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THE BATTALION IViirlpar Scientists Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, January 13, 1967 H UUlCai. HO by Jim Earle Will Participate In Confab Here At The Movies ‘Oh, I’m as warm as I can be, but I can’t move!” Nuclear scientists and engi neers from as far away as Italy and Japan will participate in a national conference on “Coupled Reactor Kinetics” here Jan. 23- 24. Dr. C. G. Chezem, Texas A&M visiting professor from Los Ala mos Scientific Laboratory and co- chairman for the two-day meet ing, said 27 papers will be pre sented on topics ranging from the use of nuclear reactors for rocket propulsion to “breeding” Plutonium-239. Approximately 150 persons are expected to participate in the conference. Included are delega tions from the University of Cali fornia's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the University of Illinois, Purdue, the University of Texas, Iowa State University, University of Arizona, the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office of Douglas Aircraft, Westinghouse Atomic Power Laboratory, Allis- Chalmers, General Electric, Mar tin Aircraft and General Dyna mics. Foreign countries to be repre sented 1 at the conference include Italy, Germany, Japan and Ar gentina. Following the two-day session at A&M, the delegates will tour NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Cen ter at Houston. The conference is co-sponsored by the North Texas Section of the American Nuclear Society and Texas A&M. Purchasing Department Lists Unique Items During Year Operating a big business of providing excellence in education necessitates a myriad of activity beyond bricks and books. During 1966, as A&M’s pur chasing department, bought such unique items as: A dozen crayfish for the Bio logy Department, Fifty pounds of marble dust for the Intramural Depart ment. Two dozen sponges for Con- nally Technical Institute at ***•■'• * Waco. 30,000 pounds of molasses for the Animal Science De partment. Two Spanish goats for the Radiation Biology Labora tory. Ten live cocoons for the En tomology Department. DONALD WALSH, technical buyer for the Purchasing Depart ment, handles orders for such items as a $111,172 quadropole magnet and power supply for A&M’s $6 million Cyclotron In stitute, recalls an order of much smaller magnitude which caused more problems. “By law, we are required to buy quality merchandise,” he ex plained. “But the Veterinary Hospital needed two horses in poor condition for an experiment. When our Board of Control checked the order, we had to write many, many letters to clear up questions.” The lack of availability of cop per because of the Viet Nam War caused some anxious moments for Walsh recently. He needed 100,- 000 feet of various sizes of copper equal to a $1.4 million industry moving into the Bryan-College Station area. TOM CHERRY, A&M vice president for business affairs, points out A&M’s 1966-67 payroll alone exceeds $20 million. He sai<J A&M has 5,301 employes living in the Bryan-College Station area. A recent survey shows A&M’s economic impact on the Bryan- College Station community now r s more th ‘ n 138 mil,ion Cherry estimated A&M’s 10,- 706 students spend more thafi $14 million yearly above university of six months. WALSH DID SOME digging and came up with a priority rat ing from the U. S. Defense De partment. Delivery dates were quickly scaled down to two to three weeks. The vastness of A&M’s opera tions is reflected in the $36,283,- 810 expenditures for the 1965- 66 academic year. Value of the university to the community is intangible, but powerful. A&M Controller Clark Diebel estimates each student spends $1,400 a year at the uni versity and in the community. Thus, when enrollment climbs 1,000 students, the result is Senator Says Viet Supplies Being Stolen Or Diverted WASHINGTON <A>) — Sen, Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska, es timated Thursday that about 20 per cent of U.S. foreign aid ship ments to Vietnam had been stol en or diverted in that country last year. Gruening, chairman of a Sen ate subcommittee on foreign aid, estimated the over-all losses in economic aid at $91 million but noted that some other sources had estimated losses as high as 40 to 50 per cent. The Agency for International Development AID, in a report to President Johnson last Mon day, estimated that losses were no more than five to six per cent “in recent months.” AID Administrator William S. Gaud later told reporters that by “recent months” he meant the final two months of the year. He said that estimates out of Saigon earlier that day apply ing the five to six per cent loss figure to all of 1966 were in error. Gruening’s estimate of 20 per cent losses for the year was close to the consensus reported in a series of articles written in November by Associated Press staffeds Fred S. Hoffman and Hugh A. Mulligan after a two- month, on-the-scene study of the problem. However, some knowledgea ble persons in Vietnam told The AP team that loss percentages might run to 40 per cent. In his report Gaud told the President that while the losses in recent months — since the AP series was published — “are com