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...Congressman would not say whether he agreed with the forecast by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor that the war in South Vietnam would be over by 1965. "I think we obviously have the capacity to win," he said, "but I think that's putting too definite a date...
Clad in open-necked suntans and Army clodhoppers, with Harkins always at his side, the poker-faced McNamara would begin by hearing from the local Vietnamese commander, then he would sit down before the U.S. detachment, firing incisive questions and scribbling notes in his lefthanded script on a white pad. At Hue, where the whole uproar began when government troops killed nine Buddhist demonstrators, the Defense Secretary listened to a half-hour briefing. At Tamky, under a faded tent, he was told about a search-and-clear operation designed to flush the Viet Cong out of hill country 20 miles...
Sound of Music. Near Plei Mrong, McNamara tramped through red mud to visit a village of Montagnard tribesmen that had been nearly destroyed by the Viet Cong last January; surrounded by goats, pigs, chickens and barebreasted women, the Defense Secretary observed the villagers voting in the national election being held that day, which was carefully arranged to sweep back into office a new Diem-ruled National Assembly. Then the Secretary, Taylor and Ambassador Lodge headed south into the Communistinfested Mekong Delta, where the war has always been an uphill struggle, and where the Reds have recently increased activity. As they...
What were the official visitors learn ing? Skeptics suggested that junior officers would hardly furnish them with anything but a rosy view so long as the boss-General Harkins-was hovering within earshot. But McNamara and Taylor are tough-minded men, with long experience at sorting fancy from fact. So far, they were keeping their counsel, doing lots of listening, little talking, as they moved from one military field headquarters to another...
...fiscal year. By next year, if this growth continues, its sales should lift through the billion-dollar mark and put it among the top 50 U.S. companies. As for Thornton, the organizer of Ford's celebrated Whiz Kids and onetime boss of such talent as Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and present Ford President Arjay Miller, Litton's success has made him a millionaire 40 times over. It has also made millionaires out of 20 other Litton executives...