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As far back as last June, Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone told President Johnson that he wanted out. At 63, and after nearly 18 years of Government service (member of President Truman's Air Policy Commission, 1947-48; deputy to James Forrestal, first U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1948...
Who Should? He Should. He is a freewheeling, sharp-speaking man whom other businessmen like to describe as a "maverick," and he has had solid careers in both Washington bureaucracy and big business. A graduate of Syracuse University ('36) and Harvard Law School ('39), he went to work...
Died. Randall Davey, 77, leader of Santa Fe's art colony, best known for equestrian studies that convey the raw-edged excitement of race tracks with gaudy colors and slapdash compositions, but most appreciated for his brutally incisive portraits (at fees up to $10,000) of such notables as...
He originally liked Yale, but his mother made him stay at home, so he went to City College in Manhattan instead. Then Princeton came to mean a lot when its ex-president, Woodrow Wilson, called him to government duty, and now the letters and other documents chronicling the services of...
>Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, 58, new commander of the Seventh Fleet, patrolling the Chinese Communist mainland, succeeds Moorer. A handsome, icy-cool carrier officer, Johnson served aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Yorktown and the U.S.S. Hornet. Promoted to flag rank when he was only 49, he became the...