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__ . Che attalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1966 Number 356 Graduate Lecturers Announced Six speakers for 1966-67 gradu ate lectures at Texas A&M Uni versity have been announced by Graduate College Dean Wayne C. Hall. Dr. Hall said all speakers will be available for student-faculty discussions. Alastair Reid, poet, writer and translator, opens the series Oct. 31. He will visit on campus Nov. 1. Dr. Hans Selye, internationally renowned physician, is scheduled Nov. 4. An authority on effects of stress on the human body, Dr. Selye is a member of the New York Academy of Science. Dr. William Dix, director of the University Library at Princeton, will speak Feb. 15. Other speakers include Dr. H. Warner Kloepfer, a human ge netics scholar, March 7; Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith, a noted econo mist and adviser to the late Presi dent Kennedy, March 31; and Terry Sanford, former governor of North Carolina and now a leader for upgrading and expand ing American public education, April 25. Reid and Dr. Kloepfer are Dan- forth Visiting Lecturers, spon sored by the Danforth Foundation and the Association of American Colleges. All addresses are set for 8 p.m. in the A&M Memorial Student Center. GIG ’EM Tight games in the offering prompt vivid imaginations and hopes for a big victory at Baylor. We’ll let the picture speak for itself. Aggie Players To Present 3 One-act Plays The Aggie Players will present the first of their fall series of one-act plays Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Fallout Theater at the rear of Guion Hall. Three plays will be performed Thursday, two of which have been written by A&M students. They are “The Plot”, written and di rected by Frances Flynn; “The Return”, written and directed by Frederick Rich; and “The Un seen”, directed by Randy Davis. Curtain time is at 8 p.m. Ad mission is 50 cents. Talent Show Tryouts Set Tryouts for the Aggie Talent Show will be Monday through Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 119 of G. Rollie White Coliseum, announced Charles Segrest, Me morial Student Center talent com mittee chairman. The 12 members of the MSC talent committee will pick eight to 10 acts to compete in the Aggie Talent Show Nov. 17. Segrest urged all students with any type of talent to sign up for the tryouts at the Student Pro grams Office in the MSC. Those who do not register may still try out by going to the audition room on any of the designated nights. Winners will receive prizes of $25, $15, and $10, in addition to gifts donated by Bryan-College Station merchants. Researcher Photos Planned Accidents BY JAMES PLAKE Batt Special Writer James Bradley doesn’t have to chase around to get his pictures of automobile wrecks. You might say they are staged for him. Bradley, research photography superintendent for the Texas Transportation Institute, is currently shooting test crashes out at the Research Annex for the Design an,4 Traffic Division. His work includes motion pic tures, sound films, color slides and plain black and white photog raphy. “Every so often I get a special assignment from a department. That’s why I’m presently photo graphing the test crashes out at the Research Annex for the De sign and Traffic Division,” he explained. “That department is involved in an extensive crash program, literally. By pulling a car through various types of road signs, barriers, and light poles at highway speeds, important in formation is being accumulated. This knowledge could help save many lives if certain of the de signs tested are adopted in the construction of our freeways.” He then explained his methods in photographing the tests. jl lj r “By setting up three or four cameras around the barriers, we are able to get a complete picture story, from the beginning to the end of the tests. We use color film for the crashes. “We begin the cameras when the car, which is pulled along a straight track by a conveyor chain hooked underneath, starts its journey. It gets up to high way speed about the last three- fourths of the distance to the barriers. “An assistant drops a white First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings cer tificates. —Adv. handkerchief when the vehicle passes his station. We then start the Fastex cameras, usually at the thousand picture per second rate. “These cameras can finish a hundred foot roll of film in four seconds, so everything must be timed very closely,” Bradley added. The thousand pictures per sec ond rate is used because if the film were moving slower, the pre cise instant a defective part on a sign gives way could not be determined; this in turn would affect the data on the construc tion of the pole or sign. “However, we are not limited to only one speed with these cameras,” the photographer said. “We can vary the rate from 500 to 8,000 pictures per second. The latter speed, however, would fail to give us the film time needed.” “We also use pictures of the freeway ramps to determine driver behavior patterns with re spect to the kind of ramp on which they drive,” Bradley ex plained. When Bradley came here in January, the photography section of TTI was severely limited. Since that time, he has influ enced the change into a well- coordinated department in itself which can do anything from making color slides into negatives to converting silent motion pic tures into sound films. “I had three old movie cameras and a 35mm camera at the be ginning,” he declared. “We now have in the depart ment four movie cameras, two Fastex motion picture cameras, two 35mm cameras, one Bronica 214 reflex camera, an electronic flash and assorted filming and slide editing equipment. “And we’re going into film de veloping—producing film fifteen to twenty minutes long that show different aspects of research being done in the departments.” Set For Baylor Film Noted Soldier’s Plight SWC Fate Yiet Nam Lecture Yivid ° n Jr:iE e Baylor Game Most Crucial This weekend’s game against Baylor