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...lamenting the departure of Mr. McNamara, my boss for the past two years, I should like to make a few observations on our era: glamour and personality, petty and inconsequential qualities seem to play much too great a role in the selection of our national leaders. Mr. McNamara, with his drab, oldfashioned, almost spartan public image, has proved a welcome and competent exception to the rule. His unquestioned integrity, coupled with his demonstrated ability, loyalty and courage, mark him as one of the truly unsung heroes of our time. It is regrettable that such enormous talents are to be relegated...
...favor Allon's ambition. Last week the Rafi followed suit. Over the objections of Ben-Gurion-who still refuses to be associated with Eshkol "on personal and moral grounds"-a Rafi convention voted reluctantly to rejoin Mapai. The man behind the move was Dayan, whose one-eyed glamour and tooth-for-a-tooth toughness have made him the politician most likely to succeed at the polls-but without the support of Eshkol, who has always resented his dissident support of Ben-Gurion. That left only the leftist Mapam party out of the grand labor reunion. Eshkol has already started...
...think Olympic glamour pales alongsaid that," he said...
While acknowledging that "the so-called glamour of a Hollywood personality enhances my ability to sell," the sometime kiddie interviewer said fame did not always spell success. He noted that a fruit jelly business which used his name had been a failure...
...much damn talk on TV," he says. "Other variety shows have skillful and amusing hosts, but they spend too much time getting into the act. The most difficult thing in the world is to shut up. Besides, whoever said a master of ceremonies had to be a glamour boy? What counts is the kind of product he puts...