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‘AMERICAN DREAM’
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(Mrs. Florence Farr) during rehearsals for the Fallout Theater production of Edward
Albee’s “The American Dream.” Other characters include “Daddy” (David White) and
“Mrs. Barker” (Mrs. Millie Faye). See Story, Column 5.
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SAIGON <^1 — Defensive fire
of an American infantry outfit
and its artillery virtually de
stroyed a 350-man Viet Cong
battalion Wednesday.
A five-hour fight 31 miles
northwest of Saigon pointed up
the price the Communists are
paying in blood for their offen
sive efforts of the new year, win,
lose or draw.
U. S. spokesmen announced
103 of the enemy died — many
from howitzer shells that gun
ners call “Killer Juniors”—in a
human wave assault on a biv
ouac of the 1st Battalion, 27th
Infantry, 25th Infantry Division.
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‘FIRST LOVE SONG’
Edward Earle as “Cocky” sings the tuneful “My First
Love Song” to “The Girl,” played by Lisa Damon, in the
hit musical “The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the
Crowd.” The Rotary - Town Hall series performance is
set for Feb. 13 in Bryan Civic Auditorium.
Rotary-Town Hall Series Sets
‘Roar Of Greasepaint’ Feb. 13
A hit musical, “Roar of the
Greasepaint, The Smell of the
Crowd,” is slated Feb. 13 in the
Bryan Civic Auditorium.
Edward Earle, who has been
associated with the show since its
pre-Broadway days, will direct
and star in the production spon
sored by the Bryan Rotary Club
in conjunction with the Texas
A&M Memorial Student Center
Town Hall Committee.
Earle, who began his theatrical
career at the age of three, has
been featured in more than 25
musical and dramatic produc
tions. He played in several films,
including “The Hunchback of
Notre Dame” and the “Ten Com
mandments.”
Television fans have seen Earle
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
on “Camera 3,” “Omnibus,” and
ABC’s “Round the Town.”
Co-starring in “Roar of the
Greasepaint, The Smell of the
Crowd” is David C. Jones, a win
ner of the Chicago Press Award
for best performance in the sum
mer season as Mr. McAfee in
“Bye, Bye Birdie.”
Jones is a graduate of the
American Academy of Dramatic
Arts, while Earle earned a degree
from the University of Southern
California.
Among songs to be heard in
the show are “Who Can I Turn
To?” “A Wonderful Day Like To
day,” “Look at That Face,” “Feel
ing Good,” “Where Would You
Be?” “My First Love Song,” and
“The Joker.”
Other Rotary Community
Series presentations scheduled
this spring include opera star
Mary Costa March 8 at A&M, and
pianist Lorin Hollander April 9
at the Bryan Civic Auditorium.
Doctoral Study
Globetrotters To Appear
Feb. 6 In G. Rollie White
HEW Provides
15 Fellowships
For Graduates
The Harlem Globetrotters, who
have played to capacity crowds
in earlier appearances here, will
play an exhibition basketball
game Feb. 6 at Texas A&M.
Starring in the 8 p.m. tussle
at G. Rollie White Coliseum, un
der sponsorship of the Memorial
Student Center Town Hall Com
mittee, will be Meadowlark Lem
on, the court jester and floor
leader.
Meadowlark, now 32, is a 13-
year veteran with the Trotters.
“My high school coach in Wil
mington, N. C., thought I had a
future in basketball,” Meadow
lark recalled. “He drove me to
Raleigh to see a Globetrotter
game. The Trotters put me in
uniform, making a crazy dream
come true.”
UNCLE SAM interfered with
Meadowlark’s plans shortly after
he made the team, calling him
up for an Army hitch. But he
played with the Globies when he
earned a furlough while the team
was touring Germany. The late
Abe Saperstein promised Lemon
a Trotter uniform when he was
discharged.
Although it would be hard to
term Meadowlark as “just an
other player,” that’s what he was
until a strange combination of
ON THIS basis, since military
statistics show two or more men
are wounded for every one killed
in such wide open operations,
only a handful of the Commun
ists could have emerged unhit.
Five Americans perished, two
in a bunker struck by an enemy
shell or rocket, and 28 more
wounded.
The Viet Cong battalion, which
a prisoner told interrogators had
North Vietnamese as replace
ments for half its tanks, could
be written off at least tempor
arily as a fighting force.
DESTRUCTION of an Ameri
can contingent of battalion size
or larger has long been a propa
ganda objective of the Red high
command, which has never pub
licly displayed concern about sac
rificing Communist manpower.
A North Vietnamese raid by
night on the U. S. air strip at
Kontum, in the central high
lands 260 miles northeast of Sai
gon, blasted an unspecified num
ber of helicopters and motor ve
hicles.
