1970 NATIONAL SCIENCE
FOUNDATION AUTHORIZATION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

→SUBCOMMITTEE ON

SCIENCE, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT.

OF THE

2. Cona v House. COMMITTEE ON

SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 4283

Superseded by H.R. 10878

VOLUME I

MARCH 17, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28; APRIL 1, 1969

[No. 4]

Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Astronautics

27-514 O

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1969

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT
EMILIO Q. DADDARIO, Connecticut, Chairman

JOHN W. DAVIS, Georgia

JOE D. WAGGONNER, JR., Louisiana
GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California
EARLE CABELL, Texas

BERTRAM L. PODELL, New York

ALPHONZO BELL, California
CHARLES A. MOSHER, Ohio
DONALD RUMSFELD, Illinois
D. E. (BUZ) LUKENS, Ohio

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CONTENTS

March 17, 1969:

STATEMENTS

Dr. Leland J. Haworth, Director, National Science Foundation,

accompanied by Dr. Philip Handler, Chairman, National Science

Board; Dr. Charles Jones, president, Humble Oil Co., and member

National Science Board; and Dr. Orville G. Brim, Jr., president,

Russell-Sage Foundation, and Chairman, National Science Board

Committee on Social Sciences...

March 18, 1969:

Dr. Leland J. Haworth, Director, National Science Foundation,

accompanied by Dr. Louis Levin, Executive Associate Director,

National Science Foundation; and William Hoff, General Counsel.-

March 20, 1969:

Dr. Charles E. Falk, Planning Director, National Science Foundation_

Dr. Burton W. Adkinson, Head, Office of Science Information,

National Science Foundation..........

March 24, 1969:

Dr. Thomas Fontaine, Associate Director for Education, National

Science Foundation, accompanied by Dr. Keith R. Kelson, Deputy

Associate Director for Education; Dr. Charles A. Whitmer, Division

Director, Pre-College Education in Science; Dr. Lyle W. Phillips,

Division Director, Undergraduate Education in Science; Dr.

Howard D. Kramer, Division Director, Graduate Education in

Science..

March 25, 1969:

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Dr. Randal M. Robertson, Associate Director for Research, National

Science Foundation.......

221

March 26, 1969:

Dr. Randal M. Robertson, Associate Director (Research), National

Science Foundation___.

257

Dr. William E. Wright, Division Director for Mathematical and

Physical Sciences, National Science Foundation____

287

Dr. Harve J. Carlson, Division Director for Biological and Medical

Sciences, National Science Foundation__

295

Dr. Bostwick H. Ketchum, Head, Environmental and Systematic

Biology Section, Biological and Medical Sciences Division, Na-

tional Science Foundation___

298

Dr. Thomas O. Jones, Division Director for Environmental Sciences,

National Science Foundation___

337

Dr. Edward P. Todd, Deputy Associate Director (Research), National

Science Foundation__

340

Dr. John Ide, Division Director for Engineering, National Science

Foundation..

349

Dr. Howard H. Hines, Division Director for Social Sciences, National

Science Foundation__.

March 27, 1969:

Dr. Randal M. Robertson, Associate Director for Research National

Science Foundation, accompanied by Dr. Howard H. Hines, Division

Director for Social Sciences, National Science Foundation__

Dr. Frank Blair, Chairman, U.S. National Committee for the IBP,

accompanied by Dr. Stanley I. Auerbach, Radiation Ecology Sec-

tion, Health Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,

member, U.S. Executive Committee for the IBP, Cochairman,

Program Coordinating Committee-United States, IBP, Dr. William

S. Laughlin, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin,

member, U.S. Executive Committee for the IBP, co-chairman, Pro-

gram Coordinating Committee-United States, ÍPB_

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