Word: wiesner
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...years, it has dedicated itself to science and technology. Currently it is one of the largest defense contractors among U.S. universities, with the Pentagon supplying two-thirds of its $174 million annual research budget. Nevertheless, the Cambridge campus is the site of what M.I.T. President Jerome B. Wiesner hopes will be a "renaissance in which man will replace machine at the center of the stage...
...increased attention to the arts was M.I.T.'s response to criticism from students and faculty in the late 1960s about the institute's dependence on military research. But long after the critical voices fell silent, the arts continued to flourish, largely because of pipe-smoking, affable President Wiesner, 57. To him, "A person is much less of a human being if he thinks of himself only as a technocrat. Society needs the cognitive reaction of a poet as well as a technologist...
...single month. Furthermore, in promoting controversial schemes like the SST, Nixon has tended increasingly to bypass the White House science staff, preferring instead to work through his technology counselor, William Magruder. Thus Nixon's latest moves hardly come as a surprise to scientists. Says M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, who was President Kennedy's science adviser: "The reorganization simply recognizes the situation as it has existed throughout the Nixon Administration." More bluntly, Philip Abelson, editor of Science, the journal of the 130,000-member American Association for the Advancement of Science, calls it another sign of Nixon...
...Jerome Wiesner, MIT president said that he would raise the issue with the visiting scientists in his capacity as of ficial host. Steiner speaking for Bok who was out of town, said that "the president's views on this issue are known to be sympathetic...
...professor arrived 15 minutes later, flanked by MIT President Jerome Wiesner, the captain of the MIT police, and several other...