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Vol. 66 No. 84
College Station, (Texas
Thursday, February 25, 1971
845*2226
U. S. Laos aid may
be heavier: Nixon
WASHINGTON <^> — Presi
dent Nixon predicted Thursday
some hard choices in deployment
of allied troops in Indochina as
more GIs pull out and forecast
heavy U.S. help for operations
in Laos and Cambodia.
“If winding down the war is
my greatest satisfaction in for
eign policy, the failure to end it
is my deepest disappointment,”
Nixon added in a 65,000-word
“State of the World” report to
(Congress. He also arranged a
nationwide radio broadcast ver
sion.
In highlights of the document,
Nixon:
—Rated the Mideast as the
world’s most dangerous area now
because of possible collision with
the Soviet Union, and pledged
the United States anew to a
major role in helping bring about
a settlement.
—Termed it essential to go
ahead with the U.S. Safeguard
antiballistic missile system. He
indicated he favors an ABM de
fense around Washington in ad
dition to the missile-site ABM
defenses now being built in
Northwestern states.
—Virtually rejected a Soviet
proposal to limit ABMs to Wash
ington and Moscow, unless such
a disarmament deal also includes
a curb on offensive missiles. But
he voiced hope for an agreement
at the U.S.-Soviet strategic arms
limitation talks.
—Suggested that SALT - type
talks might also be used to seek
an agreement by the Western
allies with the Soviets on reduc
ing conventional forces in Eu
rope.
—Named Red China as a maj
or power in the emerging new
Asia, without so listing Nation
alist China, and said, ‘‘What we
can do, we will” to improve
Washington-Peking relationships
without harming U.S. commit
ments to the Nationalists.
—Anticipated that West Euro
pean nations may one day join
in a political union and invited
the six-nation Common Market
group to set up a mission in
Washington.
—Proposed U. S. government
guarantees to help U.S. business
firms invest in Communist Ro
mania and Yugoslavia.
Nixon’s 180-page report was
his second yearly State of the
World message since taking of
fice.
His avowed aim is to promote
understanding abroad of U. S.
foreign policy and at home, to
develop “a partnership of pur
pose” among Americans on this
policy. The administration par
ticularly wants support on Viet
nam.
In essence, Nixon’s report out
lines no basically new policy
though it goes into detail on a
number of outstanding problems
and seeks to explain why the ad
ministration has acted as it has
on them.
Reaffirming his over-all goal
of a generation of peace, Nixon
reviewed the doctrine he first
set forth during his trip to Asia
in 1969. He portrayed the Nixon
doctrine as fitting the new reali
ties of the 1970s by paring U.S.
activities abroad and encourag
ing other increasingly strong
countries to take a larger part-
(See U. S. Laos aid, page 6)
Date talk makes Ags laugh, clap, hiss
By BRUCE BLACK
Battalion Staff Writer
If you have a lousy time on a
date, maybe you should stop and
ask yourself, “Am I the one that
made it that way ? ” Frieda Steele,
a Texas Woman’s University
(TWU) senior, said here last
night.
The second “Man Your Man
ners” program discussed subjects
ranging from blind dates to a
football game to inter-racial dat
ing.
The standing-room-only crowd
showered the panel of five girls
with whoops, laughter, hisses, ap
plause and a wide assortment of
comments from beginning to end
of the program.
The three girls from TWU in
Denton and two from A&M ap
peared shaken by the reactions of
the crowd, but succeeded in pre
senting short speeches on dating
topics and answering questions
afterward.
Representing A&M were Nancy
Ondrovik, a freshman psycholo
gy major from Dallas, and Char
lotte Gay, a junior business man
agement major from Houston.
Neither had appeared at a “Man
Your Manners” discussion before.
From TWU were Miss Steele,
a senior special education major
from Victoria, Marilyn Osborn, a
sophomore speech major from
Dallas and Carolyn Wiley, a jun
ior business education major from
Houston.
Miss Ondrovik spoke on types
of dating.
“When you think about blind
dates,” she said, “you usually ex
pect a pretty bad time, especially
when your friend refuses to tell
you all the details. But remember
it’s just for one night.”
