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...worse: economic manipulation of the manpower market without adequate long-range planning. The buildup of the scientists and engineers after Sputnik was accomplished at considerable public expense with grants to students and universities from dozens of Government agencies. The carrot, not the stick, filled the graduate schools with young scientists???and then to their dismay and confusion, the carrot was withdrawn...
...conformity, rewards the sort of behavior that is needed least in a society challenged by rapid changes. Cross-fertilization of ideas is essential, for example, yet Soviet industry and science are so cut off from each other that there is little interchange. Industries actually resist the inroads of scientists???with the exception of military and space industries?so that only 30% to 50% of all new techniques developed by scientists are actually put into timely use in Soviet factories. As a result, the Soviets are falling ever farther behind the West in the technologies most essential to future growth?computers...
Thus spoke War's hypothecator, pledging the nation's resources, in case of need, to war?preparing peaceful plans for future emergencies, enlisting scientists???peaceful scientists???in the interests of national defense. It was perhaps one of the last things one would have expected 25 years ago of the tall, good-looking, young Missouri tennis- player, who, then at Harvard, offered the trophy afterwards to become famous as the Davis Cup, who for two years defended it in person, who sailed boats, played polo, who became Park Commissioner of St. Louis and started the Municipal Athletic League. His turn towards...