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LOVELINESS
Jackie Jackson models an
outfit in preparation for the
fall fashion show Monday.
The show is sponsored by
the House and Fashion
Committee of the Memorial
Student Center.
New MSC
“To Let Fashion Conscious Do Their Thing”
Committee Slates 3 Fashion Shows
By Janie Wallace
Battalion Staff Writer
Is “hig-h fashion” coming to
A&M?
The organization of a new com
mittee on the Memorial Student
Center Council and Directorate
will allow fashion-conscious to
“do their thing” on campus.
Dale Torgenson, chairman of
the House and Fashion Commit
tee, has activities ranging from
an all-male fashion show to a
Nieman-Marcus fashion fair on
the calendar.
“Football Fashions,” schedul
ed for Monday, is the current
activity of the committee. The
show will be at 8 p.m. in the
MSC Ballroom with clothes be
ing furnished by Hoppy’s Sports
wear in Bryan. The ’69 football
season is the theme of the show.
“An informal atmosphere and
live entertainment are the high
lights of the show,” Mrs. Torgen
son said. “A $25 gift certificate
from Hoppy’s will be offered as a
door prize.”
A casual presentation with a
smoker atmosphere will be the
all male fashion show, she said,
adding the “unstaged” presenta
tion will be held in the spring.
“The big project this year is
the Nieman show, but we want
the men on campus to become in
volved with the other projects,”
she explained. “We will also be
looking into the Playboy Man—on-
Campus program.”
The fashion fair program,
scheduled for March, is also spon
sored by Nieman-Marcus. The
fair relates the principles, cur
rent trends and ideas in fashion,
make-up, hair, and modeling, said
Ann Randall, fashion adviser for
Nieman-Marcus.
“Each girl interested in the
fair will pay a $10 fee to attend,”
Mrs. Torgenson said. “It lasts
from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. in the
MSC Ballroom.”
“After the instruction in mod
eling and make-up techniques,
the models for the N-M fashion
show will be selected,” she said.
“The student will bring all her
own make-up, falls and hairpieces
to the fair,” Miss Randall noted.
The committee and the fashion
fair is open to anyone interested
in the program. This year, all
Aggie wives and students are in
vited to participate on the com
mittee, Mrs. Torgenson said.
Officers are Lynred Crook-
shank, secretary and co-ordinator
with University Women and Mrs.
Torgenson.
Applications can be filled out
at the Student Program in the
MSC office for one male publicity
officer and one female publicity
officer. Also, the committee is
taking applications for a male
treasurer.
Cbe Battalion
Vol. 65 No. 10 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 30, 1969 Telephone 845-2226
Corps Pass-By
Will Honor 63
Camp Leaders
“ONE MORE TIME—ONLY LOUDER ! ! ”
Freshmen try out for the position of fish yell leader under tonight, five fish will be selected as yell leaders. They will
the watchful eye of one of A&M’s five upperclassmen yell lead yells at all games of the fish football and basket-
leaders. When tryouts, being held in the Grove, are through ball games. (Photo by Steve Bryant)
Newsman to Discuss Iron Curtain Revolt
The Corps of Cadets will give
“eyes right” Wednesday in honor
of outstanding summer camp per
formances of 63 of its members.
The 5:30 p.m. review on the
Memorial Student Center drill
field will be one of the earliest
of several years.
Fourth Army commander Lt.
Gen. Harry H. Critz will take sa
lutes. The former A&M student
will head a reviewing line includ
ing A&M President Earl Rudder,
Army Col. Jim H. McCoy, com
mandant, and Air Force Col. K.
C. Hanna, professor of aerospace
studies.
Inside information on the new
Peace Corps will be furnished
students and the general public
at a special Oct. 7 meeting of the
university’s Peace Corps Club.
The 7:30 p.m. public-free meet
ing in Room 3D of the Memorial
Student Center will precede a
November recruiting drive, an
nounced Dr. Manuel M. Daven
port.
The campus Peace Corps ad
visory council chairman returned
recently from the Southern Re
gion Peace Corps Conference in
Atlanta, at which problems, pos
sible solutions and future plans
of the Corps were discussed.
Davenport will speak on “New
Directions of the Peace Corps”
at the Tuesday meeting.
He said considerable change
has been inaugurated at the na-
Sixty-three cadets who achieved
top ratings at Army and Air
Force ROTC summer training
will be cited at the review, Mc
Coy announced.
McCoy said that the 3,000-
member corps, commanded by
Cadet Col. Matthew R. Carroll of
Annandale, Va., is composed of
20 Army ROTC companies and 14
AFROTC squadrons.
Wednesday’s formal military
formation will be the corps’ earli
est in a number of years and
probably the first ever to precede
a football game march-in, he said.
