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m NON M6-3?(i nist lent ram Of; Heart Attack Fells 36th President SAN ANTONIO UP) — Lyndon Baines Johnson, the - ebullient Texan who as 36th president of the United States led the nation at the height of the turbulent 1960’s, died Monday. The 64-year-old former presi dent, who had a long history of heart trouble, was stricken at his ★ ★ ★ ranch in Johnson City and was dead on arrival at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, his press aide said. The Stonewall, Tex., native who combined a folksy manner with a will of iron that he used in the Congress and in the White House to bend legislators his way, pre- ★ ★ ★ How It Happened AUSTIN UP)—Here is the se- Dr. Abbott and the agents. sided over the buildup of the Viet nam war. And it was the war that many said led to his announcement in March of 1968 that he would not run for another full term. At the same time, Johnson announced a halt in the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam above the 19th Parallel and set in motion the machinery that led to the Paris peace talks. Johnson entered the White House in November, 1963, after the assassination in Dallas of John F. Kennedy. Johnson had fought Kennedy for the nomina tion in 1960, lost and had been selected as his vice president. A protege of fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, Johnson was first elect ed to the House of Representa tives in 1937. He tried and lost for the U.S. Senate in 1941. He was finally elected to the Senate in 1948 and became majority lead er in 1954. Johnson suffered his first heart attack in 1955, while still a sen ator. He had another seizure in 1965 — three days after he was inaugurated. He underwent an other serious heart incident April 7, 1972, while visiting Lynda and her husband, Charles Robb, in Charlottesville, Va. On Oct. 7, 1965, he underwent a gall bladder operation and later amused newsmen by displaying his scar proudly for photog raphers. Another picture that put the then-president in the spotlight was the one showing him pulling the ears of his beagles—Him and Her. Dog lovers were outraged and protested loudly; Johnson contended the dogs liked it. When Johnson announced March 31, 1968, that he would not run for office again, he appeared drawn and tired. Some felt he was fed up with civil strife sweeping the nation, and some felt he sim ply wanted out. Johnson said his wife was par ticularly pleased that he decided to shun another presidential race. The former president was a typically doting grandfather. Both Lynda and Luci Johnson Nugent had children. Johnson flew from the White House to retirement on his ranch when Richard Nixon became Pres ident. The ex-president rarely appeared in public his first two years out of office and even less frequently permitted interviews. He broke his silence partially in 1970 and spoke at a series of fund raisers for Democratic can didates. With the help of Presi dent Nixon, he dedicated the new Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in a spectacular gala last ing several days. quence of events relating to the death of former President Lyn don B. Johnson, as provided by Tom Johnson, an LBJ aide, all times CST: —3:50 p.m.: the former presi dent calls the switchboard at his ranch near Stonewall, Tex., and asks that Secret Service agents come to his bedroom immediately. —3:52 p.m.: agents rush the 100 yards from their quarters to Johnson’s bedroom and find him lying on his back next to his bed, apparently near death, dark blue in color. Agent Ed Nowland ap plies mouth-to-mouth resuscita tion. —3:45 p.m.: agent Mike How ard. applies external heart mas sage. —3:55 p.m.: Dr. David Abbott is called from nearby Johnson City. —V.Qb Y-m.’. Ladybird Johnson is reached by radio telephone in a vehicle one block from the LBJ Library in Austin, approximately 80 miles from the ranch. She drives to the library and is picked up by a helicopter. —4:19 p.m.: Johnson is placed in his private plane along with —4:43 p.m.: the LBJ plane arrives at San Antonio Interna tional Airport, and Dr. Abbott officially designates Johnson as dead. —Johnson is taken by ambu lance from the airport to Brooke Army Medical Center in central San Antonio, a trip of some 25 minutes through late afternoon traffic. —Johnson is brought through an emergency entrance into Beach Pavillion, an intensive cardiac care area about a half mile from the main section of Brooke. —He is officially pronounced dead on arrival. —about 5 p.m., Ladybird John son arrives by helicopter. She goes directly to the 7th floor suite in the main building re served for the former president, bypassing Beach Pavillion. —By 6 p.m. Mrs. Johnson de parts and returns to Austin. President Johnson was attend ed in San Antonio by