"A good many people during the early scramble were associated with other candidates," says Katz. "In some cases it [the relative absence of any Harvard Plains-invitees] is accidental; in some cases it represents a feeling that the Carter people want to have a broad representative group.

Schwartz concurs: "The Carter campaign is just filled with old Harvard people, including myself. We've tried to break out of the traditional pattern, although we still have a preponderance from the places you'd expect."

Abram Chayes '43, professor of Law, the director of George McGovern's foreign policy task forces in 1972, says he was appointed to Carter's foreign policy group partly because he supported Carter in the Massachusetts primary. (Not many others did.)

Chayes, who met with Carter during his brief campaign swing through Massachusetts prior to this state's Democratic primary in March, says he's "sure a lot of these people will find their way down to Washington," but quickly adds, "I expect to be here for a long, long time."

Alan Dershowitz, professor of Law, received a note from Carter last year praising the contents of his article in The New York Times on criminal justice.

Dershowitz, who is an outspoken advocate of broad changes in the nation's criminal justice system, was later appointed the coordinator of Carter's task force on crime.

Dershowitz says few Harvard representatives are in Carter's highest advisory ranks largely because "Harvard wasn't overly enthusiastic about the Carter candidacy early on."

"Harvard is always much too represented in these things," Dershowitz says. "It's marvelously refreshing to see some brilliant people from elsewhere involved."

Neither Dershowitz nor Katz could predict whether his key advisory role would ultimately result in a Washington appointment. Dershowitz was emphatic in expressing the desire to remain in Cambridge. ("If my participation succeeds in helping them during the campaign though, that's fine.")

The search for Carter advisors, Schwartz says, culminated in "tapping the newer people--identifying the women and the young thinkers and bringing them in."

Dorothy S. Zinberg, a research associate in the Program for Science and International Affairs and an assistant professor of Psychology, is a member of Carter's science policy task force.

"All in all, I feel very positive about my involvement so far," she says. "I am so committed to the goals Carter has, I'm willing to work even if the personal gain for me is zero."

Despite her enthusiastic support for Carter's ideals, however, Zinberg does express some reservations about the way they may be implemented.

"I do think that I am part of the affirmative action delegation, although I think he is genuinely committed to bringing in women, and tapping their resources," she says.

Zinberg worries that much of the 600,000-plus pages of science policy recommendations already generated by her task force may never see the light of the day.