Cooper is somewhat of a surprise addition in light of his limited administrative experience. but he was an effective fund-raiser for both Kennedy and Humphrey.

Granted leave at Yale in 1966, Cooper has authored several books on economics and is presently writing a book for the Council on Foreign Affairs. In economics, he is considered left of center but he has managed to maintain good relations with his more conservative colleagues.

Cooper graduated from Oberlin College in 1956, and later received a Ph. D. from Harvard in 1962.

William H. Danforth, 44, dean of the Washington University Medical School:

Danforth is a native of St. Louis, and after attending Princeton and the Harvard Medical School (1951), he returned there as an intern before joining the Faculty of Washington University in 1954.

He is now president of the Danforth Foundation in addition to his duties as dean of the Medical School. He is less of a national figure than many of the other candidates, primarily because he has concentrated his energies on, among other things, keeping Washington University solvent through the graces of the Danforth Foundation.

Danforth is not a national political figure, and has served on few national councils or committees because of his involvement at the University and in St. Louis.

He was an assistant professor of Medicine from 1960-65, associate professor from 1965-67, and has been a full professor since 1967. He was named vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the Medical School in 1965 while he was still an associate professor.

Paul M. Doty, 50, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry:

Another Harvard academic, another nationally known scientist who has published over 200 scientific articles, and a man with a number of connections and committee assignments both inside Harvard and out.

Since he joined the Harvard Faculty in 1948, Doty has served on a series of important Faculty committees, the most well-known being his own committee to restructure the Gen Ed program in the early sixties.

He has long been one of the most active professors in the old and the new style faculty politics, but he has not gotten pinned down to any particular label.

He's a maverick, with supporters and detractors in both camps.

(In two separate conversations with a member of the liberal and a member of the conservative caucus last spring, one identical phrase cropped up: "He's one of theirs.")

In the Washington circuit, Doty has served on several committees involved in the relation of science and international affairs. He was chairman of the committee overseeing the science exchange program with the Soviet Union from 1960-63, and a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee from '61-'65. He's also done work on arms control and disarmament.