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February 5, 1982
What’s Up at
Friday
MSG LAW DAY: For those interested in law school and legal
careers, tickets will be on sale at the MSC box office Feb. 1-5.
MSG AGGIE CINEMA: ,, M*A*S*H” will be shown at mid
night in Rudder Theatre.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Meet
ing from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.in 109 Military Science Building.
LDSSA: Sandwich seminar with Edgar Wolferts talking on
“Celestial Dating and Marriage” at noon at 100 Dexter.
BAPTIST STUDENT CENTER: International dinner
(Mexican food) for both international and American students
at 7 p.m. in the Bapist Student Center, 201 College Main,
behind Kinko’s.
HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER: Services will be
lead by Dr. Yechiel Weitsman at 8 p.m. in the center.
Saturday
TAMU ROADRUNNERS: Two, four and six mile fun runs
will be at 9 a.m. at the aerobics track.
MSC LAW DAY: It wall be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in A&A
Texas A&M
Building, and it is for all those interested: in law school and
legal careers.
MARRIED S TUDENT HOUSING: Party at Q Hut “B” at 8
p.m. with cokes, beer and munchies.
Sunday
MSC AGGIE CINEMA: “Patton” will be shown at 7:30 p.m.
in Rudder Theatre.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: Cowboy College Life
at 8 p.m. in 225 MSC. Bring all your friends and dress
cowboy!
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: Pledge meeting at 7 p.m. in 301
Rudder followed be active meeting at 8 p.m.
CAMP MIMMS (FISH CAMP B): Reunion and get together
to eat pizza with your friends from Fish Camp at 6 p'm. in
Pasta’s.
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL: Class on “What
Does It Mean to Be a Christian Called Lutheran?” will be at 4
p.m. and a study on why the church uses liturgies and what
they mean for the life of the church will be at 7 p.m. Both will
be in the University Lutheran Chapel, 315 N. College Main.
istory’s largest cancer study
o recruit 1 million volunteers
Shuttle pilots to train
on concrete runways
ioto by Eric M
United Press International
NEW YORK — Cancer re
searchers will recruit a million
lealthy Americans and follow'
ftheir medical progress for six
years in a $ 12-million effort to
find out why some people get
Cancer and others don’t.
The giant project — the big
gest cancer study in history —
^vill begin in September, the
Cmerican Cancer Society said
Wednesday.
As people in the study die,
itheir death records will be
obtained and factors leading to
ieath will be checked against
1500 bits of information each
study subject put on a question
naire at the time he or she en
rolled.
“We’ll be probing for clues
about possible cancer preven
tion elements in our lifestyles ...
It could turn out that some of
our habits actually help us to
avoid getting cancer,” ACS Pres
ident Robert V.P. Hotter said.
Each of 85,000 volunteer re
searchers will ask about 10 fami
lies to complete detailed ques
tionnaires. The volunteers will
keep track of the study families
at least until 1988.
Participants must be at least
30 and belong to a household in
which at least one member is
past age 45. Special efforts will
be made to enroll people now' in
their 50s, 60s and 70s.
The ACS said the researchers
will check wdth enrollees again in
1984, 1986 and 1988, and obtain
official death records of those
who have died, in an attempt to
determine:
— the effects of long-term ex
posure to low-level radiation
from sources such as color tele
vision sets and word processors
or video display terminals;
— health effects associated
with air and water pollution;
— risks associated with nutri
tion, drugs and various occupa
tional exposures;
—the possible interplay of
multiple cancer-causing subst
ances, which might not indepen
dently cause cancer; and
—the possibility of increased
vulnerability to cancer in certain
racial, religious, geographic or
genetic groups.
United Press International
WHITE SANDS MISSILE
RANGE, N.M. — Space shuttle
training flights over Northrup
Strip at the White Sands Missile
Range are being expanded to in
clude two new programs at near
by Holloman Air Force Base,
NASA officials say.
Officials at NASA White
Sands Test Facility say the latest
programs will involve daytime
simulated landings on Hollo
man’s concrete runways.
The daytime program is de
signed to familiarize orbiter
flight crews with landing techni-
? [ues on conventional hard sur-
ace runways like the one at the
U.S. Naval Base in Rota, Spain.
Rota is one of six emergency
landing sites around the globe
for the shuttle.
A1 Paczynski, a senior en
gineer for NASA at the test facil
ity, says conventional air fields
such as Rota are not equipped
with special aimpoints, Precision
Approach Path Indicator sys
tems, glidescope lighting or mic
rowave scanning beam landing
systems, all of which have been
installed at Kennedy, Edwards
Air Force Base, Calif., and
Northrup Strip.
Holloman, with its standard
runway system, was selected as
the training site because of its
proximity to Northrup Strip,
Paczynski said.
“The use of Holloman is de
sirable for both economic and
efficient use of the astronauts’
training time,” he said.
“With both airfields (North
rup Strip and Holloman) only a
few miles apart, they can be used
during a single training mission
to practice landing techniques,”
The new program will be re
stricted to daytime approaches,
because the current shuttle
ground rules require daylight
landings.
The prime and backup crews
for Columbia’s third test flight
will participate first. The prime
crew members are Jack Lousma
and Charles “Gordy” Fullerton,
with a backup crew of T.K. Mat
tingly and Henry W. Hartsfield
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United Press International
BOSTON — Former Secret
ary of State Henry Kissinger was
admitted to Massachusetts Gen
eral Hospital late Wednesday
• for routine tests and treatment
F of a long-term shoulder com-
. plaint, a spokesman said
ss ‘tr . Tlmrsday.
M c ic ^ ^ hospital spokeswoman had
earlier denied that Kissinger was
admitted Wednesday.
The Boston Herald Amer
ican said Kissinger flew from
Washington to Boston for treat
ment by a heart specialist after
j^complaining of a sore shoulder
and pain in the arm.
However, a hospital spokes
man, Martin Bander, said Kis
singer was consulting with Dr.
W. Gerald Austen, w'ho has
routinely treated the Kissingers
| for a number of years.
Bander Said Kissinger, secret
ary of state in the Nixon admi
nistration, could be released in a
couple of days.
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Society of
Petroleum Engineers
Meeting
“Financing the Petroleum Industry”
Speaker: Mr. Glen Carson
of First City National Bank
of Houston
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Our shipyard recruiter will be on campus on
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