RCA, 34, 55, 62 



R&D (See research and development) 

 recession (See economic recession) 

 Recovery Program of Science Progress, 7 

 regulations (See government regulations and con- 

 trols ) 

 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 4 

 research and development. 9. 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 35, 36, 

 37, 40, 44, 49, 53. 54 



company-funded, 24 



competing functions, 26, 29, 142 



cost of, 64 



emphasis on, 36 



industrial spending on, 24 



military, 55 



role of, 75 



value of, 26 

 research application, 4, 39 

 research centers, 56 



Research Committee on Social Trends, 6 

 research community, 23, 55, 59, 73, 82, 95, 97 



leaders of, 86 

 research coordination, 26, 44. 136, 137, 140 

 research equipment, 26. 28. 136, 140, 143 

 Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of 



Technology, 6 

 research funding (See funding) 

 research needs, 9. 41, 55 

 research objectives, 29, 56, 137, 142 

 research planning, 36. 66. 140, 143 



advanced, 66 



long-range, 39, 54, 138 



national, 39, 137, 139 

 research policy, 18, 35, 36, 44. 136 



coordinated, 27, 41. 138 



long-range, 39 



national, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 37, 40. 41, 137, 138, 142, 

 144 



policymaking, 16. 33, 37, 44 

 research priorities (See national research priorities ) 

 research productivity, 67 

 research programs. 60. 80 



freedom in choice of. 68 



responsibility for directing, 65 

 research quality. 51, 138 

 research sectors, 27, 33, 59, 135, 138, 142 



competition between, 136 

 research support (See funding) 

 research system, 15, 25, 50, 56, 73 



concern within, 25 



federalization of, 3 



freedom in, 28, 59 



vitality of, 28, 47, 55 

 research teams, 38 

 re searchers, 38, 74 



motivations of, 54 



unemployed, 8 

 respondents, 24, 139, 140, 142. 143, 144 



classes of, 135 

 response letters, 24, 95 



issues from, 135 

 retirement (See early retirement ) 

 revenue sharing, 40 

 Rice University, 39 

 Robertson, Randal M., 40 

 Rockefeller Foundation, 6 

 Rockwell International, 62, 79 

 Roosevelt, Franklin D., as President, 1 1 

 Roth, Sidney G., 37 

 Russell, George A., 60 

 Rutgers University, 67 

 sabbaticals, 52 

 Sachs, Robert G., 78 

 Sandel, T. T., 38 

 Schooling, Herbert W., 38 

 Schwarz. Paul A.. 66 

 science, 5, 9, 15, 23, 92 



academic, 19 



as a career, 138 



enrollments in, 138 



gains of, 3 



outcomes of, 90 



practical, 4. 85 



pure, 6, 7, 48, 62 



vis-a-vis society, 14 

 Science Advisory Board, 7, 10 

 science and technology (See also technology), 28, 83 



attitudes toward, 85, 87, 91, 136, 140 



confidence in, 76 



control over, 83 



distinction between, 84, 90, 92 

 science establishment, 6 



academic, 18 



wartime, 9 

 Science Indicators, 82, 83, 85. 87. 89. 90 

 Science, the Endless Frontier. 11 

 science policy (See research policy ) 

 scientific advisory apparatus, 39 

 scientific community (See research community) 

 scientific publication, 1 1 



journals, 78 

 scientists, 6, 18, 23, 50, 54, 60. 82 



academic, 84 



European, 1 1 



opportunities for, 56 



supplies of, 74 



training of, 3, 50 



unemployment of, 7, 18 



university-based young, 27, 47, 138, 143 

 sectors (See research sectors) 

 Shannon, fames, 80 

 Shen, Benjamin S. P., 80 



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