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Your story on Rusk, McNamara, Dillon & Co. really makes them sound like the "best men" kind of selections President-elect Kennedy wanted for his Cabinet...
...that seems to have been given for Red China recognition--it strikes us as worthy of attention to note the increasingly influential roles being assigned in our top echelons of government to former Harvard graduates, including also the new Budget Director David Bell and the new Defense Director Robert McNamara...
...from $30 to $50, and the board of governors was seeking a larger clubhouse to replace its outgrown quarters in the Sheraton-Carlton dining room. The new elite were greeted effusively at the club: Labor Secretary-designate Arthur Goldberg, dropping in for lunch with Michigan's Senator Pat McNamara, was welcomed by kisses from female members, wrenching handshakes from...
...Assistant State Secretary for African Affairs), studied law at Yale under William O. Douglas, now a Supreme Court Justice. For four years (1940-44) Zuckert taught at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration (among his fellow teachers: his new boss and good friend, incoming Defense Secretary Robert McNamara). After the war, Zuckert became executive assistant to Surplus Property Administrator Stu Symington, followed Symington into the Pentagon E-Ring as an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. Appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1952 by Harry Truman, Zuckert signed the controversial majority decision in 1954 that barred Physicist...
...defense budget, each service is throwing in a little bit of money for a little bit of everything, in hopes that the Kennedy Administration can be sold on as many pet projects as possible. But the exercise may well be futile. After long conversations with Defense Secretary-designate Robert McNamara, Pentagon Research Chief Herbert York (who will stay on for a while in the next Administration) tells friends that the Defense Department will soon come to feel a "new discipline" in the development of new strategic weapons systems (there are seven now in development and operation*). Says York: "The desperation...