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i The Honolulu Advertiser TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1972 neither scientist nor businessman, but in between ifiPi ro il ills i WAfi jAjm i-r-iri ninhi 4 'Vt ofocea fcaa A-iS viSJ 9KSb3 river siisr: a raises ft a teawss- 4simWr Qoh Bottom, 1 ssffi. ci iiia jOTs ore is tiiS e-- tsf fenf mmTKV MWF8 met ocean rfMm 5 could fee fop rff that you can extend the breeding time of mullet three months on either side of its natural cycle, but then you've got to bring it through the larval stage with a survival rate high enough to make it economically feasible." "IT'S A HASSLE," Pryor himself admits of reconciling promotion and science. "Sometimes it takes two years from the time of a work to the time of its publication in reputable science journals. My feeling is that's not alive. I think we should interpret the work for the community.

"When we get a small percentage of mullet to survive, and we're all dancing and drinking champagne in the laboratory, that's the time to talk about it, even though we'll have to hit a 20 per cent survival rate for it to be important economically. "I don't think science sells itself enough. It's just a pure cop-out. The wording of science in its reputable journals is healthy and refreshing. But I think that hiding behind that kind of discipline on what can be achieved is pure timidity.

I feel this is fa disservice to the public." PRYOR BROUGHT UP the fascination of, and attention bestowed on, risk-takers. He recalled a Babe Ruth story, when in the fifth inning of the third game in the 1932 World Series Ruth pointed to the most distant part of Wrigley Field. Ruth loaded up his count with two strikes against him, then pasted the ball over the fence he had pointed to. "Maybe hundreds of homers have sailed over the same fence," Pryor said, "but it's Ruth's hit they remember. It's the same thing in predicting in science.

I think it's a gutsier, more scientific way to achieve. "The whole basis of science is to predict before you achieve. That's what a hypothesis is. I hypothesize what can be done, and what's worth doing, in the oceans." What about credibility? "It's risky. Right now I'm probably suffering a credibility gap because I don't have a glass sub roving at 20,000 feet.

When I do, I'll be a hero again." Many scientists in Hawaii have expressed envy or disdain at Pryor, his pronouncements or projects. "Yes, I know, I guess you'll come across that in any field. "The scientists at Makapuu are linked with me and the ones who are have to be gutsy enough to swing with me." Of all his colleagues, Pryor noted, the only one he considers really to have lost in the crunch has been Norris. "The funny thing is that he was pretty good about allowing publicity, and yet he is one who complained the most You try to strike a balance." Next: Where to now? I Advertiser art work by Adam Nakamura Pryor fills a position like and his a vexing relationship for science. 'Makapuu's image polished as public relations director.

Coryell was one of several people who lost his job recently when Pryor filed in Federal court for reorganization, and court-appointed trustees ordered layoffs. Said aquaculturist Bardach: "Tap was in such a hurry, and yet if he hadn't been he wouldn't have accomplished' what he did. Science needs people like Pryor to sell itself to the guys who hold the pursestrings. i "He can, for example, sell them that aquaculture is the thing of the future. The problem is that aquaculture isn't there yet, and that's where Tap must be reined in." Bardach continued: "Sure, it's great breakthrough to the Big Island to focus attention on "inner In 1969 an ocean glider named Deep Voyager would ghost under the sea from Hawaii to California without a motor in 16 days, and would be ready for "three scientist-adventurers by June of 1970." Since these projects or projections haven't panned out yet, they remain, at least for now, words which Pryor is forced to eat.

"TAP'S QUALITIES include a prodigious imagination, boundless energy, and powers of persuasion that border on the spellbinding," said Roger Coryell, the man who kept Third of four articles By BRUCE BENSON Advertiser Science Writer A scientist is not a businessman, and a businessman is not a scientist. Taylor A. "Tap" Pryor is neither, but somewhere in between. The essence of his style is a distillation of a devout faith in the worth of what he is doing, which he then tries to expand on by speculation and showmanship. "The fact that you've said something and the fact that people believe in you does increase the possibility of its happening," Pryor said in an interview.

"But it would be disastrous if you didn't believe yourself in what you said." With this assessment on cause and effect, he has won almost 10 years of positive press coverage and raised many millions of dollars for facilities and jobs at Maka-puu. He also has incurred several million dollars in debt, and is facing some serious financial tangles. PRYOR WAS APPOINTED by Gov. John A. Burns in 1965 to fill the unexpired State Senate term of Patsy Mink when she moved on to Congress.

