...... e CaliforniaTech California Institute of Technology Volume LlX Pasadena, California, Thursday, April 24, 1~58- Number 24 Caltech Glee Club Sponsors Saturday's Choral Festival H TALKS College Choirs Will Dine In Houses, - Perform At City College Auditorium TONIGHT Twelve southern California glee clubs will perform Saturday Nuclear weapons tests will night as Caltech hosts the annual Intercollegiate Choral Festival. be discussed by Drs. Beadle, A record 580 vocalists' will participate in the spectacular song­ PIesset, Lewis, Press, and fest, and the planners hopep to fill 'the Pasadena City College Brown in a panel discussion physical reqUirements for the fes- tonight at 7:30 in Culbertson The sponsorship of this highly­ Hall. This discussion, sponsor­ Yell Leader regarded event represents an­ ed by the YMCA, is off the other victory in a whirlwind record and open only to the Allesina campaign to bring local and na­ Caltech community. tional recognition to the Caltech "Australians" Wilkinson, Juvin, Baer, and Walsh bone up for After brief introductory re­ Spot Open Glee Club. Olaf Frodsham's sing­ the 1958 Model United Nations. marks by each member of the "A good ,opportunity for a guy ers, now in their sixth year, are panel, moderated by Dr. with lots of sp~irt and enthusi­ already recognized as one of the i IIA III II George Beadle, Chairman of asJV. for athletics," is available top groups in the area and are Techs ustra lans the Biology Department, spe­ according to .AJSCIT Activities attracting the notice of Eastern cific aspects of the problems Manager, Bob Thompson. Appli. directors. connected with nuclear weap­ cations for the position, Head ons testing will be discussed. Yell Leader, ,will be received by They received second place Arrive At Model UN honors in the contest the last Dr. Milton Plesset, Profes­ the BOD until May 5' Thompson Caltech's "Australians" arrived in Seattle yesterday for the announced Monday night. three years, and are ~nsidered Eighth Session Model United Nations. sor of Applied Mechanics, will by many to be second only to A committee I composed of speak on "The Effect of Fall­ Occidental College's gle~ club in The four-day session is featuring debate on such topics as the Thompson, Tony Leonard and out on Radiation Levels"; Dr. the state. Algerian question, disarmament, apartheid, and atomic raqiation. Edward Lewis, Professor of John Bard will screen the appli­ New topics, occassioned by re­ Biology, will discuss "The Bi­ cants and make recommenda­ As the hosting club, tM glee cent developments in the cold ological Effects ,of Radiation"; tions to the Board. club members have been busily BOD Reports war, will probably be added to Dr. Frank Press, Professor of Appointments Made occupied during the' past few the agenda. Geophysics and Director of Other business concluded by weeks making arrangements for Debate Status the Seismological Lab, will the BOD Monday night included hospitality, publicity, accommo­ One of the big goals of the dations, 'seating and all other Tech's debate and speech pro­ Australian delegation will be to talk on "The Feasibility of the appointment of three more Monitoring Tests"; and Dr. ASCIT officers. physical reuirements for the fes­ gram is being scrutinized by the find a basis upon which disarma­ tival, in addition to rehearsing Harrison Brown" Professor of Stan Sadera and Dick Jones, ment talks can be resumed. It for their own part in it. Board of Directors this week. At Geochemistry, will speak on two frosh class officers, will co­ will also endeavor to restrain Plans call for the contestants their meeting Monday night the "1980 Without Arms Contro!." edit the 58-59 Little T. the General Assembly from ino to arrive at 1:45 for rehearsals. BOD spent considerable time dis­ terfering in Either Algeria's The talks will be, followed Doug Shakel was selected to by a question period. At 5:30 all the groups will're­ cussing the forensics situation guerrila war or South Africa's head next year's election com­ hearse "Now Let Every Tongue before approving the proposed race problems. The Atlstralians mittee, while Steve Stephens will Adore Thee," by Bach, which $600 debate budget. consider both of these issues to harass the California Tech staff they will all sing together in the as ASCIT Photo chief. festival. The BOD interest has been be domestic questions and there­ Summer Rush caused by the apparent decline Appointments of the 16 new At 6:00 the contestants will in Tech debate actiV'ity since its fore beyond the jurisdiction of student camp counselors were come to Caltechand eat -dinner national-championship year three the United Nations. Worries IHe postponed until next week. Inter­ in the student houses. The con­ years ago. The preventIon of summertime views of the 50 applicants are Bob Walsh, chairman of the rushing of freshmen by student cert will be held from 8:15 to Australian delegation, expressed still' being carried on by BOD 10:00, and afterwards there will After discussing the situation house members was the problem members. with Dr. Hallet Smith, Chairman confidence that the session would laid before the Interhouse Com­ be a dance for contestants only of the Humanities Division, and be made to see the "inher€nt mittee by the YMCA last Wed­ in Dabney Lounge. Dr. Dwight Thomas, debate moral correctness" of the Aus­ nesday, April 16. RA' Group This year the Tech Glee Club coach, a BOD committee offered tralian views. Wally Baer, Tom The Y's present program of will continue its tradition of 'dis­ several suggestions that were ac­ contacting freshmen during the tinctive dress by wearing white Jovin, Cleve Moler and Jim Wilk­ Increases cepted al6ng with the budget. summer reaches about 60 per­ dinner jackets, each with an Revival of interhouse debate inson