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Inquisitive experimenters observing gravitational effects atop Millikan.

. The fall and rise of the oblate spheroid(better known as an egg).Photos by C. Wheeler

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by Mark ZimmerA new world's record for card

houses was set by two seniorsfrom Page House. Ted Michonand Dave Novikoff produced atower (eight cards per level) thattotaled 28 levels tall. The towertopped Novikoff in height. Allthrough the construction of thetreacherous tower, the two hadto bravely tight off their arousalat such a symbol; they had tobreathe softly lest the tower fall.

Their method is deceptivelysimple: a peak of two cards isrested on the base, two cards areset against their edges, two cardsare set on the end (so as to forma rectangle with the peak in thecenter), and two cards are usedas a base for the next level byplacing them on the rectangleagainst the peak. Additionally, asimple instrument-the "dispos­able equilibrium implement" isplaced on the summit of thepeak before placing, and removedto complete the story when thetop cards stabilize the peak.

Twenty-eight such stories wereplaced upon a level base in thePage House library from 11 :30to 1: 25 a.m. the night of the 6thto the morning of the 7th, tobeat the old world's record oftwenty seven stories of eightcards per level. Ted and Davehad been practicing for two daysbefore they were able to meetthe old record. After severalphotographs were taken and avideotape of the fall of the towercompletely finished the authenti­cation of the tower, Ted Michoncalled "Guiness Superlatives"(publishers of the Guiness Bookof World's Records) and made atentative verification of the re­cord. A notary public andreporters from the publicationsdepartment finished the docu­mentation.

Photo by G. Bone

and classification of white d\Varfspectra, and the analysis ofphysical conditions in super­novae, quasars and other astro­nomical bodies.

Greenstein came to Caltech in1948 to establish a graduateschool of astronomy. For 24years, he was executive officerfor astronomy. In addition to hisprofessorship, he is a staffmember of the Hale Observa­tories, operated by Caltech andthe Carnegie Institution of Wash­ington.

He has written more than 300technical papers and numerouspopular articles. His major in­terests have been the origin ofchemical elements by nuclear

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Ted Michon and Dave Novikoff practicing obscure religious ritualsin preparation for finals week.

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Greenstein- Gold!Dr. Jesse L. Greenstein, Lee

A. DuBridge Professor of Astro­physics, has been awarded theGold Medal of the Royal Astro­nomical Society of Great Britain.

Greenstein was honored forhis "outstanding contributions toastrophysics and his leadership inthe department of astrophYsics atCaltech." The medal is one ofthe oldest honors in astronomy,dating back to 1824, when it wasfirst awarded to Charles Babbage,inventor of the calculating ma­chine.

This award was given inrecognition of Greenstein's workin several branches of astro­physics, including the determi­nation of abundances in variouskinds of stars and the nude0­

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even parts of them are solemnlyobserved in British museums. Butart endures-Mona Lisa keepssmiling. When she saw the wardamaged, smog deteriorated Par­thenon, it was still staggeringlybeautiful~symbolic of man's up­lifting spirit. From the earliesttime man has interpreted hisworld in symbols and left tracesof these interpretations. Theserelics are reduced, polished,organized perceptions of theworld.

What attributes of value canart offer to save mankind fromitself?

Ms Taylor feels there aremany. Art allows men to makechoices without feeling a failure.Since he is not threatened, hecan live in peace. It gives man achance to dream and develop hisfantasies, so he can take out hisfears and look positively at life.It gives him a chance to change;to rework ideas. Man must learnto use his strengths for produc­tive purposes. He must regard theenvironment as a partner insteadof an adversary.

A rt is a discipline; anintensification of life. It allowsus to express our moral, spiritual,and philosophical ideas, and yet

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Volume LXXVI

by Dave SivertsenAs Frank Lloyd Wright once

said, "If one were to tip Americaon its side, everything loosewould fall into Los Angeles."With this opening line, FannieTaylor began her talk on thearts.

This talk was given lastWednesday evening in Ramo.Sponsored jointly by the CaltechFaculty Committee on Programsand the Caltech Y, this lectureprovided a lively forum on manand society's contemporary prob­lems.

Fannie Taylor is Director ofProgram Information of theNational Endowment of the Arts.She compares her leaving heruniversity and going to Washing­ton to campaign for the arts assimilar to the situation herethirty years ago, when manyscientists were going to Washing­ton to get public subsidies forscience and engineering, whichare now taken for granted.

As she sees it, the arts are thebest way for improving our life.Our industrial-political society isbased on greed and possessiveness(the ancient tenets of ownershipand materialism). Admittedly,the arts are political. They arebOUght, sold, and politicked. Thepyramids stay put only becausethey are too heavy to move, and

Subsidize the Arts ?

