Edward J. Logue, former Administrator of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and Franklin A. Lindsay, President of Itek Corporation, have been named the first research associates of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The two new associates inaugurate a program conceived last fall to make experts now attached to Harvard available to the academic community. Unlike the discontinued Honorary Fellows experiment that drew national public figures to Harvard, the research associate project will be locally oriented.

'Ad Hoc' Program

While contributing to studies of interest to the Institute, the associates will work with the faculty and undergraduate groups who are concerned with their particular fields. John G. Wofford, Associate Director of the Institute, emphasized the "ad hoc" nature of the plan and commented that "no single decision as to their function has been made yet. Their affiliation to the Institute will be of a very flexible nature," he said. Gardner added that the initiative for the experts to appear before students will have to come from the undergraduates themselves.

Mayorial Candidate

Logue has been active in Boston politics, recently running unsuccessfully for the mayorial nomination in Boston's September primary election. He is also Maxwell Visiting Professor of Government at Boston University and has been appointed a Visiting Associate of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies.

Lindsay is the author of several articles on economics and foreign policy in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, and the Atlantic Monthly.

Both men will hold their appointments as research associates until the end of this academic year.