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War of the Verteb The Twisi The scene was the last Freshman Orientation Program to be held at the R. G. Bell "Y" Camp. Guitarsi were blaring loudly, and a small knot of students-to-be were gathered around a drummer who was emphatically whaling the night lights out of something called "The Twist." Out on the dance floor the re mainder of the incoming Frosh class - with the exception of those souls who were learning rudimentary navi Welcorr MW = S L A - e Learning never a There's no place at Western E neers who feel that college c the end of their education. Ho can meet our quality standard he is really just beginning to lei Is ready to launch his career w an important part of the job at ate-level training on and off thi aged - we want and need him, At Western Electric, in add mal learning-while-doing, en couraged to move ahead in thei al types of educational prog maintains its own full-time gra ing training program, seven I ment courses, and a tuition out-of-hours college study. 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Gneral hadqtaartei lina as it had and has across the world. The Twist has become so im portant now that it has many at tackers and backers across the reaches of time and space. I'm quite sure that many days will pass us by before we forget the pre-game warm-ups of the 1961 Clemson football team. That got more notice, praise, and abuse for this institution than anything of an academic nature has been able to conjure up yet. We note that in London, England, a dancing school instructor has banned the new craze from his danc ing floor because - as he put it - "It is too sexy." This instructor, Bernard Stetson stated, "The Twist is far too uninhibited, abandoned, and frankly sexy to be performed in Britain. It belongs in the African bush." Up at the University of Tennessee where dances of this sort seem to be the main stream of energy re leases, a huge traffic jam developed in front of the main campus the other night. You see, some music store was holding a twist contest and there wasn't room for about 200 students who arrived juiced up and ready to go. So, they held their own little contest out in the middle of the street. Police patiently directed traffic in, around, and through the twisters for about two hours. What else could they do - besides joining in the fun, fever, and frolic? Oh, yes, the Twist does have pro tectors as well as attackers. The dance has friends in Florida, too. City Councilman Bill Myers of Tampa danced the Twist at a coun cil meeting in an effort to remove a ban on the dance at the Tampa Community Center. After he was through, it was decided that the ban would remain in effect. Speaking of bans, a Camden, South Carolina minister who has been waging a one-man war for the return of prohibition, has turned his attention to the Twist. The Reverend Ray Jones of Camden's Hermitage Baptist Church says the dance was "hatched in the incubators of Hell." Jones says he has "never known a true, Godly man or woman who loved the Twist - or any dance, for that matter." He added that "God never grew praying knees on dancing limbs." Jones recently called Gover nor Hollings a "Tool of the liquor industry" when the Governor de clined to endorse the minister's pro hibition campaign. On the lighter side, we have been told of another minister's run-in with the dance. The United Press, Nestern Electric ric at one of the best times in uistory. In the management a1 thousand supervisory jobs pen up to W.E. people within -s. And our work of building equipment and systems be ly challenging and important ations needs of our nation and ue to increase. portunitles exist new at Western mechanical, Industrial, and chemi ill as physical science, liberal arts, i. All qualified applicants will re deration for employment without I, color or national origin. For more Iestemn Electric, write College Rela-. tric Com'pany, Room 6206, 222 rk 3S, New York. And be sure to tern Electric interview when our ves visit your campus. ru Electric] :t st W? e enS uuSsUmn is, Ind.5 Allentown and Laureldale, Pa.1 Columbus, Ohio; Oklahoma City. Okle. Rock, Ark. Also Western Electric disti. -a s a roedwa, be.w Yoka,a II sV. The Merry Mortic Tombston( It's that time again - finals cor a newspaper is to be of aid and inte that this timely article will be of ser Epitaph: a memorial that usual below. HERE LIES THE BODY OF SHE BURST WHILE DRI CALLED FROM THIS WORLI SHE DRANK IT AND SH TALKED TO DEATH BY F CHARTER MEMBER OF T IN MEMORY OF WHO WAS FATALI EXPLOSION FILLE DANFORTH'S NON-EXP HERE LIES THE BODY OF LADY SHE WAS BLAND, PASSION ALSO SHE PAINTED IN WATI PICTURES TO THE EXH SHE WAS FIRST COUSIN TO AND OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOA BENEATH THIS Li LIES UNCLE PETI TOO EARLY IN TB HE TOOK OFF HI. LEST WE FORGE'] TEARS CANNOT RESTORE ELIZA ANN HAS GONE TO : SHE NOW RECLINES C PEACE AT LAST FOR ELIZA BUT NOT FOR FATHER which is the source of these other little gems, tells of the pastor of a small church who was performing a marriage ceremony, when he sud denly jumped to the aisle and twisted nadly down it and out the door. He returned, blushing as pink as the bride, and explained that an un inhibited bee had buzzed beneath his priestly robes and stung him four times. It seems that