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Plans For Tomorrow At World Science Center 

When World Science Center is completed, and this impressive structure takes its place on the Manhattan skyline, a new era will begin for both the national and international scientific effort.

The Academy's international conferences will be increased in both scope and number. The proceedings of these conferences, so vital to basic and applied research, will be made available without delay through all the media of mass communications, including radio and television. Television may be employed to permit audiences in other cities, here and abroad, to "attend" the most significant sessions of the world scientists assembled here.

The Academy's own Section and Division meetings can look to greater activity through the availability of adequate space and facilities for motion picture projection, "live" demonstration, and closed-circuit TV demonstrations direct from laboratory or operating room.

Additionally, the auditoria - large and small - will be made available to international scientific bodies assembled in conference, and to other scientific and science-related organizations now active in various areas of research. Inasmuch as many such organizations will make their headquarters in World Science Center, they will be encouraged in any joint, multidisciplinary efforts, as well as to conduct joint meetings and symposia.

It is foreseen that such organizations will make ample use of all World Science Center facilities including both the "conventional" and and electronic libraries. If desired, the Academy would assist new scientific organizations with administrative, programming, and managerial counsel - aiding them toward growth and stability as it has aided so many young organizations in the past.

Among the most important of the Academy's future activities, will be greatly expanded public educational television, science exhibits which may form the nucleus of a Museum of Science, special programs  and symposia for secondary school science teachers and students, periodic lectures for the layman, and a Junior Academy of Sciences expanded to serve science-oriented youngsters throughout the nation.

By its encouragement of research, its multiorganization, the Academy will continue to provide benefits to business and industry, and to the public at large. Indeed, many industrial organizations will find in World Science Center a superb milieu for meetings of their own research and engineering staffs, for industry-wide conferences on technical and scientific matters, and for joint meetings with government and university-based research personnel.

These are but a few of the plans already defined for tomorrow at World Science Center. But they will be realized only if we give this magnificent project our complete support today-here and now.