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Hayes said in an interview yesterday that the immediate result of his well-publicized letter was a meeting in his office last Nov. 4 with City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, President Pusey, Johnson, James Killian, chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation, their assistants, and himself...
Impressive Advisers. To gain academic respect, Winstead first acquired an impressive advisory board that will screen all faculty appointments and help set academic policy. Prestigious it is: members include James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation; Frederick Seitz, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Emilio Segrè, Berkeley's Nobel Laureate in physics; Athelstan Spilhaus, former dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. That kind of backing helped Winstead overcome a handicap of most new schools: lack of accreditation. Impressed by the credentials of Nova's advisers, the Southern Association...
...educational television has been lost somewhere between the Vast Wasteland and the Promised Land-chronically short of operating capital and always uncertain where the next grant was coming from. Concerned by ETV's continuing plight, the Carnegie Foundation in 1965 asked M.I.T. Corporation Chairman James R. Killian Jr. to head a commission charged with finding a solution.-Working with a $500,000 budget, committees and subcommittees made their recommendations, and commission members spent 28 days together agreeing on a report. Last week the foundation published Public Television: A Program for Action. Its gloomy conclusions: ETV has only half...
...Polaris missile gives the U.S. a big military advantage today, and its SABRE guidance system, which controls a missile all the way to target, may make ballistic missiles obsolete tomorrow. Its SAGE and DEW line systems aid in defense against air attack. M.I.T. has contributed its Chairman James Killian, Economists Paul Samuelson and Walt Rostow and Provost Jerome Wiesner to high posts in recent federal administrations. At least 20% of M.I.T.'s graduates become company presidents or vice presidents...
...group did not see either Johnson or Killian yesterday. Johnson was said to be too busy, and Killian is in New York. At one point, an M.I.T. policeman was about to disperse the mothers but a worker in Johnson's office said they could remain...