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make a study of ways in which the Federal Government could best serve this 

 objective.!' 



The report itself is prefaced by remarks concerning the role of the 

 Federal Government and then goes on to identify the challenge of 

 new frontiers : 



With more emphasis on basic studies, the Government would be able to nurture 

 research in wholly new areas of science * * *. In other areas of science * * * 

 progress has been handicapped by lack of tools and facilities adequate for the 

 job at hand and of adequate numbers of trained personnel. * * * Meteorology is 

 just one example of a field deserving greater attention. Some others are geo- 

 physics, radio astronomy, biophysics, linguistics, and social psycl;oloLy. Ocea- 

 nography is another promising field -which has received inadequate attention. For 

 the study of the oceans the United States has only a few research vessels, all in- 

 adequately' equipped. A vessel specially designed and constructed for oceanog- 

 raphic researcla has not been built in this country since 1930. i'' 



""Science Program— 86th Cong.," Senate Report, No. 120, p. 91. 

 " Ibid., p. 94. 



