958 



of appropriate screening groups to ensure that brilliant and promising young 



scientists as well as older and more distinguished ones are enabled to attend 



meetings. Care must also be taken la avoid supporting so many Americans that 



thej^ constitute an overwhelming number of scientists in attendance at any one 

 meeting. 2^2 



TABLE 18.— NSF INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL GRANTS, NUMBER OF TRAVELERS, COST-FISCAL YEARS 1952-1973 



Fiscal year 



1952' 



1953 2 

 1957(actual)3""/."--""I"IIII"I'-I-""-IIII"II-I""-II 



1957 (actual)* - 



1957(actual)5 



1958 6... :. 



1958(actual)< - 



1958 (actual)' 



1959 (estimated) <-.. 



1961 8 



1961 « - 



1961 (actual) m 



1963 (actual) w 



1%4 (actual) 13.. 



1965 (actual) 15 



1965 (actual) 18 



1956 (actual) '8 



1966 (actual) 1' 



1967 (actual) 20.. 



1967 (actual) " 



1968 (actual) i«. 



1968 (actual) 21 



1969 (actual) 2 



1969 (actual) M 



1970 (actual) 24.... 



1971 (estimated)22 



1973 (estimated)". 



1 U.S., National Science Foundation, "Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1952, 1953." 



2 U.S., National Science Foundation, "Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1953, 1954." 



3 U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Appropriations, "Independent Offices Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1959; Hearings, 

 1958," p. 294. 



< Ibid., D. 344. 



' U.S., National Science Foundation, "Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1957, 1958." 



« U.S., Congress, House, "Independent Offices Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1958: Hearings, 1957," p. 344. 



' U.S., National Science Foundation, "Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1958, 1959." 



8 U.S., National Science Foundation, "Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1961, 1962." 



» U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Appropriations, "Independent Offices Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1963: Hearings, 

 1962," pp. 885, 895. 



w U.S., National Science Foundation, "Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1981, 1962." 



i> U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Appropriations, "I ndependent Offices Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1965: Hearings, 

 1964," p. 800. 



'2 Travel, $489,258; USSR-EE, $260,100. 



'3 U.S., Congress, House, Committeeon Appropriations, "Independent Offices Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1966: Hearings, 

 1965," pp. 605, 826. 



n Travel, $451,113; USSR-EE, $234,622. 



'5 U.S., Congress, House, Committeeon Appropriations, "Independent Offices Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1967: Hearings, 

 1966," p. 105. 



16 Ibid., p. 105. 



17 Travel, $245,000; USSR-EE $234,622. 



18 "Inventory of Federal Programs Involving Educational Activities," op. cit., p. 367. 

 i» U.S., National Science Foundation, "Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1966, 1967." 



2" U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Develop- 

 ment, "The Participation of Federal Agencies In International Scientific Programs: Report of the Science Policy Research 

 and Foreign Affairs Divisions, Library of Congress, 90th Cong., 1st sess., 1967," p. 85. 



21 "1970 National Science Foundation Authorization: Hearings, Vol. tl," op. cit., p. 580. 



22 U.S., Congress, House, Committeeon Appropriations, "Independent Offices Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1971: Hearings, 

 1970," p. 840. 



23 U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Develop- 

 ment, "1971 National Science Foundation Authorization: Hearings, 1970.'' 



24 U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Develop- 

 ment, "1972 National Science Foundation Authorization: Hearings, 1971," p. 346. 



26 U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Develop- 

 ment, "1973 National Science Foundation Authorization: Report, 1972," p. 56. 



2'2 1970 National Science Foundation Authorization: Hearing, op. cit pp. 255-6. 



