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New Office: The Safety Division, Office of Protection Services, was established 

 as the separate Office of Safety Programs in order to increase the visibility of 

 its programs which are of increasing concern to the Institution. 



March 



Publication: High Technology and Human Freedom , a volume based on the 

 Smithsonian's Office of Symposia and Seminars' eighth international symposium, a 

 tribute to George Orwell, was published under the editorship of Lewis H. Lapham, 

 editor of "Harper's." 



March 



Research: New isotopic and chemical clues to the nature of the earliest solar 

 system solid material were provided by a study of the meteorite Vigarano, from 

 Vigrano, Italy, initiated by the National Museum of Natural History meteorite 

 curator Glenn J. MacPherson. His research is being conducted with collaborating 

 scientists from the university of Chicago and Washington University, St. Louis. 



March 



Award: The Gold Medal and Diploma of the International Scientific Festival was 

 awarded to "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future," a film produced by the Office of 

 Telecommunications . 



March 



Research: Former Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory director, Fred L. Whipple, 

 participated in control center operations for the historic encounters with 

 Halley's Comet by Giotto and Russian Vaga spacecraft, which confirmed his classic 

 "dirty snowball" model for a ccmetary nucleus. 



March 



Gift: The U.S. Army transferred to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 

 the use of the Surf side Theater Building at Naos Island. 



March 



Exhibit: "Galapagos — Born of the Sea," an exhibit circulated by the Smithsonian 

 Traveling Exhibition Service opened at the Anthropological Museum in Panama, 

 cospcnsored by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National 

 Institute of Culture of the Government of Panama. All materials were translated 

 into Spanish. 



March 



Grant: Smithsonian Institution Libraries received $3,000 from the Women's 

 Committee of the Smithsonian Associates for the restoration of a 1852 

 photographic album of London's Crystal Palace exposition, a holding of the 

 Cooper-Hewitt Museum Branch I library collection. 



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