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...America's top scientists, Vannevar Bush, delivered this wisdom for the ages: "There need be little fear of an intercontinental missile in the form of a pilotless aircraft." And many of the instant critics of Reagan's idea, like former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, were not all that prescient when conducting the public's business...
Knowles brings a solid and rich baritone to the part of Figaro, the mischievous valet who fears for his fiancee's faithfulness and suspects his master, the Count, of designs upon her. The finance, Susanna--sung by Eileen McNamara--complements him perfectly with a soaring soprano. In counterpoint to their stratagems and quarrels, the Count Almaviva (Mitchell C. Warren) and his wife (Elizabeth Walsh) accuse each other of infidelities, trap each other into admissions, and argue endlessly over the fate of the pageboy Cherubino, who adores the Countess...
Frahm said that once during the campaign, McNamara's camp learned that O'Neill would be speaking at a local country club, and he quickly called up the names of his candidate's most dedicated workers to demonstrate for McNamara outside the club...
...improvements in quality. "The fallacy of the past 40 years has been that technology will save us," says the Heritage Foundation's Kuhn. The trend toward relying on high-tech weapons to offset the numerical advantages enjoyed by the Soviet bloc accelerated during the tenure of Robert McNamara as Defense Secretary and has led to a bureaucratic infatuation with "gold plating" every new system. Spinney's seminal 1980 report concluded with the warning: "Our strategy of pursuing ever increasing technical complexity and sophistication has made high-technology solutions and combat readiness mutually exclusive...
After working for a year and a half as a consultant to a Maryland firm specializing in defense issues, he accepted an invitation to rejoin the Pentagon as an analyst in the Program Analysis and Evaluation office. That office was originally set up by Robert McNamara to provide hard-eyed advice about whether the weapons plans of the armed services really made sense. Spinney says he was attracted to the Analysis and Evaluation office because of the chance to work with Boyd again...