SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 1963-69 JSI 



applied science and its relation to the national well-being. Dr. Harvey 

 Brooks, of Harvard University, headed an ad hoc panel of 20 Academy 

 members who undertook the study and it was published in June 1967, 

 under the title of "Applied Science and Technological Progress." The 

 report dealt with the special problems of effective application of the 

 resources of science to advances in technology. The various views dealt 

 with the nature and strategy of applied research, the environment and 

 institutions in which applied research is carried out, and the individual 

 scientist and the role of the Federal Government. 



Needless to say, in response to Dr. Brown's letter, the earlier 1965 

 report was reprinted along with sufficient copies of the 1967 report. 



On June 7, 1967, the Science Policy Research Division of the 

 Library of Congress produced, at the Daddario subcommittee's request, 

 a report summarizing science activities during the 89th Congress. The 

 report was so startling in its comprehensiveness that Chairman Dad- 

 dario states in his letter of transmittal to Chairman Miller: 



Science and technology is being latticed into the structure of government and 

 the patterns of everyday life. From the report comes explicit evidence that science, 

 in its broadest terms, is now one of the largest, most powerful, and most important 

 forces with which Congress must deal. 



INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION 



In 1966 and subsequent years, Chairman Miller introduced legisla- 

 tion to promote the advancement of science and the education of 

 scientists through a national program of institutional grants to colleges 

 and universities. The Education and Public Welfare Division as well as 

 the Science Policy Research Division of the Library of Congress prepared 

 studies on this issue. The Daddario subcommittee held hearings on this 

 legislation in 1968 and 1969, and the full committee favorably reported 

 a Miller-Daddario bill in 1969- But the Committee on Rules declined 

 to clear the bill for debate by the full House of Representatives. 



Nevertheless, the discussion, studies, and reports provided good 

 sounding boards for the critical needs in higher education. NSF 

 Director Leland Haworth, in a letter to Chairman Teague on June 30, 

 1978, commented: 



I have always been sorry that this bill did not succeed in passage, both because 

 its provisions were generally good ones and because it would have established per- 

 manently a national policy of institutional support for our institutions of higher 

 education. Unfortunately, it came just at a time when support for academic in- 

 stitutions generally and academic science in particular was waning in popularity in 

 the face of other pressing problems. Indeed, it might well be thought of as a casualty 

 of the Vietnam war. I still hope that sometime ideas of this general sort may again 

 be brought forward. 



