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...Project Plowshare plan for peaceful uses of atomic energy, and served as the senior U.S. adviser at nuclear test-ban negotiations with the Soviet Union. Recalls an associate: "He was intense, bright, driving and dynamic, but neither patient nor comfortable with people." In 1961, Brown became one of Robert McNamara's "whiz kids." At 33, he was given the Pentagon's third highest civilian job, director of defense research and engineering...
...time: 2:20.19). 1976 female champ Kim Merritt (2:47.10), who was hospitalized for exhaustion after her victory, will attempt to repeat her win without any of last year's side effects. And 1974 victor Neil Cusak will lead a group of Irish runners (Mick Molloy, Danny McDavid, Jim McNamara) in this star-studded field. Others to watch include Tom Fleming of Bloomfield, N.J., who twice has finished second, Mexico's Mario Cuevas and Toronto's Jerome Drayton (2:10.08 lifetime best). But the excitement of the Boston Marathon is in part due to the unpredictability of the finish: dark...
...Economy of National Security. It caught the eye of top executives at the Rand Corp., the U.S.'s premier think tank, who hired Schlesinger as a senior staff member. He later became director of strategic studies. At Rand, Schlesinger proved, as one colleague recalls, that "he could out-McNamara Mc-Namara"-then the cerebral Defense Secretary and systems analyst par excellence...
...McNamara is concerned more with the enjoyable aspects of the swim program than its competitive side. "We're more interested in getting some good physical exercise and having a good time. Competition is important, but is basically secondary," she said...
Like Susan Vassallo, McNamara comes from a big aquatic family. "There are eleven kids in my family--all swimmers. I've been swimming since I was six," she noted drily...