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k f 3tf: 5th INI 6:0! Oil. id. 5. t«. tk co. r«i I * Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1966 Number 371 A&M Talent Show Set For Tonight Seven top college artists will be competing in the annual Aggie Talent Show at 8 p.m. tonight in Guion Hall. Listed on the billing as hope fuls to represent A&M in the In tercollegiate Talent Show booked for Military Weekend are Mark Satterwhite, pianist; Bob Robin- Computer Conference Underway Computers will be employed to research widely separated fields of the future, a pioneer in the use of computers in humanistic re search forecast at a Texas A&M- IBM conference here this morn ing. Dr. Vinton A. Dearling, English professor at UCLA, said new ap plications of the computer will be developed for library cataloguing, automated engineering drawing, analysis of art, sculpture, archi tecture, linguistics, history, music and literature. The professor, recipient of an IBM post-doctoral fellowship for study of computer research, took the TV series “Time Tunnel” technique to “project” the Con ference on Computers in Human istic Research 20 years into the future. He traced the growth of com puter use outside science through 1966. Dr. Dearling noted the computer has been used to pro duce concordances and cata logues, analyze artifacts, voting records, style and authorship and to write and perform music. “Such work is improving in quantity and quality, enriching humanistic studies,” he declared. President Earl Rudder wel comed the 190 participants for the two-day seminar at the Ra- mada Inn. He challenged the humanists to help solve the question: How does man live with man? “We can go into North Viet Nam and stop this war by to night,” Rudder declared. “But what follows?” The conference is sponsored by A&M’s Liberal Arts College and Center for Computer Research in the Humanities. IBM supports the activity, first of its kind in the Southwest. son and Larry Ludewing, better known as the Bob and Larry Duo; Miss Donna Files, vocalist; Leo Bernandez, interpretive prosist; Charles Collins, vocalist; Charles Terry, pop pianist, and Larry Lehmann, on the 12-string guitar. Other featured entertainment will be Miss Teri Teague of Fort Worth’s Casa Manana Produc tions and A&M’s own Singing Cadets. The staff of judges for the competition, all highly talented in their own right, will be Fern Hamman, hostess for KBTX- TV’s daily feature “Town Talk”; Joanna Smerdon, fashions and photographers model seen recent ly in McCall Magazine; Walter L. Keith, who is preparing the Dec. 13 presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” in Bryan Civic Audi torium; and Bill Schulman, local theater chain manager. Tickets for the Talent Show are 75 and may be purchased at the MSC, the First National Bank and City National Bank in Bryan, the Varsity Shop in Town- shire Shopping Center and Aggie- land Recreation Center in Red mond Terrace. To top off the evening, a yell practice will be held at 10:30 p.m., announced head yell leader Tom my Stone. No Malignancy Found Johnson Surgery ■■■iiMiiiMPrriifiiffTiff" 'M ...... • .. . V—' •/ s • mmmm Maverick Speaks To Apollo Club Maury Maverick Jr., San An tonio attorney, will address the Apollo Club tonight at Texas A&M University. Tom Bell, Apollo Club chair man, said Maverick, counsel for the South Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, will discuss “The Value of Dis sent to Constituted Authority”. The talk is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the YMCA. Maverick and Mrs. Maverick will be guests of honor at a 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday reception in the YMCA South Solarium. An ex-Marine, Maverick served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives, where he was floor leader for the liberals. He earned B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Texas. The speaker is a former gov ernment professor at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. He is the author of magazine articles on Texas History. President Smiles After Operations CARD FOR LBJ Dave Schlueter (L.) signs a giant “get-well”- MSC. Students may still sign the card be- card prepared for President Johnson who fore 5 p. m. today. Looking on is Steven underwent surgery Wedne sday. The project Goldberg, is sponsored by the Political Forum of the SCONA Seeks Keynoter; Other Speakers Announced Vandalism Policy Is Reaffirmed Texas A&M University and the University of Texas reaffirmed a mutual policy to suspend im mediately any student committing an act of vandalism on the campus of the rival school. A&M President Earl Rudder and Dr. Harry Ransom, chan cellor of the University of Texas, issued the joint statement as a prelude to the traditional Thanks giving Day football game between the two universities in Austin Nov. 24. Any student who paints or otherwise defaces statues or buildings, or commits any other act of vandalism on the rival campus, will be suspended for at least one semester, the two offi cials said. This policy was adopted origi nally in 1959 by the A&M Board of Directors and the University of Texas Board of Regents. Ransom and Rudder urged stu dents to concentrate their energy and enthusiasm on local prepara tions for the game and support of their respective teams. The twelfth annual Student Conference on National Affairs will probably have a keynote speaker lined up sometime this week, according to program com mittee chairman Pete Garza. “President Earl Rudder and Congressman Olin Teague are both in Washington right now, trying to obtain a well-known expert on the topic to deliver our keynote address,” Garza told the SCONA executive committee Wednesday. He said word should come by Friday on the effort. The committee also heard a re port from R. M. Schneider, asso ciate professor of architecture, on the possibility of setting up a long-distance hookup to Cam bridge, Mass., with Walter Gro pius, 82-year-old architect-sociol ogist who fled Nazi Germany aft er denouncing Hitler. GROPIUS, A FORMER senior professor