/(s no longer Drop Day!

fannie Taylor Sfteaks

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rock "Dueling Banjoes" and justas strange as it sounds. Novi andErnie played like the whole restof the act had just been tuningup.

During the entire evening Ifound only one flaw in thegroup. At times they tended tooverwhelm the audience withpower of sound, to the extentthat it was often difficult to hearthe vocals in the first set. Duringthe second set I moved closeenough to the stage to hear thevocals over the instruments, andthey were good. The instru­mental rock was still the besthowever. Chunky is good o~vocals and keyboards, and playedguitar on one number, whileNovi alternated between Stinky(her beloved viola was misbe­having) and keyboards. Novi isprobably the best musician ofthe group, and recently playedon "Black Water" by the DoobieBrothers. The important thingabout this group is that they allseem to be having fun on stage;they aren't in it just for thenight's pay, and that's importantfor good music. Chunky's oc­casional whooping in the cornerof the stage, Novi hamming andmugging and hiding behind herlong red hair; these things helpmake the audience comfortablewith the performers, and that's agood thing. Chunky, Novi andErnie are a good thing, too. Golisten to them or try to get theirWarner Brothers album. (I willtry and review it here soon, if Ican.)

Peter Alsop opened the showwith his own particular brand of

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While watching the tirst two group. The effect on their musicacts (more about those later) of is both noticeable anq pleasing.this week's show at the Ice Too much music of the middleHouse, I kept glancing in fasci- and late sixties, with its overflownated horror at the paraphernalia into the seventies, was based oncluttering the small stage. In the guitar-bass-drums formula,addition to the ever-present, with optional extra guitar anddrums, there were what appeared keyboards. A group entirelyto be several guitar amps, a without guitar (except for onecouple of keyboarded contrap- number) was different enough totions, and a large, bright box be interesting even without thewith lots of controls and the quality of their music going forword "ORANGE" printed on it's them.face. This was my very first clue Chunky, Novi and Ernie re­that Chunky, Novi and Ernie minded me in a vague way of awere not going to do a quiet set. rather bizarre combination ofI still was not prepared for what groups: Curved Air, It's acame to pass. Beautiful Day and Fanny.

As is usual in act changes at (Chunky jumped straight up inthe Ice House, the stage was the air when I mentioned thatdarkened while the performers last to her between shows.set up. There was a long "Fanny?!"). The first two areconversation between one of the primarily because of their use ofperformers and the control booth instrumentation, both in combi­(both halves reaching the audi- nation and style. Face it, electricence via the speakers) about violas are an unusual leadsomething random, and then instrument. The comparison tofinally, the stage up to produce: Fanny (which, as you may nota girl playing the Lucille Ball remember, is and was an all­theme song on a red viola????? female rock group) is partlyOnce this ended, the four because of their keyboard use,musicians (at this point I coun- reminiscent of Nicoel Barclay'sted fingers; three names, four music on the first three Fannymusicians. Of course.) broke into albums, and the fact that mucha driving rock number entitled of their driving force and talent"Why Does Love Get You Wild." comes from highly talented fe­This song blew two middle-aged male musicians, still rare in thecustomers right through the door hard rock field. In fact, my first,(at least that's what it looked somewhat erroneous impressionlike) and woke up anyone who of the grOUp Was that Ernie washad fallen asleep between acts. there only to supplement the

I eventually deciphered the drums with beat and rhythm.following: Chunky was the fe- This changed as I listened tomale type on keyboards and more of their music.vocals whose hair had gone During the evening they didbeyond a natural all the way to a songs with deceptively simplesurrealistic; Novi was the alter- titles, "Nightingale," "Lovelight,"nately retiring and brassy girl "Get Me Higher," and so on. Thewho played viola and keyboards, song which ended their first setwith a few vocals tossed in; Ernie was the one that really impressedplayed bass guitar and sang; me, and demonstrated once andAndy, the drummer, provided for all that Ernie is not justthe relative island of sanity in decorative. "Chicago Foglift" is athis sea of madness. You may powerful number that features ahave noticed the absence of a long, alternating solo betweenguitar (other than bass) in this viola and bass. sort of an electric

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Continued from Page Oneprocesses in the stars and the latestages of stellar evolution. Healso shared in the discovery ofquasars.

Greenstein has served as chair­man of the National Academy ofSciences astronomy survey andof the U.S. National Committeefor the International Astrono­mical Union. He has been amember of the NAS Council andhas served on advisory com­mittees to the administrator ofthe National Aeronautics andSpace Administration. He ischairman of the board of theAssociation of Universities forResearch in Astronomy, whichoperates the national observa­tories.

Greenstein

childhood due to the war."A performer creates the

image in his mind that he wantsto portray, but he must always'stay conscious of his audience.Otherwise he gets lost in his owndream world."

