A Courchevel Trip Is...
. . . A spill in the snow . . .
(Photos by Payne-Harrison)
BaWs Ski Buff Reports In
Courchevel: Once Attained,
Payne-Harrison
Walion Staff Writer
Getting there is half the fun?
‘ that had been so, the Ski the
^Ps 70 trip to Courchevel,
Wee would’ve been in for a
time.
It all started Friday evening,
W 23. Our charter flight was
Cleave Houston Intercontinental
Wort at 9 p.m. Everyone had
tet finished exams and was
raping at the bit to get on the
'i? silver bird and wing away to
Hie skiing.
However, due to circumstances
bond our control, our flight was
fold up and we had a little wait.
W about seven hours.
What does one do in the Hous-
Unirersity National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
ton airport for seven hours? If
you would like to know the num
ber of tiles in the ceiling of the
Attache Lounge, I can tell you.
Finally we got off the ground
at 4 a.m. and shortly thereafter
our stewardess, who bore a re
markable resemblance to Fuzzy
Thurston, announced, “Due to the
length of our flight from Hous
ton to Geneva, Switzerland, we
will be refueling in Bangor,
Maine.”
“What the h— is a banger-
mane?” I heard someone say.
“Bangor, Maine, dummy,” came
a reply, “it’s a place.”
And indeed it was. While the
aircraft was being refueled we
spent a lovely 45 minutes in the
Bangor airport terminal which
was done in a corrugated alu
minum decor group.
Something like eight hours
later we landed in Geneva. Since
we landed in the evening it was
too late to make the three hour
bus trip to Courchevel so we
spent the night at the Intercon
tinental Hotel in Geneva. It was
a very pleasant experience after
having been brought up on How
ard Johnson’s most of my life.
The next day we had an early
breakfast and piled into the
buses for our trip to Courchevel.
For most of us, it was our first
trip to Europe and we were anx
ious to get our first glimpse of
France. We were greeted with
some of the most beautiful coun
try any of us had ever seen.
The rolling hills of the French
countryside look like manicured
putting greens. No roadside junk
yards, no outdoor advertising,
just mile after mile of portrait
like fields.
We arrived at our hotel, the
Cbe Battalion
Vol. 65 No. 64 College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 4, 1970 Telephone 845-2226
HEW Bill May Get Second Veto
Nixon Offers $449 Million;
House Leaders Not Interested
By John W. Beckler
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (A 1 )—President
Nixon has offered to sweeten the
pot by $449 > million in his fight
funds, but it apparently won’t be
enough.
Democratic leaders are willing
to risk another veto, if necessary,
in their effort to force a re
shuffling of national priorities
that upgrades education.
“It may be necessary to pare
it down,” said House Majority
Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma,
“but we’re not going to capitulate
on the education bill.”
Nixon’s new proposal, sent to
Congress Tuesday, makes official
a compromise he put forward
last week to help get the neces
sary votes to sustain his veto of
a $19.7 billion education-health
money bill.
The $449 million Nixon is now
willing to spend over his budget
amounts to a 63 per cent cut in
the $1.2 billion Congress added
to the vetoed bill. Some of the
key Democrats who helped add
the original funds, say they will
fight any cut that amounts to
more than 10 per cent.
The battle is now being fought
in a House appropriations sub
committee where little progress
was reported Tuesday after an
other session. Members said there
was only an outside chance that
a bill would be ready for House
action before Congress takes a
week-long recess starting Feb.
10.
In a letter outlining his new
proposal, Nixon said the extra
$449 million “does not contribute
unduly to inflationary pressures
which today are of serious con
cern to the entire nation.” He
vetoed the $1.2 billion increase
because of its impact on inflation.
Nearly half the added funds—
$238 million—would be for the im
pacted area aid program which
Nixon has sharply criticized and
for which he has declined to bud
get any money for next year
unless it is dractically revised.
His new proposal would increase
the appropriation for this year
to $440 million.
The program, which provides
funds for school districts in which
large numbers of children of
federal employes are enrolled, has
wide support in Congress. A total
of $600 million was provided for
in the vetoed bill.
Nixon would also boost spend
ing for vocational education by
$70 million to a new total of $300
million, still $52 million short of
the amount in the bill. The other
Nixon increases would be spread
over a variety of health and edu
cation programs.
Whatever compromise the Ap
propriations Committee arrives at
it is unlikely to satisfy the lib
eral Democrats who led the fight
for the $1.2 billion last year.
Most of the increase was put in
on the floor over the opposition
of the committee.
Majority Leader Albert, who
commented on the controversy in
an interview, said he didn’t think
Nixon would veto another bill,
but the Democrats would not be
deterred by such a threat in any
event.
“After all,” he said, “the ma
jority of the members voted to
override the veto and we still are
in control. If you come to an
impasse who’s going to give?”
Suffering from Cerebral Hemorrhage
Rudder: Condition Serious
HOUSTON—Texas A&M President Earl
Rudder is suffering from a cerebral hem
orrhage and is in serious condition, a Metho
dist Hospital spokesman said late this morn
ing.
