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...pacifist, service in the Peace Corps seems every bit as much in the national interest as military service, and on a man-for-man basis, is probably more so. Congress has recognized this fact by offering the Corps whatever funds it has requested. And secretary of Defense McNamara concurred when he told a group of Peace Corps returnees last spring, "though we have three and three quarters million people in the Defense Department, I doubt very much that we have influenced the peace of the world as much as the small handful...
...bomb would be clamped in steel jaws and brought up to the 400-ft. level, where Navy divers would inspect the bomb. If it was intact and constituted no radiation danger, it was to be winched aboard the U.S.S. Hoist. By special order of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the bomb was to be shown to members of the press and photographed-the first time in history that the U.S. was dropping the top-secret wraps that surround its current nuclear weaponry...
...been a long, rugged winter in Washington, and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 49, was certainly due for a rest. The trouble is that Bob McNamara never exactly rests. Flying into Switzerland for a week's skiing vacation at Zermatt, he started tearing down the most difficult slopes in expert style. "It's great to get those problems out of your system for a while," he grinned. "And they're not bothering me with cables and phone calls...
Yarmolinsky joined the Defense Department during its reorganization under Robert S. McNamara in 1961. One of the "whiz kids" of the Kennedy Administration , he served three years as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense...
...reappearance after five years as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs came only days after ailing Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara, 71, had announced that he would not seek re-election next fall. Might Williams have been gone from Michigan too long? Replied Soapy, now 55: "They'll recognize who I am when I walk down the street." To make sure, Williams last week stumped Michigan streets from Hamtramck to Ishpeming. They recognized...