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This is the concluding part of the interview by Elinor Langer with Jerome Weisner, President of MIT and George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry emeritus that began in yesterday's Crimson...
...Jerome Weisner, now president of MIT. and George Kistiakowsky, professor emeritus of Chemistry at Harvard, were science advisors to Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower, respectively, and were among the leading spokesmen for the scientific community during the period covered by the Pentagon Papers. The interview took place in mid-August at Woods Hole. Massachusetts. in the offices of the National Academy of Sciences. Wiesner and Kistiakowsky retained the right to edit their remarks, a right both have exercised. The few places where the printed version truncates the actual discussion, or where amplification is required, are indicated in italics. Elinor Langer...
...outshot and slightly outplayed the Crimson in the first period, jumping to a 2-0 lead. Thunder Thornton came up with the Terrier's first goal, converting a Dave Weisner pass after Weisner had stolen the puck from Harvard's Andy Burns. Ron Anderson put the Crimson further in the hole at 14:48 by drilling home a low forty footer that caught the inside post...
...their statement, released Friday night, the three scientists--George W. Rathjens, visiting professor of Political Science at MIT, Steven Weinberg, professor of Physics at MIT, and Weisner--called the report by the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) "the most outrageous performance by an American professional society both in terms of scope and analysis of which we are aware...
Finally, ORSA had claimed that Weisner had incorrectly charged the Defense Department's top scientist, John Foster, of having altered data in order to gain support for the ABM system. In testifying before the Senate, Weisner had said that Foster at one point estimated the number of Soviet SS-9 missiles at 500 and later changed this estimate to 600. According to ORSA, this charge was unfair because Foster was talking about estimates for different years...