Word: wiesner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard faculty members met with enthusiasm the appointment of Jerome B. Wiesner as the 13th president...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, called the selection of Wiesner an "excellent choice, one that should provide enlightened leadership for the M. I. T. community and for the city of Cambridge in general...
Kistiakowsky, who worked with Wiesner on the 1945 Los Alamos atomic bomb project, described him as a "thoughtful person, liberal, anti-militaristic, a man concerned with the problems of the young...
Noting that Wiesner has been outspoken in his opposition to the Indochina war and the anti-ballistic missile program, Chayes predicted that Wiesner will attempt to "devote more time to the integration of scientific work with the problems of the community...
...Wiesner succeeds Howard W. Johnson-known as "HoJo" to students-who will become chairman of the Corporation upon the retirement of James R. Killian Jr. on June...