The meeting of the Council was called to order at 14h 10m in Room 3400 of the Engineering Building of the University of California, Los Angeles, California, by President Thomas F. Mai one. Council members present were William C. Ackerinann, Robert S. Arthur (alternate for Donald W. Pritchard), Willis Poster, Edward D. Goldberg (alternate for Hatten S. Yoder, Jr.), David T. Griggs, J. Wallace Joyce, Joseph Kaplan, John Lyman, Thomas F. Malone, Morris Neiburger, James A. Peoples, Jr., Frank Press (alternate for Edward B. Espenshade, Jr.), A. Nelson Sayre, Louis B. Slichter, Waldo E. Smith, E. H. Vestine (also alternate for C. T. Elvey), and Charles A. Whitten.