With better luck than anyone had a right to expect, President Eisenhower last week found just the man to take on the jobvacant since the "wanted" sign was hung out last Augustof running the Pentagon's increasingly diverse research, and engineering problems. The man: Dr. Herbert York, 37, one of the nation's top scientists, who has been holding down the job of chief scientist of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ten-month-old overall Pentagon planning group.
Known in the scientific world as a rollicking wit and a hard worker, stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 190 Ibs.) Physicist Herb York got...
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