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technological research bodies represent. Less well recognized, perhaps, 

 is the damage this does to balanced organizational evolution within the 

 nation. Under such circumstances, these bodies can never be considered 

 mechanisms within which a lasting marriage of individual enthusiasm and 

 relevant scientific productivity can be achieved. 



In the case of the university institute cited above, we are 

 happy to be able to report that a resolution was achieved. The institute 

 decided to assign one half of its research capacity to the theoretically- 

 stimulating problem which had captured the staff's attention. This alloca- 

 tion promised to keep alive the vision of the institute as an entity with 

 career possibilities for the researcher who aspired to do work at a more 

 advanced theoretical level, a vision with impact beyond the confines of the 

 institute itself. For instance, it provided the local university with a 

 theoretical nucleus around which students with such interests could coalesce. 

 The balance of the institute's capacity would go to the more prosaic activity 

 assigned to it by the outside agency - in this case work on a problem of low- 

 cost housing. In view of the settlement that was worked out, the U.S. 

 researchers in the picture agreed to consult where possible on this second 

 problem which had little professional significance to them. 



The visiting professorship represents another method that once held 

 promise of speeding up the structural updating of universities in the under- 

 developed setting. The hope was that, in addition to acquiring substantive 

 teaching help, the host institution might be impelled to test some of the 

 distinctive values about the educational role which the visitor manifested 

 and, in the process, acquire expanded capacity for housing scientific research. 

 This expectation underestimated the power of the forces that conspire against 