Twenty-five or 30 satchel
charges wrought damage that the
U. S. Command called moderate
and seven Americans were killed
an d25 wounded in a 20-minute
skirmish. The enemy left 14 uni
formed dead within the com
pound.
OTHER enemy-initiated opera
tions dotted the countryside from
the Mekong Delta in the south to
the 1st Corps area in the north.
The Viet Cong and North Vietna
mese were reported to have in
flicted almost as many casualties
on civilians as on military units.
But American units were also
on the move:
■ —Troops of the 196th Light In
fantry Brigade reported they
killed 147 enemy soldiers in a
full day of action Tuesday in the
central lowlands 350 miles north
east of Saigon. They said most
fell under artillery fire and there
were no American casualties.
—A BRIGADE of the 1st Air
Cavalry Division, sweeping again
across the Que Son Valley south
of Da Nang, located the bodies
of 147 North Vietnamese soldiers
killed in the recent five-day en
gagement around cavalry landing
zones in the valley. The U. S.
Command said this raised the
enemy toll to 562 killed.
Air action over North Vietnam
Tuesday was again hampered by
a monsoon cloud cover. U. S.
pilots flew 85 strike missions, in
cluding some radar-guided raids
on airfields in the Hanoi-Hai-
phong sector, but the weather
prevented detailed damage as
sessments.
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MEADOWLARK LEMON
Comedy star Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globe
trotters will lead his team into an exhibition basketball
game Feb. 6 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The performance
is sponsored again this year by the Town Hall Committee.
Nugent To Speak Tonight
In MSC On ‘Africa In Revolt’
LeBlanc Promoted
In South Vietnam
Texas A&M graduate Clifford
H. LeBlanc Jr. of Beaumont has
been promoted to lieutenant colo
nel in Vietnam.
The Army officer is director
of transportation at headquar
ters, 1st Logistical Command,
near Saigon.
Colonel LeBlanc graduated
from A&M in 1953 with a B. S.
degree in civil engineering and
was commissioned here. His wife
Carolyn resides in Dallas.
John Peer Nugent, formerly
chief African correspondent for
Newsweek Magazine, will speak
tonight at Texas A&M.
The writer-adventurer will dis
cuss “Africa in Revolt—What’s
Happening Now” in an 8 p.m.
presentation in the A&M Memori
al Student Center Ballroom.
Nugent’s visit is sponsored by
the MSC Great Issues Commit
tee as part of its annual speaker
series.
A native of New York, Nugent
became a political correspondent
for Newsweek in 1956 and early
in 1961 opened the magazine’s
first African bureau.
Nugent spent much of 1961
through 1963 in the Congo cover
ing the United Nations’ attempt
to end the secession of Moise
Tshombe. It was during this time,
near Elizabethville, that he was
attacked by a band of Balubas,
a tribe known for hard work and
eating people.
In Rwanda, Nugent covered the
near-genocide of 10,000 tall Wa-
tusi as their bodies were dumped
into crocodile infested rivers.
Nugent was declared a “pro
hibited immigrant” in South Af
rica after he interviewed Nobel
‘American Dream’
To Open Tonight
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
circumstances made him the
quint's jester. Goose Tatum left
the team. Sam Wheeler suffered
a broken knee and Showboat Hall
fell by the wayside with pneu
monia.
The six-foot two-inch Lemon
was assigned to handle the com
edy. And he has been handling
the chore ever since.
THE GLOBETROTTERS, no
doubt the winningest team in
basketball, average 6-6 per play
er, with the shortest being 6-1
guard Fred (Curly) Neal and
the tallest Frank Stephens at
6-10. Neal played college ball at
Smith University, while Stephens
stuffed baskets at Virginia State.
Providing the opposition for
the Globetrotters at Aggieland
will be the Washington Generals,
formerly known as the Washing
ton Nationals.
Town Hall Chairman Robert
Gonzales said tickets for the per
formance will go on sale Monday
at the MSC Student Program
Office.
Rusk Defends
‘Firm Stand’
Against Reds
Peace Prize winner Albert Luthu-
li. The traveler was present in
Guinea when the Africa republic
became the first black land to
embrace Communism and later
drop it.
A faculty-student presentation,
“The American Dream,” is set for
tonight, Friday and Saturday per
formances in Guion Hall’s Fall
out Theater.
Staged in cooperation with the
Aggie Players and directed by
English Instructor Robert Archer,
“The American Dream” is a 70-
minute one-act comedy by Edward
Albee, better known for writing
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?”
Curtain time is 8 p.m. nightly.
The cast includes Mrs. John
Gannaway as mommy, Florence
Farr as grandma, Mrs. Robert
Foye as Mrs. Barker, David White
as daddy, and Paul Sittler as the
young man.
