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...change that Sullivan asks of Cambridge, although the city may not reciprocate. Does he have an organized plan of development? "Right up here," he said, and pointed to his head. His problem is quite simple. "The city is controlled by Harvard and M.I.T. Just look at the CAC: Pusey, Killian, Mrs. Kerby-Miller. When I first started, they were going to help me; but then they knew what I was doing all the time, and blocked me. Anything that's good, and Harvard can't have it, they oppose. When someone moves in to develop an area, they come racing...
...Nemours & Co.; General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross and onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Retired Judge (U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) Learned Hand (who in October withdrew from the commission because of illness); Clark Kerr, president of the University of California; James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and onetime special assistant to President Eisenhower for science and technology; George Meany, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. These members had the help of 14 experts, who in turn drew on the recommendations of about 100 specialists in various fields...
Sailing Orders. The countdown that will put Polaris on station in the '60s began in 1955. In a broad survey of U.S. military strength for President Eisenhower, a blue-ribbon committee chaired by (then) Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr. recommended the construction of a fleet ballistic missile to be fired from a submarine. It was a suggestion that set up as complex a problem as ever faced the combined talents of U.S. science and technology. It called for a missile that could live in water, the earth's atmosphere, space and the re-entry...
...James R. Killian, Jr., Chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation, expressed "great confidence in this city" and said that it is "on the threshold of a significant new advance in creating an even greater and better and more benign civic environment here...
...Killian said that a desire to reverse the "obsolescence and decay in our cities" helped spur the decision to build the Center...