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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.
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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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