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to the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Laboratory of Radiation Bi- 
ology, the Friday Harbor Laboratories, the College of Fisheries, and 
many other groups. 
To paraphrase a familiar advertising slogan, “Students are our most 
important product.” They deserve the best quality of instruction that 
can be provided, they merit the opportunity to use the latest and best 
research facilities if they are to be capable of meeting the challenges 
of the future and to complete their long and arduous education they 
must receive financial support. 
The Cuarrman. There are a great number of reports, of course, 
from other countries. Is there any problem in the translation, in get- 
ting those reports available to our students and faculities ? 
Dr. Fiemine. I think that most of the published reports of foreign 
countries are available in this country. They may not be widely held 
in university libraries and so on, but are usually available on loan. 
We have vast amounts of material, original data, scientific papers of 
various kinds, in foreign languages, and particularly those in Rus- 
sian and in Japanese are rather difficult to cope with. There are very 
few of our scientists or faculties who have any language capabilities 
in Russian and Japanese. 
We now encourage students, in their language courses, to follow up 
both of these languages, not an individual student, it would be unusual 
to find a combination of Russian and Japanese—it would be rather 
overwhelming—but we certainly encourage them in one or the other. 
Some laboratories are fortunate enough to have a Russian-speaking or 
Japanese-speaking member on their staff. 
The Cuatrman. The point I make is that we have tried here, in the 
Science Foundation, I know in the Defense Department and in the 
medical libraries, to appropriate quite sizable funds for translations. 
Those are available, of course, to you if you take the initiative and 
ask for them. A great deal of these reports come to you people in 
their original language and you have to translate them yourself. 
Dr. Fiemine. Yes, sir. 
The Cuairman. And the implications therem. I suppose the IGY 
supplied some of this, didn’t they ? 
Dr. Fremine. Yes. This has added a great deal to the exchange of 
information. 
The Cuarrman. In that appropriation we had some money, too, for 
translations. Of course, here we are very fortunate because we have 
the Library of Congress which can do it for us. We could send a 
Russian document there and this afternoon it would be back. Schools 
don’t have that facility. I think that is very important that we have 
all these things available. 
Dr. Firemine. Yes, sir. 
The CuarrMan. We are even going to have to know Chinese. Red 
China is moving along. 
Dr. Fremine. Of particular importance are the original observa- 
tional data which may not appear very exciting, as they may be merely 
columns of figures, tabulations of observations. The data centers 
that were established during the IGY, and a part of this responsibility 
which I am sure is being inherited by the National Oceanographic 
Data Center, have been extremely helpful in not only making possible 
the exchange of this information but making it available to the investi- 
