Abstract
Lacking political strength to enforce its claims for government financial support, the postwar scientific community originally prospered on Cold War anxieties, good will, and high, often exaggerated, expectations about the value of research. Long use of these ingredients eventually generated immunities that in the late 1960's contributed to a tapering off in the growth of federal money for science. With inflation compounding the difficulties, the scientific community then turned to persuasion, which it embodied in various reports that were intended to delineate the relation between investment in scientific research and desirable consequences.The genre is relatively new and full of . . .
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