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22404 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 5, 1969 Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi day, I move that the Senate stand in Marvin G. Washington, of Michigan, to be dent, I have been asked to move that the recess until11 a.m. tomorrow. U.S. marshal for the western district of The motion was agreed to; and <at 6 Michigan for the term of 4 years, vice Floyd Senate concur in the amendments of the Stevens. House, and I so move. o'clock and 2 minutes p.m.> the Senate Marshall F. Rousseau, of Texas, to be U.S. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without took a recess until tomorrow, Wednesday, marshal for the southern district of Texas objection, the motion is agreed to. August 6, 1969, at 11 a.m. for the term of 4 years, vice Marion M. Hale. Charles S. Guy, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. marshal for the eastern district of Pennsyl ORDER OF BUSINESS NOMINATIONS vania for the term of 4 years, vice James F. Delaney. Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi Executive nominations received by the dent, I suggest the absence of a quorum. Senate August 5, 1969: IN THE MARINE CORPS The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk DIPLOMATIC AND FOREIGN SERVICE The following-named officers of the Marine will call the roll. Corps for the temporary appointment to the Robert Strausz-Hupe of Pennsylvania, to grade of brigadier general: The assistant legislative clerk pro be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo ceeded to call the roll. Charles S. Robertson. tentiary of the United States of America to Duane L. Faw. Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I ask the Kingdom of Morocco. Mauro J. Padalino. unanimous consent that the order for Charles T. Cross, of California, a Foreign Service officer of class 1, to be Ambassador Edward s. Frls. the quorum call be rescinded. Frank C. Lang. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Victor A. Armstrong. objection, it is so ordered. Singapore. Thomas H. Miller, Jr. U.S. MARSHAL Robert H. Barrow. RECESS UNTIL 11 A.M. TOMORROW James T. Lunsford, of Alabama, to be U.S. Herbert L. Beckington. Marshal for the middle district of Alabama Leonard E. Fribourg. Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, in ac for the term of 4 years, vice William M. Robert D. Bohn. cordance with the order entered yester- Parker, Jr. William F. Doebler. EXTENSIO ~ NS OF REMARKS FRIENDSHIP PIPELINE mento Bee describing Professor Rey of many, many decades on the wood. They are nolds' project "Friendship Pipeline" in structures which in California would be pre served as historical monuments, but to my more detail: Soviet friends they are merely symbols of an HON. ROBERT L. LEGGETT GESTURE OF FRIENDSHIP: UNIVERSITY OF CALI old regime they are not proud of." OF CALIFORNIA FORNIA DAVIS PROFESSOR SENDS BOOKS TO SOVIET UNION SCIENCE CITY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Then Reynolds discovered their pride Tuesday, August 5, 1969 (By William Holden) Science City, with its avant garde architec DAVIS.-Prof. Donald M. "Monti" Reynolds, ture rising at the edge of a frozen lake. Mr. LEGGETT. Mr. Speaker, perhaps a bacteriologist at the University of Cali It was founded 10 years ago by scientist at no other time since the close of World fornia campus here, was packaging some colonists who had arrived with only tents to War II have the barriers dividing the books destined for scientists he had met in shelter them from the Siberian cold. United States and the Soviet Union been central Siberia's Akademgorodok-Science Reynolds is impressed by the "tremendous so permeable. Indeed, the underpin City. drive and incredible speed" with which the nings of mutual mistrust and suspicion Thumbing through a recent American Russians created the science mecca in the high school biology text, he commented: bleak emptiness. that spawned and perpetuated the cold "Books like this will help them catch up Today it comprises a concentration of war seem to be crumbling at an un with all the years they lost in biology be scientific brains rivaling the technological precedented rate, as the era of hazardous cause of Lysenko. centers of Moscow and Leningrad. Its para confrontation gives way to the period "He threw Russian biology off the track mount goal is to exploit Siberia's immense of enlightened negotiation and recon with his erroneous ideas on the hereditary resources. ciliation. It is important that we keep transmission of acquired characteristics. EXCITEMENT FELT clear these emerging channels of com "In other words," Reynolds explains, "Ly Reynolds was struck by the seeiningly uni senko believed a weight lifter, for instance, versal enthusiasm for developing the hinter munication between the peoples of the could pass on his