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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, March 9; 1967
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
At The Movies
with Bob Borders
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‘Here we go again!”
And Win The Peace
“America always wins the war
peace” is a saying that has had a
and then loses the
great deal of truth
in it. The U. S. has in the past allowed the benefits of
victory to slip away because Americans wanted to bring
all the boys back home before peace was secure.
Today Americans are learning the hard truth that it
is as important to win the peace as to win the war. That
is apparent from Rep. Graham Purcell’s poll of 10,000
voters in his district.
Of those replying, 81 per cent said the U. S. should
be involved in Vietnam, 84 per cent said it was vital to
save Vietnam from communist takeover and 77 per cent
advocated keeping military force in the area until South
Vietnam can defend itself and there are assurances that
peace agreements will be kept.
From the beginning, American leaders have warned
that the greatest danger to the effort to save South Viet
nam is that the American people will withdraw their
support. Indeed, the communist leaders in Peking and
Hanoi formulated their strategy on the expectation that
Americans would “grow tired” if they were not able to
see immediate and conclusive results.
In the beginning the communist leaders proclaimed
that the U. S. could not win a “protracted war.” But
now it has developed that the American military can go
on mauling the communist for as “protracted” a span as
the communists feel they can endure.
And as we have benefited from hard experience, we
have learned that there is more to winning the peace than
getting a signature on a peace treaty. Americans are
apparently ready to ensure that peace, won at great cost,
is maintained.
—The Dallas Morning News
“Funeral in Berlin,” now show
ing downtown, is the successor
of the earlier Len Deighton-based
movie, “The Ipcress File.”
Unfortunately the movie does
n’t come up to the book of the
same name, and falls below “Ip
cress” in plotting and suspense.
The trouble is not with the com
plicated plot, without which the
spy movie business would go
broke, but with the carrying out
of the plot itself, with long-
winded explanations for the bene
fit of the dim-witted moviegoer,
and little bits of information
which were meant to be clues but
instead are as readable as a high
way billboard.
Michael Caine is again in the
leading role as the tight-lipped
Harry Palmer, an ex-convict who
was given the choice of working
for Her Majesty’s Secret Service
or spending a good part of his
life behind bars.
Naturally he chooses the form
er, and along with his crooked
at-large friends, does a passable
job as a spy.
In the first scene of the movie,
a worker planting mines on the
eastern side of the wall escapes
via cement bucket, which is at
tached to a cable, which is at
tached to a crane, which is at
tached to the other side of the
wall.
The scene switches to England,
where secret agent Harry Palm
er is leading a nice, comfortable,
middle-class life with his wife.
Well, it didn’t say she was his
wife, but this is a family news
paper.
His happiness is to be short
lived, however, because he is call
ed to the house of his superior
for an assignment to guess where.
It seems a high-ranking Rus
sian officer wants to defect to
the west, and Palmer is brought
in to do the honors. He’s a little
learry of the whole thing, but it
seems that nobody else is, so he
happily goes along.
From the minute he arrives in
Berlin, he is followed by a seedy-
looking little man in a taxi who
you’ve got to be sure is up to
no good. Later on you find out
he was no good, alright, but he
wasn’t as no good as some of the
other no-goods.
He is part of the complicated
mess that develops when the Rus
sians, the East Germans, the Bri
tish, the Israelis, and maybe a
few more I missed when I got up
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Announces the opening
of their new plant at
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Coins to be redeemed must accompany soiled
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to get some popcorn, clash.
Naturally the beautiful girl spy
on the other side is there, and na
turally Palmer gets involved with
her, and naturally it comes out
the same old way, except this girl,
played by Eva Renzi, is a little
more hard-hearted than the usual.
But the story is unlike other
spy stories in that everybody on
each side seems to know every
thing about everybody on the
other sides, and they don’t even
pretend anything is secret, al
though they do manage to fool
each other at times.
Some say one of the major
pluses for this movie was the
photography, and it was good,
there’s no denying that. Some
very revealing shots of both East
and West Berlin were shown.
But today the movie industry
has progressed so far that good
photography is the rule rather
than the exception, and should
be taken for granted.
Good photography does not
make a mediocre movie good, nor
does good acting, or Michael
Caine would have made this one
great. Unfortunately this movie,
with all the potential of the great
book, ends with a ho-hum.
Researcher Says Genetics
Help Man Fight Diseases
Genetics plays a key role in
man’s constant fight against
heriditary diseases, an expert re
searcher declared here Tuesday.
Dr. H. Warner Kloepfer, hu
man genetics specialist in Tulane
Universtiy’s School of Medicine,
discussed problems of researchers
in a universtiy lecture.
Dr. Kloepfer said thousands of
biochemists are working to de
velop knowledge to synthesize
genes. He said if such synthesis
of genes can be developed, arti
ficially prepared genes might be
used in the future as preventative
medicine.
The scientist expressed confi
dence that the biochemists will
eventually solve the complex
problem.
Dr. Kloepfer said the major
problem facing researchers is the
know-how to spell out structures
of any particular genes.
He intimated that the artificial
genes might be used to assure
normal development of children
who might otherwise suffer mus
cular dystrophy, deafness or some
metabolic disease.
Dr. Kloepfer also hinted at
no
con-
philosophical problems which
might be produced by the use of
artificial genes. He said
scientist has the answer to
trol of their use.
One of the illusions he drew
posed the possibility of altering
normal genes to create some form
of monster.
“This is the first time man has
been able to tamper with his own
heridity,” Dr. Kloepfer said.
“Naturally, scientists are quite
concerned about applications not
envisioned in their research.”
A paralley with atomic energy
was drawn by the speaker. He
said man knew the atom could
be split to create a great amount
of energy, but scientists en
visioned such uses as powering
ships and heating homes.
Nobody mentioned the possi
bility of using atomic energy for
destruction, he said. Now enough
atomic energy is poised in missile
sites throughout the world to
cause widespread devestation.
In comparison, Dr. Koepfer
explained, scientists are con
cerned about misuse of the ability
to synthensize genes.
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