Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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August 1 Gas prices up 5 P gallon Firefighter dies at Texas A M Fire¬ man’s Training School 3 Oil Slick drifts toward Texas beach¬ es Olympics: Mary Lou Retton wins gold in women’s all-around gymnas¬ tics 5 Dawn Butz’s Birthday 6 Richard Burton dead at age 59 8 Ken Kuffner’s Birthday 9 Charles Manson’s Helter Skelter starts, 1969 10 Olympics: Decker falls in 3000 run 11 Olympics: Track star Carl Lewis wins 4th gold medal Reagan jokes on-the-air about bombing the USSR 13 Soviets accuse US of exploitation in Red Sea 16 Jury acquits DeLorean in cocaine trial 17 Woodstock, 1969 20 GOP convention opens in Dallas Fish camp participant comes down with meningitis Battalion editor Bill Robinson fatal¬ ly injured in car crash 25 Author Truman Capote dies 27 First day of fall classes New intercampus shuttle begins operations All University Night 29 $50 million from estate of Howard Hughes given to state of Texas 30 B-l bomber (prototype) crashes — one dead Fire bomb throw on steps of the capitol, Washington D.C. Cadet Bruce Dean Goodrich dies after a 2:30 a.m. “crap out” Maiden voyage of Discovery 4 Opening

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Sports 116 Classes Who’s Who 622 Closing 800 Opening 3

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September 1 A M vs UTEP 20-17 2 MSC Open House 11 Last Day for dropping courses with no record 12 Hurricane Diane hits N. Carolina 18 Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko arrives in US for talks with Reagan 20 US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon hit by truck bomb — 23 dead, 71 in¬ jured 21 Katherine Hossley killed in car crash with S. Pacific freight train on railroad tracks at Luther and Well¬ born 22 A M vs Iowa State 37-18 24 Second death by car-train collision at same intersection, Lynn Mac¬ Donald 28 Four Cadets indicted in Goodrich case — 3 freshmen, 1 senior Last day for Q-dropping courses 29 A M vs Arkansas State 22-21 Quarterback Kevin Murray breaks ankle, out for the season Chancellor’s new $1 million resi¬ dence opens Howdy Week begins 30 Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip returns Foley’s opens at Post Oak Mall Opening 5