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suspicion that that gatemouthed Maryland farmer who presides over the Senate has more on his mind than his apparent incompetent jaw flopping would suggest."
H. I. Romnes, president and chairman of the board of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., addressed graduates of St. Louis University. "I would ask you to grant that it might just be possible that a businessman, whether his views match yours or not, might be quite as concerned, quite as anguished, over the events of the last few weeks as any of you," he said.
About 100 longshoremen from Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio, wearing hardhats with stickers reading, "I Love America" came by bus to Kenyon College to protest the appearance of Swedish
Prime Minister Olof Palme, a longtime critic of American involvement in Indochina, was at the Gambier, Ohio School to receive an honorary degree.
Graduating seniors at Virginia Tech took out a quarter page advertisement in the Richmond Times Dispatch to express their thanks for having the privilege of attending the university.
"... During this period of national turmoil, much public attention has been focused on this nation's institutions of higher learning," the ad said.
"A small minority of students have managed to present a very unrealistic picture of the American college student. The majority has continued within the framework of society to attain a goal of higher education... Thank you for giving us an opportunity."
Public outcry slows search for pesticide
BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI)—The outcry over lingering pesticides is hampering the search for an acceptable alternative to DDT, U.S. Forest Service researchers complain.
Researchers have lab tested a dozen new "ecologically sane" compounds for controlling forest insects. But public "fear and overreaction" is so intense they can't get them into the field, they say.
Even if they could be field tested, a chemical industry spokesman said, the Agriculture Department has imposed a moratorium on new compounds.
Until these new highly selective compounds can be tested in the field, the Forest Service will have to continue to use the old methods—including limited amounts of DDT—on the nation's forests.
One chemical which researchers say has been thoroughly lab tested for every imaginable effect under every condition is called Zectran. An expensive compound, it probably will never be produced commercially without government subsidy.
Researchers developed Zectran for use against one particularly destructive pest the spruce budworm, but they believe it might be useful against others.
"There's so much public fear and overreaction to the use of new compounds that they don't even want you to do the testing," said Carl Crisp, a plant physiologist for the Forest service.
"If there are going to be alternatives to DDT, some where along the line the experimental work has to be done and it has to be done in the environment."
Crisp said small scale field experiments were necessary with researchers publicizing what they were doing and immediately dropping any project the public didn't approve of.
"It's ridiculous to give us money for research and not let us take the next step," Crisp said. "It's like building a rocket for the moon and not firing it."
Raymond Miskus, a chemist on the team of Forest Service researchers, said an extensive project was launched in 1964 for the specific purpose of eliminating DDT in forests.
"We've investigated a whole variety of methods of control that aren't just chemically oriented—that aren't just a simple evaluation of an insecticide on an insect." Miskus said.
"We're concerned with better means of application, better timing and the total effect on wildlife, fish, other insects and the region's ecology."
Miskus said more data has gone into the study of Zectran, for example, than any other compound in forestry research history.
Dow Chemical Co, was supposed to produce Zectran A company spokesman said it still could be done if Forest Service requirements were large enough to make it economically feasible, but even then the Agriculture Department would have to clear it first.
Far in the future are "third generation pesticides"-biological controls, hormones and sterilization. The investigations carried out with these will be similar to those with chemicals but more expensive and time consuming, researchers said.
Moore wins contract to study ocean wind
Dr. Richard K. Moore, the Black and Veatch distinguished professor of electrical engineering and director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory at the University of Kansas, has received a $77,984 contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for development of a radiometer — scatterometer (RADSCAT) device to be used for monitoring winds over oceans.
Moore said the contract is part of the intermediate stage of development of "applications satellites," that is, satellites used for technology or for observation of the earth. Weather and communications satellites are in the "applications" category.
Moore will present a paper on his program at the June 23 meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Paris. RADSCAT
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Winds and wave conditions on the ocean's surfaces are presently determined from isolated reports from ships. While a fairly good monitoring system is maintained for the North Atlantic and part of the North Pacific, few consistent reports are available from other areas.
devices, if successful, would be used in weather and wave forecasting.
Dr. A. K. Fung, associate professor of electrical engineering and research associate at the Center for Research in the Engineering Sciences (CRES), and Fawwaz T. Ulaby, associate director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory and research investigator for CRES, will assist Moore with the project.
They will combine their efforts with Prof. Williard Pierson of New York University, an oceanographer studying wave forecasts, and Prof. W. H. Peake, Ohio State, who has developed the theory behind RADSCAT.
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