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...editors of the Review sent out advance copies of Livingston's article on December 2 to President Eisenhower, vice-President Nixon, "missile czar" James R. Killian Jr., and other important Washington officials. It will appear in the January-February 1957 issue of the magazine...
...Projects Agency will be headed by a civilian, still to be selected. It will be an actual operating military agency, to put into effect some of the broad guidelines suggested by the newly established office of special assistant to the President for science and technology, headed by James R. Killian...
Until Friday the committee had been an adjunct of the Office of Defense Mobilization. The transfer to the Executive Office is designed to bring about a closer relationship between the Committee and James R. Killian, Jr., the President's special assistant for science and technology...
...head of M.I.T., Killian presided over and expanded a unique academic organization with ties to private business, radiation research, radar, computation and missile guidance systems, and the whole range of weapons technology. An average two days a week, Killian spent in Washington as chairman of the Army Science Advisory Panel, chairman of the President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities...
Over the years Killian developed positive ideas about the relationship between science and national policy. He argued the need for a greater national respect for scientists and scientific research-"There has been avoid ance if not evasion of the intellectual tax that must be paid if we are to balance our intellectual budget"-and for a greater awareness by scientists of their national, social, human duty. "The specialist," he said, "must shun the view that lopsidedness is laudable. He must be politically and morally responsible." Most notably in the context of his new job, Killian expressed sharp skepticism about...