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Page I I Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, March 7, 1968 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Military Ancient Reviews Weapon It was only a short time ago that the Army officially retired mules from the ranks of supply carriers and pullers. The mule’s parentage, the horse, had already been phased out with the beginning of World War II when mount ed soldiers and the cavalry entered the colorful pages of history. Like so many advanced military systems which have proven incompatible with guerrilla warfare requirements, the Army has had to revert back to more primitive and yet effective ways to combat the Viet Cong. Dogs have proven expert sentries for thousands of years and the modem Army is placing prime interest in their abilities as applied to war. Specifically, they are looking for the best breed or crossbreed “which can cope with the critical problem of tracking the enemy and alerting troops to mines, tunnels, booby traps and ambush.” Although the Army has been working on electronic detection devices at their Limited Warfare Laboratory at Aberdeen, Md., they decided more than two years ago that nothing beats the dog as a sensor. Each Army brigade in Vietnam is suppose to have one scout dog platoon with up to 32 animals, controlled by handlers. The experimentation points up the need not only for new and avanced techniques and equipment, but for the imaginative use of some of nature’s oldest means of survival and combat. At The Movies by Mike Plaice 7^ On Downing Dow “Strange, but Fve noticed the more I study, the more luck I have with quizzes!” Bulletin Board The kicking around that Dow Chemical Co. is getting both literally and figuratively on college campuses because it makes napalm to meet defense orders is completely un fair. In sort of publicity that accompanies these episodes is presumably damaging to the company’s public image, and any company realizes the vital importance of its image. I just wonder, however, if Dow really is or will be hurt by all this. Is it too much to expect that the vast majority of Americans will recognize the inequity involved? No matter what one thinks of our course in Vietnam, that’s got absolutely nothing whatever to do with those supplying what the United States Government asks for in carrying out its policies. One might as well boycott the airlines that fly to Vietnam, the tire and auto companies that supply the vehicles for use there; the mills that make the uniforms and the companies that supply the fibers, and so on ad infinitum. TODAY The Karnes County Area Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2C of the Memorial Student Center. The Fort Bend County Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Memorial Student Center. The Cooke County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the library of the Agricultural Edu cation Building. in Room 3C of the Memorial Stu dent Center. “Billion Dollar Brain,” is a film in a series based on best selling novels by Len Deighton. Although it is a spy flick, a common type of film these days, ght, and should be placed in the upper rankings. Michael Caine has done well since “Alfie,” when he was nomi nated for an Academy Award. He keeps his reputation in this picture. CAINE is one of a small group of actors who make their parts believable, spy or not. Richard Burton, “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” is another. In “Billion Dollar Brain,” Caine portrays the British M. I.’s reluctant operative, Harry Palm er. From the time he is carted from the snowy Helsinki boon- docks to the distorted, refinery- filled states of Texas, he truly entertains. Unlike James Bond or Derek Flint, when he sees a gun pointed in his direction, he is frightened. When making love to a beautiful woman who tries to tap his spine with a hat pin, he becomes angry. And in one perspiration-filled scene, when he is threatened by Ed Begley, a super-patriotic Tex an who apparently owns most of the oil of the world, he lies, and lives. THE BILLION dollar’s worth of brain is a huge computer com plex owned by Begley. From this brain, he says, enough intelli gence information has been col lected to wipe out the Soviet Union and her “Communists.” The plot revolves around Caine, who unwittingly delivers a thermos full of viruses to Beg ley’s agents in Helsinki. Begley plans to loose the viruses on the Soviet Union. But all of a sudden, Caine is drugged and recruited by his old boss at British Intelligence. He then is ordered to return to the enemy camp and retrieve the viruses before a global crises. KARL MALDEN does a good job in supporting the protagon ists. He double-crosses Harry Palmer several times. His last time is too many, though, for he finally ends up out in the cold. Some people will call the edit ing and taut direction of thii film spell-binding. I call it i failing. The pace is good at the begin ning, but as it progresses, it fe easy to get lost in a maze of stop-jumps that attempt to malg up what the script left out. The music was necessary to tit film. Its many trumpeting cres. cendoes gives little time to unlai between poisoned drinks and nu. chine-gunnings. But these are minor points w comparison to Caine’s perform, ance. He makes his a fast moving, entertaining role. Michael Caine as Harry Palm, er outdoes Sean Connery James Bond. Not with sports cars or sophisticated scientift weapons, but with a capable jol of acting. DO YOU AT/VOtV... That American - Amicable has a Hospitalization In surance Program special ly designed for you, the college student! A /Ini JKC eeirnevt j merman - m/cable UFE INSURANCE COMPANY B.L. Rychlik C.L.U. EXECUTIVE OFFICES. WACO.TEXAS Oakwood Professional Bldg. Bryan, Texas VI 6-7963 Protesting- policy and casting ballots are part and parcel of the American way of life. Downing Dow isn’t. I both hope and believe this sort of irresponsible abuse will boomerang, that more people might buy Dow things now to demonstrate disapproval of this misdirected abuse. —Malcolm S. Forbes, in Forbes. The Amarillo Hometown Club will have dinner at Zarape’s at 6 p.m. The Leaders in World Agri culture will have a program pre sented by Dominican students at 7:30 p.m. in Room 109 of the Agricultural Engineering Build ing. The Galveston Island Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion a,re those of the student zvriters only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community neivspaper. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use f«* republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. 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