SCIENCE

DILEMMAS
DOWN THE ROAD

by John D.Holmfeld
Since World War I1 science has become a major claimant on the federal budget; it now involves every federal department, some 45 congressional committees, a score of specialized agen- cies, about 500 universities, and nearly 2 million scientists, en- gineers, and technicians~one third of them concentrated in re- search and development.
If this effort seems diffuse, there are nevertheless some overarching principles. Among them: that the fe...