comprise the remainder of cent of the frosh. The problem' John Stevens, physics gradu­ orange ripbon across the chest. and the Lincoln Debate Trophy, ate student, has added his name the delegation. Walsh noted that is to increase contacts but keep The largest group will be Caltech sponsorship of an inter­ the delegation had 'gained excel­ the freshmen from forming pre­ to the list of applicants for Resi­ collegiate debate tournament and dent Associates in Dabney, Flem­ UCLA's, with 77 men. The smaU­ lent experience Monday night judices about which house to est is Long Beach State, 25. increased publicity for the Tech enter in the fall. ing, and Ricketts House. P;i Kappa Delta Chapter were when it successfully debated the Several proposals were made, Previous applicants are John among the committee sugges­ issue of whether the ASCIT and the discussion was tabled at Andelin, physics; Dennis Bar­ tions., should provide registration fees." least until this week. rett, biology; Ronald Blum, math; ITlili WI:I:I\ I Henry De1Ctman, chemistry; Ra­ Wed·Sat., April 23·26 - Model ma Murthey, geochemistry; and United Nations, U. of Wash. Robert Ryan, math. Thurs. April 24 - Frosh Chem., YProtests Time's Blast At' Pauling According to Master of Stu­ 11 a.m., 151 Crellin; Fro!;;h M.E., A letter, sponsored by the from this pattern of loyalty to April 21 concerning the National dent Houses, Dr. George May­ 4 p.m., 206 Engrg. YMCA and protesting Time Mag­ the Col11muniist cause since Committee for a Sane Nuclear hew, we are "shooting for a de­ Fri., April 25--Swimming, Whit- azine's treatment of the Nation­ 1946'." Policy was clearly an unfair cision by the middle or end of tier at Tech, 4 p.m. al Committee for a Sane Nuclear The article concluded with treatment of a minority opinion. May" on who the three new RA's Dabney-Ricketts, Barn Dance Policy, particularly Time's refer­ "But the folks who listened to Opposition to the testing of nu­ are to be. Fleming, "Roaring Twenties" ence to committee member "Dr. the horror stories without listen­ clear weapons is not necessarily Additional applications for Res­ Blacker, baseball game Linus Carl Pauling, longtime ing to evidence on fallout'; to say un-American, pro-communist or ident Associate are still being Fri.-Sat., April 2526 - SC golf sup p 0 r t e r of Communist-line nothing of survival, the religious 'insane'. To jump to such a con­ accepted. tourney at La Jolla, 9 a.m. fronts," has been circulated on minded who doubted that the clusion is to fall into a pattern Sat., April 26 - Baseball, Tech campus and will be mailed to ends of liberty and peace justi­ that is profoundly dangerous to at Whittier (2), 12:30 p.m., Time tonight. fied the means of nuclear deter­ freedom of thought and expres­ "Tech" To 'Poll Frosh here, 2:15 p.m. "Pauling, Communist" rence, were all stepping up the sion. Track, Cal Poly and Westmont The article, which appeared in pressure as the crucial Eniwetok at Tech, 2 p.m. Time, April 21, in enumerating "We partiCUlarly object to your Bomb Views Tennis, Ojal tournament tests drew nigh. It seemed to treatment of Dr. Linus Pauling. the members of the National matter not at all that this' was A survey of campus ·sentiment INTERCOLLEGIATE CHOR­ Committee for a Sane Nuclear Even though some of us do not on nuclear weapons testing will 'Alb FESTIVAL, PCC audi­ precisely what the sworn ene­ support his current efforts to end Policy, referred to "the commit­ mies of religion, liberty and be c6nducted next week by the torium, 8:15 p.m. tee's scientific anchor man, Cal­ nuclear tests, we know Dr. Paul­ California Tech. Questionnaires Ricketts, nightclub party peace itself were telling them ing as a member. of our faculty, tech's busy chemist and busy to do." will be distributed on Monday to Sat.·Sun., April 26-27 - Sailing and he is a rugged individualist, all faculty, graduates, and under­ Club, ,Southern Series at politician, Dr. Linus Carl Paul­ 'The letter of protest, addressed following no one's party line, LAYC ing, longtime supporter of Com­ to the Editor of Time Magazine graduates on campus. The results of this survey will Mon., April 28 - ~lf, Tech at munist-line fronts," had pointed and sponsored by the Y, reads as and motivated by the highest be published in the Tech as an Whittier, 1:30 p.m. out that" 'Professor Pauling,' re­ follows: humanitarian impulses." ported the House Committee on indication of campus sentiment, Wed., April 30 - Baseball, Tech Un-American Activities in 1951, "Dear Sir: A copy of this letter is also to and not as an ,official Institute at Oxy, 3:00 p.m., 'has not deviated a hairsbreadth "We feel that your article of be sent to the New York Times. position. Frosh here, 3:30 p.m. Thul'J4ay, April 2.4, 1958 Pase Two THE CALIFORNIA TECH project can b€! proposed, now is an appropriate time to spend this 'lie Cfllilf/tn/a Teell money. The members of the EDITOR; Mike. Milder President's EDITORIAL BOARD: Bill Bauer, Cleve Moler, John Todoroff, Howard Weisb'1rg. Board have been asked to sug· STAfF . \> gest projects of real value to the Bruce Allesina, Ted Bate, Carl Gottschall, Gerhard Klose, Sid Leibovich, Bob Norton, Stan Sajdera, Harry Spertus, Jim Uleman. , Student Body. I wouJd add that BUSINESS MANAGER: Dave Leeson . Column any student should feel free to Circulation: Urban Kern Entered as second-class matter November 22, 1947, at the Post Office in Pasadena, suggest any idea which he feels California, under the act of March 3, 1879. . can be gtopped. One means would is worthwhile to any Board memo ASCIT Surplus be to establish a fund, into which ber or to the Board as a whole Editorial any surplus would be placed, Over toe years ASCIT has when it meets each Monday. This which has q specific and clearly slowly increased its non-working amount of