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Problem of History. McNamara's greatest public relations problem was in doing away with a fair number of installations that are, if nothing else, steeped in history. One was the Portsmouth, N.H., naval shipyard, which has been making American warships since the days of John Paul Jones. Since Portsmouth (pop. 27,800) depends almost entirely on the economic base provided by the shipyard (7,300 employees, an annual payroll of $61.6 million), McNamara put forth a ten-year phase-out schedule for the installation...
...principles he strove to give to Harvard as much as it game him. He was first a director of the Alumni Association and then an Overseer from 1957 to the year of his death. He held the chairmanships of our Board's committees to visit the Departments of Military, Naval and Air Science and the Department of Astronomy, and was also a member of the committees to visit the Department of Government and the Graduate School of Public Administration. Throughout his active public life he never lost touch with the University. It was natural for him to draw...
Ironically, Sato's first potential crisis was a threatened wave of leftist riots in protest against another U.S. visitor-the nuclear submarine Seadragon, which called last week at the Sasebo naval base on the southern island of Kyushu. But Japan has come a long way from 1960. There were some nasty-looking demonstrations in Tokyo and elsewhere, whipped up by the Socialists and Zengakuren, the far-left student organization. Cops banged heads as fluttering banners inveighed against Showa no kuro bune-the Black Ship of the Enlightened Peace Era. But the left-wingers were divided and the people generally...
...Instead of a dead hero we've got a live coward!" The situation presents obvious opportunities, and before he succumbs to a cynical conclusion Chayefsky takes some of them firmly in hand. He writes a couple of smartingly satiric scenes and puts together some pretty shrewd pacifist repartee. Naval officer proudly: "He was the first dead man on Omaha Beach!" Civilian innocently: "Was there a contest?" But Chayefsky dissipates the main force of his satire by chasing the main chance for commercial success...
Five-star admirals don't even necessarily fade away. Presiding over the 25th annual pistol match between San Francisco's Olympic Club and the U.S. Naval Air Station at Alameda, retired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 79, World War II commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, took a Colt .45 automatic in hand to fire off an "honorary" clip of five at 25 yds. Rooty-toot-toot, he scored three bull's-eyes, two near-misses, promptly tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just...