Col. George McGranahan, chief of cardiology at Brooke. The body later was taken by ambulance under state police escort to the Weed-Corley funeral home in Austin. Che Battalion Vol. 61 No. 203 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 23, 1973 845-2226 Supreme Court Decision Affects 46 States/ Abortion Laws Ruled Unconstitutional WASHINGTON <A>>—The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion Monday drew comments ranging from “beautiful” to “disgraceful.” There were indications that the decision could affect all but four of the 50 states. The court, invalidating laws of Texas and Georgia, ruled that most laws prohibiting abortions are an invasion of privacy. It said that in the first six months of pregnancy abortion is a matter between a woman and her doctor. During the last three months of pregnancy, the 7-2 ruling added, all the state may do is regulate abortion procedures in ways that “are reasonably related to ma ternal health.” Thirty states have laws similar to the Texas statute that probihit abortion except to save the life of the mother. Most date back to f Flam THE FACES of Lyndon B. Johnson were both tired died late Monday afternoon less than a month after the and happy as these photos taken at Dolph Briscoe’s inaugu- burial of Harry S. Truman. (Photo by Mike Rice) ration Tuesday illustrate. The 64-year-old former president Mike Rice) FBI’s Gray To Speak At SC ON A Texas L N E /ARE STAL IFTS The controversial acting direc- A D1 J* Patrick Gray, f\ /\ | will help delegates to the' 18th I Student Conference on National irjpf i Affairs (SCONA) better under- I stand the ramifications of “The I Controlled Society” next month at A&M. Acting head of the federal bu reau eight months since the death of J. Edgar Hoover, Gray has brought on widespread discussion and dispute with his changes in the FBI. The former U. S. Navy captain who said he wants “to open the windows and raise the shades” on the FBI was described by a na tional news magazine as having “combative, damn - the - torpedoes aggressiveness and openness.” Gray will discuss control of crime in a free society before the entire SCONA XVIII delegation at one of its plenary sessions Feb. 14.-17. A basic conflict is seen between control of crime and protection of basic freedoms, a dilemma the planners of SCONA XVIII want to explore in depth. “We would like to think along lines of the need of law enforce ment and protection in the con text of federalization of law en forcement powers, as through the National Crime Information Cen ter, and practices like the use of wiretapping,” commented SCONA Chairman Chet Edwards. Other areas to which SCONA XVIII will direct attention are big business control of govern ment policies and consumer be havior, federal regulation of mass media, implications of social con trol through behavior modifica tion and psychosurgery, and bio logical control by means such as genetic engineering and asexual ent reproduction. Part of the furor surrounding Gray has come from his shakeup of the ranks of the FBI, which had known but one boss. Also in volved is the administrator’s po litical connections with President Nixon. When Gray left the Navy in 1960, he joined the staff of Vice President Richard Nixon. He serv ed on Nixon campaign teams in 1960 and 1968. Some observers feel there have been “disturbing indications that Gray is not the wholly apolitical administrator he now claims to be,” according to Time. The man who may become the FBI’s fulltime director, depending on formal recommendation and confirmation, was the son of a struggling railroad worker. He grew up in St. Louis and Houston, delivered newspapers as a boy and wanted to go to Annapolis from the first. There Gray played football, la crosse and boxed. He spent 18 months on the battleship Idaho, then switched to the submarine service for the rest of his 29-year military career. A law degree from George Washington Univer sity led to a successful practice in New London, Conn., in which he settled legal problems of the crew of the lost submarine Thresher without charge to the widows. Gray first met Nixon in 1947. After the 1968 election, he was named executive assistant at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare by Secretary Robert Finch. Gray moved to the Justice Department in 1970 to run the civil division and was nominated by Nixon to take over as deputy attorney general when Richard Kleindienst left the job to become attorney general. Before that could happen, Hoover died. Views differ, but after one FBI shakeup an agent still in the bureau wrote a friend: “When the letters go in now, they aren’t kissed off as a ‘disgruntled em ployee.’ I think Gray will be great for the bureau.” the 19th century and about 15 are under legal challenge. Another dozen or so states have laws that permit abortion, but only under certain circumstances —in the case of rape or incest, for example, or in order to pre serve the mother’s physical or mental health. Only four states — New York Hawaii, California and Washing ton— treat abortion as strictly a medical issue. Laws in the remaining states vary, but generally include some ban on abortion. Among the ex amples are a Pennsylvania law — declared unconstitutional and un der appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court — which forbids illegal abortions, but does not define illegal. An Associated Press survey showed state officials were not immediately sure of the impact of the ruling. Pro-abortion groups predictably expressed pleasure with the court action; anti-abor tion associations were dismayed. U.S. Rep. Sarah Weddington of Austin, Tex., who submitted the class action suit that led to Mon day’s ruling, said, “I am very- pleased because of the impact this decision will have on the lives of the many women who in the past have suffered because of the cur rent Texas law.” Margie Pitt Hames, an attorney who represented a woman appeal ing the Georgia law, said, “I think this is a landmark decision for women.” Oklahoma Atty. Gen. Larry Derryberry said his state’s law was similar to the Texas one. “It’s hard to tell until we have a chance to study it (the ruling), but apparently it will knock down our law.” Gov. David Hall of Oklahoma said he felt the issue of abortion was a matter for state legisla tures and added: “I deeply regret this additional intrusion by the federal government into matters the state should resolve.” The ruling touched off a dis pute among legislators in Arizona. Rep. D. Lee Jones commented: “Like everything else, people’s ideas change.” “People’s ideas change, but God’s don’t,” countered Rep. James Cooper. Rep. Jim Skelly said: “I think it’s disgraceful. Isn’t life sacred anymore in the United States?” The Arizona law, currently un der appeal in state courts, pro hibits abortion except to save the mother’s life. Florida Asst. Atty. Gen. George georgieff said his state’s abor tion law probably would be in validated by the court ruling, although he said he couldn’t as sess the full effects before read ing the 100-page majority opinion. Florida liberalized its abortion law earlier this year, allowing termination of pregnancy to pro tect the mother’s health, if the baby would be born deformed or if the pregnancy results from rape or incest. The law is pat terned on one passed by Colorado in 1967 and copied by more than a dozen states. Joseph Riley, head of the Mas sachusetts Catholic Conference which has lobbied against liberal ization of the abortion laws, said, “What the court has chosen to do is decide the issue on the prin ciple that the developing child starts off as having no worth at all and no rights and then as it develops, it begins to have some rights and greater value. The court has tried to impose its own philosophical understanding of a biological principle on a total society.” Silver Taps Scheduled For Aggie Coed Killed Sunday Silver Taps is slated Thursday night at 10:30 for A&M coed, Jane Williams Record of Houston, who was killed Sunday night in a two-car accident six miles west of Caldwell on State Highway 21. The memorial service will not be held Tuesday night as is customary because of tonight’s basketball game against the University of Texas and William F. Buckley’s speech Wednesday night. Mildred Lehmann Miman of Caldwell was injured in the head-on collision. She was taken to Scott & White Hospital in Temple in undetermined condition. Miss Record, a 22-year-old sophomore liberal arts student, was the driver of the vehicle headed west on Highway 21. The Caldwell woman was in the auto headed in the opposite direction. Miss Record was the daughter of Rush H. Record of 650 Piney Point Road in Houston. Funeral arrangements are pending in Houston. Lincoln Union Debaters Win; Keep Women At A&M By KARL JACKSON Staff Writer Females will be kept on cam pus, according to the results of the Lincoln Union debate, “Should A&M Ban the Broads?” A large audience voted six to two not to ban the females and to keep them on campus in last night’s debate held in the Archi tecture Auditorium. “If there are only men at A&M, then no men are going to come here to get married,” argued Mike Wagner of the losing side. Lloyd Broussard, Shannon Tur ner and Bill Hatherill paced the negative or winning side while Wagner, Mike Perrin and Gary Reger supported the side that maintained that women should be banned from A&M as in the past. Turner, who was the only fe male debater, said that while some women came to A&M to better their education, many came because of the ratio of men Long Hair On The Way Out For Men *e •m By RON BENTO