Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responded to him; no one in the White House responded to the 40,000 names shouted. We could not see the White House even though we passed along Pennsylvania Avenue a stone's throw away (had we dared). We couldn't see because of enormous, blinding lights set up so we couldn't see to throw. We could only see the guards in the gatehouses along the fence...
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...
...have an education job to do in Congress," Stone added. "We have to educate them to the new magnitude of expenditures needed in the social sciences, as well as to the possible benefits and dangers from social science research...
...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...
...Cambridge Project advisory committee approved last March the concept of diverse funding for the Project, and the Defense Department agreed to it. "A number of professors at M.I.T. have droppedout of the Project because only the Defense Department is funding it so far," Stone said...