of architecture at Har vard University and chairman of the Department of Architecture there, is presently Dean Emeritus in Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Schneider said Gropius would be able to present an interesting address to the delegates because “his 82 years span so much of European and American history, and he is, after all, a sociologist in addition to being an expert in planning.” “Since Gropius has been able to detach himself from the politi cal complications, he is in a good position to comment on the prob lems of American-European rela- Second Program For Faculty-Staff At MSC Tonight The second Texas A&M Uni versity faculty-staff dinner-dance of the year will be held in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center tonight at 7:30. According to Don Young of the Texas Forest Service, faculty- staff dinner club committee chair man, music will be furnished by Dick Baldauf’s Aggieland Combo, and members of the faculty and staff of A&M are invited to at tend and bring guests. Dress is informal. tions from an objective view point,” Schneider added. THE HOOKUP would be ac complished through the use of a long-distance telephone line be tween College Station and Cam bridge. Schneider suggested that a series of slides or a film be shown before or during the pres entation, to be followed by a series of questions addressed to Gropius, whose voice would be carried over loudspeakers in the meeting room. The cost of the arrangement would be about $200, Schneider estimated. SCONA Chairman Bob Heaton referred the idea to the program committee for further study and for correspondence with Gropius. Schneider said he already had preliminary information that Gropius would be available for such a project during SCONA XII, Dec. 7-10. Garza announced the addition to the conference’s agenda of two speakers, Richard Wilson and John E. Horner, who will talk on (See SCONA, Page 2) By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON (A*)—President Johnson came through tandem operations on his throat and abdomen in cheerful, satisfactory shape Wednesday. The doctors reported no signs of cancer. And this helped to lift a curtain of concern the President said a few days ago had been hanging over him. Thirty-three minutes after one operation removed a polyp on a vocal chord and a second closed an old incision from a gall blad der operation, Johnson was out from under an anesthetic and scribbling notes to his doctor. And a little before noon, four hours out of surgery, he was smiling, touching thumb and fingertip in an “okay’ ’sign, and actually talking a little in a 17- minute meeting with a group of reporters. It was in a hoarse whisper. Johnson’s color was good and he looked less worn and pale than he did after a kidney stone and gall bladder operation 13 months ago in the same hospital. The President was back in his old third-floor suite with its white walls and gold draperies—and three paintings Mrs. Johnson had installed—one of the LBJ Ranch in Texas, one of the President’s boyhood home, and another of the reconstructed birthplace. Mrs. Johnson had spent the night at the hospital and was up with her husband at 5:00 a.m. When newsmen were ushered into the suite in late morning, she still was wearing a long gold robe that fitted the decor of the suite. Mrs. Johnson was asked if she had ever seen the President speechless before. “No,” she smiled. “And we’re going to make the most of it.” The Johnsons will observe their 32nd wedding anniversary Thurs day, even if they can’t celebrate it. The President still has some physical problems. The doctors ordered him “to make no formal speeches for a period of four to five weeks and to keep the use of his voice at a minimum,” White House press secretary Bill D. Moyers reported. Moyers said the President will have three or four weeks of pain and discomfort as a result of the throat operation. He also has bursitis in his right shoulder which Moyers said will require some heat treatment and physical therapy. The bursitis was diag nosed after some examinations Tuesday. Johnson has been complaining about soreness in the shoulder for two or three weeks. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who would have taken over if Johnson had been unable to perform his duties in an emer gency, was notified immediately when the operation was over. A member of the White House staff called him on a direct line at his home. Moyers said nothing had hap pened to require any action or decision by Humphrey while Johnson was under anesthetic for almost an hour and 30 minutes. Not much was being said about the new operation to repair an incision from an old one. But a half-inch hole in the abdomen re quired a two-inch incision and then a stitching that pulled the edges of the stomach muscle and its sheath together. The hole resulted from im proper healing of a spot where drainage tubes came out of the original incision. Tissue about the size of a golf ball or a little larger had protruded and this hernia had to be taken care of. The doctors expect to keep him in the hospital several days and then let him go back to the LBJ Ranch to recuperate as he did a year ago. Parking Area Is Completed; New Rules The new parking area south of G. Rollie White Coliseum has been completed and present park ing procedures are being revised. According to Bennie Zinn, stu dent affairs director, dormitory students with green parking per mits who are now parking in the unpaved temporary lot west of Kyle Field and in the overflow parking area north of the cyclo tron building must move their cars to this new parking area before 5:00 p.m. Friday. Zinn also said that day stu dents now parking in the con struction area east of Houston, west of Throckmorton and south of Joe Routt, must also move their cars to the new area or to any other day student parking area. Day students parking in the grassy area east of Spence St. across from the cyclotron must move to the overflow area or other day student areas, Zinn said. 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