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...chief contender for Moyer's place is generally considered to be Joseph A. Califano, 35, a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School who joined the staff 18 months ago after serving briefly but brilliantly under Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara. Califano, who chain-smokes Salems throughout a long dav. occupies the biggest office in the West Wing, where the inner circle is concentrated...
...Namara at Harvard
...time, the President named a mediation panel whose members included Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Commerce Secretary John Connor. Summoning the labor-management negotiators to Washington, McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff lectured them about G.E.'s "vital importance to national defense." Mc Namara noted that the U.S. depends on General Electric to supply, among many things, the engines for the nation's best fighter plane, the F-4 Phantom...
Defense officials believe that 85% of the reclassified draftees will eventually graduate from basic training; they will not only be able to perform about one-third of the military jobs now held by others, but will be trained in skills that later can be useful in civilian life. Mc Namara intends to use the resources of the Defense Department's own educational system, the world's largest, to train the men for all the services. He also suggested a complete re-examination of the whole concept of aptitude tests, saying that there is "ample evidence" that some...
Progeny of the official presidential family were converging on the altar at such a great rate that L.B.J. threw a White House dinner for the whole brood: Veep Hubert Humphrey's son Robert, 22, and Fiancee Donna Erickson, 21; Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara's daughter Margaret, 24, and Fiance Barry Carter, 24; and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's son Richard, 27, and Fiancee Margaret Ann Hickman. Before the week was out, Bob Humphrey, a senior at Minnesota's Mankato State College, and Donna, a former Miss Hastings, Minn., proceeded to the next step. Amid pealing...