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Several congressmen, led by Rep. Richard L. Roudebush (R.-Ind.) quickly attacked Smale and threatened the NSF for financing a trip used for what they called "anti-American purposes...
Raoul Bott, professor of Mathematics who, incidentally, directed Smale's doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan some fifteen years ago, and five others whose names were withheld from the press, sent a letter yesterday to the director of the NSF, Leland J. Haworth. In it, Bott referred to what he called "political pressures" which affected the NFS's decision to reject Smale's request for a continuation of his present grant...
Harvard's summer program, initiated in 1962 with an NSF grant, provides some ten juniors each year with an opportunity to do field research somewhere in the world. The student lives in a village, and researches some aspect of the native life, which generally becomes the theme of his undergraduate thesis...
Students in the program last year received a ten-week stipend of $600 plus an allowance for travel expenses -- approximately $600 more. Last year's program for ten students cost NSF about...
...NSF's move came as no surprise to the Anthropology Department. Early in the fall, the Foundation told Oliver he could apply again if he wished, but there was no assurance that the money would be available...