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Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 9, 1971
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“Looks like a good day to get some sun, but I’ll be ready
for anything!”
New safety devices
required by 1974
WASHINGTON <A>>_The De
partment of Transportation has
ordered auto makers to install
automatic safety devices in the
front passenger compartment of
all 1974 model cars, and in rear
seats by 1976.
In its final ruling Friday on
passive restraint systems—adap
ted because not enough Americans
use seat belts—the department
told the manufacturers they must
keep passengers from from injury
in a head-on crash with a wall
at speeds of up to 30 miles per
hour.
The four major U. S. auto pro-
ducers had no immediate com
ment on the ruling. They had
requested two more years to de
sign the safety systems.
The announcement by Secre
tary of Transportation John A.
Volpe marks the end of several
years of private and public spar
ring on the issue between govern
ment and industry. The order
applies to all new cars, foreign
and domestic, sold in the United
States.
The ruling requires also im
proved, roll-up belt systems—with
a dashboard light and buzzer that
signals when front seat occupants
have not buckled up—to be in
stalled on autos produced after
Jan. 1, 1972.
Volpe acknowledged the design
problems by applying the passive
restraint order to 1974 and 1976
models, a year later in each case
than previously proposed.
“This delay in requiring com
plete passive protection has been
found necessary because of the
difficulty the industry will have
in designing their vehicles to
meet the new tests for passive
protection in angular, lateral and
rollover collisions,” he said.
tonight on the tube
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6:00
3
(5)
Evening News
on th<
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6:30
3
(5)
Beverly Hillbillies
2:30
3
(5)
Edge of Night
15
(12)
Campus and
15
(12)
Sesame Street
Community Today
(PBS) Repeat of
7:00
3
(5)
Green Acres
Monday)
15
(12)
Know Your
3:00
3
(5)
Corner Pyle
Antiques (ETS)
3:30
3
(5)
Town Talk
7:30
3
(5)
Hee Haw
15
(12)
University
15
(12)
Realities (NET)
Instructional
8:30
3
(5)
All in the Family
4:00
3
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That Girl
15
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Viewpoint
4:30
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Bewitched
9:00
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Marcus Welby,
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(12)
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15
(12)
Because We Care
5:00
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(5)
General Hospital
(PBS)
15
(12)
Misterogers’
9:30
15
(12)
Hollywood
Neighborhood
Television
(NET)
Theatre (PBS)
5:30
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(5)
CBS News
10:00
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(5)
Final News
15
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Sesame Street
10:30
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Amigos De Las Americas Student Orientated Volunteer
Organization wants you to work in Central America
this summer! Interested?
Thursday March 11, 7:30 p. m. Room 2A. MSC.
(Project of MSC Travel Committee)
Court
says obiections Bulletin Board
J J TONIGHT Junior Class Council wil
must apply to all wars
IE BAT
WASHINGTON UP)_The Su
preme Court barred Monday draft
exceptions for men who claim
conscientious objections to the
Indochina war but not to all
wars.
The 8-1 ruling, based on what
Justice Thurgood Marshall called
a straightforward reading of
Selective Service law, closes the
door on Roman Catholics who
subscribe to the “just war” doc
trine as well as to other selective
objectors.
Marshall said they are subject
to the draft, however sincere or
religious they may be. He said
Congress intended to exempt only
persons who oppose participat
ing in all war.
Justice William O. Douglas
dissented. He said the exemp
tion provision is unconsitutional
in that it discriminates in favor
of religious persons and against
humanists and atheists with sim
ilar scruples against war.
The decision upheld the con
viction of Guy P. Gillette, 26, of
Yonkers, N. Y., a self-described
humanist who said he would help
defend the country or fight in a
United Nations peace-keeping ef
fort but not in Vietnam.
At the same time, the court
ruled against Louis A. Negre, 23,
of Bakersfield, Calif., a Roman
Catholic who was refused a dis
charge from the Army. After
completing infantry training
Negre declared his participation
in the Vietnam war would contra
dict “all that I had been taught
in my religious training.”
Both men said the war is un
just and the court did not ques
tion their sincerity.
Marshall, delivering the court’s
opinion in both cases, said “We
hold that Congress intended to
exempt persons who oppose par
ticipating in all war . . . and that
persons who object solely to par
ticipation in a particular war not
within the purview of the ex
empting section . . .”
A Justice Department source
said the ruling opens the way for
the government to seek indict
ments against several alleged
draft evaders who have raised
similar arguments.
In a second major ruling the
court prohibited employers from
using job tests that do not really
measure a man’s qualifications
but serve to block Negroes from
promotions.
The 8-0 decision, given by Chief
Justice Warren E. Burger, said
Title VII of the 1964 federal civil
rights law prohibits all employ
ment practices that operate to
exclude Negroes and cannot be
shown to be related to job per
formance.
Jack Greenberg of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, announced that civil rights
lawyers will invoke the ruling in
behalf of thousands of workers
who claim to have been denied
jobs or promotions because of
such tests.
The Fund carried the issue to
the court for a group of Negro
workers at the Duke Power Co.
generating plant at Draper, N.C.,
who said they were frozen into
lower-paid jobs by requirements
that they either pass two intel
ligence tests or obtain a high
school diploma.
Burger said the court was not
charging the company with dis
crimination. However, he said,
the 1964 law “proscribes not only
overt discrimination but also
practices that are fair in form,
but discriminatory in operation.”
