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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...
...receding thunderstorm, the echoes of the Zhukov affair grew fainter and fainter. No one seemed to be in any hurry to find a job for Russia's greatest living soldier, and by week's end Pravda was devoting only half a page to denunciations of the marshal's sins. Four and a half years after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stood alone and unchallenged...
There were, of course, a few unavoidable absences. Marshal Georgy Zhukov was nowhere to be seen, and Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito, suffering from a case of lumbago aggravated by the ticklishness of his international position, stayed at home in Belgrade. But to show how civilized the Soviet state has become, the audience even included three discredited Khrushchev foes-Georgy Malenkov, Dmitry Shepilov and Lazar Kaganovich (who, when asked about his present work, replied: "That would be very difficult to explain just now"). On the dais, clustered around Red China's Mao Tse-tung, sat the leaders...
...Student Council devoted its attention last night to revising election procedures, voting to place on constitutional referendum a proposal to change the present preferential voting for Council elections, and to hold the elections for Class Marshal in December...
...elections for Class Marshal are presently held in February or March. The University has long wished an earlier election to provide more time for Commencement preparation...