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General Power is, in fact, being eased out by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, and will be replaced in November. Technically, Power's retirement will be required at that time because he will have completed 35 years of service. This rule, however, is often waived for officers in key commands. And Power, at 58, is two years short of the rigidly followed mandatory retirement...
...always speaks his mind, Power antagonized McNamara by the bluntness of his congressional testimony last August against the nuclear test ban treaty. At that time the Joint Chiefs, including Air Force Chief of Staff Curt LeMay, favored the treaty-at least publicly. Like LeMay, Power has expressed concern about overreliance on missiles, and urged the development of a new bomber-issues that Senator Barry Goldwater has raised politically and that McNamara has tried to refute...
...Open Mind." The selection of Adams to referee this Army-Air Force dispute testifies to his record of cold objectivity and ruthless fairness. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff General William F. McKee recently leaned across a Pentagon barbershop chair to tell Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that Adams was the best man in either service he could possibly have found to run STRIKE. And Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay calls Adams "the most objective officer I have ever run across in the Army. He has an open mind...
...district manager in Philadelphia by 1956, when car sales began to slump after the 1955 boom. To stimulate business, he dressed up some cars with extra chrome and advertised "$56 a month for the '56 Ford." Sales jumped in Philadelphia, and a fellow by the name of Robert McNamara, then Ford Division general manager, picked up the "lacocca Plan" for the entire U.S. The plan got credit for selling 72,000 extra 1956 Fords, and before the year was out McNamara had brought lacocca into Detroit to become manager of Ford truck marketing...
...Robert S. McNamara for Vice President [March 27]? Indeed, he is my choice. His abilities, background and education make him outstanding among men. This country needs him in this hour...