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...arbitrary, irrelevant division of space programs into "civilian" (Glennan's NASA) and "military" (Johnson's ARPA). Coordination between the two domains is supposedly achieved by the Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, the real purpose of which seems to be to provide a roost for amiable, ineffectual William M. Holaday, who was head of the abolished guided missiles office. But that basic split-up is only the beginning: assorted segments of the U.S. space effort belong to the Air Force, Army and Navy. Crisscrossing all the civilian and military groups is a misbegotten organizational web that at last count included...
...work for the government (at $18,000 a year), expects to spend two years as ARPA director, hopes by then to have an organization at work that will overlook nothing in the way of a possible U.S. space weapon. His work will parallel Guided Missile Director William Holaday's; unlike Holaday, he will have authority to let contracts and scrub them when experiments do not pan out. With Holaday, he will report directly and frequently to the man who continues to hold a remarkably firm hand on all U.S. defense activities, Neil Hosler McElroy...
...cluttered mahogany desk last week was a new satellite assignment: preparing a Jupiter-C to power Explorer II into space late this month. More work was on the way; called by the telecommunications room, Space Engineer von Braun hurried down the hall, talked to Defense Department Missile Director William Holaday in Washington, turned to an aide with the heady news that two more Huntsville rocket projects had been approved ("O.K. on No. 8 and No. 10"). Back in his office, Von Braun flopped into a chair behind a huge pile of congratulatory messages, found just a moment to reflect...
...will be split in effect between two hotly competitive services. The Army will expand its Nike series with a contra-missile called Nike Zeus, and the Air Force will develop the missile radar-detection system to go with it. Both will be under McElroy's missile boss, William Holaday, at least until McElroy's pet project, an Advanced Research Projects Agency, gets under way. McElroy did not specify which service would operate the weapons system once it was developed, but the split-up of a development project that was, in fact, a single problem seemed...
Navy's lagging Vanguard. He figured that the IRBM rivalry between the Air Force Thor and the Army Jupiter had gone so far, taken so long and cost so much that both should be put into production. McElroy upgraded Deputy Assistant Secretary William Holaday to the post of missile boss. To those who doubted Holaday's ability, McElroy also let it be known that the Pentagon's real missile boss was Neil McElroy...