parable to or lower than losses in other war zones under less difficult conditions, U;ey are by nc means acceptable and we are doing our best to reduce them further.” fees, for food, housing, clothing, school supplies, recreation and other expenses. One of the activity hubs on campus is the Memorial Student Center, where students cashed a record $1.6 million in checks, sur passing the old mark by almost $200,000. PHYSICAL PLANT officials drew some analogies regarding utility operations. They estimat ed the utility plant, which serv ices the university, burns enough natural gas each year to heat 13,500 two-bedroom homes, and produces enough steam for a com mercial laundry to wash 370,700 pounds of clothing. Electricity produced by the plant would air condition 9,100 two-bedroom homes for a year. And the water pumped through the plant would fill the annual needs of 6,800 families of five. THE 5,400 Aggies who eat regularly in A&M Dining Halls put away seven million pounds of food annually, reported Fred Dol lar, food services director. In cluded on the year’s menu is al most a quarter-million pounds of steak, the same number of gal lons of milk and half that much coffee. Dollar said the Aggies have a sweet tooth, indicated by the 300,- 000 pounds of sugar used each year. Much of this goes in pas tries, a favorite with the Aggies. Food service purchases in the community exceed $1 million an nually, Dollar estimated. SINCE A&M’s first graduating class in 1879, the university has conferred 45,951 degrees and 62 honorary degrees. Thousands of additional students have attended classes. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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Address: Coi: rate fur YMCA Building, -_ques_. liege Station, Texas The Battalion, a student shed in Collegi and Monday, a: May, and once a week during summer school. newspaper a published in College Station, Texas daily Sunday, and Monday, and holidi Texas A&M is except Saturday, ay periods, September through MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chica Francisco. cago, Los Angeles and San Publisher Texas A&M University Student Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing Editor John Fuller News Editor Elias Moreno, Jr. Staff Writers Patricia Hill, Mike Plake, Robert Borders, Jerry Grisham Sports Editor Gary Sherer Staff Photographer Russell Autrey Matt Helm is back. This time the girl is Ann-Margaret. You don’t like Dean Martin’s singing? Bring ear plugs. You don’t like Dean Martin? Come anyhow and look at Ann- Margaret. You don’t like Ann-Margaret? What are you, some kind of a nut? She doesn’t have to act, all she has to do is be there. In fact, it would probably be better if she didn’t act. She’ll never have to worry about dust collecting on her Oscars. This time the plot, or whatever it is, revolves around the planned incineration of Washington by “Big O.” Helm takes time out from his busy schedule as Slaymate pho tographer when Miss January tries to give him the hot-foot. With everybody thinking he’s dead and all the Slaymates wear ing black mini-trenchcoats in mourning, Helm is off to Monaco in an effort to throw a wrench into “Big O’s” machinery. He manages to throw plenty. But with wrenches he’s not so lucky; he’s too busy this time for much extra-curricular activity. You’ve got to remember he’s not as young as he used to be. It turns out that “Big O’s” head guy, played by Karl Malden, has cleverly concealed his head- quarters on an island a few hun dred yards off the Monaco beach and he commutes in a discreet little air-boat designed to attract as little attention as possible. Helm’s main adversary is a stout guy with a stainless steel plate in his head. Original, huh? As usual, the odds are about even: one army versus one Matt Helm. The army is mercifully an nihilated, but Helm ends up with a nasty briuse on his cheek. Or is it lipstick. Things become so hobbled near the end you’re not sure about anything. Remember the “Silencers” gun ? Helm’s arsenal this go-round has a delayed-action gun. You pull the trigger and it goes off four seconds later. As you’ve probably figured out, all the bad guys shoot themselves. It’s not much compared with his “Silencers” equipment, but he gets plenty of use out of it. A brief appearance is put in by Dino, Desi, and Billy, during which Dino has a chance to say his catchy line “Now you’re get ting with it, Dad.” This has deep significance for the moviegoer and allows him to elbow his neighbor and say “Ha, ha, that’s his son who said that. Ha, ha.” The main complaint about the movie is that it tries to get too much mileage out of the situa tions, sometimes stretching them to the yawning point. with. Bob Borders The story follows the set for mula, with Helm getting caught the recommended number of times, and killing the recommend ed number of adversaries. It has all the elements; a good guy, a bad guy, in fact several bad guys, lots of pretty girls, and plenty of color. It doesn’t quite hit the bull’s eye, but it scores a near miss, which is bet- MttJLcArl Supply 'Picture, 923 So.ColUg* Avc* Bryan,IWcas ter than most do. 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