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...compromise a thousand rivalries but to achieve the skillful use of American force with single-minded purpose and sureness. Kennedy is convinced that his Secretary of Defense, serious, bespectacled Robert McNamara, 44, the ex-Air Force whiz kid who came to Washington from the presidency of the Ford Motor Co., is the kind of man to run his kind of Pentagon...
Mayor Samuel Resnic of Holyoke, Mass., wrote that "we are planning to purchase $50,000 worth of motor vehicle equipment for our public works department, six trucks for our water department, six cruisers for our police department and a police patrol wagon." Bridgeport, Conn., promised to purchase new vehicles for its entire police fleet; Stockton, Calif., advanced the date for purchase of 16 police cars; and Port Huron, Mich., ordered three police cars and two trucks. The city manager of Kennewick, Wash., got so carried away by Mariani's plea that he not only issued orders for five...
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After eight months of shopping. Trans World Airlines finally got a new president and chief executive officer. He is Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., 50, former vice president of Bendix Corp., and a friend of onetime Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, who joined the TWA board as a representative of the creditors who lent the line $165 million for new jets...
...face it," says Sales Manager Joe Bensley of Los Angeles' Bruin Motor Co., "service in most places is lousy." Bensley -who is known for good service-and other dealers blame the factory, complain that Detroit inspects only one in ten cars, sends dealers cars that take two or three days to get into shape, gives them an insufficient allowance to do the job. "The dealer just can't do it in a volume business," says Bensley. "He has to push out cars as fast as he can. The customer finds all kinds of things wrong with...