Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound of Neil McElroy. The Tide gets rolled back, and the show is on the road...
...fanfare, the President walked out of his office one day last week, got into his car and went over the river to Virginia on his first business visit to the Pentagon in five years. There, around a T-shaped table, he conferred for 2½ hours with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and 15 top civilian and military defense officials: Topic: Pentagon reorganization...
...years in Government-most of them in little-publicized hard work. He was Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (1944-45), Under Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1953-54), sparkplug of the Rockefeller Report, and is now adviser on reorganization to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. Rockefeller is no professional politician, but he starts with one advantage that few politicians (except Millionaire Harriman) can boast: a name that is already a household word...
...this kind of climate the Defense Department announced a decision as grave as any that Neil McElroy has yet made: the vast, complex job of building a weapons system to intercept and destroy an attacking missile will be split in effect between two hotly competitive services. The Army will expand its Nike series with a contra-missile called Nike Zeus, and the Air Force will develop the missile radar-detection system to go with it. Both will be under McElroy's missile boss, William Holaday, at least until McElroy's pet project, an Advanced Research Projects Agency, gets...
...Defense Secretary Neil McElroy is aware that his honeymoon with Congress and the armed services may soon be over. The problem: space. McElroy is determined that his long-discussed Advanced Research Projects Agency(ARPA) will handle development of future space projects. The services-which have their own designs on space-are complaining bitterly and effectively that ARPA will be a costly duplication, a fourth service. Presidential Science Adviser James R. Killian is arguing for a plan to turn the ARPA mission over to the independent, efficient National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, headed by Lieut. General Jimmy Doo-little-a plan...