Budgetary restraints

The extent of federal support for many physics programs in fiscal 1967 depends on the outcome of President Johnson's current peace offensive for Vietnam. Already the pressure of an expected $60 billion defense budget has forced the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to cancel further work on its Advanced Orbiting Solar Observatory and to defer for another two years its Voyager mission to Mars. (Voyager had already been delayed two years by cuts in this year's budget.) The Apollo lunar landing project, however, will continue on schedule.