Word: killians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: In a national radio and television speech (see below), President Eisenhower named Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James Rhyne Killian Jr. as his Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Killian's assignment: to marshal U.S. science against the advance of Soviet technology. Killian will not be a "missile czar." Instead, he will act as the President's trusted eyes and ears, will join the small group of advisers-such as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams-who have immediate access to the President. Acting on Killian's advice, Ike intends...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15--Dr. James R. Killian Jr., president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was sworn in this morning as President Eisenhower's scientific military coordinator...
...leave from MIT, Killian has the job of eliminating delay and interservice rivalry in the field of military science. The extent of his authority has still to be tested, however...
Asked about the situation, Secretary of Defense McElroy said he had "not heard that Dr. Killian's authority will extend to giving orders within the Defense Department." But McElroy said Killian would always be welcome at the Pentagon...
...Killian declined to comment on the scope of his duties...