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Texas
A&M
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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1965
Number 190
Stop
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Presses
By LANI PRESSWOOD
' ‘James Bond, with two double
bourbons inside him, sat in the
final departure lounge of Miami
Airport and thought about life
and death.'
This is the opening sentence of
a recent novel I began and finish
ed over the weekend.
|| Talk about escape . . .
From the minute I plunged into
Mr. Fleming’s narrative I was
completely swallowed up. Some
thing reached out and grabbed
hold of my conscious mind and
didn’t let go until the last villian
had been horribly mutilitated and
the last female won over to Bond’s
way of thinking.
This is nothing new, though.
Like other Fleming veterans, I’ve
come to expect the tops in sheer
entertainment from him and I’m
not often disappointed.
Of course those of us who dis
covered Bond early tend to be a
little snobbish at the Johnny-
come-latelys who have seen a
couple of his movies and now call
themselves Bond fans.
I have to confess, though, I
have seen the celluloid Bond in
action a couple of times. It’s
really too bad.
The moviegoers will never get
to know the real 007, although
Sean Connery is physically per
fect for the part. The thing is,
the movie Bond is given to wise
cracks and sticks his tongue so
far in his cheek in some scenes
that he reminds you of tobacco-
chewing Nellie Fox waiting for
his next turn at bat.
This is good box office and it’s
paid off handsomely for the pro
ducers but the Bond that Flem
ing created just doesn’t come
through.
In the books. Bond is think
ing, always thinking. His mind
works like a well-honed machine,
whether he’s in an office, a tor
ture chamber, or a boudoir.
He’s not only a thinker but
an animal as well. However, he
only lets the animal escape when
it won’t interfere with his job.
He also approaches life with a
grim seriousness. In one story
Flemings describes the sleeping
agent's face as ‘a cold, taciturn
mask.’
This is Bond. A genuine char
acter, created out of pen and ink.
I don’t want to get any fur
ther into who Bond is, though.
You can easily analyze something
you enjoy to the point where you
don’t enjoy it anymore.
Some probing articles have ap
peared lately which try to ex
plain the Bond Phenomenon. They
could be pretty accurate but I’m
going to let the sociologists and
psychologists worry about it for
me.
I read once a piece on why ‘Pea
nuts’ is funny, and some how it’s
never been quite as funny since.
| For me, the J.B.T.’s (James
Bond Thrillers) come on like Eng
lish Leather and Aston Martins.
Which means they do.
! They read so fast that I de
cided to ration them out and just
indulge every so often. Flem
ing’s recent death fixed the total
number at thirteen, with the last
one now appearing as a maga
zine serial.
You would think that after so
many books you’d get an over
dose, but it doesn’t work out
that way. Fleming, an old in
telligence man himself, keeps hit
ting the mark time after time.
> It’s easy to see how some peo
ple could be getting their fill
of Bond, though, because he has
come to the attention of the
image-conscious admen and a
high octane promotional campaign
is now in full swing. They look
like they’re determined to put
the 007 tag on everything from
pajamas to after-shave talcum
and in the process create another
Davy Crockett.
But that’s Madison Avenue’s
Bond, not Ian Fleming’s. Some
of these things would have prob
ably driven Fleming to a double
vodka martini with a twist of
lemon peel. Shaken, not stirred
of course.
Sizeable Budget
Boost Revealed
By A&M Board
HALL
CHERRY
DUGGER
Directors Announce
New Vice-Presidents
Three new vice presidents for
Texas A&M were among person
nel changes announced Sunday
by A&M’s Board of Directors.
Appointments include Dr.
Wayne C. Hall, Academic Vice
President and Dean of the Grad
uate College; Tom D. Cherry,
Vice President for Business Af
fairs; and Dr. Roy W. Dugger,
Vice President and Director,
James Connally Technical Insti
tute.
Hall and Cherry were promot
ed from the university staff.
Dugger comes to A&M from
Washington, D. C. where he was
U. S. Deputy Assistant Commis
sioner for Vocational and Tech
nical Education.
