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Occasionally one of the speakers was amusing. "As we listen to Sen. Goldwater," said Jerome B. Wiesner, Dean of the School of Science at M.I.T., and an adviser to Kennedy and Johnson, "we set the feeling he's running against the Presidency, that maybe he's trying to cut it down to his own size...
Jerome B. Wiesner, dean of science at M.I.T., and Charles H. Tones, provost and professor of Physics there, will also speak. Lincoln P. Bloomfield '41, an M.I.T. professor of Political Science and director of an arms-control project, will serve as moderator...
President Kennedy's science adviser, Jerome Wiesner, who is now dean of science at M.I.T., is convinced that U.S. prosperity rests on research and that research must have unfaltering federal support. "In the new era," says Wiesner, "we must support all the good research available. If we don't, our economic growth is going to falter." Harvard Professor George Kistiakowsky, who was Eisenhower's science adviser, repeats the theme: "All our wealth and affluence is based on the scientific research of the last century." Public support for science, he says, is needed to uncover new knowledge...
...been feeling up to snuff since September, when his sailboat capsized, tossing him into chilly waters at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., for an hour and into a hospital with pneumonia. Now Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, has definitely decided to leave his White House post. But health is only part of the reason. On leave from M.I.T. for nearly three years, Wiesner is more concerned about losing touch with the academic world, and will return to the institute in his old job as professor of engineering, probably early next year. His successor: Princeton Chemist Donald F. Horning...
...perforated appendix (despite fears of allergy caused by prolonged contact, doctors successfully used streptomycin, which he helped discover); General Lemuel Shepherd, 67, retired U.S. Marine Corps commandant, in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md., with a broken arm and possible concussion after being thrown by his horse; Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, in Otis Air Force Base Hospital with pneumonia after his 10-ft. sailboat capsized off Martha's Vineyard. A poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while his son Joshua, 10, swam for help, worried frantically after 45 minutes that the boy had drowned. Rescued by a passing...