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)

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