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...Raoul Bott, who has been contacted by Princeton and George W. Mackey who has received an offer from Penn...
Mackey has exchanged several letters with Richard D. Brauer, chairman of the Harvard Mathematics Department, since the Penn contact. Brauer said yesterday that Mackey and Bott had both decided to spend next year at the University, and that he was virtually certain Mackey would remain permanently...
Brauer said he had just received a letter from Bott indicating Bott will probably stay. He did note, however, that since Bott is a topologist, and since Princeton has several other topologists with whom he could work, Bott might well find the Princeton offer attractive...
Less enthusiastic about the new degree was Raoul Bott, professor of Mathematics, who said, "I would rather see the M.A. given more recognition." But he favored the plan, acknowledging that the Ph.D. has become a sort of mathematician's union card and that at present too many competent men are denied a chance for a successful teaching career...
...fill another key vacancy last week, the President also appointed George J. Bott, 40, labor lawyer, to succeed strong-willed Robert N. Denham as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. Bott, born in Connecticut, graduate of Yale Law School, has been a legal light on NLRB since 1937, served as Denham's hand-picked associate general counsel while Denham carried on the feud with board members, which proved his undoing (TIME, Sept. 25). Said Bott: "I don't expect to have any trouble with the board...