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President Carter used the occasion of the swearing-in of Frank Press as White House science adviser to make it clear that the former M.I.T. earth scientist has become an integral part of the Presidential staff. At a June 1 ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Mr. Carter observed that Dr. Press “attends the Cabinet meetings. He attends the senior staff meetings. And whether it might be new weapons systems, scientific aspects of SALT negotiations, problems with defense experimentations that might lead to new opportunities there, or whether it involves problems with weather determination or, in many instances, problems involving social sciences, he has been very helpful in helping me to make the right decisions.”