Operating the 200‐BeV

Although competition, political and otherwise, for the 200‐BeV‐accelerator site will continue until the last moment, the nation's scientists seem determined to operate the machine for the benefit of the entire physics community. The Universities Research Association Inc. (URAI), established last summer by 34 university presidents, has offered its services to the government as “contracting agency for the construction and operation) of the new accelerator. Despite URAI's independent character, several government science officials (Frederick Seitz, Donald Hornig and Glenn Seaborg) were instrumental in its formation; and the National Academy of Sciences enjoys especially close ties with it.