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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
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TONIGHT
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All - Faiths
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Dr.
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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
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