Tickets will be available at the
door at 50 cents per student.
Archer said a post-curtain-call
discussion of the play is planned
on stage each evening for audi
ence benefit.
WASHINGTON <A>> _ Secre
tary of State Dean Rusk said
Wednesday the integrity of the
United States under its mutual
security agreements “is a prin
cipal pillar of peace.”
Rusk said the United States
during the last 20 years has tried
to build peace in the world but
that it has been necessary for
this country to demonstrate firm
ness in the face of aggression.
“IMAGINE how a map of the
world would be drawn today had
the United States not used firm
ness,” he said. “Iran, Turkey,
Greece, the Congo, Southeast
Asia.”
“It’s easy to say some place is
too far away . . . those fellows
don’t mean what they say . . .
one more bite will satisfy them
... in any event it’s none of our
business,” Rusk added.
“But there is a struggle going
on in the worjd between those
who would organize as under the
United Nations charter and those
who would organize under what
they call the world revolution,”
he said. “That struggle has not
been solved. The United States
has had to be firm in order to
stabilize the peace.”
RUSK MADE his remarks at
the 1968 Share in Freedom con
ference held in association with
the U. S. Industrial Payroll Sav
ings Committee to promote sale
of U. S. Savings Bonds.
Rusk, as he did at his news
conference last week, declined to
comment directly on the latest
proposal by North Vietnamese
Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy
Trinh who said negotiations will
begin as soon as the United
States stopped bombing the
North.
PRESIDENT Johnson said last
September in San Antonio, “The
United States is willing immed
iately to stop aerial and naval
bombardment of North Vietnam
when this will lead promptly to
productive discussion.”
“We would assume,” he added,
“that while discussions proceed,
North Vietnam would not take
advantage of the bombing ces
sation or limitation.”
Rusk said today of Trinh’s
statement: “We need to find out
how his statement and the San
Antonio formula fit together. I
am sure the United States will
meet them more than half way
but there is also no doubt that
the security of the nations of
Southeast Asia is important to
us. They will have to be able to
live in peace without molesta
tions from outside.”
The Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare has awarded
Texas A&M 15 National Defense
Graduate Fellowships totaling ap
proximately $250,000 for doctoral
study leading to college teaching
careers, announced A&M Grad
uate Dean Wayne C. Hall.
Hall said each recipient is eli
gible for stipends totaling $6,600
during a three-year period, plus
an annual $400 allowance per de
pendent. Additional smaller sti
pends are available for summer
study.
The university will receive an
annual allowance of $2,500 per
fellowship to cover tuition and
fees and help defray educational
costs, the dean noted.
He said the fellowships will be
awarded for study beginning with
the 1968-69 academic year.
HEW listed the following 21
fields in which the fellowships
can be applied: agricultural eco
nomics-sociology, animal science,
bio-chemistry, biology, chemical
engineering, chemistry, civil en
gineering and economics.
Also entomology, geology-geog
raphy, geophysics, industrial edu
cation, mechanical engineering,
oceanography-meteorology, petro
leum engineering, physics, plant
sciences, soil-crop sciences, sta
tistics and nuclear engineering.
Hall said applications and in
quiries should be directed to his
office or to the heads of the re
spective departments.
Draft Quota
For February
Set At 1,165
AUSTIN _ Texas’ draft
quota for February is 1,165 men,
5 per cent of the national draft
call of 23,300, the. State Selective
Service director said Wednesday.
Col. Morris S. Schwartz said
Texas Selective Service boards
have been instructed to forward
4,590 men in February for pre
induction examinations, compared
to 5,455 for this month.
The February draft quota com
pares to 1,659 for this month, 924
for December, 1,159 for Novem
ber, 977 for October and 1,180 for
September.
CD Shelter Course
Opens, This Month
Twenty men from over the
state are expected for a Civil De
fense shelter management course
Jan. 22-26 at Texas A&M.
Dr. Willis R. Bodine, coordina
tor of Civil Defense Training for
A&M’s Engineering Extension
Service, said the 32-hour course
will emphasize methods, tech
niques and procedures of plan
ning, organizing and conducting
local shelter management training
programs.
Stress also will be on staff re
quirements, supplies and equip
ment, shelter entry, operations,
living and exit from shelter.
Aiding Bodine in teaching the
course will be staffers Robert
Schnatterly and George Martin,
plus two Texas Civil Defense
officials—plans and operations
officer Frank Cox and public
information officer Jim Robinson.
Bodine said the curriculum
covers responsibilities of state
and local officials in major areas
of civil defense. Participants, he
noted, will include public officials,
civil defense directors, deputy di
rectors, department heads and
key staff members.
Classes are scheduled from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. daily in A&M’s
Memorial Student Center.
BB&L
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
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