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Two men stepped from one of the cars, turned to a photographer and asked, "Where do we go from here?" "Are you in the Washington Press Corps?" "No, we're congressmen." "Damned if I know where you go." And North Carolina Congressmen Basil F. L. Whitener and Horace R. Kornegay milled around, look ing Kennedy borrowed University President William C. Friday's pen twice, once on the platform to edit his speech, and again after the ceremony to autograph a copy of the program which will go into the university's archives.

The first time, Friday got it back. The second time he didn't. "What did President Kennedy say to you. on the platform?" Pres. Friday was asked.

"He asked me how the football team was last Saturday. I told him we lost to Clemson, 27-0. But don't write Chancellor William B. Aycock sat to Kennedy's left during the ceremonies. Pres.

Friday sat to his right. After Kennedy left, Aycock was told by a friend. "You know what people all over the U. S. are saying? They're saying, "who are those two- fellows sitting beside the President'?" 7 LJiv Destined A few minutes later at the -Sicily Drop- Zone, the Presidents watched fighter planes strafe and bomb a hillside.

Completing the attack were 300 paratroopers and heavy arms, including a bulldozer, all of which were dropped from CllD's. Paratroopers Presented The lieutenant and captain of the paratroopers were presented to the President after their jump. Minutes later at another area in the middle of hot, dusty Ft. Bragg the newest firepower was demonstrated to the President. Machine gun, guided missile and mock helicopter battles demonstrated some of the latest Army equipment.

A simulated nuclear missile, the Little John, was fired and struck a target on a hill some miles away. Perhaps the highlight of the afternoon came with the Special Warfare demonstration, given by a force of men who had just returned from Laos. The President saw amphibious and other special purpose vehicles a rocket belt demonstration and a number of special aircraft. esearch chemistry, metallurgy, mechanics, polymer science, ceramics, surface phenomenon and other related fields. The study of materials will make feasible the development of new hardware to be used in such fields as space exploration and rocket components.

Combined Research The million will provide equipment, supplies and salaries for the assistants and fellows. The Departments of Physics and Chemistry are to direct the program under H. D. Crockford and Paul E. Shearin, chairmen of the respective departments.

Dr. Little said, "Although there arc only 13 men at present who form the backbone, of the new program, the contract provides for enlargement." He added that one of the most important of the contract was the provision for the training of materials personnel Eight other universities have contracts with ARPA with interdisciplinary laboratories. UNC is one of the three recent additions to the materials research project til itlflL By Wayne King In the black robe of a scholar, a somber Unied States Prresident yesterday assured this University and the world that "We shall be neither Red nor dead, but alive and free." An estimated 32,000 persons in Kenan Stadium heard President John F. Kennedy pledge every effort "to prevent the world from being blown up." The President, who had come to Chapel Hill to accept an honorary degree on the University's 168th birthday, stressed that Americans must do their duty "undeterred by fanatics or frenzy at home or abroad." Alhough not the major foreign policy address expected, the 14-minute speech reconfirmed his dedication to both firmness and flexibility in the fight for Western freedom. Yet, pointing to crises from Berlin to Viet Nam, he warned his audience that "we are destined-all of us here today to live out most, if not all, Of our lives in uncertainty and challenge and peril." The Chief Executive, referring to the North Carolina motto, Esse Quam Videri, said A merica needs men "who look at things as they are rather than as they seem." By LLOYD LITTLE FT.

BRAGG -President Kennedy yesterday watched the men and might of Ft. Bragg put on an impressive performance of land, men and airpower. After a half-hour delay, the President spent four hot hours moving from area to area watching demonstrations of parachuting, hand-to-hand combat and missile striking power. The 82nd Airborne Division, 12,000 strong, heard the President say "the United States has obligations and alliances which stretch around the world. Millions of people look to us." lie said that in many of these countries there are few Americans and no American soldiers.

"Here at Ft. Bragg, there is this division, and there are other STRAC (Strategic Army Corps) divisions these are the wings of our air-power." Following the short speech, the President conducted an inspection of the troops in his convertible. Later the firepower and transportation facilities of the 82nd Division were driven by the presidential reviewing stand. JFK's Custom Convertible (right) He Came, He Saw, He Found Cobweb leaders from Carolina as Secretary of State Luther Hodges, Frank Graham, former UNC president and U.S. Senator and how a United Nations mediator: and Gordon Gray, also a former president who has held high posts in recent administrations.

He cited as these men carrying out a tradition that the "graduate of this University is a man of his nation as well as a man of his time." University students were challenged to put their vitality and "intellectual energy" to the serv ice of the country. "Regardless of your field, I urge you to recognize the contribution which you can make as educated men and worn- en to intellectual ana ponucai leadership in these difficult days." North Carolina has long been identified with enlightenment, he pointed out, and said he could think of no more important reason for this reputation than the University. The President was accompanied on the one-day trip by Llewellyn Thompson. U.S. ambassador to Russia; Charles Bohlen, his top' adviser on the Soviet Union; and McGeorge Bunday, presidential assistant on national security af fairs.

Campus Bell Tower. While the crowds watched President Kennedy, the agents and police watched the crowds. With the conclusion of the President's speech, anxious photographers were quickly discouraged by agents, who surrounded Kennedy as he departed. A few agents jumped on the running board of the Presidential car as it left. N.C.

Highway 54. the route which was used by Kennedy and his multi-car police escort, had been shut off since 10 a.m. Grass and brush had been cut away as far as 10 or 20 feet on either side of the road. ROTC cadets and police officers were stationed in strategic positions along the road all the way to the Raleigh-Durham airport. Although the work of North Carolina police officials was over when Kennedy stepped on his plane, the Secret Service agents' job continued and would soon be aided by the military police at Fort Bragg Kennedy's next stop.

