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September 11, 1969

Dr. K. W. King

Research Corporation
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10017

Dear Dr. King,

I wae most intrigued by your letter of August 28th having
received Dr. Ramsey's inquiry about your annual award a few weeks
earlier. I had been torn between making a specific nomination
@ Hershey) versus reacting rather critically “is this just the
kind of award you really want to be making these days?" Does not
“pure” scientific achievement already have quite enough recognition
in our general prestige system?" And the rest of your own letter

would have been a pretty good paraphrase of my own reaction.
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if a copy of this letter to Dr. Ramsey will serve as a nominatéon oy

I hope he will accept it in that spirit. I do not think I would be a

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A+thoughtful ansver to .your questions deserves more time and
attention than I can distill into a letter, just at this moment.

And even this ought to be more coherent than it is going to come out.

Let me point first of all to the enclosure on a new program in
human biology which is founded on the premise that undergraduate
education is a part of the two culture (or n-culture) problem. We
have just received word that the Ford Foundation will give us the
support we need to get this program off the ground. It is axiomatic,
however, that they were unable to give us quite everything we asked
for, and even at that we knew that some requirements would emerge
but could only be properly justified after we had gotten more deeply
into the implementation of the program. I am particularly concerned
about finding funds for some student research projects, particularly
those of an interdisciplinary character which tend to be equal
distant from the available troughs. Right now I would like to know
where I could find about $4Y26¥9a year to help support an extremely
bright medical student who is, believe it or not, writing a competent
pook about "The Experimental City". (This happens to be David Sachs
who wrote a piece about water quality in McCall's last year that did
end up having a rather constructive impact in shaking the complacency
of a great many people, including Public Health agencies, about this
problem.)

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