Word: mcnamara
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...Joseph D. McNamara, 39. The police chief of Kansas City, Mo., is the youngest in any major city and the only police officer in the U.S. with a Harvard doctorate in public administration. The Bronx-born son of a New York policeman, McNamara pounded a beat in Harlem for ten years. After he succeeded Clarence Kelley, now head of the FBI, McNamara caught a lot of flak-including an unsuccessful lawsuit charging that he lacked the required experience for his job. McNamara wants to apply computer analysis to crime prevention and to eradicate Hollywood's image of cops...
...Government decades ago. Others shuffled through the rain with umbrellas raised high. Jim Rowe and Paul Porter were New Dealers. Thomas Corcoran, when he was not redesigning the Government 40 years ago, used to play the accordion for Franklin Roosevelt out at Joe Kennedy's place. Robert McNamara, John Kennedy's and Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense, attended, and so did Mrs. Dean Acheson, the widow of Harry Truman's Secretary of State...
Neither City Manager James L. Sullivan nor City Purchasing Agent Richard J. McNamara were available for comment yesterday, but a survey of dietitians and chefs at Cambridge Hospital and Cambridge Infirmary revealed that food service employees have not been informed of the boycott...
Throughout his discussion, Ellsberg emphasized the part of Harvard graduates in the determination of bombing plans in Vietnam. He cited former president John F. Kennedy '40, Robert McNamara '33, and William P. Bundy...
Ellsberg also admitted to the audience that he was in possession of material in 1965-66 that showed that "McNamara lied" and that certain officials planned actions which were not divulged to the public...