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The ruling was the first by the
court to interpret Title VII.
The U.S. Circuit Court in Rich
mond, Va., had ruled that the Ne
groes would have to prove the
company was practicing racial
discrimination in order to invali
date the tests and diploma re
quirements.
In a third ruling the court tied
4 to 4 and thereby upheld a ban
in Maryland on public showing
of the movie, “I Am Curious Yel
low.” The justices said nothing
about the issues involved.
Grove Press Inc., the importer
and owner of American distribu
tion rights to the Swedish film,
had challenged Maryland’s movie
censorship law and asked the
court to rule that no movie may
be put off-limits for adults.
Francis B. Burch, Maryland
attorney general, argued that
each state should be free to de
cide which films are to be banned.
The tie vote was produced by
the self-disqualification of Jus
tice William O. Douglas. The
president of Grove Press, Barney
Rossett, publishes the Evergreen
Review, the magazine that print
ed excerpts from Douglas’ latest
book.
The tie vote and absence of an
accompanying opinion left in
force the court’s current stand
ard on obscenity.
In other actions the court:
Agreed to hear an appeal by
Francis Haines, a 69-year-old
prisoner in Illinois who chal
lenges the authority of officials
to consign prisoners to solitary
confinement.
—Granted a hearing to John
Adams, a Chicago man convict
ed of an unlawful narcotics sale,
who is seeking to expand the
right of defendants to have law
yers at preliminary hearings.
TONIGHT
Texas A&M Collegiate FFA
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Chemistry Building.
Dairy Science Club will meet
at 8 p.m. in the Heep Building.
Ag Eco Club wil meet at 7:30
p. m. in room 112-113 of the Plant
Sciences Building.
TAMMBA will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Building E.
Society for the Advancement of
Management will meet at 7:30 p.m
.at Ralph's Pizza at Eastgate to
elect officers.
WEDNESDAY
Intervarsity Christian Fellow
ship will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
room 304 of the Physics Building.
Aggie Wives Bridge Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 2B
of the MSC.
Sailing Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in room 106 of the Geology
Building.
Junior Class Council willi
at 7:30 p.m. in room 113off
Hall.
THURSDAY
Model Airplane Club will i
at 8:15 p.m. in room 202 oin
Physics Building to discuss n
for the April meet.
Chemical Engineers Wives(1
will meet at 7:30 p.m.
home of Mrs. Ron Darby, |
Center Creek Pkwy. in Br]
hear a representative from 1
Norman speak.
Host and Fashion Maiti'ii
will meet at 6:30 p.m. at(
Ball’s, 3905-A Aspen to pn
for the women’s fashion shdjj]
Pecan Valley Hometown!
will meet at 8 p. m. in rooid
of the MSC to hear a speaker^
plan the Easter party.
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TRY
BATTALION CLASS!
Hunt for Playmates involves
almost ‘x-ray’ scanning of field
In search of future Playmates,
Playboy magazine photographers
are roaming beaches, watching
high school graduations, and even
attending weddings, where they
scan, with something approaching
X-ray vision, not only brides
maids but also brides themselves.
This network of professional
peepers is generally looking for
“virginal quality,” buxom types
no younger than 18 and no older
than 21, according to Thomas
Meehan, who offers a rare inside
study of “The “Playmate Proc
ess’ in the premier issue of Audi
ence, a new hard-cover magazine
published in Boston.
Finding girls who are willing to
be Playmates isn’t at all difficult,
Meehan writes. Those chosen are
paid $5,000, and a Playboy pho
tographer is quoted as saying,
“You have to fight them off with
a baseball bat.”
Photo submissions from ama
teurs, in fact, have proliferated
since the advent of the color Po
laroid camera. Boy friends and
husbands are now flooding the
Playboy offices with nude photos
of their lady loves that for some
quirky reason they wish to have
the whole nation view.
The actual process of producing
a Playmate gatefold — “the
fold, he’s a perfectionist.”
“Most of the Playmates,” Mee
han writes, “seem to have done
little of public interest in their
entire lives,” a fact that can drive
the writers of the accompanying
stories about them “to climbing
walls.” Playboy’s managing edi
tor told Meehan that he rotates
the writing assignment to save
wear and tear on his staff.
As to the Playmates them
selves, Meehan’s interview with
last year’s Miss December, Carol
Imhof, who’s a Playboy Bunny
in Chicago, turned up the point
that she “never looks at a news
paper . . . too depressing.” Nei
ther her boy friend nor her moth
er went for the idea of her pos
ing nude, and she didn’t tell her
father beforehand.
Unlike most Playmates, how
ever, Miss Imhof used her real
name, the article says. Moreover,
with very few exceptions, most
Playmates of the Month drop
swiftly back into their former
obscurity. “Many of them today
are plump housewives with chil
dren, Excedrin headaches, and
worries about whether their wash
is getting white enough,” Mee
han asserts.
girl with the staple in her navel,”
as Meehan puts it—costs upward
of $20,000, the Audience article
notes.
A time-consuming procedure
comprising thousands of studio
shots as well as rather extensive
and tricky lithographic work is
involved. Hugh Hefner, Playboy’s
publisher, is alo heavily involved,
issuing such instructions to the
reproducing technicians as “Take
off the hair on her upper lip,”
or “Clean up the shadows around
her underarms.” The article
quotes the lithographer on Hef
ner: “When it comes to the gate-
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are relieved that, like most Play
mates, they didn’t use their real
names in Playboy.
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