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Last Sunday, M.I.T. showed how safe such speculation was. In a brilliant demonstration of precision public relations, James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation, and Julius A. Stratton, the Institute's president, put on a two-hour press conference in which they described an Inner Belt route near M.I.T. in in terms of ranging from "Catastrophe" to institute's "most serious crisis" in the last half-century...
...position reflected more the preparation of its public relations staff than anything else. Every reporter was given the traditional press kit: there were nearly 30 pictures of M.I.T. buildings that might be damaged if the Inner Belt veered close to the Institute, in addition to long, detailed statements by Killian and an M.I.T. lawyer. The reporters had to do almost nothing--it was all there. and in many respects that was a shame, because M.I.T.'s case contained enough unanswered questions and apparent contradictions to keep a room full of reporters busy for hours...
Over and over during the press conference, Killian, who made the major presentation, emphasized how the research at M.I.T. was to the national space and defense effort. Later in the day, an M.I.T. lawyer characterized the Institute's importance in these terms...
M.I.T. is truly concerned with the problems of Cambridge, it should reject in no uncertain terms, any route in the Brookline-Elm St. area," Robert Goodman, member of the committee wrote Monday to James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. corporation...
That unlikely batch, in fact, helped quiet fears that federal participation in education meant federal tyranny. "Words like 'regimentation' or 'control' are bugaboos of a controversy now past," says Yale's Kingman Brewster Jr. M.I.T. Chairman James Killian argues that federal support of new curriculum development has created "more diversity in our school systems, not less, more opportunities of choosing improved ways of teaching, not fewer...