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...over $100 million which Congress appropriates yearly for NSF, according to Stone, only $15 million goes for social science research, and only $300,000 of that for computer applications in the social sciences. "We need at least a ten-fold increase in computer funds." Stone said...
Philip J. Stone III, professor of Social Relations, and Marshall S. Smith '59, assistant professor of Education: went to Washington two weeks ago and made this suggestion to the director of the NSF's Social Science. Division and to the director of that division's "special project" section. Stone said yesterday that the reaction of the NSF officials was "very supportive...
Besides the NSF officials. Stone and Smith talked with an aide to Lee A. DuBridge. President Nixon's science adviser, and with aides to Sens. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and to Rep. Emilio Q. Daddario (D-Conn.). Kennedy and Daddario head Congressional subcommittees that recommend to Congress how much money to authorize for science research organizations like NSF...
That increase, as Stone sees it, must come from increasing Congress's appropriations to NSF, rather than from redistribution of the funds which NSF already has. "The NSF has no directive at picking up its social science funds unless Congress tells it to." he said...
...Bureau of the Budget is already preparing the federal government's budget for fiscal year 1971. Stone said, but allocations for foundations like NSF have not yet been settled...