may well determine the outcome of the Southwest Con ference race. The Aggies, who go into the game on the heals of two big conference victories, look forward to a tough game against the Bears. The Bears say if they can just beat the Aggies they can go all the way to the Cotton Bowl. Although not a Corps trip, students have packed their bags for the weekend and are heading for Waco in support of the team. Weekend restrictions have been lifted and dorm signs have spelled out the message — Beat the H— out’a Baylor! Service Exam Applications Due Tonight o Applications for students de siring to take next month’s na tionwide Selective Service exami nation for draft exemption must be filed by midnight tonight. According to A&M Registrar H. L. Heaton, his office has a supply of application forms for students. The forms must, how ever, be picked up before the office closes today at 5. Nov. 19 is the primary date for administering the test... Stu dents with valid reasons for be ing unavailable that date may take the test a day early. “If a student has a low aca demic standing he can use the test as a means of a deferment if he scores 70 or above,” Heaton said. BY ROBERT BORDERS Batt Staff Writer The war in South Viet Nam is a dirty, vicious conflict, one which brings little satisfaction to the allied soldiers, but one which they are convinced they must win. So observed Kenneth Arm strong, Viet Nam war corre spondent, as he addressed a full house last night in the first of the Great Issues film-lecture se ries in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. Armstrong said he knew of no body in Viet Nam who wants to be there, but it is a job that has to be done; it is a necessary evil. “There are certain calculated risks that you take by going there,” he said as he set out to try to convey the impression that the conflict had upon him as a correspondent. He said some correspondents carry weapons and like to play war, but he had carried a weapon only when he was ordered to do so. He felt his job was to report the news accurately, and leave the fighting to the soldiers. Armstrong said he has seen many changes in the war since he was there a year ago. Last year the conflict was a stalemate, and the infantry sat and waited for the Viet Cong to come to them. But now the army is out actively searching for the enemy. Where we were on the defen sive a year ago, we’re on the of fensive now. Armstrong described some of the physical characteristics of Viet Nam and its people. “The entire south of Viet Nam, known as the Mekong Delta re gion, is one big rice paddy, and yet the government of the coun try must buy rice from the Unit ed States in order for its people to live,” he said. The heart of the delta is the Mekong River, which also flows through Red China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Armstrong said in its entire length of 2000 miles there is not one bridge, the people using fer ries to cross the river. “The hill country of the north ern part of South Vietnam is the staging area of the North Viet namese regulars,” he said. Here the brunt of the fighting load is carried by the primitive montagnard. They were the orig inal inhabitants of the delta re gion, but were pushed out by the influx of Chinese and South Viet namese who now live there. The two peoples have an intense dis like and distrust for each other. Armstrong said there are now more U.S. regulars than there are Vietnamese regulars. But the real fighting force comes from 400,000 South Vietnamese irregulars. Regional and popular forces suffer the most casualties of the war, except possibly the Viet Cong. “There is no large U.S. con tingent in the delta region of South Vietnam.” He explained this was because the majority of the Vietnamese people lived in this region, and the U.S. did not want to alienate them by having foreign troops among them. “The Mekong Delta is THE prize of the war,” Armstrong said. This is because of the natu ral wealth of the region. “Air power is generally agreed to have been the turning point of the war,” he said. Armstrong said the main ene my force in South Vietnam today is not the North Vietnamese reg ulars, but the ordinary peasants, who are farmers by day and Viet Cong by night. He said any peas ant captured with a gun is a VC prisoner, while one captured without a gun is considered a VC suspect. He found villages with net works of tunnels in which the VC concealed weapons, ammuni tion, and food, and in which they hid themselves. But generally, when the VC come to a village, the people leave because they fear an air strike will be called. And by the same token the thing most feared by allied sol diers is not the North Vietna mese or Viet Cong rifle, but the booby trap, which has caused 1500 casualties since the first of the year. KENNETH ARMSTRONG Peace Corps To Give Test Aptitude tests for persons in terested in Peace Corps work will be given at the Bryan Post Office Nov. 12 and Dec. 5, Dr. Curtis Godfrey, chairman of Texas A&M University’s Peace Corps advisory council, announced today. Dr. Godfrey also said a Peace Corps team from Washington, D. C., will visit A&M Dec. 5-9 to interview, takes applications and give aptitude tests. The group will be headquartered in the Memorial Student Center. Application forms for aptitude tests are available at local post offices. The Nov. 12 test will be conducted at 9 a.m. and the Dec. 5 test at 3 p.m. “The Peace Corps needs dedi cated Americans (minimum age: 18) to help people in developing countries throughout the world,” Dr. Godfrey noted. He said teachers, agriculturists, engineers, nurses, mathematicians, farmers and mechanics are just a few of the type people being sought by the Peace Corps. “Travel, technical training and learning a new language are some of the personal benefits of Peace Corps work,” he added, “but most important is the opportunity to work with people of other lands who want help in learning to help themselves.” 