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This is master tape for KTRU News Number B. Media feed concerning the vigil at Willy's statue featuring Dr. Matusow, October 15th, 1969. As each person reads the names, he should remember that this is not just a piece of paper and these are just not abstractions,

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but these were once living human beings who unnecessarily died. In today's early morning chill, Rice University students and faculty began reading the names of American boys dead in Vietnam: James Estus Abston, Marion Franklin Acton. The reading of names will continue throughout moratorium Day and culminate in a

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free public assembly in Herman Park's Miller Theater featuring Moratorium Day speakers, William Edward Murff, Eugene Murray, James Dwight Newcomb, Lawrence Edward Payne, Eddie Donald Peoples, James Earl Perry, Charles Dean Pope. More on the vigil at the statue featuring Dr. Matusow again and Mark Fowler reading war

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dead names from October 16th, 1969. As each person reads the names, he should remember that this is not just a piece of paper and these are just not abstractions, but these were once living human beings who unnecessarily died. Rayford Junior Mosley, William Edward Murff Eugene Murray,

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Eugene Murray, James Dwight Newcomb, Lawrence Edward Payne, Eddie Donald Peoples. Dr. Paul Pfeiffer at his Wednesday morning rededication to peace, October 15th, 1969. Peace is understood in vacuous or even negative terms. I want peace. Let me alone. Don't, don't bother me. Let me escape from the harshness

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and strife. Sometimes it seems there's little root to our reference in our life except a vague appeal to our humanity and that humanity is unfortunately viewed quite naively. Matusow seminar from October 15th, 1969 in the morning. What it means when we will march as a group

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to Miller Amphitheater to hear the speakers this afternoon is that what happened in 1968 was not a one shot fluke. What we will be testifying for is this that we understand this war now and we will never rest until the last crime has been committed there,

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and the last soldier brought home. What we were also telling the president is that what we did to one president we can also do to him and that we will not rest until the men of death are replaced by the men of peace. And that's what

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it means today. National Moratorium Network feed from the KTRU News staff from October 15th, 1969. From Houston, Texas, this is Rice University Radio, Pat Baum reporting for KTRU News. Significant activities for Moratorium Day have been planned by Houston's two major universities. Student governments at both the

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state supported University of Houston and privately endowed Rice University have endorsed the Vietnam moratorium. Although the university administrators have not canceled classes, professors and students alike are liberally exercising their personal options to participate in the Moratorium Day. Activities began Tuesday night and extend late into this

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evening. The central event is a public assembly taking place now in the new amphitheater in Houston's major and centrally located public park. The Rice University Forum committee has invited the entire city of Houston community to hear a U.S congressman, a state senator, and a law school

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dean speak on the United States involvement in Vietnam. Houston, business leaders and Rice students are also addressing this free public assembly. The turnout appears to exceed 8000 persons. Tuesday night saw the beginning of Moratorium events at Rice. Julie Gianelloni has this report. "Reflections on War" was

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the title of an art exhibit presented in the student center. The display including both war oriented and protest art ranged from World War One recruiting posters to a crucified GI effigy mounted on the wall. Designed to evoke an intellectual and emotional response, the collection was

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clearly a success. Later, a communion service entitled "Celebration of Life" was held. The ecumenical service sponsored by the Christian Ministers of Rice drew a large student audience. Later in the chill of a fall midnight students and faculty attended a service of an even more somber nature

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as each person reads the names. He should remember that this is not just a piece of paper and these are just not abstractions, but these were once living human beings who unnecessarily died. In today's early morning chill, Rice University students and faculty began reading the names

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of American boys dead in Vietnam, James Estus Abston, Marion Franklin Acton. Wednesday morning at Rice, purely physical changes in the campus reflected in part the mood of Moratorium Day banners draped from upper story windows. A cemetery in rows of white crosses appeared outside the library, rap sessions