"I have too much ego toteach. A teacher must give uphimself to his students, whichMarceau is unwilling to do."

"The reason for mime's pre­sent popularity and importancelies in its ability to communicateacross languages and nationalities.It can draw people togetherregardless of origin."

Marceau makes much use of aparticular character, Bip, in muchthe same way that Chaplin andother great comedians have crea­ted their own Everyman for usein comedic situations. Bip isoften put in the position ofattempting the impossible, ornearly so, but his failures are notso much laughed at as laughedwith. This is not pie-in-the-face,banana peel slapstick; Bip ismerely human, like all too manyof us.

In all, the performance is wellworth seeing. Go prepared to

enjoy, puzzie, and dap (theaudience loves Marceau, andMarceau loves applause).

-Merle McKenzie

since 1969, has been named afellow of the Alfred P. SloanFoundation, and was awarded a$25,000 Camille and HenryDreyfus Foundation teaching andresearch grant.

Vaughan

Honored

To many, Marcel Marceau ismime. At the least, he is one ofthe greatest living artists in theworld.

Mime is an art of non-verbalcommunication, similar in con­cept to the pantomime art ofCharlie Chaplin and Buster Kea­ton. Yet Marceau uses no propsother than his costume, anoccasional bench, and music.Still, with his gestures, facialexpressions, and movement of hisentire body, he conveys to hisaudience not only a scene, butthe characters of his players,their emotions, and his attitudetoward them. As such, heportrays despair, satire, beauty,and most of all pure humor.

While the show is engaging,the man is unique. He will be atthe Shubert Theatre in CenturyCity until March 16.

While Marceau is the amazingmime onstage, he is almost morefascinating in the speaking rolecalled real life. In an interviewafter his performance, he men­tioned that Sartre and Kant,among ,other existentialists, hadsome real effect on him, also onothers who had effectively no

Dr. Robert W. Vaughan, as­sociate professor of chemicalengineering, has won the pres­tigious Fresenius Award of thenational honorary chemical so­ciety, Phi Lambda Upsilon.

The award recognizes "out­standing contributions to chem­istry through research, educationor administration in the fields ofpure and applied chemistry."Recipients must be under 35years of age. Dr. Vaughan is 33.Selection is made by a com­mittee of eminent scientists.

Dr. Vaughan's fields of re­search are solid state and surfacechemistry. His goal is better·understanding of chemical inter­actions and bonding within solidmaterials, in order to improveand develop new engineeringmaterials.

Dr. Vaughan nas been amember of the Caltech faculty

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tion is interwoven in this cere­mony. The young questioning,the elders discussing, the Matzoh,the bitter herbs, the shank bonecommemorating the PaschalLamb, the cup of Elijah, all arefundamental aspects of Judaism ..The Matzoh signifies the hastewith which we left Egypt. Thedipping of the bitter herbs into asweet mixture signifies the joyand strength of the Jews in theface of all the tragedies thatbefall them, The cup of Elijahsymbolizes the Jew's eternal

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also get some information aboutthe financial resources of ourown student body. But partici­pating means we have to askstudents some detailed questionsabout their financial resources.This we will do on RegistrationDay for third term: one-fourthof the undergraduates will begiven a questionnaire at that timeand asked to complete beforeregistering. We will choose thesestudents at random-and cer­tainly no one will have to answerthese questions-but I will cer­tainly appreciate it if as manypeople as are asked will provideus with answers. All data, ofcourse, will be completely confi­dential. No names will be askedfor and there are no codes onthe response sheets. I will bepleased to. discuss this withanyone interested, and I'll answerany further questions you mighthave if I am able.

- William P. SchaeferDirector of Financial Aid

and Registrar

Moses, pharaoh, Red Sea.

Sound familiar? Well, it's thattime of year again, folks! Thisyear Passover is from March 26ththrough April 3rd. Passover is areally traditional holiday thatcommemorates the liberation ofthe Jews in Egypt 3,000 yearsago, but is still very meaningfulto us today.

On the first and secondevenings ?f Passover, March 26and 27, a Seder is held in everyhome. This is a very beautifulservice which retells the story ofour exodus. Much Jewish tradi-

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During the next year or soboth the State of California andthe Federal Government aregoing to do a lot of revising oflaws relating to student financialaid. These changes will affect allCaltech students: directly if theyreceive aid from those sources,and indirectly (through the chan­ged ability of the Institute toprovide services, etc.) if they donot. Part of the input needed tolegislative committees relates tothe present level of financialresources-how much money dostudents now spend, and wheredoes that money come from. Toanswer these questions, the Col­lege Board has designed a"Student Resources Survey" andthe State Scholarship Commis­sion has asked every Californiacollege to participate in this.Caltech has agreed, because themoney we receive directly forstudents through State and Fed­eral sources is an important partof our Financial Aid program. Byagreeing to participate, we will

The Mothers .Are Coming

Frank Zappa and the Mothersof Invention will be at the Clare­mont Colleges April 11, at 8 p.m.Tickets are $4.50-$6.50 and goon sale today at the Caltech TicketOffice.

