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The evolution of the Office of Naval Research

AUG 01, 1961
Bruce S. Old

It is not often that the birth of a Navy office, which certainly sounds like like a cold, administrative affair, makes history worth recording. But the birth of the Office of Naval Research was such an interesting one, participated in by so many famous and brilliant personalities, that a record of the events should serve a useful purpose. It might even bring inspiration to those who daily continue the struggle to evolve constructive changes in large government departments.

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Bruce S. Old, Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass..

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Volume 14, Number 8

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