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Since Robert S. McNamara left the Pentagon six months ago to become president of the World Bank, he has obeyed a self-imposed rule of silence on matters concerning the bank.* He refused all on-the-record interviews, turned down scores of invitations to make public speeches. Instead, McNamara quietly set about learning the ins and outs of his new job, studying the role of the World Bank and planning new ways of enhancing its importance. First off, he appointed task forces of bank specialists to survey present international economic problems and future possibilities. While the task forces worked, McNamara...
This week, most of his groundwork completed, McNamara broke his silence. The occasion was the 23rd annual meeting, in Washington, of the board of governors who represent the bank's 110 member nations. Delivering the keynote speech, McNamara outlined one of the most ambitious plans for overseas development since George Marshall delivered his Marshall Plan speech at Harvard in 1947. Not only does McNamara want to double the bank's lending capacity, but he also intends to spread the loans in new directions. More should go, he said, to projects that directly benefit ordinary people in poorer nations...
...coordination problem arose largely as result of a decision by Lyndon Johnson to gather into his own hands, and those of his top advisors, the day by day controls over the war. By June, 1966, Johnson's concern with the war was so great that he, Rusk and McNamara were choosing at Tuesday lunches all the sites to be bombed for the coming week. This was simply more detail than he could handle, and with his vast responsibilities he had little time to follow the progress of peace initiatives. The one bureaucratic agency which could have coordinated the peace...
Speaking for Mayor White, Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara said there was "no need" for the Guard. He announced an addition to the numbers of police personnel on duty "to keep the schools under surveillance and prevent vandalism. We have enough men on the street handling the situation...
...walls of Quincy House," and that he will continue it. After the exorcism, however, Dunn reminded one student that evil spirits still exist in droves outside the perimeter of the House--even as close as Mill St., which borders Quincy on the South, where former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara addressed an impromptu rally two years...