flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn) (01/26/84)
"You can take all the impact that science considerations have on funding decisions at NASA, put them in the navel of a flea, and have room left over for a caraway seed and Tony Calio's heart." This paraphrase of something Fred Allen said a long time ago is certainly true: at levels where people drop the word 'millions' from conversation about budgets ("oh, give them their eighty dollars and let's see what they can do with it") scientific justification for proposed projects is usually necessary but never sufficient. Dr. A. J. Calio, now Deputy Administrator of NOAA, was Associate Administrator for Applications in the late 1970's - an able and fair, but very tough, guy.