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Dr. Strangelove; Fahrenheit 451;Forbidden Planet; Je t'Aime, Jet'Aime; the 1929 film MysteriousIsland; 1984; 0 Lucky Man; 171eTime Machine; 2001: A SpaceOdyssey; War of the Worlds; andthe first movie ever made, the1902 French Trip to the Moon.Now these are just a few of thefilms, and admission to the­marathon is only five dollars. Eata lot of speed, get out there, andflunk out.

The remainder of Filmex willbe quite interesting, too. Everyother event will be three dollars.Other events will encompassfilms from 15 European coun­tries (whose initials are B, Bu,Cz, D, DBR, Fi, Fr, G, H, I, P,Sp, Sw, UK, USSR) and eightothers (Argentina, Canada, India,Iran, Japan, Mexico, S. Africa,USA). It will include tributes toD.W. Griffith (to whom Filmex75 is dedicated), Jack Benny,Max Linder, the National FilmBoard of Canada, James Whale(Frankenstein and the Bride ofwill be shown) and of course,Warner Bros. Cartoons (here'sanother hope to see What'sOpera Doc?)

I don't think I can say muchmore without destroying my lastclaim to sanity, so I leave youwith prospects of academic with­drawal (all for the movies?) andthe words si nihil acceptus est,nihil debitus est.

-Chris Harcourt

yesterday and will end Wednes­day the 26th [that's right ... itlasts all the way through finalsweek], is Filmex 75, the 1975Los Angeles International FilmExposition. Filmex will be in thePlitt Century Plaza Theatres I &II, and will consist of 88 filmevents, of which 19 are Americanpremieres and 9 are worldpremieres.

Last night marked the openingof Filmex 75 with the worldpremiere of Streisand's FunnyLady. Among nine films todaywill be Monty Python and theHoly Grail, a spoof of themedieval romance-as well as us.This film is also a worldpremiere, the product of theMonty Python Flying Circus, agroup which makes Cheech andChong seem as sedate as Reader'sDigest. It will be shown atmidnight.

Shown at midnight? Yes in­deed. And lest you think it stopsthere, let me talk about a majorevent in Filmex, the sciencefiction marathon. This event willbegin at 9:00 p.m. tomorrow,.and will finish 50 hours later atmidnight, Monday. This show isnon-stop, and will feature suchfilms as Michael Rennie's TheDay the Earth Stood Still, one ofthe greatest of all sf films, AClockwork Orange, The Damned;

It would appear to be thattime of term again. Neither haveI the time to write this columnnor have you the time to read it.With this in mind, I suppose Ishall now disprove the fallacythat brevity is the soul of wit-itis only a goal for which westrive.

Now that the serious peoplehave been driven off by theinsane philosophical barblingsabove, we can get on to the reaibusiness of this column. Thepurpose of entertainment is todivert. This has a very realapplication this week, in that itis finals from which we are to bediverted. With this in mind, I willgo on to only two events.

The first of these two eventsis a recital to be given tonigh tand tomorrow night, both at8:00 p.m., by Carlos Montoya,the famed Spanish guitarist. Theperformances will be in Beck­man, which means you cantoodle down to the ticket officeat noon today and buy rushtickets for the inflation-beatingprice of one dollar. Go to it,cheapies.

The second of these twoevents is by far the mostdangerous. In fact, it poses aserious threat to the academicstatus of several techers already.

Jhisinsidious event, which began

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Perhaps the change is due tothe fact that Evangeline Waltonis growing older. After all, she isscarcely the most prolific writerin the world. Her total output ofnovels in the last forty years isfive, and of the four Mabinogionnovels, each is shorter than itspredecessor. Perhaps she is aboutout of things to say and ways tosay them. This would be averysad thing, if true. Island of theMighty is an epic. Prince ofAnnwn is just a story, written asif to meet a deadline. It is as ifone discovered that Homer spenthis later years writing limericks.Good limericks, but still notquite the same somehow. Such isPrince of Annwn. Good, but notthe same. So it goes.

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sideways chronology, in order4-2-3-1, over a period of nearlyforty years. If this isn't strangeenough, three of the four werewritten within the last five ofthose forty. Enough of thisnonsense. The book does havecontent, and that is what I camehere to discuss.

