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THE BATTALION Thunday. February 29, IMS roller* Station, Texas AERODYNAMIC Bob Roush of Dallas, senior aerospace engineering major at Texas A AM, repeated this procedure around 600 times to acquire data for glider performance analysis. His test models considerably undercut the coet of models design for wind tunnel tests. 4 Airplane, Laughs Gain Aggie An A 9 Taboo* afainst paper airplanes in classrooms were lifted for one Texas ASM student In fart, senior aerospace engi- neering major Robert T. Roush of Dallas was assigned construc tion and flying of folded-paper models for a semester. The 22-year-old senior wrote a research report on the project. ‘T broached the idea as a project for a senior problems course and Professor (Charles A.) Rodenberger okayed it," Roush explained. "There have been a few grins over it." he chuckled. The 1963 Woodrow Wilson High graduate built several dif ferent models from notebook pa per, IBM cards and paper clips. Plight times and distances were obtained to compute performance, influence of dihedral and center of gravity location on stability and performance effects. "Results were satisfactory and quite revealing considering the crudeness of my models," Roush said. “And it Is a convenient way to gain practical knowledge of aerodynamics." The former Corps of Cadets and Freshman Drill Team mem ber said several problems cropped up. “We fslt a constant force land ing system would be necessary but I found hand launching was the only satisfactory way of fly ing the models,” he said. Design Was another thing. “I wadded several up and start ed over," the aero major re marked. "Testing was something else. My models weigh about 1W grams eachJ A breese a person can’t feel has gust effects on that light an aerodynamic system. Also, wing and stabiliser surfaces absorbed a lot of impact damage.” Roush sealed all the doors, windows and air vents to the 16 by 80-foot living and dining room of his parent’s home at 8182 Stony Creek, Dallas. Tape on the floor and walla provided scales against which an observer deter mined height at launch and glide path length. Roush served as the launch platform. His sister, Vicki, a Wilson High senior, was recruited to get the all-important data. “For a flight to be acceptable, it had to be straight and balanced. I expect it took 60 throws to get one good flight,” he added. Any drafts or sudden moves that stir red up air current eddies tem porarily halted operations.” Roush, who expects to graduate in May has other interests includ ing outdoor sports, sports cars and photography. He worked on computer program revision at the LTV aerospace missile propulsion division last summer and is a member of the American Insti tute of Xeronautics and Astro nautics. Roush's paper plane research report received an "A” Architecture Student Receives Prize For Designing Garage John W. Wallace of Dallas, a fifth-year architecture student at Texas AAM. Tuesday received a $260 check as winner of the eighth Reynolds Aluminum prise for architectural students. Wallace, 24, designed a portable garage for a small ear to win the school award. The presentation was made by Dury Mills, indus trial sales representative for Rey nolds' Houston division office. The prise administered by the American Institute of Architects is offered for the “best original architectural design in which cre- atlvs use of aluminum is an im portant contributing factor.” Reynolds Metals established the awafd to encourage creativity in architectural design and stimulate interest in design potential of aluminum. Attending the presen tation were Prof. W, C. Steward, associate chairman of the School of Architecture, and W. W. Har per, local AIA president. Wallace’s design was entered, along with winners from other participating schools of architec ture in the U. S., in the national Reiynolds competition. The nation al winner and his school receive $2,600 each. A 1962 Kimball High Wallace is civilian Student Council and Thu Beta Pi member and Leggett Hall dormi- High graduate, > rtMHrlalal Civil ASK SAM ABOUT MIKE ...Why The UNISPHERE* Is The Official Microphone Of Sam The Sham, v The Pharaohs And The Shametts On Tour I I Sam knovys his microphone is his link with his audience. He wants you to hear his voice and the lyrics, natu rally, without how • g feed back, without annoying close-up