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■r j Hargett, Housley kjv ^ " ' I 467 Saw Research -v( 5" 1 Lead Cotton Win In Space, Atom BY GARY SHERER ing, “well (ahem) you know the Battalion Sports Editor Aggies.” Texas A&M, once primarily an ed parts. The new approach Aggie Coach STALLINGS, however, didn’t agricultural institution, took promises important new insight took a ride on New Year’s Day. rationalize, he improvised. giant steps into the space and as man begins to consider the It proved to be a short trip but That improvisation may well f nuclear ages during 1967. whole world as a biological unit the author of one of this year’s parallel the job done by the ‘min- In the early morning hours of subject to the ills of pollution. top football stories enjoyed every utemen’ militia on the British Dec. 2, exactly 26 years after the In July, the university was se­ second of it. back in revolutionary days. t* world’s first controlled chain nu­ lected by the Department of De­ The transportation was provid­ Combining many offensive and clear reaction, scientists at fense to establish “centers of ex­ ed by Stallings’ former coach, defensive changes along with A&M’s Cyclotron Institute re­ cellence” in optimization and me­ boss and still trusted advisor— some good old-fashioned luck, the leased a beam of nuclear parti­ teorology under a large Project Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant. Aggies won their last six games. cles from the massive 300 - ton Themis grant. THIS WAS BRYANT’S way of All of those games were SWC machine. The pencil-like blue BEHIND MANY regimes of showing the 75,000 plus Cotton contests and the Maroon and beam signaled the beginning of a research and teaching lie mathe­ Bowl spectators that his longtime White grabbed its first title in 10 significant new capability for matical analysis. In December, pupil deserved all the plaudits he years. scientific research in the South­ A&M’s Data Processing Center was going to receive. All this Then, after the dust cleared fol­ west. installed a new IBM 360/66 com­ came about after the Aggies had lowing the 10-7 Turkey Day vic­ Two days later, Dr. Glenn T. puter with bigger capacity and beaten Alabama’s Crimson Tide tory over Texas, Bryant and Ala­ Seaborg, chairman of the U. S. greater speed than the IBM 7094 20-16 and put College Station bama were selected as the Aggies Atomic Energy Commission, led which had been in use. The latter (specifically) and the Southwest opponents in the Cotton Bowl. a list of dignitaries in dedicating computer was installed at the Cy­ Conference (in general) back on It was Alabama that provided the $6 million facility. clotron Institute where it may the map. the competition for A&M the last The Cotton Bowl victory was DURING THE latter part of eventually monitor operations of time the Aggies had been invited a fitting climax to a confusing i August, the university played the cyclotron. to the Dallas Classic. At that LONG MOVES UP 1967 football season. It was the host to the American Institute The university has operated a time, the Tide topped the Aggies Aggie wingback Bob Long looks for daylight upfield after taking a flat pass in the first capper to a season that had be­ of Biological Sciences. This big nuclear reactor several years. 29-21. That New Year’s victory half. Moving in from behind is Alabama’s Charlie Harris (82). In front are David Bed- gun with the Aggies, Texas and amalgamation of scientific socie­ New cooling facilities were in­ 26 years ago, still is the only well (48) and Eddie Propst (49). Arkansas picked as co-favorites time Alabama has won :n the ties, representing almost 70,000 stalled this year to accommodate in the SWC. Cotton Bowl. The Tide also lost biologists over the world, heard new and more powerful fuel ele­ But, all three of the favorites in 1953 when an off-the-bench more than 1,000 papers on topics ments to be added in 1968. The new reactor core will allow con­ lost their first two games and— tackle by an excited Alabaman a ranging from alteration of hered­ enter confusion. provided the oily anxiety for ity to possible characteristics of tinuous operation at a million Ui Then, Texas and Arkansas Tide rooters as Rice topped Ala­ plant life on Mars. watts and can be pulsed at 2,000 •r* stopped their losing skeins but bama 28-7. While A&M moved in new di­ million watts for four thou­ sandths of a second. the Aggies’ streak lasted through IN THAT 3^”ie year of 1953, rections, it by no means meant games three and four. All the Gene Stallings entered Texas A npmber of experiments in­ i that agricultural research had scribes who had said the Aggies A&M and was still 0. volving biological tolerance to slackened. New strains of plants were contenders now called on a year away from