Prince of Annwn for thosemany of you unfamiliar with theBranches of the Mabinogion,deals with the story of Pwyll(don't worry about trying topronounce it. It's Welsh.), Princeof Dyved (part of Wales) and thetwo major events in his life. Thefirst of the two had to do withhis becoming the personal cham­pion of a sort of anthropomor­phized death, the Prince ofAnnwn, land of the dead. Thesecond part deals with Pwyll'scoming to wed Rhiannon, aprincess from another world,what would sometimes be calledFaery. These stories are told withthe skill that is EvangelineWalton's, but something is some­how missing. In her earlier booksin this series, especially Island ofthe Mighty, one felt a sense ofmassive flow of powers almostbeyond comprehension in theshaping of things. In this one thefeeling is more one of "Oh sothat's what happened. How in­teresting." and you go back towhatever else you were reading

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Before diving into this week'sbook reviews, I want to taketime out to mention Filmex 75.As Harcourt mentioned in hisarticle, there will be a 50-hourscience fiction film marathon thisweekend, beginning Saturdaynight at 9:00 and ending Mondaynight at midnight. I realize thisseems to add up to 51 hours, butwe won't let that bother us, nowwill we.

Filmex sent out at least twopublicity blurbs about whichfilms will be shown in thismarathon, but the two lists varydrastically in content. As far as Ican tell, there will be about 40hours of feature length films,with another ten hours or so ofshort subjects, serials, and ex­cerpts. There will probably bethe premiere of Harlan Ellison'sA Boy and His Dog, perhaps themost understated title for afuturistic horror story of alltime. In addition, there will bejust about every major sf filmyou can think of, ahd severalyou never even dreamed existed.For $5, Filmex's SF marathonwill be the bargain of thecentury, at least for the survivors(they will come creeping out, nolonger able to see by normallight, to discover that they arethe only remnants of mankind tomiss getting wiped out in acombined nuclear war and bio­logical attack from outer space.).Fortunately, it is at least theo­retically possible to leave thetheater and reenter, or else thecasualties would be fantastic.("Aaarrggh ! I have to go to thejohn and I want to see the nextthree movies and if I go I'll losemy three-feet-from-the-screenseat before 2001 comes on!")Yes siree, sf fans are amusingsometimes. They may almost beas good as the films.

Onward.Prince of Annwn by Evan-

geline Walton, Ballantine/Fantasy, $1.50 paperback.

This is the fourth in a seriesof books by Ms Walton, aretelling of the Welsh Mabinogionepic. While this is the fourthbook, it is based on the firstBranch of the Mabinogion, justas her first book was based onthe fourth Branch. You see, shewrote the books in sort of

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FannieContinued from Page Onetranscend them It sustains ourintellectual honesty. Even more,it is a great unifier. Art knowsno national borderlines. Artteaches us to look around, andembrace mankind. Finally, arterases time. The words ofShakespeare still ring true, andGreek art can still stir theemotions.

Why does man hesitate toembrace art with all thesepositive aspects? In the past, arthas been perverted to elitism,with rules imposed by thepowers of politics or religion.There is a strong reason forleadership to confine art withrules. It is a very powerfulexpression of freedom.

Does America really want art?In a research poll conducted lastyear, 64% of the survey samplewas willing to add to their taxesto subsidize art. Since when doAmericans volunteer to increasetheir taxes?!

In the early sixties, the NEAbudget was $2.5 million. Now ithas grown to $82 million. Butmany of the arts are technicallydisadvantaged, as they requiresheer numbers of performers, andare limited by factors such as therange of human hearing.

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belief in the coming of the staying around Tech during theMessiah. spring recess, I am extending an

But most important of all is invitation on behalf of the Losthe concept of the young Angeles Jewish Community toquestioning. On Passover, we are come spend Passover with us inencouraged to search ourselves, our homes. There is lots ofto find answers to the questions: singing, dancing, talking, and"Who are we?" and "What does grass-roots traditionalism. It'sit mean to be a Jew, in today's really a very beautiful experiencesociety?" This is the concept of and it's probably something youthe young searching. We must. won't want to miss. If you'd like_

Queen) but rather weak novels.The Middle Queen developedcharacter in a more satisfyingway and permitted the detectiveto show off somewhat less. Mostof the best novels are from thisperiod. The Late Queen, fromthe late 1950s to the present, hasoften gotten away from theintellectual almost entirely, infavor of the drab world ofunappetizing characters. Some ofthese novels (most of whichdon't have Queen-as-protagonist)are good: The Four Johns; TheDevil's Cook-which has a Cal­tech alumnus in it-and one ortwo others. Most are mediocre.

The New York-Queen's settings are inter­

esting, ranging from New YorkCity in many of the novels, tovarious far-flung parts of thecountry (having a team ofauthors must help on that score),and in particular California,featuring The Hollywood Mur­ders, three novels taking placeyou-know-where.

