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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 1, 1972
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“As a general rule you should not introduce yourself
to a man on a bicycle and never try it when both of you
are on bicycles!”
A. J. Foyt Counting On A&M
For Added Speed In Coyote
When A. J. Foyt drives his Foyt
Coyote race car in the Phoenix
150 this month, he’ll be counting
on testing at Texas A&M to give
him added speed.
The new “wing” the Houston
driver will use on the 1972 Coy
ote, built early this year for the
Indianapolis 500, went through
two days of extensive testing
Thursday and Friday at TAMTJ’s
Wind Tunnel.
Bob Riley, consultant automo
tive engineer employed by Foyt
to assist with car designs, and
Tom Herrmann, mechanic-fabri
cator for A. J. Foyt Racing En
terprises, brought two experimen
tal wings to the tunnel, one with
several modification possibilities.
Riley noted the puropse of the
wing is to give maximum down
force on the rear tires with the
least amount of drag. The more
tire tread on the ground, the
better the lap times, he said.
There is a tremendous advan
tage in the turns, Riley added.
Aerodynamic engineering pro
duced 1 an extra 15 mph in some
Indy cars last spring, the racing
engineer said.
Wind tunnel testing gives the
designer accurate data on how
much down force wind is produc
ed by the car’s speed. The wing
also can be set at various angles
in the tunnel to calculate the op
timum angle, Riley explained.
Foyt’s Coyote runs at a maxi
mum of 220 mph, but Riley con
tends the effective miles per hour
can be increased by efficient use
of the wing.
Herrmann said the car has been
run in 13 United States Auto Club
races this year, three of them 500-
mile races. Data collected during
the two days here will be good
for all future races, he reported.
While at TAMU, the pair also
tested a model of the car in a
smaller on-campus wind tunnel.
"The ideal would be to set the
full-size car in the wind tunnel,”
Riley said. “But we can learn a
lot from models and various com
ponent parts.”
Riley said the data collected
here appeared to be what he need
ed to get the car ready for the
race.
America’s three commercial TV
networks will spend a record $10
million to bring viewers results
of the 1972 Presidential election
Tuesday, TV Guide magazine said
in its Nov. 4 issue.
This network coverage will re
sult in the most expensive one-
night program in history. For
only the third time in Presiden
tial elections, the networks will
have the benefit of computers to
tally vote results.
All three networks will be using
basically the same systems they
used in 1964 and 1968 with greatly
refined methods. Some 3,000 key
precincts will provide the basis
for projections. Paid workers
manning these precincts will
phone their reports to network
computer centers when vote re
sults are available.
“Returns from those key pre
cincts will be compared inside
the computers with past voting
histories to generate an early, if
not instantaneous, indication of
who will be the winner after all
80,000,000 votes (the expected na
tionwide turnout) are counted,”
the magazine reports.
“Things were so primitive, by
comparison, in 1960 that two net
works—ABC and CBS — handed
the Presidency to Richard Nixon
instead of John Kennedy and had
to reverse themselves later in the
evening,” further reported TV
Guide.
A major network problem this
year will be the 25 million first
time voters in the 18-24 age
group. But TV election experts
said the addition of the youth
vote won’t upset computer pre
dictions.
“CBS will be conducting street
interviews near 140 polling places
~
PEGGY PRICE, a resident of Dunn Hall comma sweeps
out water from the end of a hallway after a fire was extin
guished in a garbage chute Tuesday night by the emergency
sprinkler system. Firemen had trouble shutting off the
system for a short while, since they couldn’t locate the
turn-off valve. (Photo by Mike Rice)
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scattered around the country, at
each of which they’ll interview
about 100 voters as they emerge
from the polls—giving CBS a
14,000-person sample as an indi
cator of how various segments of
the populace, including youth, are
voting,” reported TV Guide.
Says voting authority Richard
Scammon (NBC) “Far too much
has been written about the youth
vote in this country. It’s the most
over-analyzed segment of the
American electorate.” Scammon
also cited' the distinction between
collegians and the working-class
youth, ranging from gas stations
attendants and waitresses to
trainees.
Election authority John Thomp
son (ABC) said it will take weeks
after the election before the ex
perts have a clear picture of the
impact of the youth vote.
There is a possibility that the
networks will project a winner
before the polls close in Cali
fornia, which would be a factor
in the results, but two of the net
works (CBS and NBC) have done
expensive studies which “purport
to prove that early projections
have almost no effect whatsoever
on either landslide elections or
close elections. Suspicious of
those auspices, many observers
insist that common sense demands
other wise,” the article said.
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