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Thanks to the plenitude of its comforts, Los Alamos has a low personnel turnover-about 20 a month-and few of its nuclear specialists really believe that they will some day go home to Ann Arbor or Chapel Hill. Notes Robert Porton, an ex-Army sergeant who helped found Los Alamos' radio station: "There are still some scientists who have been around since 1943 and still talk about going home, but they don't really mean it. If they go back to the old home on vacation, they always come scurrying back here." Boyd West, the C.P.A...
...housing," he declared. But when the occupation ended in 1952, the seven zealous chief court chamberlains again rang down the Chrysanthemum Curtain between the Emperor and his people. Only rarely was he allowed to leave the palace grounds, to attend a sumo (wrestling) tournament, to plant a tree in Arbor Week...
Back to Ann Arbor. In nearly every case the acid test was a personal interview with Kennedy. Shriver had arranged a Georgetown meeting with McNamara during a scouting expedition to Detroit, and McNamara passed the test with highest marks. About half an hour after McNamara was ushered into the Kennedy home, he and the President-elect emerged to tell the shivering press that a Defense Secretary had been found (McNamara's black Lincoln Continental was kept purring at the curb, with an aide inside holding a car telephone to relay the news to Mrs. McNamara in Ann Arbor...
...desk in Dearborn no later than 7:30, seldom left before 6. He rarely attended the hail-fellow parties other automen love, even more rarely invited the brass to his home-a modest, $50,000 English Tudor house near the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, far from the mansions of most other auto executives in Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe. An ardent mountain climber, McNamara reads widely and well (current choices: The Phenomenon of Man, W. W. Rostow's The Stages of Growth), urges his favorites on often bewildered fellow executives. His mind, says a friend...
Though his $400,000-plus annual compensation as Ford president will be more than he might have made in 30 years of teaching, McNamara still has a liking for the academic life. He lives in Ann Arbor, 38 miles from the Ford Co.'s Dearborn headquarters, with his wife Margaret and three children, because it is a university town. He frequently test-drives a competitor's car on his commute to Ann Arbor. Recently, in a competing car, he was once more reminded of quality. The car stalled in a rainstorm. It took McNamara, soaking wet, three hitchhikes...