acquired big muscles to Soviet Union and the United States. lands: his son by inheritance. American biologists "The excited way the people talked made I rise today to bring to the attention have always known this is false. me feel I was back in the time of my grand of Congress the endeavors of Prof. Don "Russian biologists finally came around father, who helped build the first railroad ald M. "Monti" Reynolds, a bacteriol after many years of wandering down Lysen from California to Tacoma and Seattle. He ogist at the University of California at ko's scientific blind alle~ and are eager to later communicated to me the thrill of carv Davis, who is actively engaged in the catch up with the rest of the world." ing something out of nothing. Reynolds has mailed a score of packages "It was a shock to ·come back to Cali slow but worthwhile efforts to establish of books to scientific colleagues in Science viable communicative links with the fornia's affiuent society and find so many City, which he visited as the U.S. member of little lost navel-watchers who don't know Soviet Union, pushing back the curtain UNESCO's International Union of Biological what they want." of ignorance which divide the two great Sciences. They contained many volumes of Lest he be Inisunderstood, Reynolds has powers. science, classical literature and American tens to add he has a "passionate love for For several weeks now, Professor political and cultural life. America." Reynolds has operated what he calls FRIENDSHIP PIPELINE Competition among students for admission the "Friendship Pipeline," sending Reynolds is housemaster of Hammarskjold to Science City's physics and mathematics scores of books relating to science, House, a campus residence hall and head school, he continues, is arduous. classical literature, and American politi quarters for his "Friendship Pipeline," which "Each year, a math contest is conducted sends books from UC Davis to Akademgo all over Russia," he says. "About 10,000 orig cal and cultural life to scientific col rodok. inal competitors bright enough to submit leagues in Science City, U.S.S.R. He To reach this Science City, Reynolds says answers to sophisticated probleins are hopes to expand his operations to in he "flew all night from Moscow in a jet and screened down to an entering class of only clude tape recordings of contemporary landed at dawn in the middle of snow-covered 100. American music later in the year. I think Siberia. "I don't know any other school in the that Congress should encourage this "We drove on roads lined with high banks world where the selection is so rigorous." of snow, through the beautiful birches and Since it is the only Russian school admin type of activity. conifers of the taiga--the forest that cloaks istered by the Soviet Academy of Sciences, its For the information of my colleagues a vast portion of Siberia. students profit by "becoming understudies in Congress, I insert into the RECORD "I caught glimpses of Old Russia in the to great scientific figures early in their col at this point, an excerpt from the Sacra- form of beautiful log cabins with the patina lege life." August 5, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22405 He also notes: "They seem much more in BUDGET BUREAU IMPOUNDS AND The administration's insistence that it tensively engaged in research in their early WITHHOLDS FUNDS APPROPRI is vigorously pursuing what it terms "op college life, rather than in just listening to lectures, as in America where undergradu ATED FOR SMALL BUSINESS eration mainstream"-a program to ates often never get their hands dirty at the LOANS make what Mr. Sandoval has predicted laboratory bench." as not less than 10,000 loans a year to BOOK BOXES members of minority groups, principally Meanwhile, Reynolds is enlarging Friend HON. JOE L. EVINS Negroes, is a cruel hoax, as was pointed ship Pipeline's diameter: He plans to place OF TENNESSEE out by a number of witnesses. book collection boxes in 35 UCD departments. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Truthfully, the Nixon administration's Also, a foreign service officer in the State cutback on congressionally appropriated Department has promised the department Tuesday, August 5, 1969 funds, amounting last year to $170.2 mil will try, with the help of the U.S. Informa Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, lion, has made it impossible for SBA to tion Agency, to obtain science texts for the the House Small Business Committee provide more than nominal support for Pipeline. even its traditional role in providing And soon the Pipeline will be "wired for last week held its annual oversight hear sound." Two UCD students at Hammarskjold ings on the operations of the Small Busi funds to the Nation's entire small busi House---Randy Tyra of Sacramento and Bruce ness Administration. Each of the pro ness community.