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THE BATTALION Tuesday, November 12, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 3 leader; Psychol. s Czedj industris will gj,, he Czed cak of In ovakia u ; rnationr activiti d to tl, neral ad. taff ai,| -o 1’S SHUT m m: raw ice yan cb$ At The Movies byMikePlake By MIKE PLAKE “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas” Someone near the name of Alice B. Toklas wrote a mod, hallucinogenic, pot-burning cook book. Miss Toklas was well-re ceived by certain segments of the community—i.e., the flower people, the hippies, the new wave of existentialist philosophers, etc. “Alice B. Toklas,” the movie, was well-received by me. It does n’t let itself get hung up on dra matic realism, and as a comedy, that is probably its best point. Peter Sellers is an aging, 35- year old Jewish lawyer, probably being urged to find a spouse by uncles, parents, and concerned friends so he can carry on the lineage. His mother is played by Jo Van Fleet. Its not all low-key comedy. TAKE THE opening 30 min utes. A man who saved Sellers’ life when he was a little boy, died. Sellers is told he must at tend the funeral when his mother walks in while he is coaching a family of fourteen Mexicans and chicken, all with whiplash, on the A&M, TU Invoke Suspension Policy A&M and the University of Texas, Austin, have again in- j voked a policy of suspension for \ students committing acts of van dalism on the campus of the rival school, A&M Dean of Students James P. Hannigan announced Monday. “Aggie and Texas students are reminded that visits to either campus with the intent to paint or otherwise deface buildings and other state property will result in no less than suspension from school during the semester the act occurred,” the dean said. The A&M Board of Directors and Board of Regents of the Uni versity of Texas have kept the agreement in force a number of years. No incidents have been report ed to date, Dean Hannigan com mented. “We want to keep it that way and avoid childish pranks that result in the destruction of public and private property,” he added. PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS OUTFIT PICTURES AGGIELAND ’69 Uniform will be Class A Winter. Outfit C.O.’s will wear sabers; Seniors will wear boots and mid night shirts. Guidons and award flags will be carried. All person nel in the outfit will wear the billed service cap issued by the university. The type of cap worn by underclassmen to and from the picture taking area is left up to the discretion of the out fit C.O. Outfit should be in front of the System Administration Building by 7:30 a. m. on the appointed day. Nov. 12 —D-2 & E-2 13 —F-2 & G-2 14 —H-2 & A-l 15 —B-l & C-l Nov. 18 — D-l & E-l 19 —F-l & C-l Note: Athletic Outfits H-l and Sqdn. 14 will be scheduled for the first week of December by C.O. with University Studio. ATTENTION: ALL COMMANDING OFFICERS Commanding officers of all Out fits and Staffs will have full length portraits made in boots and midnights for the Military Section, according to the above schedule. Deadline Dec. 31- PLEASE MAKE INDIVIDUAL APPOINTMENTS WITH UNI VERSITY STUDIO FOR THESE FULL LENGTH PORTRAITS For THE MILITARY SEC TION. ATTENTION: All other staff members (including Juniors), Outfit executive officers, and first sergeants will have por traits made for the Military Section in G.H. caps and Class A Winter (blouse), according to the above schedule. Deadline Dec. 31. Individual pictures made at the University Studio — North Gate. laws and insurance rates. You see, there was this strike. All the hearse drivers were pick eting during the funeral services. There was no means of trans porting the coffin to the Friendly Merchant burial grounds. But Sellers is the messiah. He happens to have a psychedelic '53 Ford station wagon, on loan from his friendly neighborhood garageman, who is distraught because his son ran off to Brook lyn with a Negro girl. The race is on. Sellers, his hippie brother, and a naturalistic flower girl (Leigh Taylor-Young) take on the job of carting off the coffin. ALL THIS would have worked out fine, except that the coffin- carrier coughed too many gas fumes and was stopped by a cop. The time consumed in getting a citation for adding smog, was enough for the rest of the funeral procession to disappear into it. Sellers and crew set off, coffin and flowers flowing from the back of the rickety wagon, smoke spurting from the exhaust like it worked on wood. All this was in the early af ternoon. Sellers and gang finally discover the burial grounds and make the scene with the corpse, long after dark. Let’s face it, this is an outrageously funny situation: the people who have burst their faces from shedding so many tears and frowning about poor Mr. Foster (I think it was), have to start all over again. Tijerina, Friends Stand Trial In Land Grant Case ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. (A*)— The trial of militant Spanish- American land grant claimant Reies Lopez Tijerina begins Tues day, seventeen months after the •armed raid on a small rural court house in northern New Mexico. Tijerina and nine others will stand trial on charges of kidnap ing, assault on a jail and false imprisonment growing out of the raid in June 1967 that startled New Mexicans and set off one of the biggest manhunts in the state’s history. Tijerina and the others were arrested after a group of armed men stormed into the sleepy vil lage of Tierra Amarilla, took over the courthouse, wounded three law enforcement officers and fled with several hostages, including a newsman. Tijerina and his co-defendants all pleaded innocent of the charges at a preliminary hearing in Sep tember after months of legal ma neuvering. The courthouse raid was the culmination of months of unrest in northern New Mexico that in cluded haystack burnings and fence cutting in a dispute over land granted early settlers by the King of Spain. EVEN ALL this wouldn’t have been so bad. But way back there, in the middle of the funeral ser vice, Seller’s brother Herbie walks in clad in the full funeral cos tume of the Hopi Indians. Tired of the lawyering, mar rying, telling - dirty - jokes - and - smirking-at-female-thighs scene, Sellers departs, in what must be a $3,000 or more wedding, run ning. He finds the flower girl, Tay lor-Young, and for a few months is in sweet oblivion. Meanwhile, h i s mother and father have had a taste of Alice B. Toklas brownies, prepared with a touch of LSD by Flower Girl. They become attached to the taste and high on the effects, and this is where Jo Van Fleet shows the hilarious stuff with which she is made. THIS IS GETTING a bit com plicated. Anyway, Sellers pro ceeds to lead the life of a real istic hippie, sincerely seeking a “beautiful, if better,” way of life. This leads to another major scene, in which the hippies con gregate for a couple of weeks in Sellers’ middle - class - Jewish apartment. Here is a motley crew, the likes of which you probably will never see again. A memor able point occurs when Sellers’ mother walks in for a visit, finds a sunglassed, trip-gassed hippie in a “trip” on top of the gas stove. Outrageous at it all, she turns him on with the burners. “Bad trip, bad trip.” This a first-class comedy, and what’s more, it’s funny. A friend has ranked it with “The Gradu ate.” I wouldn’t rank it that high, but it’s worth seeing. Army PFC Powell Transferred From Japan To States Army Pfc. Thomas O. Powell, son of A&M campus security Chief Ed Powell, is in transfer from Japan to Brook General Hospital in San Antonio for treat ment of injuries received in Viet nam. An August 1967 graduate of A&M, young Powell was wounded in both legs Oct. 5 while engaged in a battle on the Mekong Delta. Chief Powell said his son called Thursday from San Francisco and “seemed to be okay.” He was moved to Tokyo after six days in a Saigon hospital. Infection had set in, requiring extensive treat ment and skin grafts. Ag Prof To Speak Mr. Michael Harney, A&M Agriculture professor, will dis cuss the “Brazos Civil Liberties Union” at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Fellowship on 305 Old Highway 6, College Station. Harney belongs to the Board of the Texas Civil Liberties Union as Secretary-Treasurer. 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