THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 12, 1967
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
The Twiggy Look
Is Really Nothing
Sound Off
“She’s not important. She’s not significant. It’s all
a massive publicity stunt.”
“I think she’s the most obnoxious thing that ever
came on the horizon.”
“It’s a pretty sad thing to say you’re repulsed by a
girl, but I am. Her legs remind me of two painted worms.”
These are but a few of the comments made about
Britian’s fastest rising model, Lesley Hornby (better known
as “Twiggy”), by some of America’s leading fashion critics.
The 17-year-old blond with a boy’s first name and a
figure to match — 31-22-32 — has suddenly found her
self the most sought-after model in today’s fashion world.
She has made the cover of many of the U.S.’s leading
magazines and has started a new clothing trend among
American and British girls that can only be described as
the “have nothing” look.
“Only ten years ago,” says Beatrix Miller, editor of
British Vogue, “someone looking like Twiggy wouldn’t
have been noticed by anyone in the fashion business. She’s
exactly the right look at the right time.”
Someone once said that “nothing succeeds like success,”
and the 5’6” sprig has certainly proved this by charging
$120 an hour for photographic modeling while in New York
on a recent visit to the States.
Life magazine describes 91 lb. Twiggy as having “hair
shorter than most boys, eyes bigger than most girls and
a shape that is no shape at all” and may “set the cause of
female curves back for years to come.”
Today’s youth now have an image to place on the
opposite end of their social scale facing the long-haired,
bearded “Hippies.”
It will be interesting to see how much effect the
“Twiggy look” will have on our society.
Who knows? Maybe men will cancel their member
ships to their health clubs and be stylish as a 98 lb.
weakling!
Editor:
The Battalion;
Dear Sir:
To be president of our senior
class we feel a person should be
industrious, experienced, and
above all willing to hold class
business second only to studying
in his schedule of activities. In
order to handle class business to
the utmost efficiency, it is very
important that a person have ex
perience in class affairs and a
knowledge of the behind-the-scene
problems encountered by the class
officers.
Ron McLeroy, who was vice-
president of our fish class, is the
person who can fill the position
we have described. Ron has an
unusually high ability to get
along with people and has been
involved in every class function;
therefore we feel it is now time
that he share with us the educa
tion in class affairs he has gained.
VOTE FOR RON McLEROY FOR
SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT.
Very sincerely,
Clarence Daugherty,
vice-president Jr. class
Pat Rehmet,
SCONA Chairman
Carl Feducia,
Sgt. Major—2nd Brig.
Reese Brown,
Sgt. Major—3rd Batt.
Joey Webber,
Sgt. Major Corps Staff
Henry Cisneros,
Sgt. Major—Comb. Band
Bobby Gonzales,
Town Hall Chairman
Dan Kennerly,
1st Brig. Staff
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“I’m glad th’ TV strike is over, but if it had lasted two
more weeks, my grades would be a letter higher!”
Castro Agents
NASA, North American Blamed
For Killer Apollo Spacecraft Fire
Bring Action
Market Proposed
For Latin America
PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay
(A*) — The nations of Latin Amer
ica agreed Tuesday, with encour
agement from President Johnson,
to take full responsibility for
creation of a common market
embracing the area’s 230 million
people.
The decision came when a work
ing group approved a draft pre-
able for a declaration that will be
issued by the American presidents
after their two-day summit meet
ing.
The draft was described by a
diplomatic source as a synthesis
of Brazilian and American pro
posals. The preamble calls for
economic integration of Latin
America and says President John
son has endorsed the idea and
pledged to support it.
The United States strongly
backed the creation of the huge
common market and has offered
to help Latin Americans ease
their economies into it while they
adjust to new trading patterns.
The United States hopes the
market will be established by
1985.
President Johnson engaged in
a series of talks with Latin
American leaders Tuesday in ad
vance of Wednesday’s summit
meetings.
The U. S. President visited the
chalet of President Raul Leoni
of Venezuela where he talked
about Communist guerrilla sub
version and oil, discussed coffee
markets with President Carlos
Lleras Restrepo of Colombia and
heard a plea for increased sugar
quotas from President Joaquin
Balaguer of the Dominican Re
public.