"Our task Ls to do our best," he said, "and not to be swayed Tromonrddurseby-- the faint hearted or the unknowing1, or the threats of those who would make themselves our foes." Upon his arrival in North Carolina the President was greeted by Governor Terry Sanford and nu merous state political leaders at Raleigh-Durham Airport, where he symbolically opened the N.C. Trade Fair in Charlotte. Governor Sanford also received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Following the University Found er Day ceremonies in unapei Hill, he flew to Ft. Bragg to witness one of the most diversified military demonstrations ever to take place there.

He reviewed the, 82nd Airborne Division, watched a parachute drop of 300 men and observed other battle-ready units of the Army's "Fire Brigade." Kennedy, in his address, paid high tribute to the University, which conferred on him his first honorory Doctor of Laws degree since the election. "I am honored to be admitted to the fellowship of this honored and ancient University," Kennedy said, and then pointed to such every detail of the stadium area, assigned posts to each agent and law enforcement officer and organized exact seating arrangements for the press, members of the faculty, and guests. Their major task was to map out each step of Kennedy's trip, providing detailed security measures from the time his plane landed ml North Carolina until time of de parture. Special security precautions were taken in building the stand upon which President Kennedy delivered his address. A Secret Service agent, dressed in the uniform of a car penter, was on duty at all times during its construction.

The stand was again checked before the President's arrival by agents who went underneath it and thrn stationed themselves outside of the stand on every side. Another hazard was the wooded section behind Kenan Stadium which was patrolled thoroughly by police, agents, and ROTC cadets. One man was even assigned to the JFK Announces 1 Paratroopers demonstrated free-fall and target landing, dropping into a small pond. The Special Forces detachment presented methods used in guerrilla and psychological warfare. Following an inspection of tha Immediate Ready Forces outload-ing procedure, the President was awarded honorary membership in the 82nd Airborne and presented a set of identifying dogtags.

Throughout the afternoon the President appeared to be tired from the extreme heat and dust. At most of the demonstrations he rested his head on his hands, occasionally asking a question of his aides. His voice seemed softer and perhaps weaker than usual. During' the IRF demonstrations, the President walked among the troops, talking to them. He asked the men questions such as where they were from and how much their equipment weighed.

The President was asking one group of men how long they had been in the Army when the leader replied "only eight months." "I'm sure you're the commander," joked the President. Million Program along with the University of Maryland and Purdue University. Carolina is one of the first universities in this region to qualify for such a contract. Dr. Little noted that the money was a contract, not a grant.

Kennedy said that the contract had been awarded to the University "in recognition of its notable faculty and student body. The state of North Carolina can well be proud of the accomplishments of this great University, the first State University in the land." "Results of more specialized materials research in recent years have indeed had a revolutionary impact in a number of existing non-military technologies, that of the communications industry being a prime example. "Applications of new materials and processes has contributed greatly to the explosive growth of such vital new industries as electronic data processing and com-pnuters. They have also made feasible the development of essential hardware for unprecedented technical advances." ecret Service Scores TD; Grant To Clamps Security On By GARRY BLANCIIARD He came, he saw, he conquered. He President Kennedy also walked off with the university President's pen, played landing strip to a 10-foot cobweb strand that floated past midway through his speech, and forgot to take his degree with him when he left.

But they loved him. Thirty-eight thousand of them children, students, housewives, working men with the morning off loved him. They interrupted his speech with a 30-second standing ovation at one point, and howled when he referred to Harvard, his alma mater, as "a small, land-grant college in Massachusetts." They stood for the nearly ten minutes it took him to get away from the speaker's platform and into his car. Then the boldest, and youngest of them came down out of the bleachers and took turns sitting in his chair, while others furtively stripped clean the bouquet of flowers set in front of the rostrum. Also on a quest for souvenirs were two little girls who nervously beside a busy wire-service reporter, watching him peck madly away at his typewriter.

When they were sure he wrasn't looking, each made off with one of the sharpened pencils that had been provided for the worfcms press. Thewhole thing happened under a warm October sun hanging high, in a cloudless sky. It tools Jess than an hour and a half. A caravan of cars -and Jaises. By Newt Smith President Kennedy announced yesterday that a one million dollar contract for the next four years has been granted to UNC for the founding of a new materials research program.

The contract agreement is with the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense which is interested in materials research and the training of materials, specialists. "There are nine people in physics and six in chemistry whose research interests are particularly appropriate to ARPA," said Dr. W. F. Little, assistant to the dean of the Graduate School for Research.

Dr. Little emphasized that this contract will not propose anything new but will enlarge the existing facilities and permit greater concentration. The contract will also allow increased training of the graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. The ARPA materials research program will combine research ia solid state physics, inorganic By Linda Cravotta Secret Service agents discovered a new way to score a touchdown Wednesday morning. One agent, wearing a football sweat shirt.

went underground into the sewer pipe stretchins beneath Kenan Stadium to check it for sabotage before President Kennedy's visit. The larce number of Secret Service men who came to Chapel Hill to protect the President were joined by more than 150 State Highway Patrolmen, FBI agents, and hundreds of city and county law enforcement officials from all over North Carolina. In addition, select groups from the University's ROTC program, cumbering 100 cadets, were stationed in strategic locations as an added precaution. One week in advance of Ken nedy's visit, Secret Service men were already scouring the Chapel Hill area to lay out detailed se curity plans. They, memorized.