Visit by director of science foundation
The director of the American National Science Foundation (Mr H. G. Stever) will spend three days in the Antarctic early next week to observe the research programme at first hand.
It will be the first time that an N.S.F. director in office will have visited the continent. Mr Stever assumed the appointment in February. He will be accompanied by Dr G. Murray, a member of the governing board of the foundation which is responsible for financing the American Antarctic research programme. They will be joined at the week-end by the Secretary of the U.S.A.F. (Dr R. C. Seamans) and his party. Visits are expected to be made to the South Pole Station and, weather permit-
ting, to the Russian Vostok Station before the men return to Christchurch on December 14.
Yesterday the new commander of the Military Airlift Command’s 22nd Air Force (Major-General J. F. Gonge) left Christchurch for Australia after spending three hours on the ground at McMurdo Station the previous day to observe the Air Force operation at Williams Field.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33092, 6 December 1972, Page 18
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