Word: hebert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bounce, and that their spikes do not dig in firmly. On the other hand, the Houston University football team, which plays its home games in the Astrodome, found the going great, and it was no hindrance to making Houston's pass-catching split end and place kicker, Ken Hebert, top scorer in the nation last year...
...GOLF CLASSIC (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). Don January and Julius Boros team up against Lionel and Jay Hebert at the Firestone Country Club in Akron in the first of a series of exhibitions that were taped last fall, and will be telecast this winter...
...Shockingly Distorted." Headed by Louisiana Democrat F. Edward Hebert, a hard-knuckled investigative veteran, the subcommittee accused McNamara of being a Pentagon tyrant who uses the word "we" in his testimony only "to hide the essential singularity of the decision-making process in the Department of Defense." Said the report: "The subcommittee was shocked to dis cover that the proposal to phase out of the SAC inventory all B58 aircraft was, as best it could ascertain, an action solely recommended and supported by the office of the Secretary of Defense and one neither recommended nor truly supported...
McNamara blasted back in kind. In a press conference with Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance, he termed the Hebert report "shockingly distorted," charged that its claim that his decision to curtail manned bombers was made despite J.C.S. protest "is without any foundation whatsoever." McNamara conceded that Air Force Chief of Staff John McConnell had argued for "full deployment and full development" of a new big bomber and that a unanimous J.C.S. request for $23 million to pursue research on such a bomber had been cut in half by McNamara himself. "I see no clear need for a new strategic bomber...
...first testimony of the new session, McNamara was spared the predicted barrage of congressional brickbats. One of the few salvos came from Subcommittee Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who asked if the Defense Secretary were not himself weakening the U.S. deterrent by an overreliance on missiles. No, said McNamara: by the time the B-58s and older-model B-52s are scrapped, the U.S. will still have 255 late-model B-52s and 210 of the planned FB-111s-plus 1,000 Minutemen and 54 Titan II missiles in hardened sites, and 656 Polaris missiles in 41 floating platforms. One-fifth...