382 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



INFLUENCE OF THE PANEL ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



Throughout the 1960's and through 1972, at the end of which he 

 left Congress, Chairman Miller continued to stress international par- 

 ticipation in the committee's Panel on Science and Technology. In 

 1965, Prof. Luigi Broglio of Italy, president of the Italian Space Re- 

 search Commission, served as a guest panelist in the discussion of 

 "Aeronautics." In 1966, Lord Snow, joint parliamenta' y secretary, 

 Ministry of Technology, British Government, was a guest panelist. 



Fulton, who always tried to inject a little offbeat humor into the 

 atmosphere whenever it got too dignified, welcomed Lord Snow with 

 these choice remarks, interspersed with more laughs on his own part 

 than he was able to get from his audience: 



I want to tell Lord Snow that, being a newspaperman, I called the British 

 Embassy to get information on your trip. I had a conversation with a very bright, 

 sprightly young lady on the telephone and I said: "I am from the suburban news- 

 paper in Pittsburgh, and I want to get something on Snow." 



She said: "Snow, snow? We have enough problems around here without snow. 

 Now that you asked, this morning on getting in here I jolly well wished I was back 

 in good, old England. You can keep your snow." 



In 1967, the central subject matter of the Panel was devoted to 

 "Government, Science, and International Policy," with Secretary of 

 State Dean Rusk keynoting the Panel. To help lead the discussions 

 and participate with the Panel, Chairman Miller invited representa- 

 tives from Brazil, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan, Norway, 

 Austria, and India. 



Secretary Rusk emphasized three points in his keynote address: 



We can make better use of new techniques for technological forecasting as an 

 input to foreign policy judgments. 



New understandings and mutual respect between the physical sciences and the 

 social sciences are prerequisites if the gap between them is to be completely closed. 



We must have programs of international scientific and technical cooperation on 

 two levels: With the advanced nations in understanding and controlling the total envi- 

 ronment; and with those nations in assisting the material progress of the developing 

 nations. 



Dr. Philip Handler, who moderated the Panel, made these com- 

 ments in introducing the foreign visiting panelists: 



Their very lives are testimony to the fact that they share the principal articles 

 of faith of the scientific community everywhere; first, that the pursuit of an ever 

 more penetrating understanding of man and the universe in which he finds himself — 

 the search for truth, if you prefer — is of itself one of mankind's noblest aspirations. 



Second, that the application of scientific truth in the development of ever more 

 powerful technologies is one of the chief instruments by which we may hope to 

 alleviate the condition of man. 



