Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throwing in a little bit of money for a little bit of everything, in hopes that the Kennedy Administration can be sold on as many pet projects as possible. But the exercise may well be futile. After long conversations with Defense Secretary-designate Robert McNamara, Pentagon Research Chief Herbert York (who will stay on for a while in the next Administration) tells friends that the Defense Department will soon come to feel a "new discipline" in the development of new strategic weapons systems (there are seven now in development and operation*). Says York: "The desperation is gone-the helter-skelter...
VANGEL GRIFFIN (371 pp.)-Herbert Lobsenz-Harper...
There are pages and characters in Herbert Lobsenz' first novel (which won the $10,000 Harper Prize for 1961) that are not total losses. In Satry's brother Alonso. Author Lobsenz fashions a Don Quixote-cum-Candide whose pratfalls over the purity of his own logic attain a kind of tragic hilarity. Alonso is the puppet of his fate and a prototype of all the fanatically idealistic students who march and die in the streets...
...output, Lawrence Harvey has to scramble fast to compete against the giants. He grabbed his telephone, learned the contract had indeed been agreed upon, but was not yet signed. He summoned a family conference in the company's executive suite: Father Leo M. Harvey, 75, company president; Uncle Herbert Harvey, 65, engineering vice president; and Brother Homer M. Harvey, 36, administrative vice president. Together they quickly decided what price they could offer the buyer. By that afternoon the deal was signed-with Harvey Aluminum, not the competitor...
...Shirley Temple Show (NBC, 7-8 p.m.). Victor Herbert's Babes in Toy land, revisited by the hostess, Jonathan Winters and Jerry Colonna. Color...