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Stratton will take over Jan. 1, and Killian, 54, will continue as President Eisenhower's assistant, step up to the M.I.T. board chairmanship. Early this year the president-elect wrote: "We in America have been curiously plagued by the fear of an intellectual elite. We have tended to distrust intellectual achievements that are not to be had by everyone on equal terms. There has been too little pride and understanding among Americans of the quality of excellence." Julius Stratton, a reserved man who wears a banker's conservative suits and would be at a loss dealing with football...
Commenting on White's resignation, President Pusey said, "When White accepted the chairmanship of the Program for Harvard College more than two years ago, we had an understanding as to the time when his duties would end. He has cheerfully served long past that date and we must now regretfully release him from his responsibilities...
...campaigning against the incumbent, Republican Arthur Watkins, and a Democratic hopeful named Frank E. (Ted) Moss. Watkins is notable for nothing beyond his chairmanship of the McCarthy censure committee. Moss, as county attorney of Salt Lake County, had most of his crime-busting thunder stolen by Salt Lake City's over-vigilant, FBI-trained police chief. Moss did manage to beat an unknown young attorney named Brigham Roberts for the Democratic nomination, but he is not well known in the state or in its most populous areas...
...capital, Link Aviation, Inc. joined up with General Precision Equipment Corp., a big grab-bag holding and management company that includes 16 other subsidiaries making everything from theater equipment and industrial controls to missile components. Link later became president of the parent company as well as retaining the chairmanship of the Link subsidiary. From an office in Manhattan, he keeps projects popping in G.P.E. plants spread from Pleasantville, N.Y. to Glendale, Calif., while Chairman Hermann Place, a money man, handles the financial end. From $123 million in 1954, sales rose to $185 million in 1957, but extraordinary research and development...
Elliott assumed the chairmanship, while Tate read his own stirring "Ode to the Confederate Dead...