money, properlyspent stated purpose, and which would capital until at present we have can return very substantial val­ A Problem OF Sanity be spent for that purpose at some ue to the Student Body. Every close to $6000 in part invested clearly defined time in the fu­ A serious problem exists among the students at Tech that through the Institute and in part thinking student should be con­ ture. Another possibility would 4ileposited in our bank account. cerned in this matter. has not received enough attention: a large portion of the be to return the amount of any This money is not a part of our Michael Godfrey surplus to the Student Body in student community is. not sane. The problem is neither new current income nor has any of ASCIT President the forms of a dividend. This nor exclusive to Tech; it has even been vaguely discussed under it been budgeted for current ex­ dividend could be determined. penses. the tag, "student apathy." But the problem is one of mental each spring, after the fiscal year This mOJ;ley has accumulated had closed. It would also be' pos­ Secretary's health, for it concerns the il)ability of a number of individuals through the somewhat conserva­ sible to establish a policy of tive fiscal policies of each year's to recognize and react to situations that· bear profoundly on spending any surplus on some Board of Directors. No Board has ' Report their well-being, even on their survival. unusual project or expense dur­ considered ,it reasonable or prop­ ing the year after the year in er to 'budget yearly expenses in Emotional Meaning Is Lost which the surplus was incurred. More Budget Discussion eXcess of y€arly income. Instead, I The following items were ap- These situations have ,little to do with curriculum or every­ a balanced budget, including un­ Unworkable Alternatives .. proved: der expenses a contingency fund It would be well also to men­ day student life-.-they are world-scale and complicated. The Model U.N $417.10 of around $500, has been custom­ tion a few plans, which have key phrases, "total nuclear destruction,lI "cold wa,r," "interna­ Forensics _...... 600.00 arily established. In general only been suggested to me, that would Director's Banquet 50.00 tional tensions," and "race suicide," have lost their emotional a small part of the contingency not work. The first plan is that The following items were ten· meaning, but the concepts must not. The fact is that tradi­ fund is needed to cover unexpect­ the dues should be lowered so tional human social organization may be inadequate to cope ed expenses. So, at the end of the that there would be no surplus. tatively approved: with the problems and pressures ofa highly mechanized society, year, what is left of the conting­ The fact that a certain percent­ BIG T $2545.00 age of the dues appears as a Glee Club 600.00 and the consequences for mankind's future are likely to be ency fund and any other money that had been budgeted, but not surplus at the end of the year Under attacks from the right grim in the extreme. spent is added to the nonworking has nothing to do with the size and the left, the social budget re­ -A fully sane reaction to the contemporary situation giVes capital. of the dues. Regardless of the received preliminary cuts, notab­ precedence, above every other consideration, to matters of sur­ At the beginnling,pf each fiscal size of the dues it would remain ly $500 from Lost Weekend. To sound financial policy to set prevent charges of graft and cor· vival for humanity and civilization. But such matters, occupy year the Board's policy in estab­ lishing the budget has shown aside, each year, a contingency ruption, the appropriation for the a distrfSsingly small part of the thinking and discussion among considerable financial responsi­ fund to cover unexpected ex­ Directors' Banquet was cut in Tech students, even in the face of the fact t~at the~e students bility. ABCrT has not for many penses. If the budget has been half, enough to cover expenses are much better equipped than most to respond rationally to years faced a serious financial well planned a part of the con­ for the deserving last year's the problems and to comprehend them. crisis. tingency fund will remain un· BOD. Useless Fund Still Growing spent at the end of the year. PSPA Faculty Sets an Example' However, the procedure that It has also been suggested that The BOD approved a recom· any surplus should be added to The rest o~ the Cal tech community does not suffer from this should be lin question is that of mendation from the ExComm: adding all money not needed to the current income for the next "that official endorsement be giv­ affliction. The faculty proVides numerous examples of in­ cover current expenses to a non­ year. It is clear· that a surplus en to an attempt by the ICC to formed, active concern and'ieadership in public affairs..The working fund which has neither from a previous year's budget is sponsor the PSPA convention a specific nor a general purpose. not current income and it should next year." For the unitiated, issues are difficult,. and we cannot hope that students will Almost every year a small part not be represented as such. PSPA stands for Pacific States acquire a statesman's sophistication in world problems. But of the Student Body dues goes Disposal of Present Surplus Presidents Association, and the we can hope that students will begin to exhibit a sane reaction to increase this fund. There remains the final ques­ proposal implies that net year t.o the issues, by recognizing their importance and by develop­ There are several alternative tion of what should be done with Calte-eh will host a group of 150 means by which the endless in­ the $6000 dollars that has col­ ing a noticeable degree of social consciousness. college wheels. crease of this purposeless fund lected already. If a worthwhile Tom Jovin Test your personality powell ~ \ 0 i Taboo Qr nottaboo-\ t~[i \ thatis the question) ,~

