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.
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Airplane, Laughs
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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,
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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.
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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. %
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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4 M 1 tea
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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.
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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.
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