Among my favorite Queennovels, besides those listed above,are The Greek Coffin Mystery,one of the 'trickiest' mysteriesI've ever read, The Player on theOther Side; Ten Days' Wonder,and the early series featuring asdetective the deaf, retired (forobvious reasons) Shakespeareanactor-you won't like this-DruryLane: The Tragedies of X, Y,and Z, respectively, and DruryLane 's Last~C.:.:.as_e_. _

Mysterious Yanks

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Whodunit?

by Blunt N. StrurnentMy first three columns all

dealt with British mystery wri­ters; equal time (and fair play)now demand that I considerAmerican giants in the genre.Certainly almost no one wouldargue that Ellery Queen and RexStout qualify as giants of theAmerican intelligent mysteryfield.

Ellery Queen (a pseudonymfor two men who shared thecreation) has been around forwell over 40 years now, and halfthe team is still in business,although the last several yearshave not produced material ofhigh quality. Most of the Queenstories feature as detective oneEllery Queen, Harvard-educatedson of a New York City PoliceInspector (which is very con­venient for entree to crimes).Ellery-the-protagonist obviouslyclaims some descent from theBritish school: he swings a meanclassical quotation (especially inthe earlier stories), he alwaysseems to be moving urbanelythrough puzzles of great intellec­tual subtlety, and neither thecharacters nor the milieu remindone of, say, a typical MickeySpillane opus.

The core of the typical Queentale is the intellectual puzzle,unravelled at the denouement bythe logical faculties of one E.Queen. This sort of approach canperhaps best be characterized assetting up a preliminary problem,the solution of which then leadsone to the identity of the villain.The best known type of thisapproach is the fame d LockedRoom problem, where the victimis located in a place in which itis (apparently) impossible thatanyone could have performed theevil deed; when the problem ofmethod is solved, one generally,by Dorothy Sayers' dictum"When you know how, youknow who," has the culprit inhand, and attention is focused onsolving the problem as much asguessing the murderer.

The American Mystery:Queen could write a wicked

locked-room mystery when hechose: see 771e Chinese OrangeMystery or A Room To Die In.But often his puzzles took otherdirections as well: motivation,psychology, and what might becalled the Principle of Exclusion:given a number of suspects, youfind reason to eliminate them'from consideration one by oneuntil only one is left. Presto! Thevillain. It's a tricky technique,and anyone critical enough couldno doubt pick holes in thelogical pyrotechnics with whichthe average Queen story iswrapped up, but that's not thepoint; the point is whether thetrip through the story was anenjoyable one.

Queen, more than mostmystery writers, has gonethrough several periods: theEarly Queen (through the mid­1930's) tended to rely too muchon puzzle and not enough oncharacter; this made for goodshort stories (see especially 771CAdventures of Ellery Queen andThe New Adventures of Ellery

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them a chance of holding off theKhmer Rouge forces of they cansurvive until the rains come. If.At present, they don't haveenough food, let alone ammuni­tion, to hold out that long.

Sihanouk and the KhmerRouge have stated that, whenvictorious, they will make noretributions against anyone ex­cept Lon Nol and a few othergovernment officials whom theywere even nice enough to name.Nice of them, indeed. If the cityof Phnom Penh is pressed muchfurther, if the army and thepeople of Cambodia run muchlower on the essentials of war orlife, there will be no secondthoughts. There will be no heroicstand. No Jim Bowie firingderringers from a sickbed. NoDavy Crockett beating heads inwith a rifle butt. There arethousands of men, women andchildren in Phnom Penh, and thecity is dying. If they are pushedmuch farther, they will surren­der, whether the governmentwants to or not.

The United States is now in aposition of asking itself thequestion "Will we try and dosomething about the problem wehelped get these people into?"At the moment the United Statesis providing some support, butmaking no real effort to bringabout a settlement. Where isKissinger, Supernegotiator, onthis one? Even the most opti­mistic American military people,who normally would give themost favorable of opinions, thekind that thought we could cleanup Vietnam in a few months, saythat Cambodia will fall withoutaid. For once, it looks as ifthey're right. Only a militarymiracle can prevent them frombeing overrun once the bulletsrun out. An aid bill is stillpassing through committees, andthere are those who hope todelay long enough so that itwon't matter. Yes, we need themoney here at home, desperate­ly, but we pushed the Cambo­dians out to sea on a soapbubble. We got them into thismess. But we don't seem tointend to get them out of it.

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associated with the UnitedStates." In other words, not anally, but a satellite, existing onlyfor the convenience of theUnited States.

