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papers rather than attempting to produce a consensus. Yet there was 

 one dominant theme which cropped up time and again in the 315-page 

 report on "Basic Research and National Goals": That the future of 

 basic research in the United States was closely tied to the fortunes of 

 the National Science Foundation, and that increased support for NSF 

 was essential for the future strength of the Nation. The report also 

 emphasized the need for a more stable level of funding for basic research 

 on a more dependable, incremented basis. 



The committee experience with the Academy was a healthy one, 

 even if it did not produce the kinds of quick, pat answers which some 

 impatient observers seem to demand to write newspaper stories or an- 

 swer TV quiz questions. Science magazine, frequently a critic of the 

 committee, editorially observed following the Academy report that 

 one thing favoring a closer relationship between the Academy and the 

 Congress "is the scientists' respect for Representative Emilio Q. Dad- 

 dario.* * * It is generally agreed that Daddario has been running his 

 subcommittee in a responsible and intelligent fashion, and that the 

 subcommittee is developing into an important channel of communica- 

 tion between the scientific community and the Congress." 



THE MOVE TO THE RAYBURN BUILDING 



After six years cramped in the small quarters of the inadequate 

 committee room in 214-B of the Longworth Building — where fre- 

 quently the committee members and agency witnesses outnumbered 

 the spectators by space necessities — a red letter day for the committee 

 occurred on January 26, 1965. It was the first hearing held by the 

 committee in its spacious new basketball-court sized hearing room in 

 2318 Rayburn Building. It also marked the very first hearing that any 

 committee had held in the newly opened Rayburn Building. 



Before the committee moved into its new quarters, a few adjust- 

 ments had to be made. The Architect of the Capitol laid the plans for 

 the new area on Executive Director Ducander's desk one day. They 

 were laid out to preserve very tight security in the manner of the 

 Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. When these plans were scrapped, 

 it was discovered that the plans had been radically altered in the 

 opposite direction — with four huge rooms allowing no privacy for any 

 individual staff member. So there was much hammering and partition- 

 ing before the committee was ready to move into its new location. 



To mark the occasion, Chairman Miller and Representative Dad- 

 dario arranged for a discussion by the committee's Panel on Science 

 and Technology, which marked the sixth meeting of the panel. In 

 opening the two-day meeting on January 26, Chairman Miller stated: 





