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...many people believed that President Eisen-hower announced just such a reorganization in his televised speech on the missiles program. One Boston newspaper ran a vast headline which declared, "KILLIAN APPOINTED MISSILES CZAR." While Killian is an adviser of some sort, he is certainly not a missile czar. Nor, for that matter, is William Holaday, special assistant on guided missiles to the Secretary of Defense, a missile-czar. At best, Holaday represents an attempt to cut down on bureaucracy by adding another bureau-crat. Neither he nor Killian can do anything more than advise the already over-advised...
Response to the questionnaire will be anonymous, for each person is asked to state whether he considers himself an intellectual. The poll also requests an opinion on the comparative intellectual qualities of such men as President Eisen-hower and Adlai E. Stevenson...
...Defense Secretary Wilson spotted Burgess-a Democrat-for-Eisen-hower-and brought him full-time into the Administration as Assistant Defense Secretary. Manpower Expert Burgess worked out the Army's new Ready Reserve Program, headed the committee that wrote the post-Korean prisoner-of-war code. A hard-but smooth-working executive with a knack for grasping complicated ideas and reducing them to a two-sentence précis, Burgess won a reputation as one of the best administrators in Government. As administrator of the nation's fourth largest airline, Burgess will earn an estimated $100,000 (including...
...calls "electronic journalism." Terry's news staff, headed by Sheldon Peterson, gives KLZ listeners the most extensive coverage in the Rocky Mountain area. A KLZ news editor once led a search party into a mountain blizzard to rescue seven persons marooned in the Rockies. When President Eisen hower suffered his heart attack, KLZ supplied the early coverage for the entire CBS network. And KLZ's mobile unit got to the wreckage of the time-bombed airliner, 32 miles from Denver, before many of the investigators, had pictures of the crash on the air within a few hours. Terry...
...matter of hours after Eisen hower's statement, State Department officials concluded that Britain considered the Tripartite Agreement a dead letter. That afternoon Dulles summoned British and French diplomats to get their cooperation in calling an early emergency meeting of the Security Council. They stalled. Apparently they had orders to delay until the ultimatum could be delivered next...