12TH MAN SUPPORT Guard Ken Lamkin speaks to Aggies at Stone (left) listens carefully. The Aggies special yell practice last night in front of meet Baylor head-on in Waco tomorrow for Henderson Hall. Head Yell Leader Tommy a big SWC game. Literary Prof Uses Computer In Humanities An unlikely meeting—between science and literature—is taking place at Texas A&M Universi ty. Bridging the widely separated fields is A&M’s Data Processing Center IBM 7094 computer. In troductions are made by Milton Huggett, A&M English profes sor of 20 years who struck off into the computer field at the age of 58. He’s compiling a concordance to the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer by computer. To become A&M’s first literary scholar to request use of the computer outside science, the pro fessor went back to class. Huggett took Gene Dippel’s business administration course in computer programming and at tended Electronic Information Processing and Naval Reserve computer conferences. “My intent was not to become a programmer,” the English prof said. “I wanted to understand the other end of the business and be able to communicate with com puter scientists.” Huggett’s research ideas and efforts resulted in his selection as co-director of A&M’s Center for Computer Research in the Humanities. “Now I’m an apostle for using computers in the humanities,” he said. In the concordance, the Book of Common Prayer will be broken down by computer into a refer ence, concordance, index and word frequency count for stylistic analysis. “The Book of Common Prayer is an anthology and distillation of the best of Western devotional and liturgical literature. It re flects Hebrew, Christian, Catho lic and Protestant writings,” Hug gett explains. It was first pub lished in 1549 and revised seven times since. “Every significant word will be indexed each time it is used, located by page number and part of page,” he noted. A computer print-out will give use of each word in context, so a person re membering a few key words can find any passage. “The concordance will be of use to parish clergy, theologians, literary scholars, historians and lay people in other churches. Re searchers can use it to determine the Book’s influence on content and style of writers from the Re naissance to the present,” Hug gett added. The 1933 theological school graduate and former clergyman said format instructions from the publisher, word environment im provement and card-punching the Book into the computer remain to be completed. “The computer will print out the concordance in a few hours,” Huggett revealed. Crudens needed a sanity-test ing 30 years to compile a con cordance of the Bible during the 18th century, he noted. The concordance has formal ap proval of a 15-man Episcopal Church liturgical commission. By BOB JONES Battalion Sports Editor The Texas Aggies changed the course of the Southwest Confer ence race with upset victories over Texas Tech, 35-14, and TCU, 35-7. Saturday the Maroon and White battle the Baylor Bears in Waco at 1:15 p.m. in the game that will probably decide the fate of this year’s SWC race. A&M owns the top berth in the chase with a 2-0 league mark. The Bears are one-half game back with a 1-0 record. But the Bears have the odds in their favor, given a seven point edge by the point-makers. Bay lor will be playing before a near sell-out homecoming crowd (48,- 000), on its home field. The club is also still sky-high from its SWC win over Arkansas, 7-0, in Razorback Country. TO TOP IT off the Bears had a week off from the Saturday gridiron last week to heal their wounds and regroup forces for tomorrow’s clash. Even so, the Aggies are not convinced. They have a grudge to settle with the Bears. Last year the Bears invaded Aggie- land and humiliated A&M, 31-0, on Kyle Field. And the Aggies haven’t beaten Baylor in the past three meetings of the teams, since 1962 when A&M won, 6-3. Baylor took an early lead in the 1965 game and built a 17-0 halftime margin. The loss came to the Aggies at the hands of Baylor quarterback Tommy Stockdale. STOCKDALE COMPLETED 20 of 27 passes for 286 yards and guided the Bear ground game for 190 yards. Stockdale was only filling in for regular Bear quar terback Terry Southall who was sidelined with an injury. Tomorrow the Aggies will face Southall at the helm of the Bears —Stockdale is still just a second string quarterback. Edd Hargett, A&M’s 5-11 soph omore, will be at the controls for the Aggies. The Linden-Kildare product tilts the scales at 185 and takes command of the Aggies like a little giant. HARGETT LEADS the confer ence in passing with 913 yards to his credit through the airways and is second in total offense with 933 yards. Southall has played in one less game than Har gett and completed passes for 740 yards and has 763 yards total offense. Aggie Coach Gene Stallings figures defensing the passing Bears will be the biggest prob lem for his eleven. “If you put the rush on the passer they’ve always got somebody open quick,” he explained. “If you play pass defense those big strong linemen hold you out until somebody is open for Southall to hit. And any combination of the two won’t work.” “They have tremendous person nel,” the Aggie Mentor added. BAYLOR SPORTS a strong defense, too. With a fast defen- (See Aggies, Page 4) Dinner Honors Wildlife Prof Dr. James G. Teer, an A&M Wildlife Science professor, was named Conservation Educator of the Year this week at an Austin banquet where he was recognized for his outstanding work. The award was one of a number given at the Governor’s Award Banquet, now in its second year. The banquet is sponsored by the Sportsmen’s Clubs of Texas, in cooperation with the National Wildlife Federation and the Sears-Roebuck Foundation. The organizations given ten awards to outstanding teachers, researchers, and conservationists. Dr. Teer was cited “for his service to his students and to his university in developing means which have produced financial support for both graduates and undergraduates in wildlife science and for his many accomplish ments in wildlife research.