A&M President Dr. Earl Rud
der recommended the three for
their posts. He told the directors
of their keen interest in educa
tion and their outstanding abili
ties.
“Great universities are made
of great men like these three,”
Rudder noted. “They give vision
and strength to our administra
tion. Their talents are needed in
our program of excellence.”
Dr. Hall has served as Dean
of Graduate Studies since 1960.
He will retain those duties in ad
dition to coordination of the
overall academic program. Vice
President Hall is a noted plant
physiologist.
He is past president of the
Southern Section of the Ameri
can Society of Plant Physiolo
gists and is currently serving as
a consultant to the National
Science Foundation.
Cherry, a native of Elmira,
Tex., rejoined A&M’s staff in
1962 as business affairs director
after 19 years in industrial man
agement.
Dr. Dugger will head the facul
ty of the Waco training facility
to be opened in January on the
site of Connally AFB. Dugger
has authored three textbooks and
a number of professional arti
cles. He was recently cited for
“superior service” by the De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare.
The Board also named Dr. R.
C. Potts Assistant Dean of Agri
cultural Instruction.
In other Board action, more
than $2 million in contracts were
awarded and a record total Sys
tem budget of $64,649,694 was
approved.
The new budgets become effec
tive on September 1 and amount
to an increase of more than $10
million over the previous year.
The largest single contract was
awarded to Temple Associates,
Inc., of Diboll for $1,741,534 for
the Cyclotron Building to be
erected on the A&M campus. It
will house the $6 million Cyclo
tron Institute A&M expects to
have in full operation within two
years.
Scholarships, fellowships,
awards, research funds, grants-
in-aid and special gifts to all
parts of the A&M System total
ling $402,481 were accepted by
the Board. These gifts have been
received since the last Board
meeting in April.
Rudder Receives
Coveted Award
Texas A&M President Earl
Rudder has been awarded the
Veterans of Foreign Wars’ Gold
Medal for Citizenship, “for de
votion to duty as a military
man, government official and edu
cator.”
The presentation, made at the
45th annual VFW convention in
El Paso this weekend, was the
third made to a Texan. Previous
recipients of the medal are Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson and the
late Speaker of the House of
Representative, Sam Rayburn.
July 4 Holiday
Alters Schedules
Facilities at Texas A&M will
be operating on a limited sched
ule over the July 4 holiday week
end. Monday is a holiday for
students, faculty and staff.
Sbisa Cafeteria and Cushing
Memorial Library will be closed
both Sunday and Monday.
In the MSC, the fountain room
will open at 7 a.m. Saturday and
Sunday, while the cafeteria, main
desk, and game room will close
Friday and remain closed until 7
a.m. Monday. Bowling and bil
liards will be available from 8
a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday and
Monday and from 1 to 10 p.m. on
Sunday.
All other facilities at the MSC
will be closed Saturday through
Monday.
Ted C. Connell, past national
VFW commander, told veterans of
Rudder’s “brilliant war record”
before presenting the medalion.
The Aggie president, now a major
general in the Army Reserve,
commanded the 2nd Ranger Bat
talion which scaled the 100-foot
cliffs at Pointe du Hoe during the
D-Day invasion of Normandy.
General Rudder was awarded
many citations for bravery and
leadership during the landing and
later at the Battle of the Bulge.
In his acceptance speech,
Rudder spoke of the war in Viet
Nam.
“I deplore the thinking that we
should get out of Viet Nam,” he
declared. “Why shouldn’t we be
there fighting for the freedom we
all love so much?”
He said realities of American
power make it plain Communist
China* is vulnerable to resistance.
“They respect our conventional
warfare and fear our nuclear
ordance,” he commented.
General Rudder called the
medal the greatest honor he had
received and praised the VFW
as an organization embodying
American ideals.
The A&M President noted Com
munist efforts to demoralize the
public and spread defeatism.
He added that student demon
strations on American college
campuses were “the work of the
invisible enemy fostering the
theory that we can’t win in Asia.”