taking over as radiation were carried out during rli were released, farming operations their regular line of rationaliz- A&M head coach. the year. were analyzed by computers and However, in 1954, the opposing % ^ basic plant genetic work was ac­ THE UNIVERSITY also pro­ coaches of the 1968 Cotton Bowl complished. vided support to the nation’s game, started an association that % T$' The featured AIBS convention space effort throughout the year. N-Engineering continued until Stallings came speaker, Agriculture Secretary Scientists worked on structural back to College Station in 1965. Orville Freeman detailed plans to considerations of the Apollo During that 10-year period, fe cope with the urban shifts of the spacecraft, the vehicle which one Gets NSF Aid Stallings learned from Bryant l1 jiH population. day will take men to the moon. Texas A&M has been awarded and the Bear turned out to be a The university’s Institute of During the summer of 1967, a $16,400 National Science Foun­ good teacher. Tropical Veterinary Medicine was A&M acquired a powerful radio­ dation grant for a nuclear engi­ All this preparation came to a coming to grips with one aspect active Cobalt source—possibly the neering summer institute. head four days ago as pupil and .w... W i of the world food problem during most active for its size on any Dr. Robert G. Cochran, A&M’s teacher met for the first time, in V ^ ' v 1967. Scientists were studying university campus. Basic work Nuclear Engineering Department the ‘arena.’ ■ir VAr '■ ways of combating cattle diseases in physics is being carried out head, will direct the institute in­ The oddsmakers looked on this "jV Z in Colombia. with the source. game as a victory for the teacher volving 20 college science and V u OTHER WORK in fish protein A&M is stressing the interdis­ engineering teachers. as Alabama was installed as a concentrate carried on at A&M ciplinary approach to research Cochran said the institute six-point favorite. Bryant’s sea­ is aimed at the problem of defi­ problems. Workers from differ­ hopes to receive a $10,460 grant soned veterans (third bowl in-a- cient diets of the world’s popu­ ent fields collaborate—a system from the U. S. Atomic Energy row) were looked on *s too tough STEGENT THROUGH THE MIDDLE lations. quite different from the old idea Commission, a co-sponsor for the for Stallings’ big play miracle Tailback Larry Stegent grinds for short yardage as two Alabama defenders hang on. of the lone scientist carrying out past six institutes. workers. Bobby Johns (37) moves in to help David Bedwell (48). Action was in the first period. During 1967, the university es­ IT LOOKED like the pickers tablished a new Institute of Life work in a garret. A&M received approximately Collaboration in the disciplines $160,000 in grants for earlier were correct as the Tide scored Sciences with the purpose of on their second possession and studying biological processes as of electrical, chemical and aero­ institutes. dynamics engineering produced Aiding Cochran in teaching the took a 7-0 lead. The Aggies how­ a whole, rather than as fragment- ever, used one of their most po­ CONARC Chief Will Speak the successful firing of the first six-week institute which begins University National Bank sodium - potassium underwater June 3 will be Dr. James D. tent weapons this year, the inter­ “On the side of Texas A&M” propulsion device during the fall Smathers and Dr. Richard D. ception, and came back with a —Adv. of 1967. Neff. score. One of the parts of Stall­ ings’ improvising, Tommy Max­ At Jan. 20 Commencement well, grabbed a pass Gen. James K. Woolnough, Fort Monroe assignment, he was His decorations include the and the Aggies turned the break commanding general of the U. S. deputy chief of sttaff for person­ Combat Infantry Badge, Silver into a touchdown. Continental Army Command at nel, Department of the Army, and Bronze Star Medals, Belgian ‘Paul Revere, Raiders9 Set The six points came on a come­ Fort Monroe, Va., will be the Washington, D. C., two years. Officer of the Order of Leopold back pass from Edd Hargett to honored military guest at com­ and French Legion of Honor. Larry Stegent and the game was GENERAL Woolnough has had missioning exercises Jan. 20, The general was born in the tied. Alabama came right back numerous command positions President Earl Rudder an­ Philippine Islands while his For 8p.m. Performance with a field goal and Aggie fans among 26 assignments since mid- nounced. father, the late Col. James B. held their breath. It looked like 1942. He commanded the 393rd General Woolnough will make Woolnough, was assigned with “Paul Revere and the Raiders,” groups, “The Dream Machine” Robert Gonzales, chairman of the 10-7 score would last right Infantry Regiment through lat­ the principal