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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 23, 1965
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
| Reynolds 9 Rap
by Mike Reynolds
Being a confirmed admirer of
“My Fair Lady” and of Aubrey
Hepburn, I felt an almost per
sonal affront when the Oscar
nominations were announced for
this year.
Also, having grown up with
the dwarfs and big-eared ele
phants of Walt Disney, I had
certain misgivings over the ac
claim given to “Mary Poppins.”
Then, when a friend insisted
that I accompany her to the thea
ter to see the Disney production,
the one that surely stole 13 poss
ible awards from “MFL,” I could
not help but have second thoughts
about the wisdom of the whole
thing.
Some two and one half hours
later, I emerged with a complete
ly different outlook on the scheme
of things.
“Mary Poppins” must be the
height of Walt Disney’s creative
ability. Nothing I have seen in
recent years compares with the
shear magic that is produced by
the film.
Disney is at his best in ach
ieving the inrap turement of
young and old alike, as the mess
age of the picture is one that
should be impressed upon all
adults.
Mary Poppins floats in on the
wind to be the governess in a
respectable English home and
impress upon the father that his
children should share his life
and he should share in theirs in
stead of simply tolerating them.
Good-witch Poppins and her
down-to-earth friend Bert work
their spell upon the family and
then she floats away again.
Julie Andrews, who started
out to play the part of Eliza Doo
little in “My Fair Lady,” made
her good-witch part quite believe-
able. She presented a brillant
technique with the children with
out turning into the Miss-Fran-
cis-of-Ding - Dong - School type
Sharing the spot-light with her,
Dick Van Dyke shown especially
in the song and dance numbers
where he was faintly reminisent
of Ray Bolger in “The Wizard
of Oz.”
The only romatic happenings
between the two stars came in a
song in which they expressed
how much brighter the day is as
a result of being with each other,
accompanying these lyrics with
appropriate looks.
If not faced with the necessity
of keeping the show “clean” of
all love entanglements for the
children, the possibilities could
have been explored to a greater
degree, at the benefit of the
adult audience. As it was, the
scenes were just “right” for all
concerned.
In fact, if anything bad has to
be said about the film, it is that
it is too “just right.” Even fan
tasies should have believeable
villians. Its all the more fun
when they are defeated.
As to “Mary Poppins,” the
greatest villian associated with
the film will probably be its cri
tics, if such can be found.
Voting Rights Bill
Assured Early Review
WASHINGTON UP) _ Senate
leaders served notice Monday
that if President Johnson’s vot
ing rights bill is not passed by
April 15, the senators will for
feit their Easter recess.
Instead of taking a week’s
vacation. Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana said, the
Senate will meet every day ex
cept Easter if that is necessary
to get the bill passed. .acui
Republican Leader Everett M.
Dirksen of Illinois said he hopes
Southern foes of the top-prior
ity Johnson bill will not stage
an “over-extended discussion.”
“Obviously,” he said, “there is
a desire in the country and I
assume the members of the Sen
ate would be roundly scolded if
we run out of our obligation.
“The public business does come
first. This is not only public
business, it is urgent public bus
iness.”
Mansfield has been telling
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senators that the Easter recess
probably would be only a Fri-
day-to-Tuesday weekend. Mon
day, he took the Senate floor to
say it will not even be that un
less the bill is passed.
Dirksen said the Senate should
work long days and hold Satur
day sessions to clear the bill and
added he hopes the Senate Judi
ciary Committee can complete
hearings before April 9. That
is the deadline the Senate set for
committee action.
In the House, where a 10-day
Easter recess is planned, Demo
cratic leaders are aiming for
action on voting rights during
the week of April 11.
The Senate Judiciary Commit
tee opens its hearing Tuesday,
with Atty. Gen. Nicholas Kat-
zenbach the lead witness. A
House Judiciary subcommittee,
with two days of hearings be
hind it, resumes its sessions
Tuesday.
Editor,
The Battalion:
My name is Eddie Joe Davis
and I am in the runoff for the
office of Class of ’67 vice presi
dent. I would like to take this
opportunity to thank everyone
who voted for me in the general
election and encourage everyone
to go to the polls again this
Thursday.
I feel that our class has a
big responsibility ahead of it and
we must fulfill this responsibility
to our utmost. I believe that
every sophomore in this univer
sity has the capabilities of being
a leader. I sincerely hope that
my class feels that I have the
capabilities of being vice presi
dent.
