Assistant Secretary of Defense David Packard once appeared before the Committee while Panofsky was in Washington, and in response to a question from 'Senator Fulbright, said that he had consulted Panofsky about the ABM and Panofsky was all for it.

Panofsky was then called to clarify Packard's statement, and in no uncertain terms, he told the Committee that the only time Packard had mentioned the ABM to him was in the men's room of the San Francisco airport, and then Panofsky had expressed an entirely negative view.

As a fund-raised, Panofsky showed considerable acumen in obtaining appropriations for the linear accelerator, a task which one Stanford colleague described as requiring "an infinite amount of politics."

Panofsky served on the President's Science Advisory Committee from 1960-65, and was director of the Stanford High Energy Physics Laboratory from 1952-61.

Edward M. Purcell, 58, Gade University Professor of Physics:

The oldest of the 23 and, with a 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, the most distinguished from within the Harvard community, Purcell must be considered the Corporation's "Pope John" on the list. Because of the 66-year-old mandatory requirement age, he would be an interregnum president if chosen; both academically and politically, he is highly respected by the entire spectrum of the Faculty and most students who have taken his course.

But Purcell has been through the president's sweepstakes before in 1953 when he was one of the most prominently mentioned successors to President Conant, Privately, friends say he is definitely not running for the presidency now, and would take it only if the Corporation decided there was no one else.

As a teacher, he is admired by the Faculty, accessible to students, and appealing to alumni. His career at Harvard began after he graduated from Purduc in 1933. In 1938, he became an instructor after doing graduate work here, and a full professor in 1948.

Roger Rosenblatt, 30, assistant professor of English:

Roger Rosenblatt's presence on the list has been the spark for much speculation. At 30, he is the youngest Harvard House Master and the youngest man on the list; as an assistant professor, he is the only non-tenured Faculty member being considered.

Rosenblatt has been called a conservative by liberals a liberal by conservatives, and a robust-if flashy-administrator by many of his colleagues.

Rosenblatt came under heavy criticism for his role as member of the Committee of Fifteen. His articulate defense of the Committee's actions as, essentially, reasonable human choices in an unreasonable, inhuman world won him a large moderate following.

Many have accused him of being one of the most conspicuously upwardly mobile members of the Faculty; others have pointed out that his most prominent personality traits-good humor, a striking ability to speak his mind well and quickly, and a large measure of dash-have simply made the graph of his career an especially easy curve to follow.

Henry Rosousky, 43, chairman of the Harvard Economics Department:

Rovosky, whose field of interest is Japanese Economic Growth, again shows the Corporation's basic inclination to find a man with undisputable scholarly credentials.