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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 1, 1966
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
“Sometimes I wish our freshmen were not so enthusiastic—
especially when it involves my room!”
The with Bob Borders
“If you liked The Magnificent
Seven,” the blurb says, but
whether you liked the first movie
or not, the “Return of the Sev
en” will likely prove a big dis
appointment.
Yul Erynner is the only one of
the original seven to return, and
the audience would probably have
been better off if he had stayed
wherever he was.
Again he is the never-smiling,
always hatted deliverer of the
poor Mexican peons. They lack
the backbone to deliver them
selves, and they could care less.
The peons are being oppressed
by a powerful bad guy who is
forcing them to rebuild a shelled-
out church as a memorial to his
sons who had died there.
When he learns of their plight,
Brynner seeks out six cohorts, all
good men and true. Actually, he
has to dig pretty deep in the
barrel to find them, each with his
own psychological problem which
he tries to unload on poor Bryn
ner.
Sometimes he turns to be a
really profound thinker. An ex
ample: Cohort: “I wonder if I’ll
be able to stop killing after this
'is all over.” Yul: “Only time
will tell.”
' In fact, the dialogue is so snap
py that it keeps the audience on
the edge of their seats in antici
pation. To one’s statement that
“it’s quiet out there,” Yul’s mem
orable reply is “Too quiet.”
The few quiet moments of the
movie are spent in self-confes
sion that would make a Chinese
Communist blush. Most of the
characters have some deep emo
tional scar, and Brynner, being
the epitome of a father figure,
bears the brunt of all the un-
burdenings.
Most of the time, though, guns
are blazing and hot lead is flying
through the air. The miracle
guns that we thought had gone
the way of all old movie props
with Gene Autrey and Roy Rog
ers are back. Remember those
wonderful firearms never ran out
of ammunition.
The seven returners are invin
cible right up until the very end.
When it seems as if all is lost, the
seven make a desperate attack
on the 200-man force of the bad
guy.
They survive this point-blank
confrontation without any visible
wounds. At the end of the movie,
however, the providence that had
been protecting them seems to
have played out, and their num
ber is thinned drastically.
The picture was filmed in
Spain, in the most rugged, form
idable terrain imaginable. The
scenery is beautiful, and it some
times becomes a temptation to
settle back and forget the rest
of the movie.
The story is trite and the dia
logue is triter (more trite?). As
a rule, the acting, especially Bryn-
ner’s, is bad.
After the movie I had an over
powering urge to go out and buy
a pack of Marlboros. And as the
sun set slowly over the USD A
Building. . . .
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The Pennsylvanians are celebrating- their fiftieth year
of touring American and will bring an exciting show of
music to the campus. Last year Fred Waring played to
capacity audiences on college campuses across the na
tion. He will play all types of music including rock and
roll, old time favorites, broadway music, and pops.
Texas Is Proud
Of A&M Cadets
Editor’s note: Reprinted below is an editorial which
appeared in the Nov. 27 issue of The Austin American.
The University of Texas and Texas A&M Univer
sity are first-class rivals, and they always will be. But
the two schools are a source of substantial pride to all
Texans.
A colorful part of the rivalry shows up every other
Thanksgiving Day when the famed Corps of Cadets at
Texas A&M marches down Congress Avenue.
For whatever loyalties a witness may have for the
football game that follows, he can also have an added
bit of pride and confidence in the young Texans who com
prise the Corps of Cadets.
The Corps of Cadets has a tradition of its own in
the history of this country, and it represents the largest
single source of military officer personnel in the nation.
Membership in the Corps is optional. This means that
its 3,000 members on their own chose membership and
the military training that goes with it. It also means
that they chose an almost inevitable obligation for service
in the military forces of the United States.
Put another way, the Cadet Corps of Texas A&M
has no Stokely Carmichaels in its ranks — nor anyone
else flaunting a citizen’s obligation to serve his nation.
Faculty Dinner Set Next Month
A special Christmas holidays
dinner-dance for the faculty and
staff of Texas A&M University
will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thurs
day, Dec. 29, at the Ramada Inn,
announced Don Young, chairman
of the Faculty-Staff Dinner Club
Committee.
Young said the holiday event
is in addition to the four regular
ly scheduled dinner-dances this
year and therefore will not be
covered by season tickets.
Tickets, priced at $3 per person,
will be on sale at the Memorial
Student Center and the Ramada
Inn until noon, Thursday, Dec. 22.
Young said all A&M faculty
and staff members are invited to
attend and bring guests. Dress
will be semi-formal.
Texas and Louisiana engineers
are meeting with Texas A&M
freshmen engineering graphics
classes this week.
The 37 engineers, in teams of
three, are giving presentations
Bureau Of Ships
Interviews Set
Dave Neerman, recruitment
representative for the Naval De
partment’s Bureau of Ships, will
interview all interested engineer
ing students Saturday concern
ing positions available in de
partment headquarters in Wash
ington.
The positions available include
those in the fields of electronics,
electrical engineering, nuclear
engineering, mechanical or mar
ine engineering, naval architec
ture and several others associat
ed with the engineering field.
The bureau is looking for
graduate students in these fields
of engineering to fill these posi
tions. Interested students can
pick up application blanks in
the Department of Mechanical
Engineering.
In the headquarters, these
jobs will fill the needs for sys
tem designing, project engineer
ing and management, coordina
tion, component and systems
engineering, and advanced naval
design for all combatant ships.
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relating to class field design
problems and holding question-
answer sessions, announced Dr.
James H. Earle, associate profes
sor of engineering graphics.
“The department is attempting
to provide freshmen engineering
students with better understand
ing of engineering design prob
lems and application through co
operation of visiting engineers
from various industries,” Earle
said.
The program was set up
through the Halliburton Chair of
Engineering, held by Charles A.
Rodenberger, aerospace engineer
ing professor.
Four three-man teams per class
from 810 students enrolled in En
gineering Graphics 105 compete
on local projects of campus ac
cess planning, nuclear fallout dis
aster plan, covered parking, rifle
and skeet range, hobby center and
water skiing facility.
“The best solution to each prob
lem will be selected for develop
ment into a final presentation to
be given to the class and visiting
engineers,” the professor contin
ued.
G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM
DECEMBER 7, 1966
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