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...inventiveness of U.S. industry has lagged, argues Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner, it is not just because Government has monopolized the brightest minds. "We're simply not spending the money to train more people in other areas," he says. "If we had the will to do both, we would do both." Hoping to stimulate that will, the Commerce Department is pressing Congress to set up a Civilian Industrial Technological Program that would establish closer links between business and universities, provide tax write-offs for private research and create other special incentives for probing into such technically backward industries...
Marine Biologist Rachel Carson is mentioned only once in the U.S. Government's report on the use of pesticides. But its authors, sponsored by Presidential Science Adviser Jerome B. Wiesner, leave little doubt that it was Miss Carson who put them to work. Before her book Silent Spring appeared, they point out, "people were generally unaware of the toxicity of pesticides." Now the public is so worked up that the report issued last week seems at least partly designed to encourage legislation that will control, but not prevent, the use of valuable chemicals...
...explorers will blast back to the orbiting vehicle and return to earth. The alternative, now discarded, called for an earth orbit from which the explorers would shoot directly to the moon. Von Braun & Co. supported the lunar orbit plan. As he spoke, the President's scientific adviser, Jerome Wiesner, who had advocated the discarded earth-orbit method, muttered, "No, that's no good." In full view of newsmen and visitors, including Britain's Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft, Wiesner hauled off in sharp attack of the present U.S. plan...
...reception for the Somali Republic's new Ambassador to the U.S., is also handling secret dispatches for the new U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan. Yale's college corps, the biggest of all, has 70 New Blues busy at everything from aiding Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner to perusing pornography for the Post Office. One Yaleman, Rhodes Scholar Lou Echols. 22, has even produced a solid report on how the Russians view the U.S. shelter program.*His pleased bosses call Echols' work "most useful, definite priority stuff...
...when statistics no longer surprise, President Kennedy's top scientific adviser found a way to dramatize the $12.3 billion that the U.S. Government is spending this fiscal year on research and development for defense and space. It is, Jerome Wiesner told a congressional subcommittee, more than the Government spent on research and development "in the entire interval from the American Revolution through and including World...