breath "pop", with out audience sounds. Pretty tough test for « microphone . . . routine for the incom parable Shure Unisphere. Just ask the better groups. Shure Brothers, Inc. 222 Hartrey Ave. Evanston, III. 60204 c s**uf» BroStsrs, IM. More GI*8 En Route Massive Airlift Lands 4,000 Troops By ROBERT TL'CKMAN Aaaeciated Press Writer SAIGON U*** — A. massive air lift has landed 4,000 of the 10,500 fresh American troops tbs Penta gon promised Gen. William C. Westmoreland “for insurance pur poses” and 4,000 more are en route to Vietnam. The American influx — ordered two weeks ago — shared atten tion Wednesday with sharp action in the central highlands and con tinued Communist pressures on the Saigon ares end Khe Sanh, on the threatened northern frontier. The U. S. Commend announced the arrival of the 4,000 para troopers of the 82nd Airborne Di vision’s combat-tested 3rd Bri gade at Chu Lai, a base on the South China Sea 346 miles north east of Saigon. OFFICIAL WORD is expected soom of the deployment here of 4,000 fresh Marines, members of the 27th Regimental Landing Team. Some of these Marines were seen off by President John son at the El Toro Air Station in California Feb. 17. While American ranks swelled toward the 626,000-man level au- ~ thorissd before the Communists launched their lunar new year of fensive Jan. 80, President Ngu yen Van Thieu told hit people government troops engaged lately in defense of the cities will return to hunting enemy forces in the countryside. ITtieu called on the South Viet namese people in sksleviaion ad dress to accept austerity during this “critical period of our na tional history.” He announced his government has decided to make permanent a ban on night clubs and dance halls, which he closed with a martial law decree Jen. 31. ABOl T T 8t percent of the newly arrived paratroopers are veterans of previous action in Vietnam. Commanded by Col. Alexander R. “Bud" Bolling, they have been assigned at least temporarily to the American Division. Elements of this division, re sponsible for s long stretch of the coast south of Da Nang, reported they killed 148 enemy soldiers in s fight Tuesday near Tam Ky at a coat of two deed and 14 wounded. Arrival of the paratroopers will free another brigade of the Amer ican Division for duty closer to the northern frontier, where the U. S. Command believes the en emy threat is greatest. UP TO 40,000 North Vietna mese troops ere reported menac ing Khe Sanh, the fortress man ned by 5,000 American Marines and a 600-man battalion of South Vietnamese rangers. Mors than 60,000 U. S. Marines and Army men and 12,000 South Vietnamese troops are based in the two northernmost provinces, Quang Tri and Thus Thien. Var ious unite are equipped with heli copters for quick deployment to trouble spots. NORTH VIETNAMESE gun ners bombarded Khe Sanh with more than 100 rounds of artillery, rocket and mortar fire in the 24 hours up to dawn. r t Briefing officers, barred under a new order from announcing the effect of any single enemy action against fixed American bases, said damage and casualties were light. Effects of American counter action, however, were detailed. A U. S. spokesman said air strikes end artillery bombardment of Communist positions around Khe Sanh Tusadny killed 81 en emy troops, destroyed a heavy machine gun emplacement, wreck ed two trucks end touched off 36 secondary explosions. The see- ' ondary blasts were attributed to direct hits on enemy fuel stores end ammunition dumps. U. S. B62 Stratofortresaes. which contribute heavily to the hundreds ef tons of bombs drop pad on suspected siege position < daily, made two strikes Wednes day six miles west of Khe Sanh. % .. v ^ ** A oo rot/AWOtV.. That owning our College Career Plan will help you establish an outstanding credit rating! ImericanJk^ JIM BICE 64 wr ckscutivs oevwas. wnco Tsaaat t ' Oskwood Professional BMg Bryan, Tones VI 6-7943 ■-I- march 4 wild strawberries Sweden Vidor Stostrom. one of the great film director*, ploy* the leading role an Ingmar Bergman * drama o' a man who ho* journeyed toward honor throughout h * life, but away from love Dream*, fontotie*. and reverb ore brilliontlv rendered to illuminate hi* odyttey. 1 1 ' , ' - ! le haricot franc* A haurttmgly wittful masterpiece written and directed by Edmond Sechan | The Golden Fi»h |. Golden Pol* Award, Conne* Film Festival. 