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•V. ’ , -T.'J'J' . \ J- \ - Vi * >•«* ■■■ ■ - . .• -.'a'.-v.v...-..y->i» ’ M. V . ' . > • ... ... • • • *'* Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 29, 1968 THE BATTALION :Jan Moulden Humphrey - LeMay Ticket May Be Election Outcome The strangest presidential elec tion year in modern times may come to an end a week from to day, but don’t count on it. A year which has seen the odd, the hilarious, and the tragic may yet see the astounding. Would you believe President Humphrey and Vice-President LeMay? If that sounds strange, take a look at the past eight months. Things started smoothly enough, with Richard Nixon, who had two years of organization behind him, a sure bet to beat out George Romney for the chance to face President Johnson in the election. Then came the New Hampshire primary and things began to pop. After Robert Kennedy de clined to start a Democratic pri mary war in behalf of the liber als, Eugene McCarthy picked up the reins. The results were a blow to President Johnson and lifted McCarthy into national prominance. KENNEDY LOOKED at the results and reconsidered his posi tion. Romney at this time was having trouble with a gap in his campaign—his mouth—and the country thought it was wit nessing a surprise when Romney withdrew from the campaign. A bigger surprise was to come. On March 31, President John son turned the campaign and the world upside down by announc ing his withdrawal from consid eration for the Democratic nomi nation. Shortly thereafter, Hu bert Humphrey picked up the pieces of administration party power. Meanwhile, George Wallace was threatening to enter the race if one of the national parties did not adopt a platform acceptable to him. The same thought oc curred to others. NELSON ROCKEFELLER, who earlier had announced he would not consider running for the Republican nomination, took cue from another New Yorker and reconsidered. And heavy sup port from backers was putting sounds of the presidency into the ear of Ronald Reagan. coming a tangle. Humphrey was corralling the party regulars, Kennedy was gaining support in the primaries, and McCarthy was threatened with becoming a Sen ator from Minnesota. Then a madman entered the picture and Kennedy was out. THE CONVENTIONS settled little except to split the Demo crats and to place two unheard- of’s in the vice-presidential spots. Wallace was in the race for real with LeMay as his choice for veep and the battle was on. And therein lies the possibility of a Humphrey-LeMay adminis tration. For the law requires that the House o f Representatives choose the President if no elec toral majority is gained, while the Senate picks the vice-presi dent. But, while Nixon maintained a fairly solid lead in his party, the Democratic Party was be- CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle But the House must pick from the top three candidates while the Senate must pick from the top two. Of course, any combina tion is possible, but if a winner does not come out of the electoral college, Humphrey is almost a shoo-in in a House vote. How ever, if the ticket he heads trails in the election, then the Senate would have to choose between Spiro Agnew and Curtis LeMay. And the man that Humphrey calls the mad bombadier will truly be only a breath from the presidency—Humphrey’s breath. Listen Up “I almost caught myself saying ‘Wait until next year’ !” Editor, The Battalion: This letter is addressed to all junior B.A. majors. My name is John (Jack) Mac- Gillis and I am a candidate for the position of B.A. College Junior Class Representative to the Student Senate. The run-off election is to be held Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the typewriter room of Francis Hall and I ask all juniors in the B.A. College to please take advantage of your privilege to vote. The turnout in the first election was very poor so I hope it will be better this time. I feel I am best qualified to represent you since I have had experience in various areas of student leadership such as presi dent of Walton Hall and member ship on the Civilian Student Council. I am presently chair man of a C.S.C. committee and a member of the Junior Council. My record shows that I am active and interested in the problems facing the students of Texas A&M Uni versity. I therefore solicit your votes on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Sincerely, Jack MacGillis ’70 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers 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 newspaper. The Associated Press is entitled exclusirely to the use for republication of all new dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous herwise credited in the paper and local news origin published herein. Rights of republicatic latter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Members of the Student Publications Lindsey, chai: ieni irman ; JJr. David Bowers, Col Arts ; F. S. White, College of Engiu Clark, College of Veterinary Medicine lege of Agriculti eering ; Di ; and