There are some problems that
need to be solved and I am sure
that the Class of ’67 has the
answers to many of them. Next
year we assume the roll of lead
ers in our school, setting the
example for those who follow us.
I have some definite ideas for
facing problems which concern
our class as a whole.
Every organization needs lead
ers and I hope the Class of ’67
will choose me as one of theirs.
Eddie Joe Davis, ’67
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Editor,
The Battalion:
A lot of interest was created
last week by our class elections.
A group of guys went around
shaking hands, meeting their
classmates and asking for votes.
This Thursday the guys who
were fortunate enough to make
the runoffs will need the sup
port all over again.
I personally want to thank
all of you who voted for me. If
I missed you when I came around
or failed to urge you to vote I
must apologize. Get out and back
the candidate of your choice in
this most important election.
I want to ask all of you in the
Class of ’66 to vote. And if you
will, consider me for secretary-
treasurer of the Class of ’66.
I will appreciate it.
Louis Sabayrac, ’66
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A Muffled Growl Now
From Britannia’s Lion?
LONDON (xP) — Not since
they stood alone in the early
days of World War II have the
British felt so exposed as now.
They have discovered their
country is the most vulnerable
of the world’s major industrial
powers.
Yet it seems only the day be
fore yesterday when Britain was
a dominant power with a world
girdling empire of 16 million
square miles.
Now the empire has been re
placed by a loose Common
wealth of independent nations
which make their own decisions
regardless of London’s wishes.
Britain has to fight harder each
year to export her goods over
seas. Successive British govern
ments find it increasingly diffi
cult to pay for a first-line mili
tary establishment.
Individually the British people
now are more prosperous than
they were in the days of empire.
They eat better, wear better
clothes and have more amuse
ments. Consumer expenditure
increased by 22 per cent be
tween 1956 and 1963.
Yet economists worry about
the long range prospects of this
island kingdom and about the
stability of its currency, the
pound sterling.
The British people, all 54 mil
lion of them, are packed togeth
er on an industrialized island at
an average density of 564 to the
square mile.
They must trade or starve.
But in the last 10 years Britain’s
share of world exports of manu
factured goods has slumped from
one-fifth to one-seventh. At the
turn of the century it was one-
third.
London political writers refer
to Britain as “the sick man of
Europe” — a title once applied
to the old Turkish empire.
People who remember the way
things were before World War
II find the British more charm
ing, more easy to love now than
they were when the sun never
set on the empire.
British diplomatic influence ex
tended to every world capital. A
giant navy showed the flag in
every quarter of the globe. The
colonies fed raw materials at
favorable prices to British in
dustry and took large quantities
of British manufactured goods in
return.
But today the central belief
in the rightness of everything
British is gone.
What has caused these
changes ? What ails the British ?
Some historians think the ill
ness began as early as July 25,
1909. On that day a flimsy air
plane made of wire and sticks
flew from Calais to Dover with
Louis Bleriot, the French avia
tion pioneer, at the controls.
No one realized it at the time
but suddenly all the giant steel
battleships ringing the British
Isles got a lot older that day.
Then came World War I with
its casualities and dispersal of
national wealth. The 1916 Easter
uprising of Irish nationalists in
Dublin marked the beginning of
a long march of peoples away
from British rule.
The empire actually reached
its greatest territorial limits in
the years between the two world
wars but nationalist demonstra
tions in India and elsewhere
showed its days were numbered.
World War II was a particu
larly heavy blow. It ran down
British domestic capital by $8.1
billion through shipping lo
bomb damage and arrears of in-
dustrial maintenance and replace-
ments.
The sale of $2.8 billion worth
of overseas investments, nearly
half in North America, caused a
basic alteration in Britain’s fi
nancial situation.
Like many before them, the
British found that loss of wealth
brought loss of influence. This
was masked in recent years,
however, by the skill of British
diplomacy — by the ability to
use words and ideas skillfully
enough to hold on to a sizable
role in international affairs.
But two political earthquakes
rocked this position. The first
was the abortive Suez invasion
of 1956 when world public opin
ion forced the British and
French to call a halt to their
operations against President Ca
rnal Abdel Nasser of Egypt.
The second setback came on
January 29, 1963 in Brussels.
That was the day President
Charles de Gaulle’s France ve
toed Britain’s application to en
ter the six-nation Common Mar
ket, a trade grouping which aims
at some form of political unifi
cation of Western Europe.
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