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‘Terms’ captures 11
Oscar nominations
United Press International
•' HOLLYWOOD — “Terms
of Endearment,” the tale of the
joys and heartaches of a mother
and daughter growing up to-
'g'ether, captured 11 Oscar nom
inations Thursday, including
best picture, to lead this year’s
Academy Award competition.
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“The Right Stuff,” the block
buster account of America’s
first astronauts, won eight nom
inations, including best picture,
followed by six for Ingmar
Bergman’s “Fanny & Alexan
der,” the story of the travails of
a Swedish family.
Also nominated for best pic
ture were “The Big Chill,” “The
Dresser” and “Tender Mer-
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telecast April 9.
Barbra Streisand, who wrote,
produced, directed and starred'
in “Yentl,” failed to win a nomi-
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Shirley MacLaine, who plays
the tempestuous mother in
“Terms of Endearment,” and
Debra Winger, her defiant
daughter, were both nominated
for best actress. MacLaine has
been nominated four times in
the category, but has never
won. Winger was a surprise
nominee last year for “An Offi
cer and a Gentleman,” but did
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The 1 1 nominations for
“Terms of Endearment” were
best picture, two best actress
nominations, two best support
ing actor nominations, best di
rector, best screenplay, film edi
ting, original score, sound and
best art direction.
The 56th annual Academy
nation for best actress or best
director. Her movie won five
other nominations, including
two in the best song category.
Also nominated for best ac
tress were Jane Alexander, who
starred in “Testament,” a film
about nuclear holocaust; two-
time Oscar winner Meryl
Streep, who played a contami
nated nuclear plant worker in
“Silkwood,” and newcomer Ju
lie Walters, who portrayed an
ambitious student in “Educat
ing Rita.” Streep the best actress
award last year for “Sophie’s
Choice.”
Nominated for best actor
were Michael Caine, the alco
holic professor in “Educating
Rita;” Tom Conti for his role as
the traveling poet in “Reuben,
Reuben;” Robert Duvall as the
washed-up country singer in
“Tender Mercies,” and Albert
Finney, as a Shakesperean ac
tor, and Tom Courtenay, as his
gopher, in “The Dresser.”
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Helping out
Aggie vet students aid Austin humane society
By JAN PERRY
Reporter
Most people look for blood
to flow when Aggies visit Aus
tin. But instead of fighting,
there’s appreciation when
Texas A&M’s veterinary
medicine students lend their
skills to an Austin humane so
ciety, and both groups bene
fit.
The students participate in
a visiting clinic program,
which is under the direction
of Dr. W. Elmo Crenshaw, as
sociate professor of veteri
nary medicine at Texas
A&M.
The 11-year-old cooper
ative between Texas A&M,
the Austin-Travis County
Humane Society and the
Capital Area Veterinary
Medical Association has no
trouble in drawing volun
teers. After completing their
one mandatory surgical visit,
most of the students are more
than willing to volunteer their
time again.
“It’s (the program) popular
with the students,” Crenshaw
said. “They’re glad to volun
teer. I think the students con
sider it the best day of their
senior year.”
The program is popular
because both parties benefit:
The students get surgical ex
perience and the humane so
ciety gets economical medical
care.
Christie Warren, a student
who has worked for the clinic
several times, said the pro
gram helps all those con
cerned.
.
Dr. W. E. Crenshaw (at right), Asso
ciate Professor of Veterinary Medi
cine, and Wade Bradshaw (center),
Photo by DEANSm\
look on as Luke Chachere (at left) per
forms surgery on a dog in the Small
Animal Clinic at Veterinary College.
“We feel like we are doing
a service for the community
and the humane society,” she
said.
The community involved,
however, is Austin. Crenshaw
said the number of stray dogs
and cats in Bryan and College
Station is small enough that
local veterinarians can handle
ate on as many animals a$
possible, and Austin’s hu
mane society supplies a larger
source of patients.
The patients involved,
mainly dogs and cats, are not
experimental animals,
Crenshaw said.
The students need to oper-
“The humane society re
quires that all of the animals
be neutered,” Crenshaw said.
The students perform hyster
ectomies on the female aJ
mals and castrations on ik|
males.
Every Thursday about fid
students perform about30o!j
these operations^ Grensbl
said. They start at 9a.nUB(l|
don’t stop until they are ft
ished, usually around 4 ori
p.m.
The students perform al]
phases of the surgery tli
selves, Crenshaw said.
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Scien
tists curtailed experiments
Thursday in a remote section of
the top secret Nevada Test Site
where the earth caved in over
an underground nuclear explo
sion, injuring 14 workers.
A government official said
the sudden depression in the
desert mesa at the test site
Wednesday following a 20-ki-
loton-range blast was the first
injury accident since testing be
gan in Nevada in 1951.
Members of a surface re-en
try team suffered fractures and
cuts and bruises when part of a
mesa jutting 6,000 feet above
the desert collapsed beneath
them. Ten were hospitalized,
including one man in critical
condition. Two were released
Thursday.
There were no radiation in
juries and no radiation leak,
spokesmen for the Department
of Energy said.
The delayed action cave-in,
three hours after the deto
nation, created an oval-shaped
hole 10 to 30 feet deep, 60 feet
wide and 150 feet long.
The explosion was triggered
1,168 feet below the mesa top
and inside a granite tunnel
drilled into the base of the Rain
ier Mesa.
The mesa, 93 miles north
west of Las Vegas, is in the
northeast section of the 1,350-
square mile Rainier Mesa test
site, site of 618 nuclear experi
ments since 1951.
“We have had industrial
work accidents at the test
but there has never been is
one injured in a subsideiw
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scale registered by the nttck
test was “in line with othet
kiloton weapons detonaid
the Nevada Test Site.”
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