Mar 19 1962
From The Space Library
U.N.'s reorganized 28-nation Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space opened its meetings with the reelection of Dr. Franz Matsch of Austria as chairman and his subsequent ruling that the committee would make decisions by "consensus" rather than by vote. U.S. delegate was Francis T. P. Plimpton; his deputy was Richard N. Gardner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator of NASA, was Plimpton's technical adviser. Dr. Homer Newell of NASA and Leonard C. Meeker of the State Department were alternate representatives. Congressional advisers were Senators Howard W. Cannon and Margaret Chase Smith, and Representatives James G. Fulton and George L. Miller. U.S.S.R. representative was Platon D. Morozov. V. Dobronravov, member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and space expert, was his scientific adviser.
Space science might provide an answer within five years to the question of whether gravitation is growing weaker with time, Dr. Robert H. Dicke, Professor of Physics at Princeton University's Palmer Physical Laboratory, said in a lecture for the Voice of America. This new theory of gravitation, not in accord with Einstein's theory of gravitation, could be tested with a satellite that was instrumented to act as a "gravitational clock" and checked against an atomic clock.
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