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...Bundy for Rusk." The man whose turn is next must come up with a reasonable candidate for the displaced person's job-as in "Rusk for Stevenson." A player must drop out of the game if he comes up with a patently implausible shift-such as "Stevenson for McNamara." It is remarkable how often the game starts off with Secretary of State Dean Rusk as the first to be replaced...
...Government's new tightfisted look is expected to produce big results. McNamara predicts that $750 million will be saved in this fashion in the current budget year, and that within five years annual savings will reach $3 billion. To get more for its dollars, the Government is cutting back on cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, which guarantee a set profit regardless of how badly a company misses its delivery dates or its cost estimates. In their place, the Pentagon is increasingly signing fixed-price and incentive contracts, which reward companies with extra profit if they do well but dock...
...looked for signs of favoritism in the award of a TFX all-purpose-fighter contract to General Dynamics, many companies in the defense industry were worried about just the reverse: the Pentagon's increasingly sharper bargaining on defense contracts. The defense industry admits that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's band of tough-minded procurement officers is doing the best job of military buying in history. "The longer the Government is in business, the smarter it gets," says Lawrence A. Harvey, president of Harvey Aluminum. "The smarter it gets, the closer it bargains. The closer it bargains...
...McNamara for What...
Being controversial is the heritage of all great men like Robert McNamara [Feb. 15] in a world populated with mediocrities. In the dangerous years ahead, no nation will dominate that does not base its actions on facts and reason. Because McNamara possesses outstanding ability to exercise these concepts, I believe he should be seriously considered for the presidency...