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After Robert McNamara resigned the Ford presidency last December to become Kennedy's Defense Secretary, Chairman Henry Ford II assumed the post himself while trying to decide on a new man out of the handful of executives (including the famed "whiz kids") just below McNamara. Ford instead chose an oldtime executive who frankly describes himself as "a nuts and bolts...
Detroit insiders had their own explanation for the choice, thought Ford wanted a president who could serve only a limited time (Ford retirement age is 65, but by mutual agreement can be extended to 68) in hopes that McNamara would rejoin the company...
Then there is a group, led by Rep. John J. Toomey and Councilors Thomas M. McNamara and Alfred E. Vellucci, which is dissatisfied with all existing routes. Tentatively, they have championed their own route, a wider Memorial Drive which would extend to the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway in Somerville. It seems likely, however, that this line would mean merely the addition of more traffic to an already saturated road...
After visiting the governor with a city council delegation, enquiring about the Inner Belt, McNamara threw down his personal gauntlet: "If you think the fuss over the toll road led by Mayor Gibbs of Newton is creating a stir, it is but a lawn party compared to what will happen in Cambridge if a Belt highway on one of the routes now proposed is announced...