Inclement weather forced can-
tional level by Director Joe
Blatchford, recently appointed
by President Nixon.
“Internal changes, all phases
of operations and other inside in
formation will be discussed,”
Davenport said. “Answers will
also be furnished to three com
mon questions: Is the Peace
Corps part of the CIA ? What
are the statistical chances of get
ting into the Peace Corps from
A&M ? and, has the Peace Corps
discriminated against white
Southern college students?”
He noted that Peace Corps re
visions in 1970 recruiting plans
call for 70 per cent college grad
uates, still a sizable portion of
the volunteer force. The percent
age previously was 90 per cent.
He noted the A&M recruiting
drive will be Nov. 3 to 7.
cellation of a leadoff review in
December of last year for the
14th Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs. Aside from home
game march-ins and corps trip
parades, the corps usually has a
minimum number of formal ap
pearances during the fall semes
ter.
“We hope this will become a
regular event, so that the corps
will get an early taste of an ac
tual formal military formation,”
McCoy commented. “It will serve
to prepare the corps for other
fall semester reviews, such as
SCONA.”
General Critz reviewed the
corps march-in for the A&M-
Arkansas football game last fall.
The three-star general attended
A&M during 1929-31. The civil
engineering major and Company
“B” Engineers cadet corporal
then transferred to West Point
where he was commissioned.
He made the 1943 landing and
participated in subsequent opera
tions of the “Fighting First” In
fantry Division in North Africa
during World War II.
The Teague native commanded
the First’s 101st Airborne Divi
sion, I Corps in Korea and VII
Corps artillery in Germany. Gen
eral Critz taught at and was sec
retary of the Army War College
and was special assistant to the
commander and staff secretary
of the Supreme Headquarters Al
lied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in
Paris.
The next public appearance of
the corps will be an Oct. 25
march-in for the A&M - Baylor
football game.
Haynes Johnson, syndicated
newspaper serialist and author
who traveled Europe with Presi
dent Nixon, will speak here
Thursday on a portion of his Au
gust journey.
“Revolt Behind the Iron Cur
tain” will be the topic of John
son’s 8 p.m. Great Issues address
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom.
The 1969 College Station Unit
ed Chest fund drive opens Wed
nesday with a 4 p.m. kickoff
meeting in the Memorial Student
Center.
United Chest officials hope to
raise a record $28,050 to support
the 20 charitable and civic agen
cies included in this year’s
budget.
Kickoff speaker will be Dan
Johnston of Austin, service unit
supervisor for the Salvation
Army in Texas.
Approximately 150 volunteer
Great Issues chairman Tom
Fitzhugh said all admittance will
be free.
Johnson parted with Nixon’s
caravan after visits to London,
Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Rome and
Brussels for a five week tour be
hind the Iron Curtain. He went
to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia,
Hungary and Poland to talk with
top government officials, intellec-
workers are expected to attend
the kickoff meeting, noted Cam
paign Chairman Bob Evans.
Evans will be assisted in di
recting this year’s campaign by
Col. Walter H. Parsons Jr., who
will head campus activities; J. E.
Loupot, North Gate; Craig Clark,
East Gate and Redmond Terrace
areas; Sam Rizzo, Southside; Dr.
Luther Jones, retired citizens;
Taylor Riedel, teachers and other
employees of the public schools,
and Ben Jordan, federal em
ployees.
tuals, writers, students and com
mon people in their villages and
on their farms.
Johnson was the only corre
spondent to ever get into the
town of Mlada Bolesia in Czech
oslovakia, where a large Russian
occupation troop garrison is sta
tioned. Czechs have since at
tacked the garrison, precipitating
a new crisis and renewed censor
ship impositions and the threat
of a new invasion.
He was recently awarded the
coveted Sigma Delta Chi “Dis
tinguished Service Award” for
his coverage of national prob
lems during 1968. He was cited
for “capturing with realism the
tone of events, including crisis,
comedy, tragedy, triumph and up
heaval of the nation in a rapidly
changing world.”
Special assignments correspon
dent for the Washington Star,
Johnson combines the fields of
journalism and contemporary his
tory for piercing analytic report
ing of national and world situa
tions.
He has received the Pulitzer
for distinguished national report
ing marking the first time a fa
ther and son have won the report
ing prize in the 50-year history
of the awards. His father, Mal
colm Johnson, won the 1949
award for a newspaper series,
“On the Waterfront,” basis for
the Academy Award film.
Filing for Offices
Opens Wednesday
Filing for the offices of Stu
dent Senate vice president, soph
omore College of Agriculture
representative, and senior, jun
ior, and sophomore College of
Education representatives opens
Wednesday and will remain open
through Oct. 8, announced Mike
Wiebe, Election Commission vice
president for publicity.
