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...people most directly affected, of course, are the present residents of Aitkin County. Some have banded together to form a "Save Our Northland" committee devoted to doing everything it can to preserve the area's deer and quail hunting and wild, uncrowded spaces. But other residents favor having MXC as a neighbor. "What do we have to lose?" asks Housewife Barbara Hansen. Right now the county's job opportunities are so limited that the only future for her children is "a one-way ticket to Minneapolis. With MXC we have a chance to give them a choice...
...sweeping reorganization designed to save money and help streamline the cumbersome federal bureaucracy, Nixon has all but exiled Washington's scientific establishment. He decided to abolish the post of Presidential Science Adviser-an office created by President Dwight Eisenhower to help meet Russia's technological challenge. In addition, he may eliminate the White House Office of Science and Technology and the President's Science Advisory Committee. The 20 scientists of that committee provided technical expertise when they were asked for it, and occasional criticism even when they were not-as in the case...
There is no question that the President must save money. But by cutting back basic research in so many key areas, is he sacrificing some unexpected future achievement of untold economic or social importance-a discovery comparable, say, to the transistor or the polio vaccine? Many scientists are certain he is. Harvard's George Kistiakowsky, who was one of Eisenhower's science advisers, calls the Nixon policy, especially the reduction in fellowships, "incredibly shortsighted." By stressing short-term, politically motivated payoffs over the broader quest for knowledge, he warns, Nixon is dangerously "using up our intellectual capital...
Ruth C. Streeter '76, president of the Ad Hoc committee to Save Storm King, admitted that a new plant is needed to provide power for peak periods, but said that "It is a very important case for environmentalists to win." Con Ed has maintained that it needs to build the power plant to meet the summer power crisis...
Last year's renovation of the Continental Hotel was Harvard's first use of Federal funds for housing. Champion said the interest subsidy that Harvard received will save the University about $1 million in deferred costs over a 30 year period...