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Thursday, October 20,1983/The BattaIion/Page 7 TelegrapH aid tradilii lalyzingBttij >od becaustsf f ihe divtsl i'i takeilaptl g picture, customenS up pavinn ■d to loobtj you see ikj ot supponj oted dial a at, 81 petiij would f; cribers. ommendaaj included: ion in serv [CS. Ring of & to stockMJ round town tolecular mutations topic of speech Dr. Susan Gottesman of the National Institutes of Health will present at lecture on “Analysis of E. Coli Lon Mutations: Role for Unstable Proteins in Regulatory Networks,” Fri day at 4 p.m. in the Medical Science Building lecture hall. Friday is the 333rd anniversary of Sir Thomas Browne’s bssay on the concept of mutation in “Enquiries into Very Tany Commonly Received Tenets and Commonly Pre sumed Truths.” Gottesman’s speech is presented as the Sir fhomas Browne M.D. Memorial Lecture. Gottesman is being recognized for her contributions to molecular biology and to the understanding of the chemical and genetic principles of heredity by the Cloning and Gene Transfer Group and the Department of Medical Bioche- listry. Following the lecture, anyone interested may tour the .aboratory of Cloning and Gene Transfer and the new Applied Biosystems DNA Synthesizer. Anyone interested is encouraged to attend. ! orkshop entry deadline extended wanceofii irges. ick in coin n a quam The entry deadline for the publicity workshop “Publicity Pays Off’ has been extended to Friday. The workshop, Sponsored by Women in Communications, Inc., will be held aturday in 014 Reed McDonald. The workshop is open to Texas A&M student organizations and local community roups, and the registration fee is $10 for each organization or individual. I Seminars will be presented both by W1CI members and professional communicators on advertising design, press re leases, designing flyers, and working with the local media, liparticipants will be given a chance to design some of their '■wn work, and prizes will be awarded for outstanding work _. _ [pit the end of the workshop, which will run from 10 a.m. to y/ I 1:30 p.m. J | Texas A&M chapter of WICI is part of a national ^Organization of communication professionals working to- icededlogin ward a goal of excellence in communications, ore flexibfc t For more information, contact Kim Schmidt at 260-0056. Vaughn, h I-' two years,': ?• lan and prs f iergasCo,fi Vaughn wasf available for ... . , , Visiting executive to speak to class fficials said ill gas dislA d assets of[« npanyinexi ' Energas r, vice pn itnmumcati«*| d Energas t 900 peopli ve been eni| r subsidian I reports:] •ated the at* d have ass® 1 on andex| ore than year. Tom Burke, vice president for Human Resources of ntex, will speak Friday to a management class as part of the Visiting Executive Series. Burke will discuss the roles of the human resources department in recruiting, training and labor relations in the company. The Visiting Executive Series is sponsored by the Center for Executive Development and the Department of Man agement. The class brings executives to the classroom to talk ith students about the business world. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. mat ;r YOU’RE INVITED /HAT: Halloween Parly /HEN: October 31 (all day) /HERE: Studio di Cappelli. 3801S. Texas Ave (next 3 Pawn Shop). 846-CUTS. I/HY: Studio di Cappelli stylists: Minnie Mouse, fampire, Clowns, and Witches wish to entertain with their latest expertise in all phases of hair, lake-up, colors, perms, new waves, and curls, ER pop in and enjoy our Vampire Blood Punch and Creature Crunchies, also take advantage f 10% off any service all day! Creative Halloween Make-up Faces $7.95 - $9.95 ITUDIO di CAPPELLI welcomes - Kelly White- Mike Olexey Debbie Bice Gutenberg Bible researched United Press International AUSTIN — For some Texas scholars, reading a good book resembles detective work. The scholars are part of an elite group which does research on the University of Texas’ Gutenberg Bible — one of only five complete copies of the book in the nation. The Gutenberg Bible, consi dered a benchmark of Western civilization, was purchased by UT for $2.4 million in 1979. It is on display in Dallas through Oct. 24 as part of a statewide tour celebrating UT’s Centen nial. “Part of the