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Comments of approval and skepticism ran through the reactions of four professors concerning the appointment of Dr. James R. Killian, President of M.I.T., as Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology...
Samuel P. Huntington, assistant professor of Government, said that the program the President outlined was "certainly called for," and that Dr. Killian "is the best...
However, according to Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr., Director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program, "a man of Mr. Killian's stature would not have accepted the post if he were not assured of strong support...
Among the other tasks facing Killian are recruitment of top-level scientists for government work, and the problem of intra-service rivalries. He is expected to be given a key role in the formulation of national technological defense policies...
...Killian's effectiveness in his new post will be largely determined by the amount of governmental access he is granted, and by the budgetary limits which are set on his work...