1. Do you feel unqualified to judge a campus beauty contest? YES NO (For men only!) ____ _._ c:J CJ 2. Do you think going to a big party the night before is the best way to overcome pre-exam jitters? __ c=I CJ 3. Do you find the company of the opposite sex annl'ying? c::J C:J 4. Do you think fads andfancy stuff can give you the full tobacco flavor ofa ~ cigarette? t- _ _ __ c:J c=I 5. Whenever one of your professors makes a grammatical . error, do you call it to his attention? __ _ __.. CJ CJ 6. Do you and your date sit in the back row of the balcony only·because you're both farsighted? __..___ c:J [:J 7. Do you think cowboy shows will ever be banned from television? --_._ _ _--.._ _._.._._ _- _ ..-_ "-"-c:J CJ

8. Do you consider Ibid. the most quoted Latin author? .._ __.-'o•••• CJ CJ t~ *}{~~'~':"--- ..J

If you aJ:¥lWered "No" to all questions, you obvi­ But if you want to enjoy smoking as never before ously Sllloke Camels - a real cigarette. Only 6 or switch to Camels. Nothing else tastes so rich: 7 "No" allswers mean you bet~r get on to Camels smokes so mild. Today more people smoke· Camels fast. Fewer than 6 "No's" and it really doesn't than any other cigarette. The best tobacco gives matter what you smoke. Anything's good enough! you the best smoke. Try Camels and you'll agree! Have a real cigarette.. have a Camel Thursday, April 24, 1958 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Page Three Economy Run - 1958 • • • •

Klips Kar Kleened At 2:20 Sunday morning Beak wheeled his 4.9 into the parking lot and there before him was one of the most unusual Slights for that hour he has ever seen. Sil­ houetted in the car lights stood one Dave Klipping with a pail of water and a towel. Beak leaned out the window and demanded, oretta olange stands by the Jj]Qsel "Yacer" wnlcn sne "what in the hell are you doing?" drove to fifth place in the low-medium price field. Klips naive reply was "cleaning BELOW: At the first stop in Phoenix, Arizona, Hugo Fischer figures my car, what do you think?" of 1958," who appeared out his next move. Dick Jones stands in for a missing pawn as After an exchange of droll phras­ Tom Bowman and Gerhard Klose look on. es the truth finally came out. lt seems that Klips' blind date from Boxy had found that the weird and wonderous potions that c:Qme from Kentucky hadn't agreed with her and she found herself forced to divulge the er­ rors of her ways. "Why not roll down the window?" queried Beak.. Alas, it seems that the oc­ curence coincided exactly with the time they were passing a wreck on California street which was filled with minions of the law. Lots of Time Davie Trollmaster was able to score beautifully on The Econo­ my Run. It seems that on a short stop Davie had a little trouble zipping up so the ear went off and letit him. "You guys wouldn't throw me in - SPLAJSH!" quoth Hal Dale as he made a big splash at the Drubnoids Russian Easter Party. The Chief Cheated Finally Milder had been in­ volved in something that can go into this evil sheet. The scene opens with our hero sitting in the living room of some lady fair's house. Just as our casanova begins to warm up his pitch in order to get things going, into the room bursts none other than Mad~:Man Lewyn. "Choke!" says Milder, smiling with his mouth but not with his soft brown eyes, "what are you doing here?" With H. E. KROHNER. Yen Den a bored look on his face Mad-Man WAYNE STATE U. turns and says, "Oh, I'm just bringing back her clothes from WHAT IS A SOUTH AMERICAN MARE? the party last night."

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ft,t.,.coJ ProdUIT of J:&~ J"~- "J'~u our middle ...• Corner California & lake THE CAL I FOJR N I A TECH Tkursdoy, April 24, 1958 [)f)UI3LI:[) M-iller Guides News Bureau, Directs Publicity 4.~[) by Martin Carnoy dUng the direct. newspaper and ~1:[)()UI3LI:[) AST October the Russians magazine publicity. By Dave Singmaster L launched a satellite and the A START IN JOURNALISM: First, I will present part of a United ,states suddenly became J ames Miller was born in communication which I received science conscious. Since that South Dakota in 1914. As a boy concerning the hand of two time a great deal of public atten· of ten Miller was introduced to weeks ago. tion has been focused on Caltech, the East when his family moved "Has someone pointed out that but the publicity that it has re­ to New York, but even in the your calcl:tlations are incorrect? ceived in the past few months journalistic surroundings of the Roughly speaking the reason is is nothing new to the News Bu' Broadwaybeat he did not aspire that you do not account for the reau. Forming the link between to the trade until towards the end restraint that each player gets the little world on California of his Trinity College days, when only 13 cards. Street and the public, Jim Miller he became editor of the newspap­ er. Upon graduation, with his "The formula you should use sits behind a desk covered wtih is: Probability of East having k reminder notes and news maga­ background in English and phil· osophy, he became a staff writer trump of n out is (26·n R 13-k) zines in a small office next to the (n R k)/(26 R 13) where (a R b) campus book store. for the Literary Digest" which folded a short year later in tho..c;e means a!