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...roster moves were announced by General Manager Lou Gorman, who met over pizzas with manager John McNamara and coaches in the press room at Chain-O-Lakes Park Wednesday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/5/1985 | See Source »

...trucks, in Chester, Pa. Undaunted, he sold and sold and sold. During the next nine years, he hustled up the regional sales ranks. Finally, weeks after his marriage in 1956, Iacocca got called back to headquarters as a marketing manager under the chief "whiz kid," Ford Vice President Robert McNamara. Iacocca officially indulged his ^ love of the punchy phrase. Earlier that year he had devised a $56-a-month credit plan for Ford buyers ("$56 for '56"); later he was intent on the Mustang's exceeding the Falcon's all-time one-year auto sales record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spunky Tycoon Turned Superstar | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...career spring columns the Olympian is now in fifth place with 186 points, trailing only Robert McNamara(151), George Huger (161), Cavanaugh (187, and Bob clears...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: MacDonald Gives Harvard a Break-Every Day | 2/14/1985 | See Source »

After 16 years of silence on the subject, Robert McNamara has finally acknowledged that as early as 1965 he was convinced that the U.S. could not win the war militarily in Viet Nam. Yet when he later went before a Senate committee, testifying as the Secretary of Defense, he strongly denied that we were in a "no-win" war. By ordinary standards, this would seem a lie, but not to McNamara. Testifying in the current libel trial of General William Westmoreland vs. CBS, McNamara said he based his testimony to Congress on the unstated hope that Henry Kissinger (then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Ducking the Truth | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...problem of telling the truth or lying in a way that never faced Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln. Before congressional committees or television interviewers they face cameras, instant answers are demanded, and the pictorial proof of what is said goes into the files to haunt them. In the Westmoreland trial, McNamara was a reluctant witness; for 13 years previously as head of the World Bank he ducked discussing Viet Nam on the ground that he could not talk about it as an international civil servant. Not many public officials are that lucky. They are usually condemned to explaining themselves constantly without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Ducking the Truth | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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