One serious drawback is Ebert's age (56), which is the second-oldest of the remaining 23 candidates. He holds only an honorary degree from Harvard, having received his M. D. from the University of Chicago and a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford.

Robben W. Fleming, 54, president of the University of Michigan:

In two years as president of Michigan, Fleming has managed to acquire the dubious reputation of being the Kingman Brewster of the Midwest.

Fleming is a Midwesterner straight down the line, having attended Beloit College as an undergraduate and later doing graduate work at Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan State.

The Michigan Daily characterizes Fleming as "a typical traditional-liberal type." Fleming was a professor of law and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin before moving to Michigan, and is by profession a labor mediator. He has a long association as advisor to the National Labor Mediation Boards.

Fleming's first two years at Michigan have been virtually devoid of major disturbances, due partly to his talent as a peacemaker and mediator. He settled a student strike in the fall of 1969 by calling in police-though he was reluctant to do so-but he vehemently refused to allow the National Guard on campus.

A Black Action Movement strike this year was successfully diverted by Fleming; he supports the right of students to enroll in ROTC but he is mum on war research and other "hot" issues.

Fleming did make a public statement in favor of the October Moratorium last fall, and openly admits that American involvement in Vietnam was a mistake. He once spoke on the same program with Clark Clifford and Rennie Davis, something President Pusey would likely not do.

Tuesday, Fleming told the Daily that he "has no intention of going anywhere else at this point in time" and, "I wonder why anyone wants to be a president of any university."

Edwin L. Goldwasser, 51, deputy director of the National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. and professor of Physics at the University of Illinois:

While displaying no obvious political flavor, Goldwasser has evoked consistently favorable committee response from Washington during the past decade as a major proponent of the Accelerator Laboratory.

Goldwasser played an integral role in the development of the Laboratory the largest of its kind in the world and provided leadership during a touchy housing controversy which evolved from land acquisition for the laboratory site.

At the time, there was no fair housing practices act in Batavia (a suburb of Chicago), and the Laboratory project met bitter opposition from the black community because no alternate housing was being provided for displaced black families.

Goldwasser responded to the blacks by establishing an inter-city program which trained black workers to occupy technical jobs at the Laboratory, and in doing so, he gained their support.

A 1940 graduate of Harvard, Goldwasser took his Ph. D. at Berkeley ten years later. His main academic concern is elementary particle physics.