News, notes and comments: PAC chairmen create alternate USAB-program plan

Almost anyone who looks at the 1979 USAB Program Plan, 3rd edition, would be astonished at the number of tasks listed in the plan − 41. And, depending on his point of view, he might be delighted or dismayed to find that only about 12 of the 41 tasks provide direct benefit to die member in his capacity as practicing engineer. The remaining 29 tasks serve mankind, the telecommunications industry, the energy industry, Congress, USAB, TAB, EAB, etc. So if the grass-roots member or PAC Chairman got the impression that the S1.27M 1979 USAB budget is a pork barrel to serve whatever cause captures the fancy of the U.S. Activities Board, he might be close to the mark.