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THE BATTALION Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 22, 1£H>8 Read Classifieds Daily THE PERCY SLEDGE SHOW presented by Sigma Chi SAM HOUSTON STATE LOWMAN STUDENT CENTER February 25th 7:00 - 10:30 p. m. Admission $2.00 World - Scope The B.S.U. International Student Program PING PONG TOURNAMENT Singles and Doubles Saturday, Feb. 24th beginning at 9:00 a. m. at the B.S.U. Trophies to be awarded ‘Join Us For World-Scope, You’ll Think The World About It!” GEOTECH A TELEDYNE COMPANY Will Interview Mechanical Engineers < • Elictrical Engineers Mathematicians > Physicists. * FEBRUARY for rewarding careers in research, design, development, and data handling related to the earth sciences. For interview: <v*‘ ^** 1 311 ■' w • ’ ‘ 1 1 I ' CONTACT UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT OFFICE, Supervisor. 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JAECKLE 707 University Drive College Station — 846-5604 representing Southwestern Life INSURANCE COMPANY • DALLAS • SINCE 1903 TECTONOPHYSICISTS Dr. J. W. Handin, 1., and Dr. G. M. Sowers look over a photographic test device which measures the strain in various materials. The Texas A&M University scientists are study ing the behavior of rock under extreme conditions with an eye toward possible prediction of earthquakes and better detection of underground nuclear explosions. Scientists Complete Lab To Study Earth’s Crust Scientists at Texas A&M are completing a laboratory to simu late conditions deep in the earth. By studying rocks under these conditions, they hope to gain knowledge leading to prediction of earthquakes and better detec tion of underground nuclear ex plosions. The subject has the jaw-break ing title of “tectonophysics,” but means simply the study of those structures and forces involved in deformations of the earth’s crust. In A&M’s new laboratory, rocks will be subjected to pressures up to 10,000 times that of normal atmosphere and heats of more than 900 degrees F. UNDER such conditions, rock often becomes ductile—it becomes more “taffy-like.” Sometimes, however, it appears to remain brittle—like many rocks at the earth’s surface—due to mecha nisms not well understood now. Dr. J. W. Handin, director of the Center for Tectonophysics, said “one of the things we can do (in the laboratory) is look for these brittle mechanisms.” One theory is that release of water from certain types of rock may cause it, he continued. Dr. Handin and others of the center are among earth scientists who previously explained a series of earth tremors in the Denver area as the apparent result of water being pumped into a natu ral fracture zone. THE WATER reduced the ef fective pressure across the frac ture, allowing it to slip and create tremors. In laboratory experiments where water pressure varied in rock, it was found as the pressure gets higher, the rock gets weaker and more brittle. “There are certain hydrous (water bearing) minerals such as serpentine which dehydrate at some critical temperature and re lease water,” Handin said. “This may be important in earthquakes from about 30 to 60 miles deep in the earth.” The scientists at the center also will be designing test instruments to simulate some of the effects on rock of an underground nu clear explosion. The center’s work is funded at about $115,000 a year by the Ad vanced Research Projects Agency wtih contract administration by the Corps of Engineers. The scientists also simply want to have a better understanding of rock fracture. This could lead to discovery of new methods of breaking rock or of preventing failure in slopes, foundations, or underground openings. INVOLVED in the studies are Drs. Mel Friedman, John Logan, D. W. Stearns, and G. M. Sowers. Dr. Friedman is studying mech anisms of deformation, rock fabrics and stored elastic strain. Dr. Stearns is looking at large scale mechanisms and structural problems, while Dr. Sowers is in vestigating instability problems, fracturing and folding and photo mechanical model analysis. Dr. Logan and Dr. Handin are occupied with stress-strain prop erties, mechanisms of deformation and the influences of confining pressure, pore fluid pressure, temperature and time from the surface of the earth to about 11 miles deep. Open-Housing Amendment Fate Deemed Poor By Mansfield WASHINGTON <A>> _ The Sen ate refused today 58-34 to table and thus kill the administration’s open housing legislation. It has been offered as an amendment to another bill urged by President Johnson to provide Negroes with federal protection in the exercise of their civil rights. Democratic Leader Mike Mans field of Montana offered the mo tion to table the open housing amendment, saying he did so re luctantly but in the hope this would improve the chances of passing’ the civil rights protec tion bill. HE SAID in his judgment the necessary two - thirds majority connot be obtained at this time Ag Grad Receives Korean Medal Army Col. John F. Dennington, a 1943 Texas A&M graduate, has ben awarded the Republic of Korea Chungmu Distinguished Military Service Medal with Gold Star. Now a logistics directorate staff officer at the Pentagon, he was recognized for service as advisor to the ROK quartermas ter general. The 46-year-old officer from Dallas also wears the Bronze Star, Dutch Order of Wilhelm and the Belgium Fourraguerre. He studied agricultural admin istration at A&M and later ac quired his M.B.A. at Syracuse. to shut off debates on the open housing proposal and told his col leagues “it is best now to face the realities.” If Mansfield was correct in his assessment of the situation, the rejection of his tabling motion would indicate that no civil rights bill will be passed by the Senate. The showdown will come Mon day when another vote will be taken on whether to put the Sen ate’s debate-closing cloture rule in effect. AN attempt to invoke cloture Tuesday failed. The vote was 55- 37, or seven short of the neces sary two-thirds majority. Mansfield told newsmen that if the cloture move fails again Monday that will be the end. “Twice is enough,” he said. “We will have exhausted every effort.” GOP senators split 18 to 18 on Tuesday’s cloture vote after Sen ate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois urged the Senate not to gag itself by voting to close debate. Queen Choices Due By March 15 The Senior Class of 1968 nomi nations for Vanity Fair and Cot ton Pageant Queens must be in by March 15. Nomination forms will be filled out when pictures (por trait 5x7 or larger and a full length shot 3x5 or larger) are submitted to the Student Pro grams Office. All pictures will be returned. Aggie February Special “1” Large Beautiful 8x10 Portrait From Your Choice Of Poses only 98 This Offer Good Only Until March 1st. A&M Photo North Gate Irish Bartender, 33, Climbs Into Coffin LONDON (A*) — Irish bartender Mike Mealey, 33, donned his green pajamas, said “Farewell, lads” and climbed into his custom-built coffin Wednesday—to spend two months in a grave. Sean, Paddy and Mick were there, and all the other lads from the Irish community in Kilbum, North London, to wish Mike good health and send him off in the true tradition of the Irish wake. Then they shouldered the wood en box that will be Mike’s home for 61 days and bore him off to an eight-foot grave in a vacant lot nearby. MIKE, gravedigger when he lived in Ballyporeen, County Tip perary, wants to set up a world record for being buried alive. W. C. Whitman stayed 45 days under South Carolina soil last year to establish what he claimed was a world record. But Mike believes another American stayed down 57 days “about 100 years ago.” “So I’ll come up on the queen's birthday,” said Mike. That’s April 21. MIKE, married with a wife and baby son back in Ireland and an- other child expected in April should be comfortable in the cof. fin. Its lined with foam rubber three inches thick and has two holes, six inches in diameter, cat into the lid. One will be the en. trance for food down a shaft. Tit other will supply fresh air. “I’ll spend most of my tint reading. 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