/b! (a-b)!. The probabil­ Miller's chief occupation here ities are (rounded off) 4.8%: on campus has been to let the troubled days of 1937. Next stop, Scribner's maga­ 24.9%:40.7%:24.9%:4.8:% respec. world hear about Caltech. By tively (true ratio: 55:286:468:286: door'~ zine, and by 1939 an assistant promoting an "open policy, 55) ." he has encouraged newsmen to editorship, but also by 1939, an­ come on campus and see for other folding and another blank The letter continues: "I realize themselves. He and his secretary pay check. So, opJy three years I may run the risk of sounding write their own news stories and off the campus;' Miller was al­ silly, but there is no reason for a distribute - them to interested ready looking for his third job; Jim Miller Caltech bridge player to go agencies. Miller quite happily and he found it with young Look where he had left off, but now grabbed a plane to Los Angeles through life with first approxi. mations." admits that the publicity of JPL magazine, Look and Miller were for This Week magazine. Yet, and applied for head of the Cal· is handled by another office, for good to each other, arid the ris­ Miller really wanted to free·lanee tech News Bureau, Ltd. Next I will consider the fol· he has recently been snowed by ing young news writer soon so he quit This Week and went Two months later, Jim Miller lowing bidding situations pre. the demand for stories and press found himself an assistant editor _ on his own, writing science news was sitting behind the big desk sented by Roger Eldridge of the conferences concerning the In­ of,p. '~ising magazine. articles and Navy fiction for vari· in Throop, and his two children Y. Examine the hand one hand stitute. CHANGE OF OOCUPATION: ous outlets. _were safely encloseHome time to fulfill that dream of D-AQI086 9 75432 KJ phlets concerning the drive and were so spent, when he wasn't Journal. Miller liked public re- every writer -.:.. a book. About C-74 QI06532 - AKJ98 distributes them to all possible on submarine watch. After his lations, and he had heard about what? He'll know that when he ID 2C sources of revenue, beside han· discharge, he began again just an opening at Caltech, so he gets the time. 2S 3C Up to this point I favor this Pit and Paddock bidding sequence as the best pos­ sible. West has too many points, no sure diamond stopper, and no European Entry Planned For Scarab long suit, so. he can neither overcall one nor jump overcall. . This week's column concerns #' East has ten dummy points and Lance Reventlow's Corvette· a six card trump suit. He could powered special, the Scarab Mk. bid 4 Clubs but, as far as he 1. This car has a Corvette en· knows, partner might have only gipe enlarged to 5% litres and 11 points. modified with Hillborn fuel in­ South now evaluates his hand; he has five of each of his part­ jection and a hotter cam. The ner's bid suits and a void in car itself has wishbone front sus­ clubs. I personally would bid 3 pension and deDion rear suspen· Diamonds a1though a bid of sion, connected by a very nice three Spade or a pass is near­ space frame. Transmission is the ly_ as good. At this point the excellent Corvette four-speed question of VUlnerability comes in. If either side is non-vulner. box. Sharon McVey able and the other is, the non. The car was constructed byDick vulnerable side will try to save Troutman and Tom Barnes, fam. the rubber by bidding higher. fit With both Slides vulnerable each Sec's Tech ous for tbe Troutman-Barnes By Howard Weisberg side will try to capture the bid special, with the body built by andlor get to game or pass the Nature has taken its course Emil Diedt of Indianapolis car bid out before game is reached. and there is a whole new crop bUilding fame. Total weight is South can figure perhaps three of secretaries and other interest­ about 1700 pounds, 240 ponds less heart losers and one other 'loser ing personalities for the paper and would be justified in bidding to interview, as I noticed the than the 4.5 Maserati, while over­ Jazz Seat to game if sacrificing; i.e. 4 other day while hiding under a all length is fourteen feet, ten Spades. rock near the Greasy. inches less than the 4.5 Maserati. Assuming Cl 3 Diamond bid by So it's high time for the Cali­ South, West might jump to 4 Initial Disadvantages fornia Tech to revive an old fea· by Lloyd Kamins Hearts to indicate his 20 high tureseries, "Sec's At Tech." At Palm Springs -on Saturday, card points. However, this could James Moody and his band And what better way to start Lance overdid things at the start liner notes point out, James be disastrous with two losers in than with the shapely, five foot and went off the first turn. He Prestige 7072 I Moody is quite like King Midas both spades and diamonds. He This one is down, way down­ -everything, he touches turns one, blue-eyed, young, blonde then had to take off after all of might figure partner for at least and groovy! James Moody plays to blues. He wails when the secretary (girl) who works up the cars had gone past and in a one honor in hearts and hence tenor and alto,and his mood is tempo is up, and when it's down on the third floor of Throop in mere five laps proceeded to come no losers in that suit. Again the the general accounting office. blue. and funky. He wails on the bal­ question of VUlnerability enters. up to third place, only five sec­ lads, too. Moody's style is quite Likes MG's, Dancing onds behind Carroll Shelby in This set is representative of He may bid 5 Clubs, hoping for a particular brand of jazz, dear the opposite of the delicate, Em· Her name is Sharon McVey the potent 4.5 Maserati. game or to shut out the oppo· and she has been working at to my heart, that isn't getting ily Post·manual-in-h and a p . nents. proach. He stomps and almost Tech ever since last summer Lance was planning to run the its share of commercial atten­ North can either double 5 screams, at times, always blow­ when she graduated from high Scarab in Europe this year, but tion. Oh, that R&R would ... Clubs with thr~e fairly sure ing with his big fat tone. school in Glendale. She was born the imposition of a three litre The tracks on this LP are not tricks or else bid 5 Diamonds