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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1984)
Six Flags planning to open new ride Six Flags Over Texas at Ar lington has announced a new ride for the 1984 season. The ride — named the Great Six Flags Air Racer — is sched uled to open in early May. Passengers sit in biplanes that tilt upward as the ride begins and will level out at a point about 90 feet above the ground. Each of the 12 air craft holds six passengers. The biplanes will be travel ing in an 80-foot circle near the takeoff point at 36 miles per hour and in a 150-foot cir cle by the time they reach their highest point. The Great Six Flags Air Racer will be located where the Caddo Indian War Canoe ride previously was located. An island has been built in the center of the canoe lake to accommodate the Air Racer. The ride's foundation, us ing more than 1,000 tons of concrete, has already been poured and the ride structure will contain more than 180 tons of steel. The ride, being built in Switzerland, will be equipped with safety systems controlled by two computers. One computer will monitor the actions of the other and serve as a backup system. New book helps beautify brutes Poetry contest is open to students Exhibits on show A portfolio of engravings by William Hogarth will be on view through April 1 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The exhibition, The Rowdy London of William Hogarth: A Portfolio of En gravings From the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Founda tion, includes most of Ho garth's major engraved series such as "The Rake's Pro gress," "The Harlot's Pro gress," "Marriage a la Mode," "Industry and Idleness" and "Before and After." Hogarth (1697-1764), a prominent London Painter during the reigns of George II and George III, is known to day for his lively and satiric engravings which provide a vivid image of the robust and rowdy activities of the Georgian Englishmen. The Hogarth Collection is on loan from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. Beginning February 25, Let Virtue Be A Guide to Thee: Needlework in the Education of Rhode Island Women, 1730-1830, also will be on view at the museum. This ex hibition features more than 100 examples of needlework by schoolgirls in Rhode Is land academies. The sam plers and pictorial needle work for the exhibition have been borrowed from major U.S. museums and form pri- , vate collections. Entries for the Texas A&M Poetry Contest, sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, are being accepted now. All entries must be submitted to 205 Blocker or any other desig nated drop off spot by 5 p.m. on March 23. Participants must be undergraduate stu dents at Texas A&M and may submit up to three poems. Entries will be judged by Dr. Paul Christensen, Dr. Janet McCann, Dr. John Mc Dermott and Dr. Stanford. A screening committee will be formed if more than 50 poems are entered. The com mittee will decide how the poems are to be judged So you want to be a star? Here's your chance to get your picture in the soon-to-be published National Young Talent Directory. This direc tory will be available to over 1,000 casting directors and agents from New York to Hollywood who are search ing for young talent under the age of 25. Listings in the directory range from $45- $120, depending on whether according to how many are to be read. Judges will receive poetry no later than April 1. The judges' final decision will be made by Sunday, April 15. The top ten poems will be posted in the English office, the poetry will be read publically April 18 in Ru mours, and the top three poems will be displayed at the Memorial Student Cen ter. All entries must be turned in in a 9 1 /2" by U'/z" enve lope. The author's name must not appear anywhere on the entry, but must be in cluded in the envelope on a separate sheet of paper. the model or talent wants one, two or five photographs published. The publication for the directory is scheduled for late April or early May. 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