* Interrupt the highest magnetic field user research in this country for four to five years, just at a time when several very important scientific and technical problems need to be solved--that is, high T
* Purchase foreign-made magnets in preference to developing our own technology.
* Distance the laboratory from the community of first-rate research students. No new facilities will make Florida State's Tallahassee campus into a magnet for the top 10 percent of students, such as one has at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston area generally. Many first-rate students were trained in the MIT magnet lab. The story might also have pointed out that the members of the National Science Board are not working scientists; the quotes from them reflect nothing like a scientist's concern for quality above all.
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