Editors' Column
applaud the plea for urgent attention, in terms of proper direction of our great resources, to treatment of our society's ills. But we cannot countenance the attitude that total commitment should be provided to clearing up the problems at home, to the exclusion of a continued aggressive program of basic research in all branches and levels of science and engineering. After all, all of the scientific and technological achievements of the lunar program rest firmly on that great corpus of knowledge to which men have contributed for centuries. It is the nature of those who call themselves scientists to seek and explore—to provide links and clues, be they large or small, to the very meaning of our existence. This great work cannot be slighted, regardless of the urgency of other demands. Men of vision have placed us on a path that will lead to vast knowledge of the distant planets in the last half of this century, and that destiny will not be denied.
NO SIR. THERE'S NOTHING SIMPLE ABOUT RUNNING THIS LAB.
IT'S DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS.
SOMETIMES I EVEN HAVE TO ARBITRATE COFFEE BREAKS.
WHAT TESTS TO RUN WHEN. WHO GETS PAY RAISES.
PROFESSOR BELCHER HONORED
The highly successful International Symposium on Analytical Chemistry at Birmingham, England, discussed in this month's Editorial (page 1361), had as one of its highlights the presentation of numerous honors and awards. The Lomonosov Medal of the Lomonosov State University of Moscow and the Golden Eagle of the Austrian Microchemical Society were two of the awards presented to Professor Ronald Belcher of the University of Birmingham, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in analytical chemistry. The Lomonosov Medal was pre- . sented by Professor Alimarin and Professor Malissa presented the Austrian award. Professor R. P. Lastovsky of Moscow presented the Mendeleef Medal of the D. I. Mendeleef AU-Union Chemical Society, U.S.S.R., to Professor Belcher. A further honor to Professor Belcher will be a special issue of Talanta planned by Pergamon Press. John K. Crum
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