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/ 1 r I i .age 10 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1981 I I'1 l: !j National Rubik snake puzzle latest brain torture Simply Great Mexican Food. THE WEDNESDAY SPECIAL MONTEREY DINNER £4. 5>0/ REG - $4.85 FIESTA DINNER QQ/R-KG. O • 99/ $4.45 ENCHTLADA DINNER $3.19/ $3.65 ^ /VVEXICAM^-K-^RFSTAtlRANTS RESTAURANTS 1816 Texas Ave. • 823-8930 907 Highway 30 • 693-2484 United Press International CHICAGO — Dr. Erno Rubik s new instrument of mental torture will wriggle its way onto your list of puzzlements. The in ventor of the frustrating multico lored box puzzle known as Rubik s Cube has devised the Magic Snake. Jack Hirsch, president of Hirs- chCo Inc., the toy distribution firm that has the exclusive distri bution rights for the snake, says its 24, five-surfaced pyramids — link ed with a series of rivets — are enough to make a grown man cry. The first snakes went on sale in August and Hirsch expects 700,000 to be in consumers’ hands by Christmas. “There are 74 trillion permuta tions but only about 23 trillion possible combinations,” Hirsch said. “My youngest daughter can do it in 11 or 12 seconds.” Hirsch, 51, said the Rubik s Cube has only one correct solution out of 43 quintillion possibilities. He said the Magic Snake has an original shape, but can be made into almost anything including a dog, a picture frame or a car. The snake, manufactured by TOMY, a Japanese toymaker, sells for between $9 and $13. While r< m orning fc that blew i had only 5 The AP ve service ha Defensi backer Mi UPI secoi Gary Kub win, offei Strogen, s back Earn team. How rii these spor the feats Strogen, 1 name but first team Then I of writers team. Me bigger cil probably 1 Only 23 More Days! Staff photo by Greg Waleraic The MSC Craft Shop is sponsoring a Christmas craft fair next to Rudder Fountain today. The fair gives students an oppotunity to see a variety' of articles made by local artists while enabling them to do some Christmas shopping, Hk MSC Craft Shop tries to have a craft fair every semesterani the fairs are open to any interested artists. MSC Cafeteria Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $2.19 Plus Tax. <( 0pen Daily” Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. — 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Druggist drops parasite line Customers loathe leech loss MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea. One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak w cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL United Press International CHICAGO — Several times a day the phone rings at Sargent’s Drugstore from people in search of blood suckers. The answer is always the same: “No, I’m sorry, we re all out of leeches.” Tucked under the “L” tracks in Chicago’s Loop, Sargent’s stocks apothecary delights such as wood betony leaves, Singapore patch ouly oil and wahoo leaves. But recently it changed own ership and out went the parasites, which had been on the store’s shelves for nearly a century. Calls for them keep coming through — and the new owner, Glen Balas, is determined to bring the critters back. “They’re used mainly by peo ple from the old country,” Clifford Fischer, a Sargent’s clerk, said. “And they’re used for headaches, circulation problems and ten- The heyday of medicinal leeches occurred in the 1850s. Some people were known to have covered their bodies with as many as 80 a day. Russians still use leeches. Doc tors used them on Stalin before he died in 1953. And they were still being cultivated in the Soviet Un ion at least through the last de cade. Other big leech customers are eastern and southern Europeans. In fact, Sargent’s imported leeches come from remote wildlife areas in southern Europe. Doctors in France’s Bordeaux area have prescribed leeches for certain plastic surgery patients suffering from blood clots. The French doctors also use leeches after skin transplants and to help save fingers lost in accidents. Surgeons, with the aid of a mic roscope, can restore blood circula tion by sewing together the tiny artery within the finger. Howev- leii outs . loma dav 12bov ^ ‘With i er, the smallest of veins cannot! repaired and the blood leaksi the finger, clotting and hindi the healing process. The leeches are applied to end of the finger twice a draw blood, allowing the ret planted finger to form new vessels. At $10 a leech, it’s an remedy — and an imported o >7. from Europe. “American leeches are good,” Fischer said. “Theleed we (used to) stock suck up toa of an ounce of blood in ahalfk Some swell up to the sizei hotdog. ” The r continu Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad Choice of Salad Dressing — Hot Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee FOR YOUR PROTECTION OUR PERSONNEL HAVE HEALTH CARDS. FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Yankee Pot Roast (Texas Salad) Mashed Potato w gravy Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee (“Quality First ’l Columbia mission productive despite shortened voyage SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable United Press International HOUSTON — Despite prob lems that shortened their space voyage, Columbia astronauts Joe Engle and Dick Truly achieved most of their mission and say they had a funfilled blast. “Of those major areas of accom plishment. ..the flight accom plished between 90 and 95 per cent of those objectives,” Engle said as he and Truly held their first post-mission news conference. “If PECANS Q.% % c ^«fU Last Chance Before Christmas $ 1.75/LB. FOR “DESIRABLE” $ 1.35/LB. FOR “STUART” (sold in 10 lb. bags) Send in your order today — pick-up time will be December 7, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. at loading dock of Plant Science Building. (Proceeds will go towards building our club greenhouse) Name: Address: Phone: I would like: Send To: TAMU Horticulture Club Dept, of Hort. Sciences Plant Science Building TAMU College Station, Tx. 77843 10 LB. BAGS OF DESIRABLE @ $1.75/LB. 10 LB. BAGS OF STUART @ $1.35/LB TOTAL DUE AT LOADING DOCK Signature 90 percent is an A, I think they got an A.” The two showed a 20-minute film and slide presentation with spectacular pictures of last month’s shuttle launch, orbit and re-entry. “The fun starts here,” Truly said, narrating the film of himself and Engle floating weightless in side the Columbia’s cabin. “Here’s a couple of tourists sup posed to be working and telling Houston (mission control) they are working but really looking out the windows and having fun.” Truly, 44, said while in orbit he was amazed at lightning he saw flashing rhythmically in two loca tions over Brazil. Said Engle, 49, “When those solids (the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters generating 4.8 million pounds of thrust) lit, you really knew something had hit you. It was really spectacular.” Truly said the balky electricity generating fuel cell that shortened their mission was being sent to manufacturer United Technolo gies Corp. in Connecticut for analysis and should be fixed with- HOUST< out major changes. The Columbia, on its se« flight, was launched from Cz "modest wh Canaveral, Fla., Nov. 12andl# Ifootball wii ed at Edwards Air Force Bi Calif, Nov. 14 — threedayses andwebea because of a fuel cell failure. The bulk of the Colunit payload of experiments obtain 'success wa usable data. The shuttle’s Caf Stabler dis; dian-built bionic almost perfectly, and flightti people,” Si Oho loo/dnq-/ts MInThe WMr/WtT maneuvers on reentry were cessful. Skylab veteran Jack Lon! and Gordon Fullerton, who landing tests in the space shut Enterprise off the back of a Boe 747, tentatively are scheduled fly the third orbital test of the umbia in mid-March. or twice t on the tea records. 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