Although a political greenhorn, Pryor approached the job with typical enthusiasm, getting into political scuffles that included a proposal for a national park on Kauai. He declined to stand for election when the term expired, turning full time to Makapuu. Scarcely a word 'has ever been written to question, criticize or wonder how much on target was the $100 million-to-billion-dollar industry Pryor kept forecasting for Hawaii. His success in getting continuous acclaim is. relevant because it has taken place in the name of science.

Science traditionally is a field of cautious statements, and many of the projects at Makapuu have been incautious ideas that never materialized. Pryor's style, with its contradictions and ambiguities, vexes both him and his scientist colleagues. "TAP IS AN ENTREPRENEUR and a visionary," said Dr. Kenneth S. Norris.

who helped set up Sea Life Park and who resigned last year as director of Makapuu's Oceanic Institute. "But I don't think that's science. He fills a position like Cousteau, who isn't a scientist either. "I think it comes down to degrees of freedom. A scientist requires all he says to be the truth; the entrepreneur can deal in fantasies, or scenarios." And how is this -reconciled with science? Norris isn't certain.

He does know he is leaving Hawaii to teach at the University of California. Santa Clara, "because of the problems we saw coming down the pike here a year ago." He also says he believes that someone with Pryor's flair is beneficial to research. guess the question is now to combine solidity in a research center with verve, so it won't become stodgy and just one of the boys," he said. How does he feel about the Madison Avenue approach that was brought to oceanography, both at Makapuu and elsewhere across the country in the 1960s? "A great many people, including myself, feel there are greater benefits from the sea than from flying around in space," he replied. "The problem is to convince Congress to go jnto the ocean, and from this need came the Madison Avenue approach." Norris also said, "Tap has a remarkable capacity of convincing himself what he's doing is right." AQUACULTURE specialist Dr.

John E. Bardach scoffs at the suggestion that Pryor is another Jacques Cousteau, although Bardach admires Pryor a great deal. Of Pryor's style, he said: "As an idealist, you sometimes think the dream can be made a reality because you want it to be so. He has just been ahead of the field in vision. When you look at aU the press releases that have come out of Tap's organization, they make it look as if all things are possible." A brief look at pizzazz of the past A story in 1964 that began, "Police porpoises guarding beaches from sharks an offshore porpoise race track lei-draped porpoises doing the hula for arriving tourist ships A story in 1965 on "A Billion a Year in Oceanics" for Hawaii.

Another story in 1965 that "private investors have given assurances they will finance a $10 million undersea test range that wiU make Hawaii the site of the country's major oceanic laboratory 'We're over the hump said an elated Pryor, 'and furthermore, we're in a position to use the range as a lead program In 1967 a story that Pryor would ride along the ocean floor in a glass bubble, at a depth of 9,000 feet, from Oahu City eyeing new various schools, organizations and residents in the areas that are affect-. ed," wrote Parker. The new plan would go into effect only after the Council approves it as law. The Traffic Department has not yet asked the Council to do so. Parker said that a bill will be submitted to the Council "at a later date." from Punahou Street to Metcalf Street.

Metcalf Street will be one way kokohead from Dole Street to University Avenue. Dole Street will be one way ewa from Uni-bersity Avenue to Wilder Avenue. Wilder Avenue will be one way ewa from Dole Street to Punahou Street. Other streets will remain largely as they are now. University Avenue, for instance, will continue to bear traffic, as will Dole Street on the kokohead side of University Avenue.

"IN THE NEAR future we hope to meet with the The City Traffic Department yesterday released its tentative plan for a new one-way traffic system in the University apartment area. In a letter to the City Council, Acting Traffic Director Roy Parker summarized the major changes: Dole Street will become one way kokohead one-way system mm iwm' i iw.wwwj.(,ywwA!,ww. 99 informal eleyunve of Italian design, "Provincia An oval table that extends to high cane back chairs and choice walnut veneers give this dining set a rich, mellow tone of fine furniture. Special one week only, Ovat table with 4 S6T5 LAST CALL FOR TWO POPULAR MAINLAND TRIPS WEST COAST AND CANADIAN ROCKIES DEPART JULY 7 17 days. A big vacation in big mountain country Portland, Seattle and Vancouver B.C.

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