Feb 17 1963
From The Space Library
Scientists Institute for Public Information was founded by about 100 U.S. scientists representing 22 independent information committees at meeting in New York. Dr. Jules Hirsch, research physician and biochemist at Rockefeller Institute, was named temporary chairman of the board. (AP, Wash. Post, 2/18/63, A2)
Senator Clifford Case (R.-N.J.), in interview taped for radio and television, urged public spotlight on awards of multi-milliondollar defense and space contracts to prevent "political payoffs" and other improprieties. (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 2/18/63)
Soviet Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda reported Soviet engineers had successfully tested "flying saucer" aircraft which takes off vertically, lands on cushion of air. (UPI, Wash. Post, 2/18/63)