Texas A&M University’s
operating budget for 1965-
66, released today by Pres
ident Earl Rudder, totals
$29,871,482, a record for the
institution.
Educational funds were in
creased 35 per cent over -a year
ago. Auxiliary and service mon
ies were raised 9 per cent. The
budget does not include funding
for the multi-million dollar build
ing program financed through the
available University Fund and
other public and private sources.
A major portion of the budget
increases will go into teaching
staff pay raises, expanded re
search, library enrichment and
scholarships.
Rudder called the fiscal plan
“an important step in achieving
excellence.”
“Top quality education is ex
pensive,” the president pointed
out, “but the dividend dollars will
be returned several-fold to the
people of Texas.”
He noted that general admini
strative expenses for the next
school year had increased only
9 per cent. Faculty salary funds
were boosted 38 per cent and
scholarships raised 63 per cent.
“Our teaching salaries must be
competitive to attract and re
tain the best brainpower,” Rud
der said. He continued that A&M’s
growing enrollment made it
necessary to employ additional
professors.
Rudder said the enlarged stu
dent aid program would “expand
educational opportunities for
young Texans.”
Library funds will cover addi
tional personnel and new hold
ings, in addition to operating
costs, the president added. The
A&M Directors have already ap
proved plans for a $3% million
addition to the physical structure.
Comparison of the selected
items in the current year’s alloca
tions with the new budget follows:
Percentage
1964-65 1965-66 Increase
Teaching salaries:
$6,065,030 $8,403,963 38.6
Library:
371,622 652,582 75.6
State Research:
200.000 434,357 117.2
Auxilitary & Service
Departments:
14,208,627 15,484,857 9.0
Fellowships & Scholarships:
123,077 200,000 62.5
Cyclotron Operation:
186,002 new
Administration:
490,592 536,792 9.4
NEW BOARD PRESIDENT
Newly-elected A&M Board President H. C. Heldenfels,
right, is shown with outgoing chairman Sterling Evans.
Heldenfels, class of ’35, is a Corpus Christi businessman.
His term of office as Board President is two years. Clyde
Wells was elected vice-president and Robert Cherry was
chosen board secretary.
New Town Hall
Slate Released
Pecan Growers
The Texas Pecan Growers As
sociation will hold its 44th an
nual conference Monday through
Wednesday at Texas A&M, a
week sooner than usual.
A five-performance Town Hall
Series for 1965-66 at Texas A&M
has been announced by Mike Na
bors, chairman of the Town Hall
Committee.
“The Brothers Four” will open
the series October 8. They per
formed before a full house at G.
Rollie White Coliseum two years
ago.
Next comes “The Lettermen”
October 22. They are currently
the second ranked singing group
in the nation.
Jan Peerce, leading tenor for
the Metropolitan Opera, is sche
duled Nov. 5.
An extra attraction for the
series is set Nov. 24, bonfire night
at A&M. Johnny Cash of “I’ll
Walk the Line” fame will sing.
On Feb. 15, the program will
feature “Les Feux Follets,” a
Canadian group similar to Folk-
lorico de Mexico, will perform
Canadian and Eskimo dances.
Through the years the Town
Hall series has brought many
well-known entertainment fea
tures to the A&M campus.
Past Town Hall performances
have been given by Bob Hope,
Doris Day, Marge and Gower
Champion, the Kingston Trio,
Fred Waring, and Eyde Gorme.
MIKE RAYBOURNE
A&M Senior
Dies Monday
Michael Raybourne, a Texas
A&M senior majoring in archi
tecture, died early Monday morn
ing in a Jacksonville, Fla. hos
pital.
The cause of death was uremic
poisoning, brought on by chronic
nephritis. He had been hospital
ized for two weeks.
Funeral services for the Jack
sonville native were held Tues
day afternoon.
Raybourne, who had returned
home for the summer, was in his
fourth year of study in design
architecture at A&M.
His activities at A&M included
service on the Student Senate,
SCONA X, and the Election Com
mission. He was also a Distin
guished Student and was elected
Secretary-Treasurer of the soph
omore class.