in Lincoln, Kansas. limit for sports-car racing can­ filled with miraculous little Vehicles for blowing over either bid, again either hop­ An avid sports carenthusiast, celled those plans and instituted phrases of sheer beauty. Digging The .tunes and the arrange· ing for game or sacrificing. The Sharon is the owner of the metal­ a search for a three litre engine. this set is not like digging Miles ments are simply mere vehicles bidding becomes a function of lic brown '53 MG which can be Lance reportedly approached and catching the pearls. for blowing. My favorite is a riff the personalities involved. An seen at various strategic spots Meyer·Drake, makers of the Of­ This isn't way out, either. The called I'm' Gone, made famous, aggressive East bidder will around T.P. fenhauser engine, to see if they harmonies are simple and basic. once upon a time, by a vocal by change the entire sUuation as Another of her interests is would design and build a new Riding along with this is not like King Pleasure. Over the' Rain­ will an aggressive South. dancing, she said. three litre engine, but he was trying to decipher Monk. Above bow gets a thorough working In general, when one is at· As for her opinipn of Caltech told that Mayer-Drake did not all, this is not background music, over by Moody and his alto, and tempting to shut the opponents men, "They're different," she ad· have the engineers to design a like the bulk of West Coast Jazz. it all comes out as if it were out of game when they are vul· mitted. "And the majority of new engine Which would be com· It's impossible to sit calmly entitled "Over the Rainbow and nerable, one should plan to lose them are young gentlemen. By petitive in Europe. Lance there· around and talk (or, for that mat· Right Back Down to Earth." no more than 500 points; Le. the way, why don't the houses upon bought Meyer-Drake; he ter, to write a column) with As I've said, there is nothing down doubled, non VUlnerable, ever invite secretaries to ex­ will import an engineer from Eu­ 'Moody blowing. He drags you spetacular to be found in this or down 2, doubled, vulnerable. changes? At the grad stude,nt rope to design the engine for with him. You can't keep from set. The jazz is bluesy and good It turns out in this hand that dance a while back, six or seven him. With luck we should see swinging. all the way. This is the first I've N-S can make 5 Diamonds or of us attended." an American car winning in King Moody heard of the Moody one, but, by Spades and E-W can make 4 Well ...? Europe within five years! As Ira Gitler's enthusiastic Bird, it's not the last. Clubs or Hearts. Thursday, April 24, 1958 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Page Five I Tti£ ~.I' (:()l2~I:~ Monday, April 28 at 12 noon, Dr. Richard Jones will speak about "Chemistry and Mental Diseases" before the Undergraduate Pick a winner from our Lunch Club in the Training Table Dining Room. The Y Cabinet will meet at 6:00 p.m. at the Training Table. Wednesday, April 30 Mr. Mohammad T. Mehdi, Director of the Arab ARROW Bi-Way Spo'rts Information Center in San Francisco, will discuss "U.S.~U.S.S.R. and the Middle East" with the Athenaeum Luncheon Forum at They're the world's most comfortable shirts 12 noon. • •. particularly when the heat's on. Mighty Thursday, May 1 Mr. William Pilkington of. JPL will describe "Satellite Tracking" before the Graduate Sack Lunch Club at cool-lookingJ too. You'll find their convertible 12 noon in the Y Lounge. Mr. Pilkington, inventor of the Arafold collars and airy fabrics come in many Microlock System, will illustrate his talk with recordings of smart patterns. Sputnik. The Philosophy of Life discussion group will meet in Roger's apartment at 7:30 p.m. 141 E. Colorado Street SEELY CONFERENCE Five Caltech students and their advisors attended the annual PASADENA Seely-Wakonda Conference last week-end. The conference, centered about the topic, "345,445 College Diplomas and for What?" proved SY 6-0351 most stimulating and interesting to the group. Tom Morton, Na­ tional Representative of the Caltech Y, was one of the two men elected to serve on the Regional Council for the next year. Stu­ dents Tom Morton and Dave Cassel and Professor of History Dr. Peter Fay participated in a panel discussion entitled, "Should Colleges Produce More Specialists?" AFSC SPRING CONFERENCE Registration closes April 30 for the American Friends Service take a Committee's Spring College Conference to be held May 2, 3, and 4. The conference will discuss the implications, social problems, and solutions to these social problems, involved in the use of conscience as a basis for making decisions. Registration blanks and further "Bud Break" information can be obtained in the Y O~ce. ASCE Rated·First In West Caltech's chapter of the Amer­ Tech chapter in first place out ican Society of Civil Engineers of twenty-three schools in the Bndweise:r. was given national recognition Western United States.· The KING OF BEERS last term. chapters were jUdged·on i the On the basis of the annual re­ basis of membership, quality of port prepared by the chapter's activities, participation and at­ two recording secretaries, Steve tendance at programs and activi­ EJmmanuel and Allan Porush, ties, and on the make-up of the the National ASCE rated the report itself. ANHEUSER.BUSCH. INC.' ST. LOUIS' NEWARK ~ I.OS ANGELES Graham Elected TB Pi President Bill Graham was eleoted to the presidency of Caltech's chapter of the Tau Beta Pi at last Fri­ day's election. The other chapter officers elec­ ted included Mike Milder as Vice President, Dick Baugh as Record­ ing Secretary, Vladimir Baicher as Correspondin gSecretary, Bob Lange as Treasurer, and Bob Harmon as Cataloguer. Name C.E. Prof Appointment of Dr. Paul D. V. Manning as professor of chemi­ cal engineering at the Institute was announced this week by Professor E. C. Watson, Dean of the FaCUlty. Dr. Manning, whose appoint­ ment becomes effective on July 1, was the first man in Caltech's history to earn a degree higher than the Bachelor of Science. He was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1917 after receiving his A.B. degree from Stanford Uni­ versity in 1916. 