Soon, it became clear that thewhole thing wasn't working outquite right. The simple littlecoup had repercussions. Theextreme Communists of Cam­bodia, who rather blandly ac­cepted Sihanouk as at leasttolerable to their goals, saw aright-wing threat to everything

• that they wanted. Fighting be­gan, somewhat like what hadhappened years earlier in Laos.For one reason or another, LonNol's government seemed unableto handle the rising threat ofinsurgency and open warfarewith the Khmer Rouge (roughly,Red Cambodia) forces. FormerPresident Nixon's famous "in­cursion" put a stop to that,although not without casualtiesas far away as a college in Ohio(anybody remember KentState?). A new tactic for fightingthe Khmer Rouge was born inthose days, that of outgunningwhat you can't outfight on eventerms. From that time on, theUnited States provided massiveshipments or arms and ammun­ition to Lon Nol's government,helping them to stave off the endfor as long as possible. Only, thistime, the aid wasn't enough, notenough by over $200,000,000. Itseems that the Communist troopshave captured and bought somuch of the supplies previouslydelivered that the Cambodianarmy was running out of guns,bullets, and even rice.

The United States has spentmillions of dollars airlifting sup­plies into Phnom Penh now thatthe roads and rivers are closed.The city is under siege fromrockets. The Cambodian army isbeing whittled away fighting tokeep a small piece of land frombeing overrun until the rainyseason starts. It seems thatAmerican military experts give

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visors," then air and navalsupport, and finally massiveground forces. A farcical govern­ment in Vietnam was supportedfor the purpose of makingeverything convenient for thewar. And all the while theCambodians were praying that itwouldn't be their turn next. Icannot but believe that Sihanoukwanted to stay out of the wholewar.

Finally, it happened. Some­one, whether CIA or WhiteHouse or wherever head­quartered, decided that Sihanoukhad to go, that it would bebetter for the interests of theUnited States if Cambodia had agovernment more openly friendlyto the United States, at any .cost.The cost may prove to be thelife of an entire nation.

There was a coup. Even then,no one bothered denying that itwas American sponsored. Siha­nouk was forced to flee fromPhnom Penh, and Lon Nol, alittle palindromic puppet of aman, became the nominal leaderof what was now, in the wordsof Henry Kissinger "a co~ntry

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by Nick SmithMarch 12, 1975: The DemocraticParty caucus of the United StatesHouse of Representatives votedby an overwhelming margin tooppose the granting of $222million in emergency military aidfor Cambodia.

-To fight, or not to fight. Aterrible paraphrase, but a des­perate question facing the nationof Cambodia now, in the face ofalmost certain rejection by theU.S. Congress of President Ford'srequest for supplies for the LonNol regime. This is a nationwhich, for a brief period ashistory goes, almost avoided thedeath and destruction that havetorn Laos and Nietnam for thepast twenty years. Cambodia wasrules by Prince Sihanouk, a sortof semi-Communist of the Titoschool, trying to avoid thetroubles that plagued the morepolitically important Laos, or thedivided Vietnam And yes, hewas a dictator of sorts.

During the 1960s, the UnitedStates became more and moretangled in the morass that wasIndochina. ~irst. "military ad-

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ability of the Ice House open(Bob Stane) to pick talent. F (couple of dollars and aminute walk from campus, 1can you lose?

Chunky, Novi and Ernie ctinue through Sunday. NTuesday, the Roto Rooter Gctime Christmas Band will appfollowed the next weekDenny Brooks.

proclivity at breaking weaphad an unusual night by not eso much as chipping one.

Once more now, the te:except for three members,look back on the season, [;their hands to the sky, askingJustice, and shout: "Waitnext year!" The aforementiothree members, Steve Com(foil), Paul Whitmore (saber),Ken Wiener (epee), havemore task in front of them:NCAA National Championslat far away Cal State Fulleron April 3. By the v.spectators will be morewelcome at this event, so ~

come on down!

On Thursday night, however,we had a tri-meet here at thegym. Present besides Caltechwere PCC and the regular foilersfrom Cal State LA. First, CSULAput PCC away pretty easily 7-2.Then it was our turn versus PCC.We went down by a score of7-2 also. However, to show thattransitivity does not always holdin sports, when we fencedCSULA, they found themselveshard pressed to beat us 5 boutsto 4. This reporter fenced fourtimes that night, winning two ofthem to have his most successfulouting in foil in months. Otherson the team did their best: oneof our foilers, noted for his

-----------for himself. This especially seemsto be the case when you realizethat the audience loved him,even though his material seemedat least twice as good as hisdelivery. He is one of thosemonologue comedians with avery quiet, downbeat delivery,who just sort of talks to theaudience. The moments thatstand out in my memory had todo with the lines "His hippo hada flat." "The Tinkle and PooSchool of Linguistics." and "Em­barassing Ear Odor." Lookingback, these sound almost asstrange now as they did then. Iguess that my impression of EricCohen was that of an excellentcomedy writer trying to deliverlines he has written, rather thanthat of a comedian who writeshis own material. Perhaps I'vejust become jaded with standupcomics. Whatever it is, EricCohen isn't bad, I've just heardbetter deliveries. From what Iheard, he really is a great writerthough.