Wiebe said applications can be
picked up at the Student Pro
gram Office in the Memorial Stu
dent Center and must be returned
there before 5 p.m. Oct. 8.
‘New ’Peace Corps
On Display Oct. 7
CS Chest Drive Opens at MSC
The Life Style of a Mafioso—Part /
Mafia Man ‘Just Another Businessman’
to Neighbors
By Bernard Gavzer
AP Newsfeatures Writer
To his neighbors in the sea
side town of Atlantic Highlands,
N. J., Vito Genovese was just an
other middle-aged businessman
who lived in a modest bungalow
with his wife, a son and daugh
ter and an adopted daughter,
and, like, many another resident,
commuted each day to work in
the caverns of Manhattan.
When he walked the streets of
the town no one noticed.
“Mr. Genovese was a quiet
gentleman and a perfect neigh
bor,” said a teen-age girl who re
membered him after his death.
And there was the time another
neighbor said: “He minded his
own business.”
FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home
of the Super C D - 5% interest
compounded daily.
His business? Ruling a Mafia
family.
Genovese was considered one
of the masterminds and archi
tects of international narcotics
traffic. His Mafia family—one
of the five in New York — con
ducted the usual lucrative activi
ties of organized crime: gam
bling, narcotics, vice, extortion,
loan sharking, labor racketeer
ing.
Sometimes, murder was his
business, too.
But the public face he turned
to the world was one of middle
class respectability. It is also
the pose and life style of all the
other Mafia leaders, or Mafioso,
who find middle class anonymity
an important aid to the continu
ing success of their private en
deavors.
The qualities that the Mafioso
prize bear striking similarities to
those valued by any suburban
breadwinner; quiet neighborli
ness; dignity and respect; the
discharge of family responsibili
ties; the education of children for
work in the professions; resi
dence in a decent, suburban set
ting where the streets are safe
and the schools good.
Few if any of their children
become hippies; none are known
student activists, either lef£ wing
or right; few are known as dope
addicts.
To all outward appearances
the Mafioso have entered the
mainstream of American life.
But—only on the surface.
For the Mafia — better known
as La Cosa Nostra — the valued
middle class virtues have a mir
ror meaning.
One is to be loyal and honest
to the Mafia family and its lead
ers, not to society at large. Re
spect is won through terror and
used to impose absolute loyalty
to the codes of the Mafia, the
word of Mafioso, not the codes
of the nation.
This inner life of the Mafia
has been revealed piecemeal un
til recent years. Joseph Valachi,
the Mafia hoodlum with an in
credible recollection of criminal
activity and gang shop talk, was
the first insider to provide de
tails of that Mafia life style. He
did so because of fear. He felt
that Vito Genovese had marked
him for death when both were
in the federal penitentiary at At
lanta.
The most recent revelations
have come from the voluminous
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
BB&L. —Adv.
transcripts, some 2,000 pages of
conversations involving Samuel
De Cavalcante, the reputed head
of a New Jersey Mafia family.
These were recorded by a hidden
electronic device planted by the
FBI.
Speaking of the Mafia leaders,
Col. Walter Stone, head of the
Rhode Island State police and a
veteran investigator of organ
ized crime, says:
“They think they can’t do any
thing wrong. All of them con
sider rules and the law as things
which do not apply to them.
When you say ‘murder’ it doesn’t
come into their heads as it does
into yours and mine.
“They may be sending their
kids to good schools and they
may be pressing more conserva
tively, and they may be tending
to their gardens in nice little
homes, but they are now and al
ways have been animals.”
The place the Mafioso lives
can be deceptive. Raymond Pa-
triarca of Providence, R. I., who
now is in prison and who has
been identified as the head of
the Boston - Providence Mafia,
resided in the still fashionable
East Side section of Lancaster
Ave.
Genovese had his modest home
market valued about $17,000 in
1963 on Highland Ave. in Atlan
tic Highlands. Anthony Accardo,
described by the Chicago Crime
Commission as one of Chicago’s
Mafia chieftains, long resided in
River Forest, in a house that was
built by its owner for $500,000.
Quite a few of the New York
leaders, including the late Albert
Anastasia, had houses in the Ft.
Lee, N.J., area, close by the gran
deur of the Palisades. De Caval
cante has a lovely ranch house
in the Princeton, N. J., area.
Living in such desirable sur
roundings also brought another
middle class responsibility which
the Mafioso gladly assumed—in
volvement in political and charit
able events in which a needed
dollar could be given so that the
right people knew who gave it,
even if it was anonymous.
In the Mafia world, divorce is
frowned upon as a threat to sta
bility, not as a sign of moral
weakness. It is also viewed as a
possible danger in giving the out
side world information which the
Mafia wants to keep secret.
(Tomorrow: Part II—The dan
gers of divorce for Mafioso mem
bers.)
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.