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An Aggie Abroad
Budget Housing A Problem
By HERKY KILLINGSWORTH
COPENHAGEN, Denmark —
Traveling in Europe on a rock-
bottom economy budget requires
certain changes from the life
of A&M, many of which I am
surprised thrat the metabolism
of the body can stand.
The little things I’ve always
taken for granted are obviously
luxuries here and unfortunately
my budget cannot afford any
luxuries on this trip.
I’m in Copenhagen now, where
the sun sets at 10 p.m. and
rises again at 2 a.m. This is
where I’m working for the sum
mer and three rooms, and two
roommates later I’m still going
what I consider strong.
My biggest problem has been
inexpensive housing, or for that
matter, housing at all. My first
night in the big city was spent
in a student dorm at the Uni
versity here. That was luxury
with everything (including a high
bill) added.
It cost me 1/6 of my weekly
salary to stay there one night
so 1 took one last warm shower
and moved over to this cave,
which cost nearly as much, but
which was for two.
That room turned out to be
an experience. No hot watetr,
no shower (the landlady said the
bath was three minutes away and
would cost fourteen cents—it was
a swimming pool), no light, no
smoking, no washing or ironing,
and sit on the bed real lightly.
It did have a beautiful view of a
brick wall six inches away,
though.
Despite this, I thought I had
it made. All I needed was a room
mate and my total living ex
penses would be cut to 1/4 of
my weekly salary. A problem
arose, however. I couldn’t find
a roommate that would stay
there.
A University of Toledo student
lasted ten minutes, and a Cali
fornian left after two days.
Something about showers with
cold water ran both of them off.
Paying the price for two and
still living in misery was too
much for me so I gladly left
the smell of stale air and moved
into a room on the opposite side
of town. This room I really like
and hope to stay in for the rest
of the summer.
The room is like I feel—very
small in a big town, in a big
world. It has everything the
other one didn’t, although still
not up to the standards I was
used to at A&M.
There’s warm water at least,
that is if you turn on this little
gas stove. The water runs
through a pipe in this stove and
warms slightly. Climbing into
the bath is comparable to getting
into a swimming pool, and it’s
not so bad once you get in.
Besides the warm water, I have
a terrific view of the courtyard
and clothesline and it’s only about
ten minutes from by job—by
tram that is.
As I said, the room is small,
twice the width of a bed and four
feet to spare on the end, but it’s
clean and there’s these pictures
of girls on the wall wearing . . .
well, there’s these pictures on the
wall. I like the room and hope
and feel like I’m ready for a
good summer here in Copen
hagen.
Next Fallout
Theater Plays
Due Tuesday
The Fallout Theater Work
shop’s second summer production
is set for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
in the rear basement of Guion
Hall.
“The Boor,” by Anton Chekov,
directed by William Ulbricht,
Tennessee Williams’ “The Lady
of Larkspur Lotion,” directed by
Carol Hill, and Edgar Allan Poe’s
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” drama
tized by Jack Brooks, will be
presented.
Admission is 50 cents.
Brooks and Susan Timm will
appear in “The Boor,” and Jean
and Ed Reyna and Cynthia Smith
are cast in the Williams play.
Ulbricht and Miss Hill are stu
dents in the English Department’s
Techniques of Directing course
and Brooks completed the course
in May.
The Workshop’s first summer
season began Friday with “The
Dance of Death,” by August
Strindberg and “Courage, Broth
er,” by Tim Lane, an A&M jour
nalism major.
“I feel this was a pretty good
start,” C. K. Esten commented.
Esten, director of the Aggie
Players, teaches the directing
course. “Aileen Wenck, who di
rected the Strindberg play, had to
really work her cast, because that
is a difficult play. And the fact
that the second play was an
original one by an A&M student
is very indicative of what we’re
trying to do with this workshop.”
On July 8 the Workshop will
present “The Monkey’s Paw,” by
W. W. Jacobs, “Die Lieblings-
speise Der Hyanen,” by Siegfried
Lenz, and “The Fisherman,” by
Jonathan Tree.