AFROTC
Trips To
Cape Kennedy
(Editor's note: DTI I staffer Bob
Chapmen accompanied a group of
AFROTC cadets who toured Air Force
facilities in Florida on a two-day trip last
week. This article is an account of the
trip.)
Cadets of the Air Force ROTC
detachment at UNC toured the "gateway
to space" last week.
The cadets saw not only the Cape
Kennedy Air Force Station, birthplace of
American space exploration, but also the
John F. Kennedy Space Center, launch
center for the moon flights.
The cadets got to see firsthand the
working of the U.S. space program and
they were able to get a glimpse at the
workings of the Air Force in which they
will serve as officers upon graduation
from Carolina.
"The trip helped give them a feeling of
the magnitude of the space program,"
commented Capt. Dennis D. Gilchrist,
who accompanied the cadets.
First stop on the journey to the
Florida cape was made at Pope Air Force
Base near Fayetteville where a test pilot
for Lockheed took the cadets through the
C5A, the world's largest aircraft.
Even bigger than the Boeing 747, the
C5A costs about $27 million apiece, can
operate from a dirt field and can carry
the largest payload capability of any
aircraft.
At Pope, the cadets boarded a
twin-engine plane for Patrick AFB, home
of the Air Force Eastern Test Range.
The cadets stayed at the Visiting
Officer's Quarters and dined at the
Officers Club, advantages they will enjoy
as Air Force officers.
The next morning a member of the
Patrick public information office took
the cadets through the Cape Kennedy
complex, a part of the Air Force Systems
Command which is responsible for
research and development.
America's primary test facility since
1950, the cape launches rockets for the
Army, Navy, NASA, other government
agencies and even other nations as well as
for the Air Force.
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ghost was a Beta? (Staff photo by Cliff Kolovson)
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home...uvay from the M:ght of racism to
brotherhood, away from war to rxeace. to
a sense of community." said George
McGovern. (D-S.D.) Wednesday night.
Speaking in Page Auditorium on the
Duke Univeristy campus. McGovern was
the first speaker in the Duke Major
Speaker Series.
The "twin goals" of the United States.
McGovern said, should be "peace and the
healing of our society."
"This is a time of difficulty and
trouble for the United States," he said.
There have been "few periods in this
country when we so desperately needed a
leadership that would somehow draw out
what is good in the American people"
and face the concerns of the day.
"Our country has wandered so far
away from the rhetorical ideals we gave
our allegiance to, we've almost lost our
way," McGovern said.
The Senator said he found in America
problems of pollution, a senseless war and
a country contending it cannot afford
adequate funds for education when it can
afford a whole range of war materials.
On WCAR Radio
Wars Tike Martiaes Aire Gomiini
by Anne Lafferty
Staff Writer
Unsuspecting listeners who flip on
WCAR Radio at midnight tonight may
suffer the same paralyzing fear that many
other Americans did in a similar situation
32 years ago.
For it is at that time that the local
station will air Orson Welles' "War of the
Worlds." When the radio drama was first
broadcast nationwide by CBS on Oct. 30,
1938, many believed that the Earth really
was experiencing the Martian takeover
described on the radio that night.
The midnight broadcast by WCAR is a,
recording of the original "as it was
heard," according to senior .Tommy
Allen, promotion director. . It can be
heard in the second floor lounge of the
Union as well as in any dorm affiliated
with WCAR, he added.
Adapted from H.G. Wells's novel,
"War of the Worlds," the radio drama
consists of a series of bulletins and
interviews describing the Martian
takeover of Earth.
The realism of the play is heightened
by the fact that the interviews and news
bulletins interrupt "weather reports" and
"orchestra music" from a downtown
hotel in New York City.
Anyone tuning in the program more
than a minute late could have easily
believed that the "news" was genuine-a
hastily-thrown-together running account
of an invasion taking place that very
night.
, . Four times during . the broadcast.;
announcements informed listeners that
the broadcast was a drama, not a
newscast.
However, as Hadley Cantril notes in
his book, "The Invasion from Mars," "It
must be remembered...that the most
terrifying part of the broadcast came
before the (first) station break."
Thousands who heard "The War of the
Worlds" panicked or prayed or both.
Cantril's book, one of a series of books
studying radio's impact upon listeners,
records numerous listener reactions to the
broadcast.
One New Jersey housewife and her
family were evacuating their home,
following directions given on the radio,
when a neighbor informed them of the
real nature of the broadcast.
As Cantril explained, "...no one
reading the script can deny that the
broadcast was so realistic for the first few
minutes that it was almost credible to
even relatively sophisticated and
well-informed listeners."
Tonight at midnight WCAR is
broadcasting a classic from the days when
radio, not television, was the pervasive
national communications influence in the
United States.
More than just a classic, however,
"The War of the Worlds," which terrified
many Americans, was a Halloween
present that many would never forget.
Concerning the present administration.
McGovern said it has "addressed itself ro
the fears of the American people in siu-h
a way as to divide and confuse. The
present national leadership has b rough:
out the goblins before the Halloween
season."
He called President Nixon's rece-r
rejection of the findings of the
presidential commission which studied
the effects of pornography and ohsceruu
a sort of diversionary tactic.
The commission said. "There is n
warrant for continued governmental
interference with the full freedom of
adults to read, obtain or view whatever
such (pornographic) material they wiih "
McGovern said Nixon's attentior t.
and rejection of the "smut issue... shifts
attention from problems that are truly
smutty and of an obscene nature that are
tearing the national fabric."
As an example of the "truly smutty
and obscene problems." McGovern cite J
Nixon's statement that the U. S.
experience in Vietnam is "the finest hour
in national history.
"This is smut and obscenity," 'said
McGovern, "it raises a question about our
national leadership's ability to see what s
smut." Americans would have to "look
hard to find any worse hour in our
national history," he said. ;
Another example of the
administration's diversionary tactics, said
McGovern, is Nixon's emphasis on
lawlessness and disorder.
He said this is a "convenient way, to
divert attention from other forms of
violence," such as hunger, which is
'Violence against the personality, 1 of
human beings," and racism, which is '-'the
most important continuing moral
problem in the U. S."
Furthermore, McGovern said, Vice
President Agnew's statement that ''all
disorder and unrest on campus" is "a
consequence of permissiveness" ignores
other areas of permissiveness in American
society.
It ignores, he said, "the permissiveness
that has permitted major lakes and
streams to be polluted by industnal
waste, the permissiveness that allowed the
President to commit troops to Cambodia
without so much as glancing at the
Congress and the permissiveness that
allows the CIA and the Pentagon to make
secret agreements."
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It stops differently, turns differently, moves differently, even
uses gas differently than just about every other car in the world.
(Sixty-one years of German engineering experience has taught us
a few things.)
The car with the engine in the rear is the Porsche 911.
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fact, over the past twenty-one years Porsches have proven to be so
well engineered, so precise, that they've won more than one thou
sand major races.
And the car without an engine in the front or the back is the
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