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...become an operational as well as a policymaking body in such grey areas as missile development. McElroy has promised a single manager for new space programs. Another critical problem is the increasing demand for an effective missile "czar," since neither Missile Director William Holaday nor Presidential Science Adviser James Killian has yet fulfilled that role...
...Dopesters who five weeks ago hailed M.I.T.'s Dr. James R. Killian Jr. as the new U.S. missile czar are discovering that Killian is not-and never intended to be -any such thing. Killian sits in on Pentagon briefings and high-level policy discussions, has gathered a staff, settled down to do what Ike asked him to do, i.e., help whip the budget into shape, broaden basic research, improve scientific education. He shies away from issuing orders, saves his advice for the President's ear, has already used this influence to fan in the President a more informed...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12--Sen. Flanders (R-Vt.) urged today that Dr. James R. Killian be put in full charge of the U.S. missile program, with nobody over...
...Killian, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is on leave from his university post and serving as President Eisenhower's special assistant for science and technology...
Flanders contended Killian had been put in the wrong place. His argument, presented at a news conference, was that Killian could be boxed in by the secretary of defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other Pentagon officials with defined authority...