1964 No dialog, it minutes. / april 29 julas and (bn franc* The story of two friendv and their twenty year love for the tome woman. Kothe, amoral, and clouidy beaut, ful, love* the two and mutt have them both, even if she mutt die to do to For her. no committment it for- ever and only deotH i* final. Directed by Franco'* Truffaut, with Jeanne Moreau and Oscar Werner :> I* poulet franc* In French, with English subtitle*. Academy .Award Best live-action short tubtect; New York Film Festival, 1964 march 25 citizan kane united states Orton Well* first and most famous filth, a devastating biography of a newspaper tycoon, (tools with the theme of power and its abuse As a psychological study of a man, it has rarely been equalled in any medium Cillten Kane it one of the great critical successes and landmarks of the American cinema. Also. The Adventure* of V' color animation. United States 1* C r h k * 4 M 1 tea % :. march 12 black orphsus franc* Recreating in modem terms the beautiful and tragic story of Orpheus and Eurydice The marvelous rhythm of sight and sound, of speech and music the poetry and tubfety of the color photography have mode this one of the most beautiful motion pictures ever Directed by • Marcel Camus. Musical creditsi Amor o Carlos Jofeim. Academy Award, 1959; Grand Ph», Cannes. 1959. ovsrtur* / nyitany hungary A film by Janos Vodou. a 60 year-old Hungarian biolo gist. Utilizing color x-ray cameras and other highly sophisticated cinematographic tools. Dr Vodou has re corded with absolute fidelity the birth of life: the devel opment of a chicken embryo and the hatching of a baby chick. Musk by Ludwig von Beethoven. Grand Prix. Cannes. 65 9 minute* spring festival of film '68 Opening night Monday, March 4. Season tickets availably at MSC Student Programs Offic*: A&m students, wives, S3.00; faculty, public, $5.00. Films shown 8 p.m., MSC Ballroom. the seven tamuri Considered by many to be the Japanese film master piece. The Seven Somurt (translated The Magnificent Seven) is a ragmg. sensuous ep.c. a poem of violence Into o basically simple plot, the defense of a 16th Century Japanese village by seven professional soldiers, the film s director has brilliantly introduced a profusion of incident* and sub-plots, aimed Of giving each of hit characters on intensely distinctive personality The final work is one of overpowering immediacy. Directed by Akira Kurosawa: Japanese dialog with English subtitles may 6 the knack great britain Unpredictable. |oyful, esttaticolly and wildly imagine five in ns fun at Ray Brooks (who hat the Knack) toes to teach it to hit pal, Michael Crawford (who hasn't). Using naive, tutpkiout Rita Tuthinghom, fresh from the country as the* girl upon whom to demonstrate his knock em dead, whammo technique. Directed by Richard letter Best Picture. Cannes, 1965 moenbird united state* One of the most widely praised antmoted' him* ever mode, it Yells of two small boys going out ef night to catch the moonbird The magical world of childhood it caught in the toundtroct and in the matchless color and drawing Academy Award. Best Cartoon, 1959. !- march 18 potemkin Universally considered to be one of the most important films in the history of the silent cinema, Potemkin t bated on on incident which occurred on the Battleship Potemkin during the 1905 uprising The sailors them selves and the people of Odessa were used at actor*. Directed by Sergei. M Eitenttem 1925. English titles, no dialog tb* cabinet ef dr. calgari One of the most famous motion pictures of all time. Cslgeil introduced on entirely new concept of fifm- making: the first attempt at expression of o creative mind through the motion picture medium Strange, dis torted sett ore imaginatively employed os a background to this story of o somnambulist, his owner, and their terrorization of a small German town. Silent, with English insert titles. 1919. may 14 sfuctent films Award winner* of the 2nd Notional Student Film Festival os presented at Lincoln Canter. I960. may 20 mick*y on* united states The story of a comedian who believes he is owned by the mob and runs In fear until he learns that he con face the mob only when he 'oce* himself. Directed by Ar thur Penn ; with Warren Beatty and Fronchot Tons. Im provisations bv Stan Getz New York Film Festival. 1965. at sAtfflieland ‘Florist Delivery” For The Military Ball outer North Gate .oppe (The Widest Selection of Corsages Anywhere) Vi \ I