3 
Washington to San Francisco .UN Flight (DC-10) September 8, 1972 
The stereotype of departures is hard to break... that this one was 
with Ralph Garruto alone was redeeming. 
Paul arrived at 4:25 on a TWA flight from France, and Jill met him 
and they came to see us at our flight departure gate. Jill was gaunt, 
tense, and unrelaxed. Is she ever relaxed, and is that what Paul has 
done to her? I remember seeing Wolf gaunt, tense and strained, and aged 
in his early twenties; the shock it caused me to realize how much I may 
well have had to do with this tense, unrelaxed and harrowed state! Paul 
and I exchanged a few details of our plans for the Alpha Helix trip, and 
he and Jill took off. I asked nothing of the outcome of Paul's fling at 
a new life in Paris, of his visit to his Parisian mistress, and it seemed 
as though Jill, too, had asked nothing. 
Ralph and I had a beer together and discussed his future and his role 
at the NIH. He has been given only a GS-9, not a GS-11 rating, since his 
Ph.D. thesis is not done. It is a great shambles, for he remains very 
insecure, and the appointment for only one year is also a very frustrating 
thing to him... I must try to extend it to two years and make his position 
more secure. 
Tamel and Mororui left me at the car rental, where I turned in the VW, 
in order to rush to their high school football game. We had left home 
before Yavlne returned from school, and Ivan also vjas away when I stopped 
by the office to pick up the last stack of papers before leaving. I said 
goodbye to Mint, Lucille, Marion, Linda, Nancy van Wyck, and Steve Ono, and Judy, 
and Ralph and I were off. I missed Nancy Rogers, whom I had promised to 
see before I left; she was out when I stopped by the laboratory, where Mint 
and Lucille were setting up a new brain biopsy in explant culture. Mint's 
leaving leaves everything on Nancy's shoulders and we are back to where we 
were a full decade ago. 
Joe Gibbs caught me on the phone at Dulles and I spoke with him at length. 
Joe is disillusioned and uncertain, insecure and uneasy about our future 
and his role in it, and about our whole program. He does not seem to share 
my enthusiasm for a total changeover and retrenchment, and cannot yet see 
his role in it. The fact that we must leave Patuxent has never pleased him, 
and no solution to the problem short of reestablishing a new Patuxent 
nearby pleases him. The concept of letting our contracts handle all the 
inoculated primates and using a new rejuvenated laboratory approach to scrapie, 
kuru and Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease in a new set of labs on campus, has not 
intrigued Joe, for he no longer sees himself running an independent program, as 
he has at Patuxent. 
Mathias is with Jim Boykin, Martha and the other Micronesians at 
Valencia, College of the Canyons, north of Los Angeles; hopefully, he is 
off tomorrow or Sunday for Honolulu, where I hope to meet him at Leon Rosen's 