Hospital administrator Ted Bowen said
the 59-year old general is in the hospital’s
special neuro intensive care unit where he
is undergoing treatment by a special team
of neuro specialists.
Rudder, who became ill Thursday, was
taken from a Bryan hospital to Houston’s
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Friday.
He was believed suffering from a heart
ailment but was transferred Monday to Meth
odist Hospital when it was learned of the
brain condition.
A spokesman at A&M said Rudder suf
fered no heart damage.
Methodist Hospital said it would issue
news bulletins should his condition change.
Rudder led a contingent of U. S. Rangers
who scaled a high cliff in the face of wither
ing enemy gunfire during the D-Day land
ings on the coast of France. He was pro
moted to brigadier general in the U. S. Army
Reserve in 1955 and was at one time com
mander of the 90th Infantry Division of the
Reserve.
Rudder was named vice president of A&M
in 1958 and promoted to president of the uni
versity a year later.
In 1965 he was named president of the
entire Texas A&M System, which includes
Texas A&M University, Tarleton State Col
lege, Prairie View A&M College, the Texas
Forestry Service, the Texas Maritime Acade
my at Galveston, the Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station, the Texas Engineering Ex
tension Service, and the Texas Engineering
Experiment Station.
Moon Origin Lecture Monday
Dr. Gordon J. F. MacDonald,
vice chancellor for research and
graduate affairs at the Univer
sity of California, Santa Bar
bara, will lecture on “The Origin
of the Moon” Monday at A&M.
Culpepper Denies
Fight Charges
By Richard Campbell
Aggie assistant basketball
coach Jim Culpepper has formally
denied all charges that he and
Texas Tech head basketball coach
Bob Bass exchanged punches dur
ing halftime at A&M’s 84-66 loss
last night in Lubbock.
Culpepper denied wire reports
that he and Bass threw punches
at each other after a Tech player
reportedly tossed the basketball
at A&M’s Pat Kavanagh at the
buzzer to end the half.
“I really do not know what
happened concerning the ball
throwing incident,” Culpepper
said. “At all our games away
from home, I always go to the
scorer’s table at halftime to pick
up the visitor’s scorebook. That
was where I was, waiting for the
(See Culpepper, page 6)
A Treat
Croiux du Verdonnes, and kissed
the ground after nearly having
cardiac arrest from our first ex
perience with European drivers.
Our bus driver kept playing
Parnelli Jones on the hairpin
truns and kept passing Opel GT’s
and mini-coopers right and left.
We moved into our rooms, our
small rooms, and then had lunch.
After living on rather bland A&M
food for several years, French
cooking was quite a change!
The food was good, and it was
spicy, and I think we all ate too
much.
Courchevel is divided into four
villages — 1350 (meters), 1550,
1650, 1850. We were at 1650,
where the more intermediate
slopes were. Courchevel 1850 is
where the runs get a little hairy.
The more daring ones in our
group skied there while the peons
(See Courchevel, page 4)
The 8 p.m. presentation in the
Chemistry Building is open to
the general public, announced Dr.
A. D. Suttle Jr., A&M vice pres
ident for research.
Prior to accepting the Uni
versity of California position in
1968, Dr. MacDonald was exec
utive vice president of the In
stitute for Defense Analyses.
He is a member of the Na
tional Academy of Arts and Sci
ences.
Dr. MacDonald also is a mem-
Elections
A special meeting of the Stu
dent Senate will be held at 5:30
p.m. Thursday to consider consoli
dation of the spring elections, ac
cording to Kent Caperton, senate
vice president.
The regular Senate meeting
was cancelled earlier, he said, but
circumstances necessitated the
Thursday session.
The University Executive Com
mittee had previously ruled that
ber of numerous top govern
mental and related groups, in
cluding the National Science
Foundation’s Advisory Panel for
Weather Modification and
NASA’s Lunar and Panetary
Missions Board, Science and
Technology Advisory Committee
for Manned Space Flight and Sci
ence Advisory Committee.
MacDonald, who holds three
degrees from Harvard, taught at
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and the University of
there be a 10-day waiting period
between the close of filing and
election day, Caperton explained.
“This meant that the three
elections scheduled for the spring
semester would drag on for more
than three months,” he said. “Fil
ing for the first would begin Feb.
27, and the last election would
be held on May 14.”
In a Monday meeting, the Elec
tions Commission recommended
that the Senate approve a plan
California at Los Angeles. At
UCLA he was director of the
Atmospheric Research Labora
tory, associate director of the In
stitute of Geophysics and Plan
etary Physics and chairman of
the Department of Planetary and
Space Science.
Suttle said MacDonald’s A&M
visit was arranged by Dr. W.
T. Doherty, president of the Rob
ert A. Welch Foundation, and Dr.
W. O. Milligan, the institution’s
director of research.
consolidating all elections into
one, Caperton said.
He noted that the Executive
Committee will be unable to act
on the proposal in time -unless the
Senate passes a resolution this
week.
The elections which would be
affected are for class offices,
Senate and Civilian Student
Council offices, and Senate rep
resentatives.
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