President Eisenhower's first official act after he got back to Washington from his Georgia vacation last week was to sign an executive order ending an intramural battle for control of space-research laboratories and brains. The battlers: the Army and the two-month-old, civilian-bossed National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Against bitter Army opposition the fledgling NASA had been trying to wrest from the Army 1) the $55 million Laltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory in suburban Los Angeles, with its staff of 2,300, and 2) the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Ala., with its priceless space-scientist team headed by Rocketeer Wernher...
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