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on the lawn seemed to develop almost spontaneously. Came afternoon and the arm bands and banners were clashed strangely by the appearance of khaki pants and shined shoes. Wednesday is ROTC drill day at Rice. Large lecture classes in the lower level courses were generally held as normal

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though attendance were down considerably. Most upper level classes either did not meet or met with low attendance. Other Houston area campuses saw at most, only moderate Moratorium Day activity. Texas Southern University experienced a mild drop in attendance while Houston Baptist College and San Jacinto College reported

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that classes were more or less normal. At both the University of Houston and the University of St. Thomas, student organized activities were planned including readings from lists of the war dead, requiem masses for war victims, and both scheduled discussions and informal sessions about the entire Vietnam

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problem. This is Bill Cavnar KTRU News. Rice University's approach to the moratorium could be described as rational action to an emotion laden subject. There were two phases artistic synth synthesis through drama and art and intellectual intercourse through seminars, open discussion and lecture. Probably the best example

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of this approach is expressed by Dr. Allen Matusow Rice history professor as he ended his morning statement with: And what it means when we will march as a group to Miller amphitheater to hear the speakers this afternoon is that what happened in 1968 was not a

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one shot fluke. What we will be testifying for is this that we understand this war now and we will never rest until the last crime has been committed there, and the last soldier brought home. And what we were also telling the president is that what we

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did to one president, we can also do to him and that we will not rest until the men of death are replaced by the men of peace. And that's what it means today. This has been Vietnam War Moratorium news from Houston, Texas. Pat Baum for Rice

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University Radio. Moratorium day commentary by Pat Baum, October 16th, 1969. Time 90 seconds. The October 15th call for a Vietnam Moratorium has been voiced. It was this nation's largest unified expression of political and moral objection to United States involvement in Vietnam. The central purpose of the

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demonstrations was to urge swift and complete disengagement. Each individual participant and observer from a Rice freshman to President Nixon will make a personal assessment of Wednesday's activities. An assessment which will guide his future actions and decisions. An initial analysis of Moratorium Day has already been made

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by the nation's news media in the form of radio and television reports of the events. The news media were looking first for evidence of violence. When no significant violence developed, the Texas news media equated this nonviolence with the failure of Moratorium Day. National networks approached the

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day differently. They viewed as no minor triumph the fact that middle class America was significantly involved in the demonstrations. An exception was noted in the South where Wednesday, October 15th was observed as just another day and middle class participation in any activities that were present was

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negligible. The Houston Post in coverage of the Miller Theater rally even denied Houston of its middle class American. No mention of attorney Bill Bellew's address to the rally was made. Still ahead for America is President Nixon's Vietnam speech in November and perhaps another call for a

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Vietnam war moratorium on November 15th. Pat Baum KTRU News. Dr. Alan Matusow from his seminar at Rice on October 15th, 1969. Time 42 seconds. What it means when we will march as a group to Miller Amphitheater to hear the speakers this afternoon is that what happened in

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1968 was not a one shot fluke. What we will be testifying for is this that we understand this war now and we will never rest until the last crime has been committed there and the last soldier brought home. What we were also telling the president is

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that what we did to one president we can also do to him and that we will not rest until the men of death are replaced by the men of peace. And that's what it means today. News promo number one by Buddy Trotter down September of 1969.

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Time 37 seconds. Rice Radio was there. In your own mind if you do not do more harm to the university. On February 21st, 1969 Dr. William H. Masterson was appointed president of Rice University and his appointment touched off one of the most controversial and crucial periods in

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the history of Rice University. Rice Radio kept the listening audience informed with live on the scene coverage. The Rice community was kept up to date on every detail of the crisis. Discover KTRU News. KTRU keeps you informed. Football preview from Dick Fuqua and Coach Bo

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Hagan. Time 30 seconds. From October 1969 before the SMU game. Well, since we're going to have Larry Davis and everybody healthy this week, coach, I think we can really look forward to a fantastic offensive showing by the Owls. We'll have our receivers and our runners and

