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Thursda column ... (continued from page 1) Then the solitary blip abruptly swerved and disappeared from the screen, moving at a fantastic rate of speed. No trace of the pilot or the plane has ever been found. These are just three out of thousands of unexplained cases which make factual UFO ma terial read like no fiction could ever come close to. The Air Force’s rigorous in vestigations have adequately ex plained approximately 80 per cent of what they consider reliable reports. Meteors, weather ballons, stars, optical illusions, and tem perature inversions are among the things which have been used to explain sightings. And like I say, these have served to adequately explain 80 per cent of the sightings. But it’s that other 20 per cent that even an experienced and resourceful team of special Air Force investi gators can’t find a satisfactory answer for that bothers me. That other 20 per cent. Of course in due time they will be able to explain all these things. Won’t they? 75 PER CENT INTEREST NEW DELHI UP) — A govern ment survey in Mysore state showed some moneylenders charge 75 per cent interest on short-term loans to poverty- stricken farmers. An Aggie Abroad THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 12, 1965 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle ,12 3 ,4^ \ u it TTl ELEVATOR fSESTRiCTEP TO FACULTY AUV FNY51CALLY “I can’t put my finger on it, but this sign has always bothered me!” Conversational Topics In Europe Surprising By HERKY KILLINGSWORTH Somewhere In Europe—Before leaving the sanctity of A&M and venturing across the Atlantic into no man’s land, I felt to be a successful conversationalist the traveler had to be a master of all subjects. Without the funda mentals of economics, govern ment, and agriculture the trip would be useless, with Europeans wondering about the mentality of the American student. As in everything, I received a severe shock to my earlier ideas and found myself most unpre pared for the European student’s favorite topic — rock-and-roll singers. It’s really amazing. Most 20- year-old Europeans can tell you the year, singer, and circum stance of every popular record in the past ten years. Not only that but they know every singer in America who has ever put out a record, and in this age that it self is a monumental task. Of course throughout most of Europe the old king Elvis is the greatest. “Don’t Be Cruel.” In Copenhagen and Scandinavia there is another singer named P. J. Proby, who is the tops. P. J. hails from Houston, Texas where he couldn’t make it until he journeyed to England to entertain thdir wild ones. He has the “greatest” Texas accent which the Europeans love, and although I can’t understand why, he wore such tight pants that they split three successive times on stage, was banned from English TV and stage, and had it so-called made. Of course the groups are pop ular over here, with the Rolling Stones and the Beatles leading the pack. A stage performance of a group is really wild. I went to see the Rolling Stones a while back. The girls stood around for two hours before the perform ance shouting and then fainted when they finally appeared. When the performance was ended the theater was torn apart, the chairs were busted, and mob violence reigned. They called it a success ful performance. I also witnessed the so-called popularity of the Kriks as I was wandering through the streets of London. The hair is real, or what is left of it, because the girls at tacking them grabbed for any thing they could despite the rather obscene threats of their manager. All they were doing was trying to reach the safety of their car, which wasn’t too safe. Rock-and-roll ain’t what it used to be, especially here in Europe. Two other topics are favorites of Europeans and are really hard to answer, even harder than the number one song of July, 1957. That’s “Why is America in Viet nam” and “What’s causing the trouble with the Negroes?” New York — Major General William Westmoreland, Com mander of U. S. Forces in Viet Nam, is a fighting general who won’t send his men anywhere he won’t go himself, according to the current issue of MAN’S MAGAZINE. The article, delving into the background of our top military man in the Vietnamese war, de scribes Westmoreland’s World War II record as chief of staff of the 9th Infantry Division. Fight ing in the European Theater, his division in one 12-day period captured 3,565 prisoners includ ing three generals, 115 enemy airplanes, a complete flying school, numerous food ware houses, and a hospital. The article also discusses his tour of duty in Korea as commander of the 187th Airborne Regimental Com bat Team. posed to American “interference” in the East. “It’s none of our business and we should leave it to them.” Americans Stay Out of Vietnam are scribbled in three- foot high letters on the side of buildings and fences and fanatics the world over want to know “why?” Try explaining that in a rational manner to someone irra tionally opposed to the idea. Of course other topics are fav orites here which I had no prob lems in explaining. “How big is Texas?” (about the size of west ern Europe combined with the upper portion of Africa), “What’s wrong with the American girl?” (see, even they notice it.). In short Aggies, forget your lessons because they won’t help anyway. Concentrate on your dancing, records, The Battalion, and foreign languages and you’ll have it made conversing any where in the free world. Westmoreland’s most heroic feat occurred during a peacetime training exercise when he was commander of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell Ken tucky in April, 1958. A sudden freak weather condition caused ! the deaths of five paratroopers, | along with numerous casualties. | Before he would allow the exer cise to continue, Westmoreland insisted on testing the weather conditions himself. Four times the exercise was called off at the last moment on General Westmoreland’s orders— each time after he alone tested the treacherous wind by risking his life in a dummy drop. Finally, after his fifth drop, he touched | off a green flare, giving the go-ahead to 771 waiting para- | troop-commandos. All the men | reached the ground alive and safe. PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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