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INTERSERVICE RIVALRY: The President ordered that William M. Holaday, special Defense assistant for missiles, be given full authority to crack down on what Ike called "alleged interservice rivalries" that might hinder missile development. No more than Killian will Holaday be a missile czar. Rather, he will be a Pentagon straw boss for missiles, working for the President through Killian and Defense Secretary Neil McElroy...
Outstanding among these special requirements was the need for "greater concentration of effort and improved arrangements within the Government in the fields of science, technology and missiles." That led to the appointment of M.I.T.'s Dr. Killian (see box). It also led to the investiture of William Holaday, already the Pentagon's missileman, as a special kind of official "clothed with all the authority that the Secretary [of Defense] himself possesses in this field, so that no administrative or interservice block can occur...
...KILLIAN...
...James Rhyne Killian Jr., 53, who moved to Washington this week as Special Presidential Assistant for Science and Technology, is no scientist. He is an administrator with a rare ability to understand both science and scientists, to cope with the problems of both, to get men to work together, to get things done...
...executive vice president (1943) and vice president (1945) during the World War 11 years in which M.I.T.'s staff of scientists and engineers rose from 700 to more than 6,000. In 1948, when Compton resigned to become chairman of Washington's National Research and Development Board, Killian was named to succeed him. "We must continue," he said at his 1949 inauguration, "to muster the democratic ranks of American scientists into invincible battalions. We must again be able to beat the enemy to the draw as we did in developing the atomic bomb. Our schools of science...