On another occasion the same year. the Chief of Naval Research and I spent 2 days with a Minneapolis firm begging them to take a contract in a field In which they were specialists. In both instances we were turned down. Can you. by any stretch of imagination. see one of the California companies acting thus? I am afraid that the pioneering spirit that built the Midwest immigrated to the coasts sometime in the last 50 or 100 years. The universities of the Middle West and the other neglected regions need assistance in building their competence for training and teaching as well as for conducting research. A National Science Foundation program to begin in 1965 will aim at increasing the number and quality of university science departments.
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The pioneering spirit immigrated to the coasts.