THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 7, 1971
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Powerful electron microscope
available to A&M scientists
A&M scientists now have the
nation’s most powerful electron
microscope available for research
without cost, announced Dr. U.
Grant Whitehouse, director of the
Electron Microscopy Center here.
Dr. Whitehouse said a contract
between the National Institutes of
Health and United States Steel,
Inc., allows researchers to use the
one million volt electron micro
scope at the U. S. Steel Corp. Re
search Center in Monroeville, Pa.
Travel funds and per diem al
lowance for visits to Monroeville
will be furnished by NIH when
needed, Dr. Whitehouse noted,
and information also is available
to assist in planning suitable re
search projects.
“This microscope is the most
powerful instrument of its kind
in the U. S.,” Dr. Whitehouse re
ported. “It will open the door to
the study of living cells. Live bac
teria may be studied with this in
strument with no restriction on
the ability of the bacteria to re
produce after examination,” he
added.
Dr. Whitehouse said he plans
to use the microscope in a study
of minerals designed for early de
tection of human blood diseases.
Other electron microscopes of
this kind, some more powerful
than the U. S. Steel instrument,
are located in France, England
and Japan, Dr. Whitehouse point
ed out.
Several years a^o, he said, con
sideration was given to the pos
sibility of building a powerful
electron microscope at Texas
A&M.
“Experience and results gained
by use of the U. S. Steel micro
scope will probably increase the
desirability of having more such
powerful instruments available
throughout the U. S.,” he observ
ed.
Scientists desiring further in
formation may contact Dr. White-
house at the Electron Microscopy
Center in the Biological Science
Building.
SCONA 16 to organize
for February conference
“I don’t really need a haircut—it’s just a hair-lined
helmet!”
Committees of the 16th Stu
dent Conference on National Af
fairs will organize Thursday to
begin preparations for the Feb
ruary 16-19 conference.
SCONA XVI chairman Ben
Thurman of Dallas said the 8
p.m. meeting in the Memorial
Student Center Assembly Room
will be the first meeting of all
students who wish to get involved.
“The Impact of the University”
has been selected as the 1972
SCONA theme.
“Delegates from throughout
the U. S. and some foreign stu
dents will look at the topic
through roundtable discussions
and major speakers,” Thurman
noted. “Emphasis will be placed
on student values, student gov
ernment, the effect of the univer
sity on business, politics and so-
Cool confidence shows in
16-year-old’s tennis game
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. <A>L_
Chris Evert is a Florida schoolgirl
with the presence of a Boston so
cialite.
Her game is unorthodox, her
personality unassuming.
She won the hearts of center
court spectators at the U.S. Open
Tennis Championship in her bid
to become the tournament’s
youngest female champion.
The 16-year-old Miss Evert,
“Chrissie” to those close to her,
is cool on court and off. She can
be down love-40 in the 12th game
of a 5-6 set and appear as non
plussed as when a battery of
microphones is thrust under her
nose. She answers newsmen’s
questions with the aplomb of a
politician.
“She has almost too much con
fidence,” says Britain’s Joyce
Williams. “In a girl so young it’s
almost eerie.”
“I just wish I had had that
much ink when I was 16,” said
Billie Jean King, the nation’s
top-ranked player. Mrs. King of
Long Beach, Calif., was refer
ring to the attention the press
had accorded Miss Evert in this
tourney void of both defending
champions and a host of top male
stars.
Chris, who has played her two-
fisted backhand into the third
round of the most prestigious
tournament in American tennis,
is one of five children of a tennis
family.
Her father, Jimmy, a pro at
Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., has coached her since she
was six. He is as instrumental in
her attitude as he is in her
prowess.
“My father always told me if
I got made on the court it’d be
to the other girl’s advantage,”
she said. “He’s right. Whenever
I see my opponent making a
show I think ‘ah-ha, I’ve got her
now.’ ”
Evert accompanies his daughter
to all of the “pressure” tourna
ments and her mother, Colette,
makes the trip to all the others.
“He went with her to the Na
tional Girls earlier this summer,”
said Mrs. Evert, vivacious, deep
ly-tanned and well-preserved.
“There’s a lot more pressure in
defending a No. 1 seeding at the
Nationals than there is at a tour
ney like this where she has noth
ing to lose.”
Chris emerged as a national
tennis figure with a stunning
straight-set victory over Britain’s
Virginia Wade in the United
States’ successful bid for the
Wightman Cup last month. Her
last tournament victory in a
string of 12 was the Eastern
Lawn Tennis Championships in
Orange, N.J., just prior to the
Forest Hills classic.
Veteran cuts off thumb
in protest of treatment
SAIGON —A disabled vet
eran protesting mistreatment by
the Saigon regime cut off his
thumb Tuesday morning and one
of his companions brandished two
grenades outside the Veterans
Affairs "Ministry.
A crowd of police and onlook
ers scattered as the veteran put
his severed thumb on a plate
and held it aloft while one of
his companions, a double amputee
in a wheelchair, pulled out two
grenades.
The grenades did not go off.
The double amputee was seen
pulling one of the pins but he
continued to hold the trip lever
to prevent detonation.
Earlier, the two veterans and
four companions had shaved their
heads outside the ministry build
ing. They carried signs saying
they would fast and later commit
“suicide” and “mass immolation.”
All wore the uniforms of the
now defunct Civilian Irregular
Defense Group — CIDG — an
American-led mercenary force
which was disbanded last year.
They told newsmen they were
protesting the fact that disabled
CIDG veterans did not receive
benefits like veterans of South
Vietnam’s regular armed forces.
Bulletin Board
Wednesday
Student Senate will meet at
6:45 p.m. on the mall between the
Library and the Academic build
ing.
Thursday
Eagle Pass Hometown Club
meets in the Memorial Student
Center at 7:30 p.m.
Model Airplane Club will meet
in room 202 of the Physics build
ing at 8:30 p.m.
Computer Science Wives Club
meets at 7:30 p.m. at Accents
Contemporary, 3219 Texas Ave
Bryan.
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ciety and its role in national pol
icy and international affairs.”
Thurman said the meeting will
enable new students contacted
through the MSC Open House
and upperclassmen who want to
contribute to get oriented on the
MSC program.
“New SCONA committee mem
bers will be oriented on what
SCONA is and the responsibility
of various committee chairmen,”
he added. “They will have oppor
tunity to meet with various com
mittee chairmen and sign up for
committee work.”
SCONA XVI committee chair
men are Tommy E. Potthoff of
Euless, planning; Robert J. Lo
zano, Jalisco, Mex., steering;
Brian A. Polk, Devine, publica
tions; Ray Kopecky, Pasadena,
programs; Ron E. Schlabach, Mi
ami, Fla., operations.
Also, Alex Dade, Hopkinsville,
Ky., arrangements; Albert L.
Haegelin, Hondo, host; Sidney C.
Hughes, Austin, public relations;
Larry J. Kana, Houston, housing;
Stephen J. Lazzaro, Houston,
transportation, and L. Rene
Ffrench, Baytown, finance.
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