reason for in terest in the Gutenberg Bible is that it provides this opportunity for research,” Sally Leach, a UT spokeswoman, said. Dr. Karen Keel Gould, a UT history lecturer and consultant to the school’s Humanities Re search Center, says her research into the life of Johann Guten berg indicates the inventor of movable type was “plagued by lawsuits” and impoverished much of his life. Born Johann Gensfleish ab out 1399 in Mainz, Germany, the son of a patrician Rhine family, Gutenberg later adopted his mother’s surname. “He demanded absolute secrecy from his partners and backers, insisting on one occa sion that all his ‘forms’ be melted down to avoid discovery by com petitors, and on other occasions The Gutenberg Bible was purchased by UT for $2.4 million in 1979. It is on display in Dallas through Oct. 24 as part of a state wide tour celebrating UT’s Centennial. that his press be dismantled, she said. Gould speculates that Guten berg’s return to Mainz in 1448 was prompted by financial diffi culties in Strassburg. In Mainz, he persuaded Johann Fust, an attorney and financier, to invest in a printing process. Historians believe Gutenberg began printing his famous bible around 1450. “During the next five years, Fust lent Gutenberg record sums of money, and it was dur ing this period that the printer began costly work on the Bible that now carries his name,” she said. “In 1455, soon after the Bi ble was completed, Fust sued Gutenberg for debts, and since the printer could not repay the money, the court turned over his equipment and stock to Fust.” Fust’s firm, using Guten berg’s equipment, former fore man and ex-employees, became the city’s leading printer, she said. Despite the experience, Gutenberg continued his work by borrowing more money and setting up another shop. In 1465, the Archbishop of Mainz awarded a lifetime pen sion to Gutenberg “for service rendered and to be rendered.” Appeals court frees man on technicality United Press International AUSTIN — A church-goer who claimed demons laughed at him and told him to kill his father was freed from prison Wednesday by a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling that dismissed the case because the man was denied a speedy trial. Bruce Wade Smith was sent enced to 99 years in prison after a jury rejected his plea of inno cent by reason of insanity in the shooting death of his father, Carl E. Smith, in October 1977 near the town of Center. Smith’s trial did not take place until March 1979, promp ting the Court of Criminal Appeals to rule on a 6-3 vote that he was denied his right to a speedy trial. Dissenting judges agreed his rights were violated, but objected to the majority’s de cision to dismiss the case en tirely. A psychiatrist testified at Smith’s trial that the young man suffered from schizophrenia and a “thinking disorder” and was strongly influenced by his religious upbringing in the Pen tecostal and Jehovah’s Witness faiths. “He told me the spirits wanted his father killed so that they could get ready for Armageddon,” the psychiatrist said. “He fell that the demons were laughing at him.” Smith, a 24-year-old taxider mist who was married and had an infant son at the time of the crime, originally was charged with capital murder in the death of his father, who was shot three times with a .22-caliber rifle, and the theft of $30 and his father’s car. The charge later was re duced to murder. In other action Wednesday, the state’s highest criminal appeal court overturned an El Paso man’s conviction for the rape of a retarded woman, rul ing prosecutors failed to prove the man knew his victim was so “mentally deficient” that she was unable to understand or resist the sexual act. Q)eniny 0loom ^ HEAR NORA LAM Cl With only three minutes to live, Nora stood, blindfolded, before a firing squad of eight men. She heard the death countdown begin. Looking up to Jesus she prayed, and waited for the bullets to hit. But none did! God sent a blinding light about her, and those who intended to destroy her stood back in fright. DATE-Saturday-October 22 TIME-7:00 p.m. PLACE-Texas A&M University Rudder Tower 701, College Station ALL SEATS ARE FREE Nora will also pray for those with physical and spiritual needs. 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