Word: holaday
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...said Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson, "are the man on the spot-the man to whom the American people look for missiles." The man on the spot was Pentagon's Guided Missiles Director William M. Holaday-and after his bumbling and uninformed testimony before Johnson's Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee last week, both Holaday and the Defense Department's direction of the missile program were on the hottest spot ever...
...Holaday Ouster Urged...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15--Secretary of Defense McElroy faced strong senatorial pressures today to replace missiles direct to William M. Holaday and shake up the top civilian command of the missiles program...
...Holaday apparently failed to impress Democratic subcommittee members when he testified Friday that he has the "sense of urgency" most of them say is needed to catch up with the Russians in space weapons...
...missile czar necessary to speed the U.S. missile program? All but Vannevar Bush thought that one was. But when the Senators turned to testimony from Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy, they were informed politely but firmly that the missile programs had a top man: Neil McElroy. Missileman William M. Holaday, explained the Defense Secretary, is missile "director," and "I consider that I am easily accessible to him when he needs the power that I happen to possess.'' As for President Eisenhower's new missile adviser, M.I.T.'s Dr. James Killian: "I do not believe...