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...Excellent Condition." There was satisfying evidence of work done. The President appointed an eight-man watchdog committee, headed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr., to examine and report on the work of the U.S. intelligence agencies. He sent to Congress a message proposing a fiveyear, $2 billion federal aid program for public-school construction. He asked Congress to appropriate $60 million for flood relief. He accepted the resignation of Treasury Under Secretary H. Chapman Rose, who is returning to his Cleveland law practice. He welcomed back Aide Bernard Shanley, who had left the White House staff...
Inasmuch as the U.S. had been arguing about it for nearly 200 years, Topic 1?What should our schools accomplish??was, at the least, ambitious. In his opening speech before the round-table discussions began, President James R. Killian Jr. of M.I.T. reported that he had received scores of letters urging the "strengthening [of] the teaching of science . . . more emphasis on high intellectual standards, more attention to the teaching of human relations, to remedial reading, character improvement, citizenship, spiritual education, hand-mindedness, our American heritage, teacher competence, foreign relations, foreign languages, money management, Asia, self-knowledge and sundry other...
Admiral Edward Cochrane (Ret.), M.I.T.'s vice-president in charge of governmental relations, will represent the Institute's president, James R. Killian at the dinner meeting...
...opening topic for the conference Tuesday will be "What should our schools accomplish?" This section will be outlined by subcommittee head James R. Killian, President of M.I.T., and Keppel, who served as a consultant for research on this topic...
President Pusey and President James Killian of M.I.T. have been invited to a dinner meeting with the municipal planning board and local business leaders to discuss the best way to get prompt action on urban renewal. Many citizens of Cambridge feel that the University and M.I.T. should join the city in setting up a permanent committee to deal with other major problems--traffic, housing, schools, etc.--and to coordinate action now and in the future. "If Harvard, M.I.T. and the city don't work together, we might as well give the whole works back to the Indians," one local businessman...