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Gross could not resist pointing out that so far as leadership was con- 

 cerned "we are the undisputed leader of the world in spending money 

 and accumulated debt as a government." Symington responded: 



Yes, half a billion dollars for the National Science Foundation is a lot of money. 

 It is about the cost of 2 weeks or less of war, and it is roughly 5 days of all our U.S. 

 military commitments around the world. 



As frequently happened, Gross discovered a study he held up to 

 ridicule — NSF funding of a "study of penguins," prompting the follow- 

 ing exchange: 



Mr. Gross. This grant happens to go to an Iowa college 



Mr. Symington. As it is an Iowa college, I must assume it is a meritorious grant. 



Mr. Miller. I had the privilege of going to Antarctica, where most of this work 

 is being done. * * * These people were very much excited about the discovery. * * * I am 

 not a biologist, so I cannot tell the gentleman all the details of the study. All I can 

 tell you is that they were excited. 



Mr. Gross. The penguins or the scientists? 



The committee won the spirited fight over the Roudebush motion, 

 by a recorded rollcall vote of 188-137. Roudebush persuaded four other 

 committee Republicans to go along with him in cutting NSF funds: 

 Pettis, Lukens, Frey, and Goldwater. 



The committee's strong support for graduate traineeships, the 

 college science improvement program, environmental research, and 

 State and local science policy planning was not only shared by the 

 Senate, but also given added funding support in the Senate. In the 

 environmental area, the committee stressed the use of existing Federal 

 laboratories rather than "the pattern of building new laboratories to 

 solve each major new problem." 



SUBCOMMITTEE IN 1971 



At the start of 1971, the following members composed the Sub- 

 committee on Science, Research and Development: 



Democrats Republicans 



John W. Davis, Georgia, Chairman Alphonzo Bell, California 



Earle Cabell, Texas Charles A. Mosher, Ohio 



James W. Symington, Missouri Louis Frey, Jr., Florida 



Richard T. Hanna, California Marvin L. Esch, Michigan 



John F. Seiberling, Jr., Ohio R. Lawrence Coughlin, Pennsylvania 

 Mike McCormack, Washington 



Chairman Davis did not build the same reputation for leadership 

 throughout the scientific community as had Daddario, but he had a 

 scientific mind with an inquiring curiosity which served him well in 



