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...specifically on the problems he would deal with, Kistiakowsky said that "my office will strive to mobilize for the President the best objective scientific and engineering advice." One of the original members of the President's Science Advisory Committee, Kistiakowsky will take office in mid-July, replacing James R. Killian...
...Killian stated only that he was resigning for "compelling personal reasons," about which the President has had "warm understanding." It had been reported erroneously yesterday that Killian would return to the presidency of M.I.T., and there was speculation that he had been asked to resign...
...M.I.T. Public Relations Office said, however, that Killian was resigning to devote full time to his new post of Chairman of the Corporation. When Killian was elected to the position last December, former Chairman Vannevar Bush emphasibed the "urgent need of Dr. Killian to assume his new duties at the earliest possible date...
Quarles's death shocked Washington. Day before, he had apparently been in the best of health. Like clockwork he had followed a normally busy schedule: a National Security Council meeting, lunch at his desk with Presidential Science Adviser James Killian, a conference with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, a briefing on progress of the Air Force's nuclear powered airplane, a dinner party at the Metropolitan Club, and an Air Force concert at the Lisner Auditorium. But Quarles's death was more upsetting for its effect on the Pentagon. After two years as Defense Secretary, Neil McElroy planned...
...first day, Herter, Lloyd, U.S. Ambassador to London John Hay Whitney and British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia also participated in some of the discussions. Ike called for Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone and Science Adviser James Killian to attend next morning. Between conferences and dinner sessions, Ike and Macmillan drove together along winding roads and across mountain freshets through the Catoctin forests...