested in the
new energy as a possible fuel for
rockets as well as the plasma that
forms on the nose of missiles blast
ing through space. No formal
studies are underway at present,
however.
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