everyone and every thing has taken up this new and exciting sport. Just turn on your television set, and you may be lucky enough to see the "Twist with me, Malcolm, in your Falcon." Dance, in which a certain automobile manu facturing concern has gone to the edge of advertising and introduced a really twisted commercial. Twisting has become so common place that it is no longer unusual to hear the ever-growing list of injuries sustained while cavorting in the aforementioned fashion. We have heard stories of actual knee dis locations and slipped disks that were the direct result of this grueling act of terpsichore, but none to match Career Cues: "This age o opens spec for the we "The more specialists s complexities, the easier achieve success. If that seems paradox men who go out for spE the more chance you ha' Today's world - in go science-needs the well And for a special I Have a r Territory iing up next week. Since the duty of rest to its readers, we sincerely hope vice to you. y lies above about the one who lies %1ARY ANN LOWDER NKING A SEIDLITZ POWDER; TO HER HEAVENLY REST; E EFFERVESCED. RIENDS. EIE FRIDAY BRIDGE CLUB. ELLEN SHANNON ,Y BURNED BY THE OF A LAMP ) WITH [OSIVE BURNING FLUID O'LOONEY; ATE, AND -DEEPLY RELIGIOUS; ACOLORS AND SENT SEVERAL IBITION. LADY JONES; I OF HEAVEN. . * * * JMP OF STONE R DANIELS E MONTH OF MAY s WINTER FLANNELS HER: THEREFORE I WEEP. * * * * IEST N ABRAHAM'S BREAST ANN ABRAHAM. the hi-jinks of a young gentleman who was attending one of the wilder New Year's Eve parties. This twister climbed upon a mantlepiece to give a twisting exhibition As he was in a rather "spirited" state, his footing was insecure and he plunged from his perch to the tune of a broken leg. As the evening was young, he returned to the party with the leg in a cast. As the clock stroked in the new for '62 year, the twister in the plaster cast climbed again, to the merriment of his companions, onto the mantlepiece. As his friends laughed, the wooden structure col lapsed under its unusual burden. That twister is spending the be ginning of the new year learning to twist again - in traction. You may be for twisting - and you may be against it. But whatever path you dance down, be it foxtrot, waltz, or wallflower, you must admit that the twist (or whatever you, happen to call it) is here. The picture that accompanies this article was taken especially for "The Gamecock" at the Homecoming Dance. fspecialization lal opportunities Il-rounded man!" Robert Saudek, President Robert Saudek Associates, Inc. ociety creates to cope with its it can be for a non-specialist to cal, look at it this way: the more cific positions on the ball club, ie to wind up as manager! rernment, business, the arts, even ounded man. He's the man who ~. . g THE BEST TOBACCO MA "Cocky By Rosemary Hankin A U L1 .ANO VOU WIL. FWND 1 SUESTION 60X CoNMIN5N #POP oC*805 oW PM4 DESK-C LASS OSSe-O% . On a traveling salesman: MY TRIP IS ENDED; SEND MY SAMPLES HOME. iERE LIES THE BODY OF MARY GWYNNE WHO WAS SO VERY PURE WITHIN SHE CRACKED THE SHELL OF HER EARTHLY SKIN AND HATCHED HERSELF A CHERUBIM. TO THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM BEAULIEU kCCIDENTALLY SHOT APRIL 1844: AS A MARK OF AFFECTION FROM HIS BROTHER. * * * . * * * 3ACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JARED BATES HIS WIDOW, AGED 24, LIVES AT 7 ELM STREET, HAS EVERY QUALIFICATION FOR A GOOD WIFE, AND YEARNS TO BE COMFORTED. EERE LIES OLD AUNT HANNAH PROCTOR WHO PURGED BUT DIDN'T CALL THE DOCTOR. SHE COULDN'T STAY: SHE HAD TO GO PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW. iHE LIVED BY VIRTUE, HOPING FOR IMMORTALITY AND DIED BY CHOLERA, CAUSED BY EATING UNRIPE FRUIT READER, GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE. THIS STONE WAS RAISED TO SARAH FORD NOT SARAH'S VIRTUES TO RECORD: FOR THEY'RE WELL KNOWN BY ALL THE TOWN: NO, LORD: IT WAS RAISED TO KEEP HER DOWN. On Alexander the Great: NOW THIS MOUND IS LARGE ENOUGH FOR HIM FOR WHOM ALL EARTH WAS NOT. can see the entire picture... the man who can draw on a broad background of knowledge, evaluate the problem, then assign the details to specialists. The world of entertainment may seem somewhat spe cial, but it's a case in point. These days, it demands more of its people than ever before. Today's musical comedy score is often as sophisticated as grand opera. Drama draws heavily on psychology and history. Television pro ductions are concerned with nuclear science and political science. If you've ever watched 'Omnibus' you may have seen how our productions have run the gamut of a wide range of man's interests. So I suggest to you that even though you may concen trate on one special field of interest, keep your viewpoint broad. Keep your college curriculum as diversified as pos sible. Attend lectures and concerts, the theatres and mu seums. Above all, read and read, and listen and listen! But pay scant heed to the oracle who says there's no route to the top but that of specialization. I don't believe it!" Robert Soudok is the creator of many of television's most famous programs-in cluding the award-winning "Omnibus" series. Former network executive and head of the TV-Radio Workshop of the Ford Foundation, Bob enjoys a "Camel break". He's been a Camel fan since undergraduate days at Harvard. lon... c (ES THE BERST SMOKEO "icnee