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...three services have not yet agreed on certain important aspects of the program, such as the amount of scholarships involved, the length of training in college, and the degree of selectivity of the program. The plan's basic form has already been approved by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and the Bureau of the Budget...
...Family Example. Was he upset by the grilling that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was getting from Congress over the TFX fighter-plane contract? McNamara, for one, seemed disturbed by the committee's intimations of favoritism. In a highly emotional state, he told the Senators that his son, reading newspaper accounts of the controversy, had asked: "When is my father going to be proved an honest...
...President took a relatively relaxed view of the TFX fuss. He stuck up staunchly for McNamara: "My judgment is that the decision reached by Secretary McNamara was the right one. sound one, and any fair and objective hearing will bring that out. I have no objection to anyone looking at the contract as long as they feel a useful function is served...
...undeterred as usual. McNamara is going ahead with the Fort Benning test. But the argument is just beginning. For after the results of .the experiment are in, Air Force experts will sit in on the evaluation panel-and undoubtedly will try to show that the Air Force could have done the same job better. The Army, meanwhile, seems unworried. It recently announced that 18-year-olds can enlist in the Army and be assigned directly to flight training...
Seven days later, 16-year-old Daniela Saunders was choked to death in an alley in Boston's tough Roxbury section, and the city's fury knew no bounds. Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara appeared before a mass protest meeting and pleaded for understanding. Said he, sadly: "I wish I could wave a magic wand." In mid-January police arrested a 15-year-old boy who admitted strangling the Saunders girl because she had refused him a kiss; he could not possibly have been the Phantom Strangler...