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we'll be ready to go and my prediction will be Rice by 14 points. Can I get a prediction from you? I made my prediction for the year already before the VMI game but, but I, but uh I I predict that it, that it will be

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an interesting game. I, I think it will possibly be a high scoring game and I think it'd be very, very close. I don't believe there'll be a 14 point margin. I disagree with you there, Dick. But I think that we will be back at full strength

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and, and I think the game will be a toss up. Roger Priest at Baker College. Time 50 seconds. From Pat Baum from October 17th, 1969. Roger Priest was awarded a Bachelor's degree in journalism by the University of Houston in 1967. He enlisted in the Navy. His

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job has been and still is that of a staff journalist in the Pentagon. Roger has done his job. He's never disobeyed an order. He's published a newspaper expressing dissent to the Vietnam War on off duty time, out of uniform, with his own money. He faces possibly

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30 years in prison. Roger Priest spoke in Baker College Friday night and discussed his forthcoming military trial. This tailor's case is the first to be brought to trial by the navy. The precedent it sets will determine whether a serviceman can dissent off duty, out of uniform,

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with his own mind. Pat Baum KTRU News. Jerry Jeff Walker news story and promo from Paul Hlavinka, October 20th, 1969. Time 70 seconds. "I knew a man, Bojangles, and he danced for you in worn out shoes." I made it down to Sand Mountain last Friday night for

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the homecoming of Jerry Jeff Walker. I had vague recollections of one of the down to earth, happy, sad Texas folksingers last gigs in Houston quite a while ago. And I had high hopes for the evening. But wow, when Jerry Jeff came into that little smoke

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filled room, it was like seeing a man that one day, it'll be a folk legend. And then he got onto the stage and for an hour and a half, he talked about life and he sang and when he sang, well, it's just something you've got to

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hear for yourself. If you haven't yet, you still can. Jerry Jeff will be at the RMC Wednesday night at 8 p.m. along with two other real folk singers, Guy Clark and John Carrick. You'll have to go a long way to find a better way to

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spend a dollar. A story on contesting of the results of the freshman election of the SA from Julie Gianelloni, October 23rd, 1969. Time 100 seconds. Contested elections seemed to be common place this year. Baker said the president had held an

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election for freshman representative to cabinet, invalidated the election, held another one, invalidated that one, and finally accepted the results of the third election. Now, the results of the Student Association's general election are being contested. In the race for freshman representative Leighton Read who was the announced

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winner defeated Russ Jones of Lovett by an extremely narrow margin. Soon after the announced results, reports began to circulate the election for freshman representative was being questioned. Russ Jones himself verified this fact stating that there were some obvious discrepancies in the conduction of the election at various

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poll boxes. One of the major discrepancies cited by Russ Jones was that Brown girls were not allowed to vote unless they presented their ID cards. Usually one is allowed to vote after signing an affidavit stating that he is indeed a Rice student. Frank Breevort Student Association

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Senator from Lovett is reportedly sponsoring a petition questioning the election as a whole. This would mean that the election of Ted Farmer as Intercollege court chairman is also being contested. Lee Horstman has said that the decision on any form of protest for general election must be

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made by the Intercollege Court. Thus, Breevort's protest along with any which Russ Jones plans to submit will have to be given to the Chief Justice of the Intercollege Court by 1 p.m. tomorrow. While the supporters of Russ Jones are increasing their effort to

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invalidate the date of the election. Leighton Read seems to be keeping his cool. Reid and Jones will be meeting tonight to discuss the contested election. KTRU News Julie Gianelloni reporting. Comment by Frank Brevoort on the same election from October 24th, 1969. Done by John Doerr.

