Word: critchfield
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Hours after Mathematical Physicist Charles Critchfield, 49, agreed to take over as boss of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (TIME, Nov. 16), he became the target for salvo after salvo of editorial and political criticism. Nobody seemed to doubt that he might be a good man to help straighten out the U.S.'s missile mess, but many were worried over how and by whom he would be paid while on the job. Reason: at Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's urging, Critchfield was to be a "WOC," serve "without compensation" from the U.S. and keep...
...week's end, apprehensive over the uproar and still reluctant to give up his salary and fringe benefits for the $19,000 ARPA salary, Critchfield called McElroy from San Diego, resigned before even taking up Government duties. The public controversy, he said, "has most certainly impaired my ability to serve...
...head the Pentagon's missile-making Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy announced last week that he had secured the services of a scientist who is also a proven industrial manager: Mathematical Physicist Charles Louis Critchfield, 49, Ohio-born research director of California's Atlas-building Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. McElroy and retiring ARPA Director Roy Johnson could not talk Critchfield, father of four, into taking the job until they offered to hire him as a WOC (without compensation), pay his expenses ($15 a day), and let him continue to draw his Convair salary...
Among Congressional Democrats, the "without compensation" arrangement raised cries of conflict-of-interest despite Critchfield's promise to take no hand in decisions on Convair projects ($4,000,000 of ARPA's $500 million budget). Among hard-pressed military missilemen, Critchfield raised hopes of at last finding a boss who knows his way around with two kinds of rare birds: missiles and scientists. Critchfield knows his way around in still another way that should stand him in good stead in the Pentagon: he is a shrewd and lucky poker player with a tested wizardry for figuring the odds...
...change, announced last week, triggered a youth movement in G.M.'s upper echelons. Under Pontiac Boss Robert M. Critchfield, 61, who will move up to head G.M.'s entire process development staff, Pontiac in 1956 has slipped more than most other G.M. lines. By giving the job to Bunky Knudsen, 43, an engineer who showed a flair for sales as chief of the Detroit Diesel Engine Division, G.M. hoped to speed up Pontiac...