October 10, 1966

Dr. Marhnne Grunberg-Manago
Department of Biochemistry
Institut Biologfe Physico-Chimique
13 Rue Pierre Curia
Paris V, France

Dear Mar Lanne :

hong the various enclosures is Science's response to the report
on the Spetsai meeting.
Nature, it 8ems as though the desired publicity will not be forth-
coming.  The requirement (by Science) that the report be limited to
a description of the most significant results reported does not  seem
pertinent to what was primarily a course rather than a meeting and
I'm not at ell sure that v~e can salvage anything.
instructions for meeting reports they also request that reports be
submitted dthin two or three weeks after the meeting and I suspect
that my tardiness did not help us.  Do you want me to try enyehing
else or ahall I drop the matter?

Coupled with Brian's similar luck with

In the formal

The Information Exchange No.  7 has been prodded on your behalf.
me know if things fail to improve and I shall try again.

Let

Thank you very much for the details on the gal electrophoresss,  a8
well as the hospitality to Claude Klee.
to it within the next few months.

I hope that we shall get

Another enclosure is a resume of the provision8 of the International
Education Act, passed by the House of Representativesand probably
soon to be passed by the Senate.
this may be a possibh source of fund6 for future meetings.
try to find out more about it when it actually became8 law.

Although it's not completely clear,

I shall

The final enclosure is a bit of trivia which I thought you might
enjoy.

It was very good to hear that you are making plans for another course.
I too would be very happy to do it again.  It seems to me that the
fact that the applicants numbered almost ten times the number of
students you could take should be a strong point in your favor for
next year.
would obviously be most interesting and useful-but I wonder if a
course doesn't fill a particular need which is also worthwhile.

For most people too, a Gordon Conference type of meeting

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I was somewhat dieappointed at the Greek representation on the
organizing, committee.
of the scientific community in Greece, a booat for the younger people
striving for adme scientific indepsndence could have been obtained by
including Christina Zfoudrou.
productive investigator who in many ways is buckinb the "sy~;tm."
Pras your own pofnt of view too, she would have been an energetic and
perceptive helper on the administrative side of things.

Although I appreciate the political realities

Scientifically she is a good and

The news from here is the increasing likelihood of Leon's departure
from NIH. The intricacies of the Public Health Service retirement
regulations make it almost hpoes~ble for him to do anything else.
He is actively considering various possibilitias,
about it bo much as it will be a major loss, scientifically and
personally, for me.

I try not to think

Hy lave to Mldred, to Amand, to the children and most eapcscially
to you.

Yours,

Maxine Singer

Enclosures


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