Government and Science: Review of the National Science Foundation. Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, Volume 1

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Committee Serial No. 6. Contains appendices including summary of testimony (p. 839-906) and witnesses written responses to subsequent subcommittee questions (p. 905-1422).

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Page 12 - Foundation is authorized and directed — (1) to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences...
Page 436 - Secretary, is a contract, containing stipulations on the part of the Government, and on the part of the corporation, entered into for full and adequate consideration. The Government became party to this contract by granting the charter, and the stockholders by accepting it.
Page 584 - Department membership on the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information of the Federal Council for Science and Technology, the Public Health Service since June 1962, has made its contribution to the Council's effort to "promote coordination and improve planning and management of Federal programs in science and technology.
Page 133 - ... by the Department of Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Page 107 - States and foreign countries (6) to evaluate scientific research programs undertaken by agencies of the Federal Government, and to correlate the Foundation's scientific research programs with those undertaken by individuals and by public and private research groups...
Page 818 - It made extensive use of data from the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the national rosters, and conducted its own special studies of specialized manpower supply and demand.
Page 795 - This book is one of a series prepared in connection with the Survey of the Behavioral and Social Sciences conducted between 1967 and 1969 under the auspices of the Committee on Science and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences and the Problems and Policy Committee of the Social Science Research Council.
Page 813 - McMillan, of the University of California, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1951. He won the John Scott Award and Medal of the city of Philadelphia in 1953 and the Perkin Medal of the American section of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1957.
Page 213 - November 30, 1965 by the Research and Technical Programs Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, containing a statement by Representative Henry S.
Page 803 - Chairman; one representative from the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President...

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