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...this. The question of whether or not the generally educated Conantman could ever make any very profound judgement on the merits of this or that scientific program on purely scientific grounds, must at present be answered negatively. It seems likely that there will be a continuing need for the Killian-type scientific advisor at all levels, and such suggestions as the Committee's, urging the use of calculus in Nat. Sci., do not and cannot go very far towards alleviating this situation...
...reach agreement. U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth, whose United Nations background has made him sensitive to the world-opinion problem, had said after the new findings that he had no doubts about entering the talks -"None at all. It is to our advantage both militarily and politically." The Killian scientists, though admitting their mistakes, passed the word that they could soon work out improvements in underground test-detection, were worried that publishing the new findings might look like bad faith with the Kremlin...
Many of the Administration's scientific brains, from Presidential Adviser James R. Killian down, have proved to be naysayers and quibblers, among other things stirring up a futile, irrelevant dispute over whether space is a "civilian" or "military" realm. Reflecting this dispute, U.S. space programs are split between two bureaucratic domains: the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency and the civilian-bossed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (see chart). On paper the division is clear and logical: ARPA, headed by sometime General Electric Executive Roy Johnson, oversees military projects (the Discoverer eye-in-the-sky program...
...blasts at Yucca Flat, Nev. The results were enough to curl the scientists' hair: instead of a five-kiloton threshold, the real minimum underground blast that could be fully detected was about 20 kilotons-about the size of the Nagasaki-Hiroshima bombs. Science Advisory Committee Chairman James Rhyne Killian Jr. broke the news to President Eisenhower before Christmas, and the U.S. expects to break it to the Russians at Geneva this week. Next soul-searching question: Should the U.S. trust to any stop-test agreement where the chances of deception are so great as to be a major risk...
Stratton will take over Jan. 1, and Killian, 54, will continue as President Eisenhower's assistant, step up to the M.I.T. board chairmanship. Early this year the president-elect wrote: "We in America have been curiously plagued by the fear of an intellectual elite. We have tended to distrust intellectual achievements that are not to be had by everyone on equal terms. There has been too little pride and understanding among Americans of the quality of excellence." Julius Stratton, a reserved man who wears a banker's conservative suits and would be at a loss dealing with football...