“And besides,” she added, “the
law of averages is on your side
. . . after a while you should meet
one girl you like.”
Speaking on informal evening
dates, Miss Ondrovik suggested
never to leave the planning of the
evening up to the girl; she is
liable to choose something too ex
pensive, which would be embar
rassing to both the boy and girl.
Speaking on costs and transpor
tation, Miss Osborn mentioned
that if an Aggie wanted to bring
a girl to A&M for a weekend, and
she did not already have a place
to stay, he should arrange one
for her. This can be done, she
said, through the YMCA.
As far as gifts go, she contin
ued, it could be embarrassing to
a girl to accept candy or other
gifts on a first date. Flowers on
the other hand is another matter.
She mentioned that she loved to
receive flowers on any occasion.
At this point a student in the
back of the room, urged forward
by the entire crowd, boldly walk
ed forward and presented Miss
Osborn with some artificial flow-
“Speaking as a black,” she said,
“I believe some black girls who
date whites are just looking for
a better way of life, and some are
just seeing what they can get.”
“Many times,” she continued,
“people who engage in interracial
dating are snobbed, kidded, talked
about. . . Well, that’s life.”
Most blacks, she commented,
disagree, saying it shows disre
spect.
Miss Steele gave her views on
blind dates to a corps trip or an
Aggie football game.
“I think you should either write
or call her and tell her exactly
where and what you’re planning
to do that weekend,” she said.
“Also, if she’s never been to A&M,
I think you should tell her in ad
vance what some of your customs
are.”
Speaking on sex on dates. Miss
Gay said that how much of a
problem sex is in a relationship
depends mainly on the morals of
those involved.
“The important thing, of course,
is love,” she said, “though every
one has his or her own different
levels of love.”
Miss Ondrovik also spoke on
the topic of drinking on a date.
“If a guy wants to drink,” she
said, “he should first find out if
she wants to drink or not. If not,
he should find out if she minds if
he does.”
“If the girl gets very, very
drunk,” she continued, “it’s still
the man’s responsibility to see
that she gets home all right.
“Always remember the other
person and respect their views,”
she continued.
Models Celia Williams and Steve Simpson slither through a crowded Memorial Stu
dent Center Assembly Room during Host and Fashion Committee’s Dudes ‘n’ Dolls fash
ion show Wednesday night. See page six for another picture. (Photo by Randy Free
man)
Belts with flair, denim.
knits modeled at show
By SUE DAYIS
Battalion Women’s Editor
In an informal coffee house
atmosphere, the Host and Fashion
Committee presented the Dudes
‘and’ Dolls fashion show Wednes
day. A&M students modeled
clothes from the Country Squire
and Beverly Braley before a near
capacity audience.
Rusty Rush of Country Squire
was the commentator. Men’s
styles were featured in the show,
along with a few women’s outfits.
The men’s clothes ran from
business suits to casual outfits,
with all styles in between. Among
the featured items were woven
belts and action-back coats, which
have a slit in the back.
Sports coats were shown in
bright colors, such as the red one
worn by Hugh McElroy. Also
modeled were some lightweight
suits for summer and a white
linen suit.
Many casual styles were pre
sented. They consisted mostly of
knit shirts and dacron and cotton
pants.
The denim look is popular this
year, in both men’s and women’s
fashions. Several outfits were
shown with interchangeable denim
pieces.
Many permanent press and easy
care clothes were shown because
people request them at the Coun
try Squire, Rush said. Most of
the casual clothes and some of
the more expensive pants are
machine-washable and dryable.
2 graduations set
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A&.M coed Nancy Ondrovik discusses blind dating
Wednesday night on the Man Your Manners panel. (Photo
by Randy Freeman)
The laughter and shouting stop
ped, however, when Miss Wiley
began to speak on interracial dat
ing.
“Though it is nothing new,”
she said, “it has become more and
more popular over the last five
years or so.”
When asked her views as an
Aggie concerning the new girl’s
dorm, Miss Gay said that she
thinks that a girl’s dorm in ’72
is fantastic, though something
should be done sooner.
