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...time on a grant from the Council for Foreign Relations finishing his book, The Foreign Affairs Fudge Factory. Campbell took a leave of absence from the Foreign Service, where he was attached to the embassy in Ethiopia, and began work on the magazine. Through his influence, David Halberstam, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and former CRIMSON editor, was added to the masthead...
...editor (TIME, March 15), he would have found he was leading a parade. Last week six more Harper's editors decided to follow him out. They acted after a frequently bitter and fruitless confrontation with Harper's Chairman John Cowles Jr. One who resigned, Contributing Editor David Halberstam, said of the meeting: "Either we were speaking in Chinese and he was listening in English, or we were speaking in English and he was listening in Chinese...
...editors, who had hoped to get from Cowles a pledge to keep Harper's as it is and to play a major role in the choice of a new editor (their choice: Managing Editor Robert Kotlowitz), were frustrated on both counts. Along with Kotlowitz and Halberstam, Contributing Editors Marshall Frady, John Corry, Larry King and John Hollander resigned. They left behind two major questions: Who would the new editor be and what mandate would he have...
Critics like David Halberstam and former Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay have attacked him from left and right. Senators Proxmire and Fulbright have assaulted obvious flaws in the Pentagon he left behind. Adam Yarmolinsky has demonstrated the problems and agonies his former boss endured. Now come Alain Enthoven and Wayne Smith, far less ambitious and partisan, far more technically expert, too. How Much Is Enough? examines the Robert McNamara Pentagon from the authors' special perch in the Systems Analysis office-one of the former Defense Secretary's showpiece creations. With cool precision, Enthoven and Smith make...
...Halberstam's slender but tough book suffers from lack of biographic detail. Much of his data had to be cobbled together from existing works on Ho and Viet Nam-from Fall, Robert Shaplen, Jean Lacouture and the late Paul Mus, a French-born Yale professor who grew up in Viet Nam. Ho was awfully good at simply dropping out of sight. Too often, as a result, Halberstam has had to make mere chronology do the work of biography. Though he mercifully avoids the rah-rah, gung-Ho, Holy-Ho rhetoric of the New Left, Halberstam makes it clear that...