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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
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“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
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When You Get
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