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Cautious Investment. About $6.7 billion will be spent on these and other research and development projects next year. But the Defense Department can present a slightly lower overall bill because of Secretary Robert McNamara's cost reduction program, which is saving $2.5 billion annually, and because the huge initial expenditures of deploying Minuteman, Titan and Atlas ICBMs are now past (such costs have dropped from $3.5 billion in fiscal '64 to $1.8 billion scheduled for '66). Moreover, McNamara is being cautious about the investments in really new weapons. Despite longstanding congressional demands, the defense message called...
...considerable savings. But it would also put 50,000 of Britain's 265,000 aircraft workers out of jobs and strike a damaging technological blow to the nation's once proud aircraft industry. In an unguarded moment, Healey, who admires tough, cost-conscious U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, dismissed such criticism by saying it was not his job to "wetnurse overgrown and mentally retarded children in the domestic economy...
...almost fell off our stools when we saw it," said an astonished Pentagon man. Saw what? The letter to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 48, that read: "I have been in the Reserve and National Guard at various times for the past 34 years, and I must say that of the two, the Guard training is by far superior. I think your move incorporating the Reserve and the Guard is a just one." It was signed: "With best personal wishes, Barry Goldwater," whose major general's rank in the Air Force Reserve may eventually go on the shelf...
...keep coming back to Korea, I have the same travel agent you have." Then, trying one based on his vague resemblance to the Secretary of Defense, he added: "Everywhere we go we get a big reception. Thousands are waiting to cheer. They think I'm Secretary McNamara with shutdown orders...
Died. Claranel Strange McNamara, 78, mother of the Defense Secretary, who so valued the education typhoid kept her from completing that by the time young Robert started school she had force-read him, as she said, "as much literature as a normal 13-year-old knows"; of a stroke; in Palo Alto, Calif...