Equitable Distribution of R. & D. Funds by Government Agencies: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Government Reseach ... 89-2, on S. Res. 231, July 25-27, 1966

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Page 272 - ... (c) The Council is authorized to engage such technical assistance as may be required to carry out its functions, and the Secretary shall, in addition, make available to the Council such secretarial, clerical, and other assistance and such pertinent data prepared by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as it may require to carry out such functions.
Page 273 - State" includes, in addition to the several States of the Union, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam. American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. (h) The term "State educational agency...
Page 628 - It is a pleasure for me to have this opportunity to appear before you and speak about the Cuban refugee program.
Page 5 - The purpose of the new policy statement I am issuing today is to insure that our programs for Federal support of research in colleges and universities contribute more to the long-run strengthening of the universities and colleges so that these institutions can best serve the Nation in the years ahead.
Page 272 - Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day, including travel time, and while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 304 - Federal agencies in the development of those agencies' regulations implementing cost accounting standards and pertinent Board rules and regulations. The three principal relevant agencies — the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission — have all issued implementing regulations.
Page 661 - Commission, the Science Information Exchange of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Referral Center for Science and Technology of the Library of Congress and, in some cases, other institutions as well.
Page 3 - Research supported to further agency missions should be administered not only with a view to producing specific results, but also with a view to strengthening academic institutions and increasing the number of institutions capable of performing research of high quality.
Page 4 - Our policies and attitudes in regard to science cannot satisfactorily be related solely to achievement of goals and ends we set for our research. Our vision in this regard is limited at best. We must, I believe, devote ourselves purposefully to developing and diffusing — throughout the nation — a strong and solid scientific capability, especially in our many centers of advanced education.
Page 295 - This does not mean a mere 4-year college education, for the ideas involved are at the very boundaries of knowledge. The education required is really advanced. Command of the new technology and of the science from which it is derived requires postgraduate education to the doctor's degree and beyond — not less than 8 years beyond the high school diploma.

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