Though he does not project a forthright charismatic image, Bok is quietly appealing and knows how to play the political games without being Machiavellian about it.

Law student enthusiasm over his appointment two years ago has cooled into a sullen acceptance. "That's the Bok way of doing things," one second-year student shrugged during a curriculum reform discussion. "If you understand the Law School, you know that nothing changes very fast over there... but lots of things have changed [in the last two years]. Bok's a diplomat-wishy-washy on one level, effective on another."

A 1951 graduate of Stanford, Bok graduated from the Law School in 1954 and became a professor there in 1961.

Harvey Brooks, 55, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Physics:

Whenever President Pusey has dirty work to be done involving defense-related research, he calls on Harvey Brooks. This reliance stems mainly from Brooks's acceptability to liberal Faculty members and his image of being a fair man above all else.

Since the Mansfield Amendment was introduced in 1968, threatening about 70 per cent of the School of Engineering's government subsidy, Brooks has been jockeying between Cambridge and Washington in order to maintain Defense Department research grants.

The Defense funds are important for several reasons, one of which is that Braooks operates the School of Engineering within the bounds of a fixed endowment which has to support nearly 30 full professors.

To keep pace with the rest of the engineering field, Brooks has had to restructure the graduate school to make possible the introduction of computer science, environmental science, and solid-state physics. Somehow, he has managed ?o maintain the sanity of the Graduate School throughout the transition.

Brooks has been a prominent figure in fund-raising for the University science program in general, and as dean of the Graduate School, he has become something of a scientific statesman.

Brooks is well-known among Faculty members, and he was widely praised for his role as chairman of the University sub-committee appointed to study the Cambridge Project.

Brooks is a 1937 graduate of Yale, and holds Ph. D. and Doctor of Science degrees from Harvard.

Richard N. Cooper, 36, Yale professor of Economics:

Cooper was one of the three men added to the final list of 23, He is the second-youngest man still under consideration, and while he is not a widely-known figure, he is held in high regard by the Yale Economics Department.

Cooper does not like to commit himself publicly on controversial issues, instead pushing his ideas within small groups. He has been an economic consultant to various political figures, and is presently doing research abroad on leave from Henry Kissinger's White House staff.

In 1968, Cooper served Bobby Kennedy as his chief economic advisor, and later joined Hubert Humphrey's campaign. He was a staff economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors before becoming an assistant professor at Yale in 1963.