In all, Johnson met with nine
presidents during a busy first
day which he wound up by giv
ing a dinner for the five Central
American presidents.
When Johnson arrived in Pun-
ta del Este, he declared “we must
quicken the pace” of the Alliance
for Progress. Then, he immedi
ately plunged into the man-to
man confrontations dominated by
the economic problems of the
region.
Latin American nations want
more U. S. economic aid under
the Alliance for Progress, and
they want to spend these dollars
anywhere in the world, not just
in the United States as they now
are required to do. Faced with a
balance of payments problem,
Washington is unwilling to do
this.
Referring to this, a U. S. gov
ernment source remarked that the
United States is faced with a
choice between “desirable policy
and harsh necessity.”
Johnson made his remarks on
the Alliance for Progress as he
set foot on South American soil
for the first time at the Montev
ideo airport.
WASHINGTON <A>) _ Wit
nesses at two separate congres
sional hearings blamed North
American Aviation, Inc. and the
national space agency Tuesday
for the Apollo spacecraft fire
that killed three astronauts last
Jan. 27.
Top officials of North Ameri
can, principal contractor for the
spacecraft, acknowledged their
firm was guilty of major equip
ment deficiencies. They told a
House space agency oversight
subcommittee that they had not
anticipated a fire on the ground.
Astronaut Frank Borman tes
tifying at the opening of Senate
Space Committee hearings on the
accident, said responsibility for
the fire was “shared by the con
tractor and NASA (National Aer
onautics and Space Administra
tion.”
Borman, a member of the eight-
man board set up by NASA to
probe the tragedy and recommend
changes, urged moving ahead on
the entire space program.
After several experts on the
board had testified that the fire
probably resulted from defects in
the bundles of wiring inside the
capsule, Borman said that the
fault rested with North Ameri
can Aviation and of NASA.
“None of us were fully aware
of the hazards of when you com
bine pure oxygen with combus
tibles and then a source of igni
tion,” Borman said. “This is the
trap into which we fell.”
Borman rejected a suggestion
by Sen. Howard W. Cannon, D-
Nev., that the U. S. program
shift to a two-gas system used
by the Russians for space flight.
Instead he urged that most of
the combustible materials that
burst into a searing fire in the
Apollo capsule be replaced in
other units, that a quick system
for venting pure oxygen be in
stalled, and that the program
move ahead.
Dr. John McCarthy, North
American vice president, told the
House subcommittee at its second
day of hearings that his firm
shares blame with NASA for the
fire.
McCarthy said the basic error
was the use of flammable ma
terials inside the spacecraft.
A review board reported over
the weekend that the probable
cause of the fire was an electri
cal arc or short circuit.
J. L. Atwood, North American
president and board chairman,
said his company is not convinced
that this was the most likely
cause, but he said his firm can
not point to a more probable one.
The blaze, spread by the flam
mable material in a pure-oxygen,
pressurized atmosphere, quickly
claimed the lives of Air Force Lt.
Cols. Virgil I. Grissom and Ed
ward H. White II and Navy Lt.
Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (A*) — The
positive confirmation that Castro-
type guerrillas are operating in
Bolivia has led to a swift but re
strained U. S. response in La Paz.
Douglas Henderson, the exper
ienced American ambassador, re
ported Monday to President John
son that Communist guerrillas
were in fact established in the
Bolivian jungles and Tuesday
five American Rangers arrived
from the U. S. Latin Command in
Panama.
They are to open a jungle war
fare and antisubversion training
school for the Bolivian army.
However, American military re
ports here estimate that it will
take six months to turn out a
fully trained Bolivian battalion
for jungle fighting.
Shipments to Bolivia of weap
ons and equipment for use against
guerrillas, notably field radio
sets, small arms and helicopters,
are being expedited and should
arrive within a few days, al
though Henderson has been press
ing for these shipments for
months.
The Americans are turning a
very skeptical ear to Bolivian
government requests for jet air
craft, tanks and napalm.
V. E. “RED” BERRY
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Political Forum informal luncheon, Room 2-A, MSC,
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