~-22- ; It was suggested that the GAC might help to resolve the situation by holding a meeting under Committee auspices with the interested parties. Alternatively, informal personal discussions with some of the Midwest physicists were suggested. Mr. Whitman expressed the view that the Princeton and Cambridge proposals should not be approved before studying their effect on a machine at the Argonne. Dr. Warner felt it was very important to have a machine at the Argonne and that the whole matter could be straightened out very quickly if a half dozen physicists in the MURA group could be convinced that they would have a happy home’ at Argonne. Dr. Fisk said that the sentiment of other universities, besides the eight in the MURA group, should be ascertained. Dr. Libby entered during the above discussion, at 5:30 p.m, =e = WSSaSEE ‘DroWigner said he was not fully convinced that the best way to get university-Argonne cooperation was by a big accelerator. Perhaps cooperative programs in metallurgy, radiation damage physics, etc., might be more effective. Dr. T. H, Johnson mentioned that the NSF had planned to budget the Cambridge machine. He had discussed the matter with Dr. Waterman. It had been agreed that AEC support would be more appropriate and that NSF monies should be reserved for broader things. As a consequence, the NSF withdrew and the AEC put in for the support of this machine. He urged that a GAC recommendation on the Cambridge and Princeton proposals be forthcoming at this meeting.