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...commands a ship is, by necessity as well as by tradition, the unquestioned lord of his vessel. Some top admirals of the U.S. Navy carry this quality to shorebound duties in the Pentagon. But nowadays they are questioned by an equally authoritarian operator, Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara. And right in the middle of these collision-bound forces sits a string bean of a Texan who holds down one of the most impossible jobs in Washington: Navy Secretary Fred Korth...
...gets all gussied up in a jet flight suit, he looks like a cartoonist's rendition of a Sad Sack Spaceman. But on the basis of his performance so far, Korth is far from being ridiculous. He is neither the admirals' cabin boy nor one of Mc-Namara's whiz kids...
...alert reporter noticed an unusual gap in the always busy schedule of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 54. It was blank from May 9 to 31. True, confirmed Press Secretary Robert L. Mc-Manus, he knew of no "official activities" for the Governor between those dates...
...Enterprise and the Independence in the Cuba quarantine last fall, claim that carrier aircraft would provide mobile bases to deliver a nuclear punch in a big war, could support ground action almost anywhere in a small one, would be indispensable in seeking out enemy submarines. Declares one admiral about Mc Namara's doubters: "There's always the need to educate these new people about the great value of carriers. We've just got to put our reasons in terms McNamara's Whiz Kids can understand...
...public letter to McClellan. Wrote McNamara: "The fragmentary releases of portions of the testimony of witnesses who themselves are only familiar with part of the considerations underlying the decision have needlessly undermined public confidence in the integrity and judgment of the highest officials of the Department of Defense." Moreover, Mc Namara's foot-in-mouth press secretary, Arthur Sylvester, told newsmen: "Obviously you will hardly get a judicial rendering by a committee in which there are various Senators with state self-interest in where the contract goes." Sylvester later apologized, submitted to a grilling behind the committee...