The Faculty

AT the invitation of the Office of Economic Analysis of UNESCO, Prof. J. Brian Quinn of the Tuck School presented a paper on "Scientific and Technical Strategy at the National and Major Enterprise Level" at a gathering of experts in Paris during the week of December 11-18. Professor Quinn was one of three United States representatives at the conference which brought together scientists and economists from such diverse countries as England, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Iran, India, Ceylon, and Japan, to discuss the role of science and technology in economic development.

Hopefully the discussions will clarify certain issues for developed and developing countries and lead to policies and actions by UNESCO in its program of transferring technology internationally and using science and technology for improving human well-being.

Following the UNESCO conference, Professor Quinn gave a speech before an invited British audience at the American Embassy in London. His paper was the seventh in a series sponsored by the State Department on topics of technology and management. Professor Quinn had been the first speaker in this series in January 1968 when he spoke on "Technological Forecasting for Policy Decisions."

In his UNESCO paper Professor Quinn joined other experts who hold that technology is too often overlooked or underemphasized as a growth force in society. While economists have tended to treat such measurable factors as investment, education, land, and labor as the critical inputs leading to economic growth, he declared that it is the technological component of these traditional input factors, rather than their mere presence, that contributes most to long-term economic growth. Also, he said, technological innovation in one industry or sector tends to create "technological multipliers" of innovation and growth in other sectors.

His presentation was based on a 15 month study supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and other foundations.

COLLOQUIUM speakers in the Chemistry Department during the past year came from as far away as Japan and as near as the state university in Durham, N. H. Included in the list of Steele Hall speakers were the following:

Prof. Anthony Turkevich '37, University of Chicago; Prof. Akira Kotera, Tokyo Kyoiku University; Prof. Charles Sudron, Centre de Biophysique Molenlaire, Orleans, France; Dr. Shneior Lifson, Werzman Institute, Israel and M.I.T.; Dr. Egon Matijevic, Clarkson College; and Dr. Sudarshan K. Malhotra, Dow Chemical Co.; Dr. Charles D. Coryell, M.I.T.; Prof. Bing Man Fung, Tufts University; Dr. James Magnuson, Mellon Institute; Dr. Robert Lyle, University of New Hampshire; and Prof. Dewey K. Carpenter, Georgia Tech.

JEFFREY HART '51, Associate Professor of English, in a "part-time consultative arrangement" will write speeches and position papers for the new administration of President Richard M. Nixon. He wrote several major speeches for Nixon during the 1968 campaign, including one on law and order and another on educational policies.

Since there is no longer a need for campaign speeches, much of his writing will be on position papers related to policy matters. Nixon reads "incredible amounts" of such position papers in developing policy, Professor Hart reported in a pre-inaugural interview with TheDartmouth.

He described Nixon as very realistic and tough, with a good analytical mind. He ascribed Nixon's realism to the political setbacks he has had to surmount. Moreover, he saw Nixon as a professional manager who prefers to remain in the background. When asked about the direction of the

new administration Professor Hart replied, "I can predict almost infallibly what it will be like. There will be a devolution of fiscal power back to the states, and this will be true in all kinds of programs. There will be a conservative drift, but nothing abrupt."

PROF. Harry N. Scheiber of the History Department has been named an advisory editor of Business History Review, published by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Other recent scholarly activities have taken him off campus and, most significantly, into a new interdepartmental program.

He and Prof. S. Russell Stearns of the Thayer School participated in a sym- posium on "Transportation '68" at New England College honoring innovative engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, who received a Dartmouth honorary degree last year. Professor Scheiber spoke on "Social Change and Transport Planning." He also delivered a paper entitled "At the Borderlands of Law and Economic History" at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City.

On campus he is serving as first director of the Center for the Study of Social Change, organized to support cross-disciplinary research and teaching in the social sciences. During the Winter Term the Center is co-sponsoring an experimental course, "Introduction to Policy Formulation" being conducted by Prof. Alvin O. Converse of the Thayer School.

NEW research grants were awarded to many members of the Chemistry Department during the past year. They were as follows: Thomas A. Spencer Jr., Associate Professor, two grants totaling $27,500 from the Public Health Service for work in collaboration with Dr. R. B. Clayton and Dr. K. Barry Sharpless '63 of Stanford University; David M. Lemal, Associate Professor, $44,900 from the National Science Foundation, $17,500 from the Sloan Foundation, and $52,000 from the Department of the Army; William S. Magee Jr., Assistant Professor, $7,900 from the National Science Foundation; Gordon W. Gribble, Assistant Professor, $5,000 from the Petroleum Research Fund and $3,000 from the Research Corporation; and Stephen W. Provencher, Assistant Professor, $5,000 from the Petroleum Research Fund.