Hal toard are: Jim lege of Liberal are : of . Donald R. Taylor, Col- Mail subscriptions ill verti ion, 77843. are $3.50 year; $6.50 per full year. All subs< sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, per semester ; $6 subscriptior bed $6 per school subject to 3% quest. Address: College Station, The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is lished in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Servi Franc Represented nationally by National ices, Inc., New York City, Chicago icisco. Educational Advertising ago, Los Angeles and San EDITOR JOHN W. FULLER Managing Editor Dave Mayes Sports Editor John Platzer City Editor Mike Wright News Editor Bob Palmer Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake, Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden Staff Writers Tom Curl, Dale Foster, Tim Searson, Steve Wick, Janie Wallace, Tony Huddleston Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell Photographer W. R. Wright TONIGHT 7:00 p. m. All - Faiths Chapel Hear . . . Dr. James Dunn Speak ConfidentiaLly: Premarital At The Movies Bulletin Boon by Mike Plake As a prelude to comment on “The Stranger Returns,” star ring Tony Anthony as The Stran ger, read the advertisements: “Can He roll a cigarette ? ” “No!” Is he interested in women?’ ‘When he has time!” “Can he kill?” “Only when it’s necessary; and it’s always neces sary when The Stranger Returns.” It was necessary for The skinny Stranger sixteen times to pump bullets or buckshot into the gut of the sweating bad guys. But let’s be fair; the bad guys shot nine good guys and one turncoat, wounded one woman and killed one woman, for a total of eleven deceased. So we see the denoue ment: The sweating good guy wins by five. IF MEN of the Old West, Italian or American, had some of the weapons belonging to the good and bad sides in this . . . er, movie, the Indians would never have made it to the reservation, and we would all be wearing black Zapata mustaches and sucking on chicken bones. The worst of the bad guys, whom we shall call Bad Guy (for want of understanding the soundtrack dubbing), pos sessed a miraculous carbine with at least a ten shot load. just plain lucky. After finding a man in a water trough, dead, he pulls him out. After digging a grave for that man (who was Ross, a postal inspector), and one for himself, The Stranger is forced to use Ross’s water-soaked pistol against two more . . . you guessed it, bad guys. Luckily, the pistol fires. to be found, until at the bandit camp, fake siding is removed from the coach and the truth is revealed. The stagecoach is solid gold. TONIGHT Skin and Scuba Diving d will meet at 7:80 p.m. in 1 305 of Goodwin Hall. Diving bles will be reviewed. WEDNESDAY Economics Club will orgn at 7 p.m. in Room 108 of| Hall. Later on and on, luck, as script would have it, strikes again. In the final shoot-out against the Bad Guy, The Stranger holes up, shotgun cradled, in a coffin. The Bad Guy pumps 10 or 20 bullets into the coffin and laughs and the door opens and The Stranger slides hopelessly to the bottom. BUT NOT quite hopelessly, as two barrels of shotgun fire lit erally lift Bad Guy off his feet. Not essential to the movie, but deserving a little sarcasm, is the plot. The Bad Guy and his band kill the real postal inspector when they find out a gold shipment is coming their way on the stage. They plant “Jim” as the inspec tor at the station, then kill every body in sight when the stage arrives. But the gold is nowhere The Bad Guys steal it, then the turncoat steals it, then The Stranger tries to steal it, but is foiled by the stagecoach explod ing, by pure chance, in the middle of the street in front of the American-Italian Army. BUT THE Stranger does not lose all; he swipes half of the $10,000 he got for killing the six teen bad guys from the prophet. All things considered, the only thing bad about “The Stranger Returns” is the stranger return ing. Associated General Control will meet at 7:30 in Rode of the Architecture Building, nal plans for the Dallas | trip will be made. Hillel Club will meet at p.m. Wednesday in the E Building. Friday night sen will be held at 8 p.m. Aggie Christian Fellowship meet at 5:30 p.m. on the sec floor of the YMCA. Topic: God My C. O. ? ” — thoughts discipleship by Bruce Cat speaker. Tonight On KBTX The Stranger, wearing a serape that always looks like it’s going to trip him up or make him lose the draw, ends up with a revolv ing, four-barreled shotgun given him by the Italian perception of a frontier preacher-prophet. THE STRANGER, friends, is 6:00 6:30 7:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 10:30 11:00 12:00 News, Weather & Sports Lancer Red Skelton Doris Day That’s Life News, Weather & Sports SWC Football Highlights It Takes A Thief Alfred Hitchcock AIRLINE RESERVATIONS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Call 822-3737 Don’t Delay — Reserve Today Robert Halsell Travel Service 1016 Texas Avenue — Bryan ..,L FOR CLEAN THEMES! 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