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part of which he had contributed himself through what can only 

 be described as herculean transoceanic efforts. On December 7, he sat 

 down for one ol his relaxing morning conversations with Executive 

 Director Ducander. With the death of Fulton and the departure of 

 Karth to the Ways and Means Committee, plus the elevation of Down- 

 ing as chairman of the Space Science and Applications Subcommittee, 

 this left a vacancy in the Subcommittee on NASA Oversight which 

 Downing had chaired. The came of musical chairs began, as Miller 

 figured that seniority entitled Fuqua to move up from his post as 

 chairman of the Subcommittee on International Cooperation in Science 

 and Space to take over the Oversight Subcommittee. 



Chairman Miller, who had fought for so many years against 

 Fulton's repeated efforts to establish an International Subcommittee, 

 now realized its tremendous value and he was very anxious to insure 

 that the new subcommittee chairman would be able to emulate Fuqua's 

 good start in 1971. 



Representative Earle Cabell (Democrat of Texas), left, inspecting Orbiting Geophysical 

 Laboratory facilities at NASA's Goddard Space Flight (enter. 



ig down the committee list, Miller and Ducander talked out 

 the big problem they faced. Although Symington ranked next to 

 Fuqua on the International Subcommittee. Representative Earle Cabell 

 ranked ahead of Symington in full committee seniority- Cabell, who 



