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...VANNEVAR BUSH Belmont, Mass...
...Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development December...
...unique cross between a private foundation and a federal agency, N.S.F. goes back to 1944. when President Roosevelt asked Physicist Vannevar Bush how to muster the nation's wartime inventiveness for "a fuller and more fruitful life" after the war. Bush, who headed the showcase Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war, recommended a federal foundation with a dual function: to set national science policy and nurture neglected basic research. Set up in 1950 as an independent agency within the executive branch, N.S.F. is governed by the 24-member National Science Board, appointed by the President...
...famed director of M.I.T.'s Research Laboratory for Electronics, is now President Kennedy's chief scientific adviser. M.I.T. Corp. Chairman James R. Killian Jr. was President Eisenhower's top science adviser from 1957 to 1959. M.I.T. President Karl T. Compton (1930-48) and M.I.T.'s Vannevar Bush were top scientific advisers to Roosevelt during World...
Weaning Process. Another firm that leans heavily on the universities is Raytheon, the major missilemaker (Sparrow, Hawk), which was co-founded by M.I.T. Scientist Vannevar Bush and is now bossed by Harvard-bred Banker Charles Francis Adams (TIME, June 23, 1958). Raytheon keeps 30 to 40 university consultants on tap for problems, pays them $75 to $100 a day. Some 128 consultants get up to $10,000 a year ("More than they earn by teaching," says one Raytheon executive...