Word: gavin
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McGill probably won't have much power below number one. A few promising players. Adair's and Martin's younger brothers and Gavin, who beat Harvard's Michel Scheinmann in the National Juniors last year, should play in the middle of the line...
McCarthy stressed that he does not advocate an immediate and complete withdrawal of all American troops which, he said, would be impractical. Instead, he supported a limited withdrawal into well-fortified bases along the lines of the enclave plan which General Gavin suggested to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year...
Military power is derived from moral, economic, and technological strength, Gavin explained. The rush of technology, as exemplified by the atomic age and the development of space research, hav substantially changed the image of the world, so that "total victory today means total destruction." Thus, there is "no such thing as a blueprint for victory in Vietnam...
...concentration of the development of technology has reached an impasse. Efforts must therefore be directed toward finding solutions to social and economic problems which have been neglected. Sole dependence on military solutions can lead only to total war, and thus to complete devastation, said Gavin...
...could spend one-fourth of the $24 billion spent on Vietnam on social problems, we wouldn't have to worry about the number of young men who cannot be drafted, as McNamara does. Our problems are far more vast than that, said Gavin...