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...fount of military research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the nation's major defense contractors. Military money makes up a big part of the university's budget, but Provost Jerome B. Wiesner is far from pleased. He thinks M.I.T. is too much in thrall to military-industrial interests -and time after time he has snapped at the hands that feed his university. As President Kennedy's science adviser, he fought for the nuclear test-ban treaty, opposed manned lunar exploration and launched one of the first big probes of dangerous pesticides. A critic...
...choice reflects M.I.T.'s slow transition from dependence on military research to greater independence in harnessing technology for social needs. In his five years as provost, Wiesner has played a leading role in helping M.I.T.'s outgoing President Howard W. Johnson begin that transition-an agonizing process in the midst of inflation and shrinking Government research funds...
...Provost last year, he was very successful in handling student protests, far more successful in handling them than Harvard's administration," Kistiakowsky said...
...president, who is 55, was dean of the M. I. T. School of Science prior to becoming provost, the post he has held for the past five years. He is a native of Detroit who did graduate and undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan...
...chancellor, Gray, is an authority on semiconductor electronics and circuit theory. He studied at M. I. T. and has been a member of the teaching staff since 1957. He became associate provost in 1969 and was appointed dean of the Engineering School last year...