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Professor [Karl W. Deutsch] was also granted the Grand Cross of Merit, the highest award the German Government bestows upon foreign nationals. In 1965, he was awarded the William Benton Prize of the Yale Political Union for having done the most to stimulate and maintain political interest at Yale. After the war he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1956, at Yale from 1957 to 1967, and at Harvard from 1967 to 1985. From 1977 to 1987, he was director of the International Institute for Comparative Social Research of the Science Center in Berlin.

Unlike their gaudy day-flying cousins, moths seem to reside in the shadows as denizens of the night, circling around street lights or caught momentarily in the glare of car headlights on a country lane. There are, however, many more species of day-flying moths than there are of butterflies, and as for colours and patterns, many moths rival or even exceed butterflies in the dazzling range of their markings. The study of moths formed an integral part of early natural history and many thousands of drawings, paintings and physical specimens remain in museum collections. In recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in moths facilitated by advances in digital photography, the Web-based dissemination of scientific expertise and new cartographic projects that enable direct collaboration between amateur experts and scientifically framed research projects. The rich history of vernacular names speaks to the significant place of moths in early cultures of nature: names such as the Merveille du Jour, the Green-brindled Crescent and the Clifden Nonpareil evoke a sense of wonder that connects disparate fields such as folklore, the history of place and early scientific texts.

The combined company will certainly have formidable clout among supermarkets. But then, General Foods and Kraft, with their many brands, exert heavy influence in their own right. Their product lines do not overlap much, so the merger is unlikely to yield production economies. The merged company will have a powerful distribution network, particularly for fresh foods, but few food industry executives expect that will have any sort of anticompetitive effect. Even small supermarket chains, which are very dependent on big manufacturers for cooperative advertising and price promotions, do not expect much change. ''The merger just won't have much impact,'' said Oscar A. Smith Jr., owner of Community Foods Inc., a $37 million chain in Baltimore. I wouldn't want to see Washington try to stop this merger. Not many of their products overlap, so it isn't minimizing competition in any one area of the store. And after all, we may be in a position someday to buy someone very big. Walter Adams: Professor of economics, Michigan State University, and author of ''The Bigness Complex.'' The way to fight the Japanese and the newly industrialized countries is to build state-of-the-art facilities that can stand on their own feet. We see this in the steel industry. Time was when the West Coast steel market for products like rods and bars and structural shapes was dominated by the Japanese; today it's dominated by independent mini-mills. The mini-mills have said they don't need protection from foreign mills; the giants, presumably efficient because of their size, have been asking for ''temporary'' protection since 1968.

For now, Burger King, Pillsbury's largest operating unit, is Mr. Smith's most visible problem. Its much-ridiculed Herb the Nerd advertising campaign was an expensive failure. The new campaign, with its ''We do it like you do it'' theme, is playing to better critical reviews but has not dramatically increased sales. The unit has been beset with operational problems and revolving-door management, and continues to lose share to McDonald's. Pillsbury should get out of the restaurant business, and that includes selling Burger King. People don't perceive Pillsbury to be Burger King. In fact, Burger King's own image isn't clear. Its ad campaign changes every 20 minutes. They should have stuck with the theme of char-broiled. In order to compete against McDonald's it has to outadvertise them. And it would have to do that with brilliance, not budget. Pillsbury has to get more involved in Burger King. They have to regain the confidence of their franchisees. And they can't keep blaming their ad agency for not coming up with winning ads. They have to say, 'we're a part of this marketing process,' stop looking for scapegoats and start giving better direction. One thing they should do is hire some good architects to look at the Burger King buildings and see if they can come up with a better design. You can recognize a McDonald's building from miles away; Burger King just doesn't get any mileage out of its buildings in terms of image-building.

''WHEN Naivete Meets Wall Street'' (Dec. 3) drew many letters from readers. The article examined the way investor complaints have been handled on Wall Street in the aftermath of a United States Supreme Court decision in May 1987 upholding the securities industry's right to compel customers to submit their complaints to an industry-run arbitration forum. The story cited critics' concerns about the fairness of the process. And it told the story of Patricia Chegut, a New Jersey school teacher, who took a dispute with her broker to an arbitration panel and was awarded no compensation for her losses. The New York Stock Exchange's arbitration process is built on a foundation of fairness that has been further strengthened during the last two years. These measures provide more information to investors about arbitrators' employment histories; require firms to highlight pre-dispute arbitration agreements; mandate disclosure of arbitration awards; simplify the pleading process, and permit greater discovery by participants. The article overlooks most of these changes, which are critical to all arbitration participants. There are also several factual errors in the article. It says ''rulings are not clearly part of a broker's disciplinary track record.'' However, under the New York Stock Exchange's Rule 351, any award or settlement of $5,000 or more is indeed on the broker's record. Public investors have several limited alternatives to S.R.O. arbitration which warrant comment, especially in light of Amex's efforts to close the so-called ''Amex Window'' to arbitration at the independently run A.A.A.