Shoulder-length hair that makes guys so fair may soon be come rare. That’s right! Men have be gun to wear their hair shorter, say barbers and hair stylists from cities like New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and College Sta tion. In a recent survey conducted by the Associated Press, top pro fessionals agreed that hair is now being worn a lot shorter than a year ago. “All of a sudden the men who were letting, their hair go be low their shoulders have begun putting the shears closer to the ears,” says Phil Angelo, presi dent of the American Society of Men’s Hair Stylists. Herb Ferdora, who has been barbering in Bryan for six years, says that hair is getting shorter because parents generally no longer complain about its length on their sons. “Kids really don’t need to see at what lengths they can get away with now,” he said. A&M has always been a con servative campus, agree Bill Sef- cik and Ed Campbell, who have both been barbers in the Memo rial Student Center for the last 17 years. “Of course, the military has always insisted in very short hair for sanitation reason s,” said Campbell. The Corps has always been first to maintain this rule strictly. Even a few civilians on this campus are clipping their hair because they’re getting tired of it. “A lot of civilians want a short hair cut because of job inter views or because it just looks better with the newer styles in clothes,” said Sefcik. Short hair is seen around film studios, boutiques and art gal leries in Los Angeles quite com monly now. Among the celebri ties recently shorn, figuratively speaking, are Steve McQueen, Mick Jagger, Kirk Douglas, Tony Randall, Elvis Presley and George Segal. The 1970s short cuts are not the old skinned rabbit look of previous decades. Instead, they are often styled with no side part, an exposed ear and an over all short, flat, layered effect. Jackie Rogers, a Hollywood stylist whose customers include actor Michael Caine and singer Tom J ones, is doing a promotion of the Gatsby look. “We’re get ting away from the scraggly look, because Gatsby is more groomed and cleaner,” said Rogers. “Looking back on it now, I realize I grew long hair as a pro test against my honky parents,” says Bill Swartz, age 24, a psy chology major, who’s gone from shoulder length to just-below-the- collar hair. Like barbers, women’s hair stylists agree that hair is defi nitely coming off. The new styles range from a radical one- inch-all-over cut to a more mod erate collar length. “The women who’s worn their hair quite long are cutting it to more swinging lengths — be tween the chin and the shoulder,” says Kenneth, in New York. “I think by summer we’ll have some very short cuts.” Reports conflict on teens and their long, long hair. They’re chopping it off in Atlanta and Indianapolis, say stylists; but they’re hanging on to it in Chi cago and Scarsdale, N. Y. In Baltimore, the kids are getting it shaped a bit. French urchin styles. Flash Gordon “Mercury cuts” and sim ple shags are the big thing for women in Los Angeles. The pageboy should also have a strong run in popularity. With all the fads that come and go these days, could it be that long beautiful hair is just another that has played its course and is doomed to oblivion? to women. “We like all the at tention,” she said. Through the use of graphs, Perrin proved that females on A&M’s campus were bad for the Aggies and not “stimulating to the local economy.” Broussard believed that women would ease the energy crisis and be good for the health of all males. “Think of all the new activities that can be undertaken while the lights are out,” said Broussard “and according to Masters and Johnson, they are terrific for your health.” Reger said, “A&M was one of the few places that is without women and a man needs a haven away from women.” Sex was a focal point of the debate with neither side gaining a clear cut advantage. “Let’s give our sheep a rest,” said Hatherill of the winning side, “Let’s leave the sheep to the sheep and Reveille to the Corps.” The negative side maintained that the local high school girls were better for the Ags and that “different” problems would occur with females on campus. “And what about those un wanted pregnancies?” questioned Perrin. “A college girl is smart and might make you stick to it, while high school girls really don’t know what’s going on, and besides you might trick some high school male into thinking that he did it.” Upcoming Lincoln Union func tions are a “Free University” pro gram Jan. 31, a debate society meeting in Room 302 of the Li brary on Feb. 5 and another de bate on Feb. 12. The subject of this debate, held on Abe Lincoln’s birthday, will be to decide wheth er or not he was a ‘war criminal.’ University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.