Article: VEST IS CONFIRMED AS MIT PRESIDENT

CAMBRIDGE - Charles M. Vest was confirmed yesterday as 15th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and proceeded to demonstrate the political skills and the deliberativeness for which he acquired a reputation at the University of Michigan.

In a whirlwind of appearances, he took up MIT's somber view of the state of American education and business one moment, then leavened the gloom with quotations from Pogo the next.

Facing a news conference immediately after his election at a special meeting of the MIT Corporation, Vest was challenged by students on his record on racial issues at Michigan and his

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