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that letter were made before the panel reports of the Commission 

 became available. Now the panel reports of the Commission are avail- 

 able, and I assume that you 'and your associates have had a chance to 

 study them. Could I also assume correctly that those panel reports only 

 reinforce the position you took in your letter to Chairman Lennon? 

 They do not in any way detract from your enthusiasm for the Stratton 

 Commission's report ? 



Dr. Calhoun. I can only speak as an individual in this respect. The 

 Committee did not receive the panel reports prior to its last full 

 scheduled meeting, so we have not discussed in Committee meeting the 

 panel reports or their contents. 



I have read parts of the panel reports. I haven't had time to go 

 through them in detail. Generally speaking, yes, they do reinforce my 

 feeling on this matter and do not detract from it in any way. I don't 

 know if any of the other NA'SCO members here have a comment. Dr. 

 Pritchard says that he concurs. Yes, there is general agreement among 

 us on that point. 



Mr. MosnEK. As I sense it, the major emphasis in your comments 

 today is on the need for, to use the phrase you use, a manifold increase 

 in the level of effort in the areas we are discussing here. 



Now, there has been some criticism of the Commission's report that 

 it is too modest. Do you have that feeling ? The criticism is that it is 

 too modest as to what it projects as to the level of funding in the next 

 10 years. Does it meet this standard that you are suggesting for a 

 manifold increase in the level of effort ? 



Dr. CALHOuisr. I don't recall the specific dollar figure that the Com- 

 mission proposed, and I have not made a comparison. As I recall the 

 figures, I would say that what the Commission recommends would be 

 a manifold increase. 



Mr. MosHER. In other words, you do not necessarily think it is 

 modest. 



Dr. Calhoun. "Modest" is a relative term, and, as I say, I don't 

 remember the specific figure. I don't have the report in front of me. 



Dr. PkitcHx\rd. Mr. Chairman, while Dr. Calhoun is refreshing his 

 memory, I might say, as an individual, that I found this possibly the 

 one drawback in the Commission's report that I felt concerned about. 

 In its efforts to perhaps be practical the Commission did not really 

 project the growth needs and the goals that it stated properly in terms 

 of the financial needs. 



Mr. MosHER. In other words, your recommendation to us would be 

 that the Congress could look upon the recommendations as modest 

 and not be tempted to look for goals that were less than the Commis- 

 sion's report. 



Dr. Pritchard, Definitely. I feel that, while the Commission has 

 properly outlined the Nation's goals and what we should do in the 

 future, these are not reflected fully in the dollar amounts that they 

 quote. 



]Mr. MosHER. Now, Dr. Calhoun. 



Dr. Calhoun. Just having gone back to look at the way they have 

 this figure laid out, it is not up to the figure that we indicated in our 

 letter to Dr. Lawrence of something less than $5 billion a year or 

 something more than $1 billion a year. 



INIr. MosHER. That was my impression. 



