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...take a different stance toward science -- and not just because a new Administration is coming to Washington. Long before the election, policymakers were concluding that they should assert more control over research by telling many scientists precisely what to work on. "We've got to do some readjusting," says Guyford Stever, co-chairman of a recent Carnegie Commission study on the future of American science...
Under the new streamlined setup, the duties of science adviser will fall to H. Guyford Stever, director of the National Science Foundation. On policy matters, he will consult with Treasury Secretary George Shultz, the Administration's new economic czar; on money requests, he will go to Roy Ash, head of the Office of Management and Budget. An aeronautical engineer and former president of Carnegie-Mellon University who once was an M.I.T. faculty colleague of Shultz's, Stever is convinced that he will always get an adequate hearing from his new bosses. "I might have to jog a little...
...CHARLES TOWNES, 53, of the University of California at Berkeley, is the inventor of the laser. His area of study is to determine what should come after the Apollo program. His ideas will be coordinated with those of DR. HORTON GUYFORD STEVER, 52, president of the Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who will look at the whole field of science policy...
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