Several weeks ago I said I'dtry to compile a list of majoracts who had played at the IceHouse. Here is part of it: BobNewhart, Brewer and Shipley,the Association, Captain Beef­heart, Cheech and Chong, DanHicks and His Hot Licks, TheFiresign Theatre, Glen Campbell,The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Sealsand Crofts, and the SmothersBrothers. Most of these playedthere on their way up, whichgives you some idea of the

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Last week, the Caltech fencingteam had two competitions. One,on Tuesday, was against the foilteam of Cal State LA. Unfor­tunately, they made up this teamby taking their best fencers ineach weapon and putting themtogether to make an even betterteam than usual. We used almostevery fencer present (eight) andlet each fence only once. Evenwith this (usually) counter­productive policy and the factthat our left-handed fencers wereusing right-handed foils, we man­aged to scrape out three victoriesto lose only 5~3.

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insanity. With the exception of afew serious moments, such as thesong "Strength," he spent theentire show being joyously ludi­crous. Such songs as "Junk FoodJunkie" and "Stuck On You(From Sniffin' Glue)" are typicalof his act. He also performed afew songs from his "BarnyardSuites," songs in a song cycleheard by a blind mole searchingfor the meaning of life on afarm. Peter Alsop became CyrusGroundhog, an old codger of awoodchuck if there ever was one,singing "I Got No Kick"; aDrone Bee bemoaning that "TheQueen, She Craves My Body";and a truly Cock of the Walkrooster. These may soundstrange, but they are.

Peter Alsop is very hard toclassify. He is either a singingcomedian or a crazy singer, ormaybe both. The overall result isthat he produces a very enter­taining act, but would be verydifficult to put on records, whichmay be one of the reasons whyhe has not yet made it big. I'mnot sure that he is star qualityyet, but he makes a very goodshow opener.' He will be back ina few weeks, so I may havesolidified my opinion after hear­ing him again.

Eric Cohen is the relativecomedian on this show, a writerfor the Tonight Show. Judgingfrom the Tonight Shows I'veseen, he saves his best material

Friday, March 14, 1975

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Do yourself a favor andsoothe your troubled soul. Givesome blood. A friend of yoursneeds it. «. Y ... •

keep pace with Page. Flemingheld the lead at 12-11 beforeBen Chun pulled his teamtogether under the pressure, andtook the win.

Page finished with an unde­feated 6-0 record. Fleming wassecond at 5-1. Blacker managedto squeak by into third place.

with J.R. Campbell at x2561.

Dean Sanzo. Hits in the firstgame were by Sanzo and JohnDilles.

In the second game DougRoundtree started the pitching,but he too needed Miller to savethe Beavers from total embar­assment. Rae and Dilles pickedup hits.

Tuesday after registration day,the Caltech nine takes onPomona here, so see you there.[But I thought it was here!l

by Chris Russell

Page Wins Disc.impolite convers~tion.

As the game approached itsend Ruddock lived up to itshouse image by playing two girls,and Page tried to make theirimage with Lou Scheffer. ThePage team tried often, and putall their effort into it, butScheffer just could not score. Asthe final seconds ticked off Pagetried to hold their score at 69,but John Best claimed a moralvictory for the Rudds by takingthe ball into the Page court andscoring a wrong-basket lay-up tofinish the game at 71-27.

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Page House won the finalDiscobolus match of the quarterlast Sunday over Ruddock withan overwhelming 71-27 victory inbasketball.

Page started out by buildingan insurmountable lead, thensubstituting their interhouse teamfor the varsity lettermen. Pageplayed more aggressively whichshowed on the foul column aswell as the scoreboard. GaryWakai made several fouls, cul­minating in a technical for

by Chris RussellPage knocked off Fleming

15-S, 15-12 in Interhousevolleyball to claim the cham­pionship. Led by Ben Chun, thePage Dudes played outstandingvolleyball to collect the toughwin. In the second game Flemingcame on behind Chris Cooper to

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Baseball Drops Doubleby Chris Russell

Caltech's baseball team had alot of games rained out, and adoubleheader that perhaps shouldhave been. The team traveled toOxy to lost 12-1, and then14-0. Ed Rea started on themound for Tech, but after givingaway twelve runs in five innings,was replaced by frosh KevinMiller of Fleming, who pro­ceeded to finish with a shut-out.Tech's only run was scored b;:.

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