Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard is considering whether to join the Project, which would use M.I.T. computers for social science research funded by the Defense Department. The project has come under strong radical atack as an alleged aid to counter-revolutionary warfare...
...Cohen and Pattullo had been named earlier; they and Brooks are all members of the Faculty Committee on Research Policy, to which the new committee will report. The Research Policy Committee will then make a recommendation to the Faculty, which in turn will advise the Corporation on how, if at all, Harvard should be associated with the Cambridge Project...
Womack based his argument against the Project on two points. First, he said, "projects like this attract a horde of people, most of them with absurd ideas for research." More importantly, he said, "I suspect that the people getting most use out of the Project will be the Defense Department, and at this moment in American politics. I don't trust Defense to make the use of it that I would like...
WITH THE big engineering hurdles to manned space flight overcome, this year NASA headquarters was eager to mend its fences with space scientists. So when the moon rocks, the first tangible scientific payoff of the Apollo program, arrived, NASA went overboard. The agency received hundreds of research proposals and eventually narrowed them down to 142 projects. Some NASA consultants wanted to eliminate still more proposals, to avoid the hassle of two or three principle investigators claiming priority for the same discovery. Headquarters overruled them. "They wanted to spread the goodies around the country," said one researcher. "It's damn plain...
...oppose war research. ROTC, and military recruiters because they are attacks on working people and serve only big business." it continues. "SDS is an open, democratic organization that believes in fighting-and fighting hard to win real concessions. SDS is trying to fight on the side of working people, not against them like Rudd and his goons...