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encoiira<red people to go ahead. The same thiiio: can take phiee in 

 oceanoo;raphy. Our prop:ram is flexible in that respect. 



What I particularly want to say is the other side, that if you back 

 research projects which are rather general in scope, you provide train- 

 ing facilities and provide opportunities for graduate students to be 

 employed on those, and you do it at the best centers. This can be 

 deliberately done. Research is encouraged and, at the same time, the 

 training of the graduate students. I think that is a ver}^ sound policy. 



Mr. Pp;lly. How about the international exchange of information 

 and projects of that nature? Would you elaborate a little? It is in 

 the omnibus bill. 



Dr. Waterman. At the present time, as I believe you gentlemen 

 know, the foundation has responsibility, centered in our Office of 

 Scientific information Service for taking the lead in the science infor- 

 mation field among the Federal agencies. This does not mean we do 

 all the scientific information exchange activities: each agency plays 

 its part, but we take the lead in this both with private and public 

 institutions dealing with scientific information exchange. One im- 

 portant aspect of this is contact with the sciences abroad. 



For example, at the moment one of the major items in our scientific 

 program is the translation of foreign languages into English, espe- 

 cially Russian, where we are translating now something like 50 Rus- 

 sian periodicals into English and seeing that those get distributed. 

 This feature in our Office of Scientific Information is one which would 

 enable us to exchange information abroad. 



Mr. Pelly. Do we have fellowships abroad like the Guggenheim 

 fellowships in music and those fields? 



Dr. Waterman. In the Foundation until this year we have had no 

 authority to provide fellowships to other than U.S. citizens, but a 

 fair proportion of our fellows who are American citizens that we 

 appoint go abroad to study. 



Mr. Pelly. That is what I meant. 



Dr. Waterman. In addition, we send a considerable number of 

 people to international conferences, including oceanography, each 

 year. 



Mr. Pelly. Thank you. 



Mr. DiNGELL. I would like to turn to your discussion of these ships. 

 You mentioned you were going to spend about $7.5 million in fiscal 

 year 1960, and in 1961 about $9.5 million in support of oceanogranhic 

 research. About how much of that is going into ship construction? 



Dr. Waterman. Dr. Robertson can answer this in detail. I believe 

 in the first $7.5 million we had one ship to cost $3 million, and in the 

 next year, because it would follow somewhat the same design, it would 

 cost slightly less. Am I right ? 



Dr. Robertson. Yes. I think in 1961 it is planned to spend $2.75 

 million for another new ship, and I believe about $1.5 million in con- 

 verting a ship for research in the Antarctic. 



Mr. DiNOELL. Who is going to have title to these vessels? 



Dr. Waterinian. At the present time what the Government is doing, 

 is to provide for the cost of construction and necessary maintenance, 

 to begin with. Then we have the authority to give these to the agency 

 if the Government has no use for them. They have not been built. 

 We have not faced that question yet. 