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Open 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. accountants...and more· because- a pioneer in petroleum since 1866. 7 Days a Week THE CALIFORNIA TECH Thunclay, April 24, 1958 FrfJs!JC!JfJffer: Swimmers As I See It Yanks, Braves Will Repeat Win 220, Relay From Chicks by Dick Van Kirk In the American League the Yankees began by Gary Ihler SWIMMING: The frosh twim­ Let's leave the local sports scene for a while the work of extending their monopoly on the a~ ming t"eam dropped their meet and take a look at athletics on the national level. pennant by jumping into immediate lead in Pomona-elaremont exploded the flag race, losing only one game in the first with Pomona 57 to 28, but show­ It might be anasset to the well·roundedness of for six runs in the third inning, game of the season. AsI see it, in spite of the ed surprising strength in ~ome an individual to be able to converse about ath­ and continued on to overwhelm comparatively slow start of the Milwaukee of the events. Gary Tibbetts, letics at a level somewhat higher than interhouse the frosh nine last week. Tech Braves, they will be the ones to face the Yankees who has turned in some fast or even the conference level. Biggest items in pitcher Buzz Merrill, who went the sports world these days are baseball, track, in the World Series, the outcome is likely to be all eight ,innings yielding only times in the 220 and 440 free different this year. It's not likely that Lew style, won the 220 and took sec­ and horse racing. six walks, absorbed the 17 to ° Burdetfe will pUll another h;it trick in the 1958 loss. Caltech's usually poor bat­ ond in the 440. Lindner took sec­ SOME' EARLY SURPRISES: The major series, but wait and watch; it'll be the Yanks and ting power was held scoreless by ond in the 220, while Pete Mayer league teams in baseball are not adhering 'as the Braves again in '58. an extremely good Pomona pitch­ took second in both the butterfly rigidly to the preseason forecasts as was ex­ DERBY TIME NEARS: A final note for those er, Wallerstein. and breaststroke. In the free pected. Two clubs which seemed destined for who like the more financial side of athletics. relay, sup p 0 sed1y Pomona's second division ranking, the Chicago Cubs and The Kentucky Derby, big race of the year for TRACK: Lack of men is still strongest event, the team of the San Francisco Giants, are among the early three-year-olds (horses) is coming up soon, and crampIng the style of Tech's Tisch, Lindner, Tibbetts, "and leaders in the National League, with the St. a nag by the name of Silky Sullivan has cap­ frosh track team who lost Sat­ Erskine took first. The swim­ Louis Cardinals dropping their first four games tured the hearts of millions of Americans with urday 98 to 33. Pomona men ming team's strength lies main: of the season in spite of the magnificent batting his come-from-behind finishes. If you're thinking copped first place in every event. ly in the backstroke and dis­ of Stan Musial Robin Roberts, the pitcher reo of rushing to place a "sure" bet on the horse, Best performances for TechI\len tance. The complete lack of div­ garded by the experts as al~ washed up, started stop a minute and consider Gone Fishin', a horse were Weaver's seconds in the 'his season nicE!'ly, winning his first decision on ers on the team, however, auto­ who stood off Silky's last stretch run by turning 100, low hurdles, and pole vault; a five-hitter Jor the Philadelphia Phillies, in addi­ in a final quarter mile that was almost as fast Ruecker's second in the 880 and matically costs us nine points tion to getting three hits and scoring the win­ as the Frank Meriwell of the equine world. My tie for second in the high jump; every meet. ning run.- money's with the fisherUlan. Lippman's second in the mile; and Richardson's second in the two mile. In the field events, Stewart and Leibovich took sec­ WalshiBats Tech ond and third respectively in the discus, while in the javelin, Leib­ ovich took second and K1effer third, both with their best efforts To f)ouble Win this year. Diamondmen Roll Past Sagehens ThroopA'tack As Howell, Kaplan Go Full' Route By Lance Wallace the right and center fielders, the A double victory over Pomona- ball rolling nearly to the swim­ Surprise of Claremont last Saturday has giv- ming pool wall. However, the en Caltech's baseball team a 2-3 Pomona outfielders relayed the football Race record in SCC play, as well as ball through four men in time renewed confidence arising from to catcll Walsh lumbering in to Ricketts and a surprisingly beating the team that has won the plat~. strong Throop share the lead at the halfway point of the Inter, games from both Whittier and Yesterday the Beavers tried to house football race. They have Oxy. even up their record against Reti- each dropped one while winning A tremendous hitting streak lands here. Howell was due for two. by Johl1 Walsh plus two well- the starting assignment with pitcped complete games from Walsh or John Price the likely Dabney also. has 2-1 mark fol­ Tony Howell and Marty Kaplan reliever. This Saturday the team lowing Tuesday~s victory. Flem­ led to the Sagehens' downfall, plays its first league games away, ing has 1-1, and Blacker is out of 13-9 and 6-3. Walsh has picked up a doubleheader at Whittier. Next the race with 0-3 at this point. the amazing total of 11 hits in I Wednesday marks the first