The question was brought up
concerning how a guy can ap
proach a girl with good intentions
and not make her think he’s just
trying to pick her up.
“Simple,” Miss Osborn replied,
“Just go to TWU some weekend.”
A&M will have two commencement exercises this spring—one for
graduate students and another for undergraduates.
Dr. Jack K. Williams, university president, said the anticipated
size of the spring graduating class prompted the decision to conduct
dual exercises.
Ceremonies for recipients of master’s and doctoral degrees will be
held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 7, at Bryan Civic Auditorium.
Exercises for recipients of baccalaureate degrees will be con
ducted at 9 a.m. the following day in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Dr. Carl W. Landiss, chairman of the university’s Convocations
Committee, noted spearate graduation exercises also will eliminate the
need for tickets to gain admission to the ceremonies.
Leather belts were worn with
most of the suits. Some are re
versible, with suede on the other
side. Several Peter Max belts
were modeled. These are woven
with Max’s unique artwork deco
rating them.
Most of the women’s outfits
were of the peasant style. They
included long and short dresses,
hostess culottes and a bright
orange polyester knit pant suit.
Judy, Lee and Mike, a singing
trio, entertained during the inter
mission. The audience was seated
around small tables and was
served refreshments before the
show and during intermission.
Computer indexes prayer book
An English professor has suc
ceeded in “humanizing” the com
puter.
Prof. Milton A. Huggett accom
plished the feat by feeding A&M’s
Powerful IBM 360/65 a steady
diet of the 611-page “American
Book of Common Prayer.”
Result of the five-year project
is a 473-page concordance to the
prayer book which provides the
basis for services in the Episcopal
Church. Many prayers in the
book, along with numerous related
passages, also are used in the
services of other churches, both
Protestant and Catholic.
A concordance is an alpha
betical index of the words in a
book with their contextural oc
currence.
In addition to being the first
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
computer-produced concordance to
the prayer book, it is the first of
any type in this century. A con
cordance was done in 1898 for an
earlier version of the book, which
was superseded in 1929 by the
present volume.
The new document, officially
titled “A Concordance to the
American Book of Common
Prayer,” has been published by
the Church Hymnal Corporation
of the Episcopal Church.
Professor Huggett noted the
project was undertaken as an
experiment in using the computer
for literary and linguistic studies,
with partial financial support
provided by A&M’s Council for
Organized Research.
“It was a project of feeding the
computer ‘natural language’—as
opposed to scientific and mathe
matical data—to determine what
the computer was capable of do
ing,” Huggett explained.
“I don’t think the computer
need dehumanize us,” he added.
“It can be used by humanists to
achieve their ends and goals, just
as it has proved to be a boon for
engineers and scientists.”
A graduate of the Episcopal
Theological Seminary at Cam
bridge, Mass., Huggett presented
his idea to the Episcopal Church
and won its approval and agree
ment to publish the concordance.
In reference to royalties from
the book, Huggett emphasized: “I
won’t make a penny on it—and
didn’t want to.”
“I simply thought it would be
a useful reference for clergy.
literary scholars and lay people,”
he added.
The concordance lists every
word in the prayer book—except
for approximately 100 common
words such as prepositions and
conjunctions—and gives the vari
ous contexts in which each word
is used, showing the page and line
on which the word appears. The
work also provides the only con
cordance for the Psalms as trans
lated in the Great Bible of 1539.
Huggett was assisted in his
work by James M. Pye Jr., a com
puter programmer who formerly
served as a research associate in
the office of A&M’s vice president
for research. Some early com
puter work was performed by
Melvin Emmons, Donald Moore
and John Prewit, all graduate
students.
Without the computer, Huggett
observed, the concordance would
probably never have been at
tempted.
“To do it manually would have
taken 10 or more years,” he noted.
While the professor and his
associates spent portions of five
years formulating their plan and
perfecting complicated program
ming techniques, the actual execu
tion required only 35 minutes and
the text print-out took less than
two hours.
English professor Dr. Milton A. Huggett examines his computer-produced concor
dance for the “American Book of Common Prayer.”