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Total time under 70 seconds. There are three cuts. Well, the reason that the election was contested was, see, I'm a member of the election committee and when I was counting the votes along with the other members, we noticed that very few votes came in from Brown

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College. This is the order of maybe 15, ah all the other colleges submitted over 100 votes a piece. Therefore, it was, you know, we wondered why this happened to Brown and checking into it, we found this discrepancy. Well, normally at a poll, they will have a

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list of people who sign a statement saying that they are a member of the Student Association and that they will vote only once in the election. This was not done at Brown and it was done at every one of the other polls. Well, I will present

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the case to the Intercollege Court. They will consider it and make the recommendation to the Student Senate. Ah, the Student Senate meeting, November 4th will decide then what course of action should be taken. News story on Dan Rather at Rice from Pat Baum. Time 55

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seconds from October 24th, 1969. It was homecoming for CBS News White House correspondent Dan Rather Friday afternoon. Mr. Rather, who grew up in Houston spoke to an audience at Hamman Hall and discussed the mood of the Nixon administration. He noted that the greatest failure of the

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Johnson administration was Johnson's inability to establish communicable trust between leadership and the led. Nixon according to Rather is also failing to establish this trust. Rather predicted that Justice Haynsworth would not be confirmed by the Senate. In addition, Mr. Rather stated that the president is only now

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becoming aware of the widespread social use of marijuana. He also commented that Vice President Agnew's speeches are given with full presidential sanction and that while Nixon believes Vietnam will be worked out, inflation will be the big issue in the 1970 elections. All in all Rather feels

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Nixon truly believes that a return to Eisenhower-ism without Ike is what the country requires. Pat Baum KTRU News. Rumor concerning ah the naming of a new president. Time 42 seconds. From Pat Baum October 24th, 1969. A faculty meeting was held in the Chemistry Lecture Hall

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Thursday afternoon. Visions of last spring's surprise announcement of Masterson as president immediately sprang into the minds of many and the rumor that a new president had been named was prevalent on campus. The only substance to such a rumor is that the Student Faculty Advisory Committee on

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Presidential Selection did make a report to the faculty concerning a portion of their activity. The board of trustees has been submitting to the advisory committee specific names for consideration as president. The committee reviews the names and returns them to the board with one of two possible

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designations unworthy of further consideration or worthy of further consideration. Pat Baum KTRU News. Freshman football review from Olson on the UT Owlets game October 24th, 1969. Time ah, I don't know how many seconds. The Rice Owls played a much better game Friday night than the 28

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to 8 final score indicates. The key to the Texas Shorthorns victory was the interception of Rice passes, five in all three of which went for touchdowns. The Texas offense did not score until the fourth quarter. It found the Rice defense solid in every department. Rice scored

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only once in the second quarter on a long drive from its own eighteen. This game puts the Owlets record at 1 and 1 and the Texas Shorthorns record at 2 and 0. Next Thursday night at 7:30 the Owlets play the A&M Fish for

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the final home game. This is Jack Olson on KTRU Sports. The Oleo Strut representatives visiting Will Rice College from Pat Baum, October 27th, 1969. Time 61 seconds. The Texas town of Killeen is where you find a coffee house called the Oleo Strut. It's near Fort Hood

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and it's just another part of the movement, anti-war, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-poverty. GIs from the fort come to the Strut and find out about politics and the war rights and repression. The collective from the Strut talked about their activities to about 40 persons

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at Will Rice College Monday night. They showed a film of their coffee house and told the audience that three busloads of Fort Hood GIs are scheduled to march in Houston's November 9th peace rally. The collective also spoke about the severe drug abuse in the army. Unlike

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rational drug use among middle class youth, the GIS are more like ghetto residents who resort to drugs because of oppressive conditions. It's a means of escape for them. The collective pointed out that despite local harassment of the coffee house operation, the most discouraging aspect of their

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efforts appears when the army punishes those GIs who visit the Oleo Strut. Pat Baum KTRU News. Emma [?] John from the Intercollege Court reporting on their consideration of the SA contested election, October 28th, 1969. Time 45 seconds. The Intercollege Court will hold a hearing Friday

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afternoon concerning two complaints filed about the SA election last week. Um one of them has to do with the fact that two juniors ran for Intercollege Court Chairman and according to the constitution, um they are ineligible and the second complaint has to do with the

