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...bring to the Defense establishment, along with their slide rules, a fresh, imaginative approach to the increasingly intricate problem of turning dollars into deterrence: just how much should go for M-14 rifles, how much for ICBMs. Before McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were accustomed-as one New Frontiersman puts it-"to render advice as though it were engraved on stone." Today, the Whiz Kids assemble the facts and the alternatives-including unorthodox possibilities-so that the Secretary of Defense can grasp the whole problem and make up his mind for himself...
...cliches, this is the moment to stop it-before it lands us all in a bog of sterile acrimony.'' President Kennedy and his advisers place boundless faith in his powers of persuasion on TV screens ("We don't need the press any more," said a New Frontiersman last week. "We've got TV") and public platforms. So it must have come as a jolting disappointment to the Administration that the Yale speech notably failed to reassure the business community...
...Good! Good! Very Good!" If Jack Kennedy and his warriors had not already known the place to concentrate their fire, they knew it then. Every New Frontiersman who had a friend, old college mate or former colleague in the steel industry was summoned to join in an all-out campaign to persuade the holdouts to keep on holding out. "Everyone in the Administration who knew anyone called him," said a White House aide...
Earlier in the week, another Kennedy Frontiersman, passing through Canada, got himself on the bad side of Ottawa. In Vancouver en route to Tokyo, White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. declared in an airport interview that "anything that supports Castro threatens the prospects of democratic success in Latin America." Retorted Canada's External Affairs Secretary Howard Green in the Commons: "If it was made in the terms suggested, it was a most unusual and, I think, improper thing for an official of another country...
Shin referring to the new Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Dobrynin, as a "Soviet-style New Frontiersman" [Jan. 5], you should have used the singular not the plural in the Russian translation. Instead of Liudi novykh granits, it should have been chelovek novykh granits. Liudi means men; chelovek: a man. You need a Russian language expert...