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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.
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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-
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