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College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 4, 1968
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MOTORIST’S NIGHTMARE
A rear-end collision involving two tractor-trailers resulted in this mess along 175 near
Flint, Mich. One of the trucks spilled part of its cargo of nails on the highway and
traffic was held up until peril to tires was cleared away. There were no serious injuries.
(AP Wirephoto)
Pre-Med Junior To Attend
Air Force Medical Program
A Texas Aggie plans to take
on a tough job along with medi
cal school studies.
Richard K. Newman of San
Antonio, an A&M pre-med stu-
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(Next to Loupot’s)
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dent who marches in the Aggie
Band, says he will sell A&M at
the University of Texas.
Newman, a junior Air Force
ROTC cadet at A&M, is one of
50 students across the U. S. se
lected to participate in the Air
,F° r ce Medical Education Pro
gram of Reserve Officers.
The 20-year-old Distinguished
Student was accepted by UT’s
San Antonio Medical School. He
learned of the Air Force medical
training program, applied and
was selected by a board of offi
cers.
To take advantage of pre-train
ing’ commissioning, Newman will
forego his senior year in the
Aggie Band.
He enters med school next Sep
tember.
“I get my Aggie ring this sum
mer and may buy senior boots
just to say I had some,” the cadet
remarked.
The 2.32-grade average pre-
med student said he is interested
in surgery and flying and may
make a career of the Air Force.
“Newman is a very good stu
dent,” commented Dr. Howard L.
Gravett, A&M faculty advisor of
pre-medical and pre-dental stu
dents. “Being in his course of
study and the Aggie Band re
quires ability to plan ahead.”
Richard has never posted below
a 2.0 grade average. In the A&M
scoring system, 3.0 is straight
A’s.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Kurt
Newman, 262 Nash, San Antonio,
has attended A&M on thi’ee schol
arships, from the San Antonio
Optimist Club, Air Force and
medical program. He plays the
bass clarinet and was the Maroon
Band’s best drilled sophomore
last year.
A 1965 Highlands High gradu
ate, he was class president three
years and member of the schol
astic honor society.
“The Air Force medical pro
gram is a fine thing for a guy
interested in the service and med
ical studies,” Newman added. “It
is going to be a long but profit
able obligation.”
The Aggie said several bud
dies have joked about whether
he will buy the A&M or UT ring.
“Those are fighting words,” he
declared. “Should anybody ever
need selling on A&M, I’ll be
available if a graduate isn’t.”
Fifty thousand dollars will get
you a baby-blue convertible with
a gold steering wheel and an ar
ray of electronic gear.
The gadgety car is not the
answer for the man who has
everything, but it is providing
answers for highway researchers
who want to know everything
about driver reactions.
Engineers at Texas A&M’s
Texas Transportation Institute
are currently using the Ford
Motor Co. test vehicle to study
driver behavior in freeway ramp
merging studies.
From the outside, the car looks
like any other Mercury convert
ible. Inside, however, it’s loaded
with electronic pulsers, counters
and other devices capable of re
cording 450 bits of information
per second regarding body re
action to stresses.
All the equipment, explained
TTI Engineering Research Asso
ciate Milton Radke, is connected
to a 20-channel magnetic tape
recorder in the car’s trunk. The
recorder is programmed so the
tape can be fed directly into a
computer.
The equipment, Radke con
tinued, measures, records and
stores for computer analysis im
portant characteristics of the
driver controlling the car and the
motions of the car on the road.
“It can measure both physio
logical and mechanical character
istics of drivers during various
stresses of traffic, road and
weather conditions,” he observed.
By merely holding the gold
steering wheel, the driver’s heart
beat and breathing rate are con
tinuously monitored, Radke noted.
A gold-plated steering wheel is
used in the vehicle because the
precious metal is the best con
ductor for test purposes, the TTI
researcher pointed out.
The slightest movement in the
steering mechanism or touch of
the brake or accelerator also is
noted by the monitoring device.
The gear could even be rigged to
determine diffences in a driver
when he is smoking a cigarette.
Radke said the Ford prototype
will be used at TTI’s Safety Prov
ing Grounds for a phase of the
extensive freeway merging re
search project being conducted
for the Department of Trans
portation’s Bureau of Public
Roads.
Specifically, TTI is investigat
ing the feasibility of a moving
vehicle merging control system
which will aid freeway drivers in
the ramp-merging maneuver with
out requiring them to stop.
The Ford test vehicle will be
used extensively in various pri
vate, governmental and institu
tional research throughout the
nation.
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