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...chemicals was not much of a secret on the Philadelphia campus. File cabinets in the institute's offices have impressive combination locks, but the institute's annual reports outline the scope of the work in general terms, and such code names for specific projects as "Summit" and "Spicerack" are commonly heard on campus. The university has also been candid about the fact that roughly one-fourth of its annual $100 million in operating funds comes from research contracts and grants, although it says that only 19 out of nearly 900 specific projects include limitations on publishing the findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Secret Research at Penn | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

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