meet· Dabney First Winner his last 11 official appearances at ing of the year between the the plate, giving him an average Beavers and arch-rival Oxy, now Dabney handily defeated Throop of .684, probabfy the top average the favorites for the conference in the season's first contest with for regular players in the SCTAC. crown since Pomona tripped Bass passing for three scores and Build Early Leads Whittier. It's another away passing to Christman who then Howell started the first game, ga~e, due t~ start at 2:15 on the heaved a touchdown pass to finding it easy sailing most of OCCIdental dIamond. Munson. Throop's scoring was I done by the Stene to Owen pass· Key Tech offensive and defen· aWaits pitch in batting practice. the way as his mates built up a The box score: ing combination. sive leader, F red Newman, ASCIT photo 13-3 lead. A late-game fielding let- P-C 010 200 330- 9 8 3 down allowed the Hens to parlay ,Caltech 210 152 200 -13 12 3 Blacker -gave Ricketts little four hits into a pair of three-run P-C 030 000 000 - 3 '1 4 concern;- for after Hechtel scored Tankers Edged By Pomona; rallies that brought the final Caltech 123 000 000 - 6 9 0 on an ;intercepted pass, it was score up to 13-9, but at no point Ricketts all the way. Evans was Tony tin serious trouble. pitched to Montoya for two and The second game was a virtual Pomona Fells Huse for the other. - Point For ConFerence Meet r.epeat of the first, with most of . By Dave Tucker for the tankers, as no team other the scoring compressed into the Tracksters Fleming Weakened Caltech's powerful swim squad, than Pomona can match the first few innings, but this time An improved Throop team after sweeping througl:). the Con­ Tech power. no last-ditch rallies by Pomona. downed Fleming playing without ference. Relays' and six dual Key Races Close Hits Timely By Big Margin C.onverse 12 to 0, last Wednes· meets, finally met defeat at the Clarke Rees, swimming harder For the first time this season, Pomona-Claremont's tracksrters day. _The Stene to Owen duo han d s 0 f Pomona-Claremont. than anyone has seen him go in had little difficulty in defeating scored one, with the other. -score the Beavers were hitting the Many reasons could be given for quite a while~ lost two heart­ Caltech 91-5/6 to 39-116 last Sat­ coming on a thirty yard run by ball with men on bases. the loss, but the rude fact is breaking races at Pomona and The most spectacular play of urday on the rival's field. Stene. that our team did not swim far turned in a disappoiriting per the d,ay was supplied by Walsh's Tech failed to take a single first Ricketts stopped Dabney on enough. The excellent times formance in a third, due to hIS big bat, as he smashed a tremen­ in the track events and only Thursday 25 to 12, and Friday a turned in at the Arizona meet resulting exhaustion. Fighting dous blow far over the heads of managed three firsts in field Converse-led Fleming easily got were the climax of a week of with Pomona's Booth for a win events. hard workouts, whereas the sev­ by Blackel'", 21 to 6. in the 220, he brushed the lane Van Kirk Leads en days preceding the Pomona lines on the last lap, slowing Van Kirk again led the Beav­ Walker Injured meet included only two stiff him down just enough to lose in ers, personally accounting for Monday Throop won a hard­ drills, leaving the T'echmen in a touchout. The same story was 12% points. The javelin proved unsatisfac;tory shape for the fought, bruising 25 to 12 victory repeated iI\ the 10Q' freestyle Caltech's strongest event, with over Ricketts. It was the first de­ meet. when the team star missed the the spear tossers Purnell and feat for the Rowdies, whose last The mistake of improper con· all important last turn by a hair Lewyn copping first and second "quarter effort proved inadequate. ditioning should not recur this and was touched out again. places. Barienbrock'again won Unfortunately, the game was s,eason, as the team has adopted Keith Brown, swimming the the high jump, and seconds were marred by the injury of Throop's weekend practices and' abandon­ 200 back instead of absent Bob scored by Forbes in the 440, Don Walker, who suffered a ed letups before the remaining Smoak, was ineffectual against Leonard in the 880, and Ahrens broken shoulder. duals. The rest of the contests stronger men and finished third. in the mile. Interhouse football has been this season should be duck soup , Conference Hopes High AU-Conference Coming made especially interesting this The Conference Meet, on which Both the varsity and frosh year due to the dark horse ~C:()I:?r:I3()AI:?[) the championship rests, is now teams hosted Whittier for a meet Throop team, making the best Golf: the focal point of all the efforts yesterday and Saturday the Cal­ showing by the off-campus men Riverside 31, Caltech 23 of team and coach, since the pos­ tech track will see a triple meet in several years. Their attack is Occidental 33, Caltech 21 sibility of avenging the defeat with Cal Poly and Westmont. paced by a crushing ability to at Pomona exists. With help Only two other events remain move the ball on the ground. The Illterhouse Football: from lesser. team members to on the 'Trackmen's schedule, the big, heavy blockers have man­ Dabney 13, Blacker ° back up the expected wins of All-Conference meet which Wiill aged to open holes ;against all op­ Schedule such durable men as Owings, decide this year's championship position, and the ever present Thur.: Blacker vs. Throop Blandford, and Rees, perhaps the Poised for action is Bob Em­ on May 2 and an invitational threat qf a run has helped the Fri.: Fleming vs. Dabney Webmen cah wear the confer­ merling, who shares top batting meet at Redlands two weeks receivers get clear. Mon.: Ricketts vs. Fleming ence crown. honors with red·hot John Walsh. later.