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...Allen Hynek said tonight that a new cabinet post of secretary of science should be created because "the Russian rate of advance is faster than ours in most fields of science...
...Hynek, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's satellite-tracking program, suggested that the post be filled by someone with the stature of Dr. Vannevar Bush...
...fills the position, Hynek said, would serve as a liaison between science and the government...
...magnetic field of the earth seems to be too weak to account for this effect," said Hynek. "Gravity explains about 99 per cent of the motion. The extra bit needed to explain the extra perturbation is not gravity, unless the earth has a distribution in mass much different than we have assumed...
...Hynek said that this unexpected motion might explain the difficulties which scientists have encountered in attempting to establish a definite orbit for the satellite...