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Failure of Nerve. As an antidote, the report suggested the cultivation of specialists and men trained in the management of people, paper and budgets. In this respect, the report is a decade-later application of Robert McNamara's Whiz Kids techniques to the nation's oldest executive agency. In the past, the Foreign Service has prided itself on producing diplomat-generalists, but the complexity of foreign relations in recent years has shown the need for developing diplomats with more concentrated skills in technical areas...
...celebrate Columnist Joseph Alsop's 60th birthday, 140 guests sat down to dine under a tent two stories high. At her first party last month for Lady Hartwell (whose husband runs London's Daily Telegraph), Kay Graham threw Social Lion Henry Kissinger into a den of Democrats, including Robert McNamara, Clark Clifford, Averell Harriman and Jack Valenti. At a second Hartwell party, the guests included Chief Justice Warren Burger, Secretary of State William Rogers, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson and other prominent Administration figures. Among Mrs. Graham's English antiques and modern paintings the talk tends to be cosmopolitan and usually...
...first person to harass McNamara had been thrown out of Harvard, the C.F.I.A. would not have been bombed," he said, referring to Robert S. McNamara's visit to Harvard while Secretary of Defense...
...fleet be cut by about 30% (from roughly 900 to 600 ships); but if it must be done, he wants to decide how to do it. A former director of the Pentagon's Naval Operations Systems Analysis Group, he was selected to argue with former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's computer-conscious experts in their own language. His studies now convince him that more of the nation's nuclear deterrent must be moved to sea with longerrange, submarine-carried missiles. His Navy must produce a ship-to-ship missile, as the Russians have done, and it must...
Nothing has been proved so far against the people who are receiving a "trial by press," and contrary to the allegations made by Commissioner McNamara, none of the three ex-convicts on whose testimony all the stories are based has any revolutionary background. Bond, for example, who claims revolutionary leadership, was thrown out of SDS meetings at Brandeis by students who believed he was a police agent, because of the inconsistency of his racist and pro-war views with his posing as a revolutionary instigator...