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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS January 25, 1977 [[underline]]Attendance[[/underline]] The meeting of the Board of Regents was called to order by the Chancellor on January 25, 1977, at 10:15 a.m., in the Regents Room in the Smithsonian Institution Building. Present were: Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Chancellor J. Paul Austin John Nicholas Brown William A. M. Burden Robert F. Goheen Caryl P. Haskins Judge A. Leon Higginbotham James E. Webb, Chairman, Executive Committee Senator Barry Goldwater Senator Henry M. Jackson Senator Claiborne Pell Representative Elford A. Cederberg Representative George H. Mahon Representative Sidney R. Yates S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary The Vice President, Walter F. Mondale, was unable to be present because of travel out of the country. Dr. Gell-Mann was absent because of an international conference in Florida. Mr. Thomas J. Watson, Jr., was unable to be present because his IBM Board was having its annual meeting. Also present were Assistant Secretaries Blitzer, Challinor, Euell, Perrot, Jameson; Treasurer T. Ames Wheeler; General Counsel Peter G. Powers; Director of Membership and Development James Symington; Executive Assistant to the Secretary Dorothy Rosenberg; Special Assistant to the Secretary James M. Hobbins and Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice Mark Cannon.