Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dubridge made the comment in the course of a 20 minute telephone conversation with M.I.T. provost Jerome Wiesner, who is one of nine members of Mass. Gov. Francis W. Sargent's Science and Technology Foundation. Sargent named the foundation to aid him in finding new uses for the research center, which is to be closed by June 30. Nixon appointed Dubridge to do the same job in Washington...
President Nixon's financial pinching had apparently squeezed the life out of the Cambridge Electronics Research Center, but a little political arm twisting yesterday by Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent may have revived the facility...
With this in mind, Sargent spoke to Nixon and presidential advisors John D. Ehrlichman and Bryce Harlow in Washington yesterday about the possibilities of keeping the center in operation for some sort of government activity. After the 30 minute meeting, Sargent said he was "very much encouraged" by Nixon's commitment to "explore all avenues" to find some new federal research for the center...
...Sargent told Nixon he had set up a committee of scientists. technologists and businessmen to find what kinds of new work might be done in the center's facilities, and Nixon asked Dr. Lee Dubridge, his science advisor, to study the problem and act as a liaison between the state and federal governments...
...stained-glass glories of Louis IX's exquisite Sainte-Chapelle framed a special service that one guest called "visually the most beautiful Christmas Eve Mass I've ever been to." With permission from France's Minister of Culture, U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver invited friends, fellow diplomats and their families to worship in the tiny national museum on Paris' Ile de la Cité. The celebrants wore vestments designed by Matisse, and the Met's Anna Moffo sang sacred music at what may well have been the first midnight Mass at Sainte-Chapelle since the time...