European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday october 5, 1967 even the hip can be off the min track there s always space for More jargon by Edith Ledere new York a if a mini track reminds you of a mini skirt and an egads Button sounds like the latest in kicks you May be hip but you re obviously not a space the soviet Union launched sputnik a decade ago wednesday space age jargon has been joining the English language at a rapid rate. And while much of the Lingo is scientific the hipster obviously has had his influence on the egg Heads at the National aeronautics and space administration and Cape Kennedy. An egads Button also known As a Chicken switch is a True panic Button. The new random House dictionary de fines it As a switch that Trig Gers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning a min track you girl watchers is really the proce Dure of tracing the orbit of a artificial satellite and of record ing its signals by honest John or Bull up May sound like Shady charac ters from a . Fields movie. But to the space scientist Hon est John is a surface to sur face single stage artillery rocket and Bull up is an air to surface guided bomb for air support of troops. A Rockton May conjure up the picture of a Small animal with a robber s mask on butt s really a rocket launched from a balloon at a High if you think the difference be tween bang bang rocketry and beat beat rocketry i whether the rocket sounds like a gun or Bongo Drums you re wrong. Bang bang rocketry is a missile control system which operates on a single command with variations in motion obtained by repeating the com Mand. Beat beat rocketry is a missile tracking system us ing doppler a boil off in t a loss of temper. It s any vapor loss from the oxidizer or fuel in rocket during and a Doghouse in t necessarily the place pop. Is sent when there is a loss of space jargon it s bulge on the surface of a rocket or mis Sile for scientific a. Clearance May soundalike something James Bond would have had. If you get it the highest level of Security clearance in the atomic Energy commission you May be privy to some jargon even som scientists Don t know. Y congressman Calls census too snoopy Washington up a congressman said monday that it s none of the government s business with whom you share your Shower if you share your , rep. Jackson e. Beets it Ohio said if you do share a Shower and Don t Tell the government when it take sits 1970 census you la be subject to a $100 Fine or 60-Day jail said threatening jail sentences for not answering questions having nothing to do with essential facts about population is an abuse of Federal questions such As do you share your Shower How do you enter your Home where did you live in october 1962, How Many babies have you Ever had Are prominent on the population and housing census form Betts said in a state predicted the Complex series of questions in the pro posed census will result in a less accurate population count than in 1960, when five million people were not located by census 1970 census will be mailed out and filled in by people who will mail it is Likely that people who Are embarrassed about ans Wering these questions have difficulty Reading or who Don care about being grilled As if they were Home economics laboratories will fail to give adequate responses Betts said. Honor codes under fire by Daniel Rapoport Washington up rep. F. Edward Hebert is quietly investigating the three service academies apparently with the aim of getting them to modify their Honor codes reinforce traditional hazing and de emphasize Louisiana Democrat is chairman of a House armed services subcommittee that be Gan hearings last Friday on the administration of West Point Annapolis and the air forc Academy. The Friday session and onion monday were spent talking to Pentagon officials behind closed doors. But from subcommittee sources an opening statement made Public by Heb Ert and an interview with him the inquiry seemed to be Shap ing up like this Honor code the scandal that rocked the air Force. Rep. F. Edward Hebert Academy last Winter with the resignation of More than a score of cadets was the single act that triggered the investigation. Some members Are known to feel that the Honor code of the air Force Academy is unrealistic in that it not Only re quires a Cadet to watch his own behaviour but to report any of his Fellows who step out of line. Hazing some critics most notably retired vice adm. By Man g. Rickover father of the atomic submarine main Tain that hazing and other prep school practices do not belong in institutions Traini Gyoung men to Lead their coun try s armed declined to offer his views specifically but he did say it s something like senior top Pilot talks off the Canh Stop War by winning 1t9 Olds says by Fred s. Hoffman Washington a col. Robin Olds top air Force Pilotin the Vietnam War said tues Day a simple Way to Stop the War is to win it and suggested the United states is going about the Job the hard an off the cuff reply to a question at a news conference says raids successful air Force col. Robin Olds to fighter Pilot of the Vietnam War says raids on the North Are accomplishing their purpose of curtailing the flow of men and supplies. A Olds said Good lord you begot the Best armed services you be Ever fielded. Why Don you use them one Way to Stop the darn thing very simply from my own Humble Point of View is win it. That s we re doing is the hard Way. The worst Way of All isto get out once you be got your foot in was about As far As Olds just returned from a year of combat in which he shot Down four soviet built Mig Jet fight ers strayed from the official policy line. He said he would leave the method of winning the War to the joint chiefs of staff the president and others in authority. Replying to other questions Olds generally endorsed the tar gets for . Bombing missions in North Vietnam saying Allin All the targets they gave us were a sufficient Challenge indicated he would like to strike Phuc yen the biggest remaining a bombed Mig base i North Vietnam but said pilots he knew were split equally on the question. He conceded the Issue has two the official line in saying that the purpose of the bombing is not to Stop the War but to impede the flow of Menand supplies to communist forces in South Vietnam. To that extent Olds said the bombing has been Success Ful. But his later remark a outdoing things the hard Way indicated he possibly had some stronger views that he did no express. Asked Henford z about agitation from the War War ii fighter Pilo Tild we about he termed this attitude Olds told reporters if the United states pulled out of Southeast Asia it would amount to handing Over South Vietnam Thailand Cambodia India and other countries to the communists. Olds has been assigned a commandant of cadets at the air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo. Ity in Congress. When Mem Bers first come they re against it. They tend to look More favourably on it As they become More in his opening statement Hebert said the Pri Mary Mission of the academies was to produce officers with a balanced background of both academic and professional Mil itary training adding that judgments might differ on the emphasis to be placed on each of these elements. Rickover for example believes that the academies shortchange the academic area but in an interview Heb Ert told up there Are some people who fee1 there is getting to be too much emphasis put on academic one member reporting on comment Hebert made during Friday s session quoted the Louisiana lawmaker As saying that the essential purpose of the academies was to turn out fighting men not Rhodes schol ars. When you hire Mickey Man the you hire him to hit Home runs. You Don t care if he does t know who invented the atomic bomb Hebert is said to have remarked. European edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in chief it. Col. F. 8. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Arnold Burnett managing editor Elmer d. Frank Rodvon a exhenry s. Epstein circulation manager an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed forces printed Dally a Darmstadt Germany under the aug plei of the office of the chief of Public affair. He Usa eur. Military address Tho 8tar and tripe Apo 09178. International mall the Start and stripes Postrach 1034, 1-Darmntadt, Germany. Tell Griesheim c prefix 06165 20711 m Darmstadt air strip prefix 2376 741. New York off col 641 Washington 8fc, new York 10014, Tell area code 212 620-5771. Second claw postage paid at new York . The United states la an open society in which the Peoples right to know is cherished and guarded president i Ndon b. Johmson
