Word: mcnamara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skills in the labor force and are, in effect, a racial bar. The business community has shown a belated but increasing interest in training "un-employables." However, in matters of air and water pollution created by industry many individual corporations continue to evade their responsibility for these conditions. Robert McNamara remained unconvinced as to the desirability of an anti-ballistic missile system, but the military was able to override his objections through political pressure and commit the country to the "thin" Chinese compromise...
...dynastic rivalries among the Army, Navy and Air Force after World War II prompted President Truman to unify the services under a Secretary of Defense. Old Soldier Eisenhower stripped the individual service secretaries of their power to deploy troops. Later, the exigent Robert McNamara took command of all departmental decisions by unifying military-budgetary decisions through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last week Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird, introduced his three service secretaries; all fit the pat tern of administrator now prescribed...
...major with silver and bronze stars won in the Battle of the Bulge. A Republican, he has influential friends in both parties. Negotiator Cyrus Vance was his roommate at Yale Law School, and he is extremely close to Nixon Adviser William Scranton. While he displays the McNamara traits of super-efficiency and clipped speech, Resor is known as an artful pacifier of both generals and politicians...
Businessmen in government are not necessarily bad. Robert S. McNamara's management talent was the best possible way to reorganize the Defense Department and eliminate its waste. But for programs like the War on Poverty, experimental programs which may not show immediate results in the first or even the second year, builders are needed, not cutters To replace a man of vision like Robert Weaver as Secretary of HEW with George Romney could mean the end of long-range programs like the Summer Youth Employment plan...
...estimated 260 million people around the globe live left-handed lives in a right-handed world, Leonardo da Vinci and Alexander the Great were lefthanded, and so were Babe Ruth, Michelangelo and Charlemagne. The left hand rules Charlie Chaplin, Robert S. McNamara, Sandy Koufax, Kim Novak and Ringo Starr. They are known as southpaws, gallock-handers, chickie paws and scrammies-and on down a whole list of slangy synonyms whose very length testifies to the fact that for centuries left-handers have been looked upon with suspicion, if not with actual mistrust...