address and present the 21st Infantry Regiment. rated in a national survey as top and “Michael.” up to halftime but Hargett hit ter stages of the Battle of the the sponsoring Memorial Student General Woolnough and his group in the country during 1967, In the Current Scene Magazine the all-purpose Maxwell with a commissions to new officers who Bulge, the Army Personnel Cen­ Center Town Hall Committee, wife, the former Mary Agnes will be featured in a Town Hall survey, “Paul Revere and the bullet aerial with just seconds will graduate that morning. ter at Schofield Barracks, the said a member of the group, saxo­ Porter of Waycross, Ga., have "Extra” program Friday at Texas Raiders” finished first over remaining in the second quarter. The January commencement at base section of the U. S. Com­ phonist and guitarist Mark Lind­ three children. A&M. groups including “7]’nd\.Monkees,” say, was listed high in the survey Charlie Riggs continued his 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. commis­ munications Zone, Euurope, and The performance at 8 p.m. in “Diana Ross and ut eacupremes,” for most outstanding instrument­ losing battle with the right side sioning will be in G. Rollie White the 1st Cavalry Division in the G. Rollie White Coliseum also “The Beatles,” v> find'Herman’s alist. He was edged out by Herb of the goal post as his extra point Coliseum. Pacific and Korea. spotlights two additional popular Hermits.” ’m Alpert, but was in the midst of try bounced off. This made it 13- A veteran of 35 years Army As a lieutenant colonel, Wool­ Gift Wrappers such company as A1 Hirt, Bob 10 Aggies with another two quar­ service, the general has been nough commanded the 1st Regi­ Crewe and Ravi Shankar. ters to play. CONARC commander and a four- ment at the U. S. Military Set New Record Other members of Revere’s HOWEVER, a three-point lead star officer since July. Before the Academy, from which he gradu­ group are Freddy Weller, Joe Jr., over Alabama is not too safe so ated in 1932. Gift wrapping proved to be ■MM big business this Christmas for and Charlie Coe. Some of their Wendell Housley made it six The general was a West Point YMCA personnel and volun­ best-received records are included points bigger with a third quar­ math instructor at the outbreak teers at A&M. in an album labeled “Revolution!” ter run that left the field strewn of World War II and subse­ with would-be Alabama tacklers. J. Gordon Gay, YMCA gen­ Included are “Him or Me . . . quently served on the War De­ Then, the last twenty minutes eral secretary, announced a What’s It Gonna Be?,” “Reno,” partment General Staff, opera­ of this game provided a lot of record 817 presents wrapped “Upon Your Leaving,” “Mo- tions division, and with the 1st excitement for the chilled (40 de­ free of charge, erasing the old Reen,” “Wanting You,” “Gone— Infantry Division, becoming its grees at game time) assemblage. mark of 727 gifts wrapped Movin’ On,” “I Had a Dream,” executive officer shortly after the Included in these exciting mo­ last year. “Tighter,” “Make It With Me,” D-Day Normandy Beach landing ments were: an Alabama touch­ “We wrapped everything “Ain’t Nobody Who Can Do It in 1944. down, the officials forgetting how from electric heaters to wash Like Leslie Can,” and “I Hear a to count, and a crucial intercep­ GENERAL Woolnough was cloths,” grinned Mrs. Alma Voice.” tion by Curley Hallman. deputy plans and operations offi­ Lewis, office secretary. “The Tickets are available at the Finally, when the clock read cer of Joint Task Force Seven biggest gift I wrapped was an MSC Student Program Office. no time left, the Aggies were still which performed the first atomic enormous stuffed lion . . . Gonzales reminded students and four points ahead and the Cotton bomb tests at Eniwetok and after­ about the size of an office fil­ patrons that season tickets are Bowl championship returned to wards served principally in the ing cabinet.” PAUL REVERE, RAIDERS not applicable for the Town Hall the SWC after a two-year ab­ Pacific, Far East and with the The YMCA service has been “Hard-rock" singing group Paul Revere and the Raiders, Extra. sence. North Atlantic Treaty Organiza­ provided for 27 years. led by Mark Lindsay (lower left), will present a Town Interest in the show has spread tion in Washington until he be­ Hall “extra" at 8 p. m. tonight in G. Rollie White Coliseum. to surrounding high schools, Bryan Building & Loan came assistant division com­ First Bank & Trust now pays Association, Your Sav­ mander of the 5th Infantry Divi­ 5% per annum on savings certif­ Appearing with the group will be “The Dream Machine" Gonzales announced, with sev­ ings Center, since 1919. and “Michael." eral to send busloads of students. —Adv. GEN. WOOLNOUGH sion in 1954. icates. —Adv. BB&L