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way the election was conducted around college. Until Friday there is no um official uh decision on what to do about the election to hold another election or whatever. And after Friday, the court will publish a statement about their decision. Casey the caterpillar from Pat

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Baum, October 28th, 1969. Time 30 seconds. The Hanszen College Cabinet met Monday night and was visited by a very special guest. He was a couple of inches long, green all over, and his name was Casey. He was a caterpillar. It all happened when the Food Committee

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submitted its report and John Sorte introduced as evidence, good old Casey, the caterpillar. Casey and John met over salad at Monday's dinner in the commons. We hope that Casey's friends were fortunate enough to escape the horrible fate of being swallowed along with a leaf of lettuce.

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Pat Baum KTRU News. Judson Robinson Houston Council candidate visiting Baker from Bill Haymes, October 28th, 1969. Time 66 seconds. He said that uh the candidate he was running against was in actuality defeating himself. He's running against Mr. Curly Miller who's a rather older white conservative in

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this uh part of in this part of Houston. Uh he spoke that he said he visited, he was called downtown before he started his campaign by one of the oil magnates. And uh the man had told him that if Mr. Robinson would wait simply two more

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years that, that they would support him in his campaign, run his campaign for him and pay him and he would win. And uh Mr. Robinson felt that uh the time to run was now and not in two years. He is perhaps the first Black candidate for

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city council who has ever had a really good chance of winning. He needs students to work for him and with him at his campaign headquarters which are at 1420 Main Street. Uh, he hopes to by increasing the number of Negroes and other concerned citizens voting in

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this election that uh that he will win. Bill Haymes. I'm chairman, Co-chairman of the Baker College Social Involvement Committee. Pacifica wins their construction permit from Pat Baum, October 29th, 1969. Time, 19 seconds. Is Houston ready for Pacifica? Ready or not, Pacifica will be on the

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air very soon. Wednesday afternoon in Washington DC, the Federal Communications Commission awarded a construction permit for Houston's Pacifica Radio station. The peaceful awakening is on its way. Pat Baum KTRU News. "Raid the Icebox" review with Andy Warhol. Pat Baum, October 29th, 1969. Time 28 seconds. Here

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I am in my fatigue jacket at the Andy Warhol art preview. The wine is flowing and so are the guests. They're saying things like is he putting us on? And the paintings must be fairly genuine. It's called "Raid the Ice Box." The art exhibit sponsored by

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Dominique de Menil and the Institute for the Arts. It opens to the public tomorrow. Catch this surprise of surprises, Acting President Vandiver just walked in, followed by Andy Warhol himself. As for the exhibit, well, I'll look at it tomorrow. Pat Baum KTRU News. Rice Owlet's football

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report from Jay Bestman, October 30th, 1969. Time 45 seconds. The Texas A&M Fish utilizing 12 Rice turnovers on a wet and slippery field, easily defeated the Owlets tonight 36 to 8 Vance Kerbow was the A&M star rushing through gaping holes in the

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Rice defensive line. Rice's offense couldn't get on track as they gave A&M good field position many times on nine fumbles and three pass interceptions. Rice's only scorer came in the first half after a sensational grab by Ron Arceneaux of Bruce Gadd pass on the

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three yard line. The following touchdown made it 23 to 8 half time but the Fish defense held in the second half to give A&M field position for two more touchdowns and an easy 36 to 8 victory. This has been Jay Bestman KTRU Sports. Pumpkin

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carving winner from Baker report from Web Canard, October 30th, 1969. Time 25 seconds. Tonight, Baker College had a pumpkin carving contest. The contest which is to be of benefit to the children of the 5th Ward at a party tomorrow at Jones College was won by

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Jinx Williams [?] with a, a pumpkin in the form of a cowboy. Mr. Williams [?] wins a 6, 6-pack of his favorite beverage, which is reported to be an orange beverage. This is Web Canard KTRU News.