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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McNamara has presided over a fundamental reorganization of the armed services to increase efficiency and save money. Where top Pentagon officials formerly had to wade through as many as eleven separate-and often conflicting-intelligence reports from the services daily, they now get a single, four-page summary from the unified Defense Intelligence Agency. Millions of dollars have been saved on items ranging from belt buckles to bloomers by the creation of a single Defense Supply Agency. Instead of the charming, old-fashioned practice of trying to cut up the defense budget pie more or less equally among the services...
Unresigned. In a shattering political week, Diefenbaker struggled desperately to save himself. Yet at every turn, his own inability to make a firm decision, either about nuclear weapons or even politics, worked against him. After two years of patient argument, Defense Minister Douglas Harkness made one last effort to get Diefenbaker to honor Canada's three-year-old commitment to arm Canadian planes and missiles with U.S. nuclear weapons. Once again, Diefenbaker refused. Exasperated beyond endurance, Harkness resigned. It was, he said, "a matter of principle...
...high pressure with which deep-sea divers and tunnel workers must contend has always been a source of danger, but now physicians and surgeons on both sides of the Atlantic are deliberately subjecting their patients to deep-sea pressures to save their lives. As testament to the success of this paradoxical treatment, "blue babies" are turning a healthy pink even before the end of operations. Seemingly hopeless cases of carbon monoxide poisoning and of gas gangrene (a deadly infection) are pulling through...
...Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs has begun a survey of available meeting space for student organizations around the University. The Council hopes to "save extra rooms" and to claim some currently used for storage in the Houses...
...Tuesday morning. U.S. Ambassador John Tuthill hurried around to the delegations to deliver a last-minute warning from President Kennedy, pointing out the grave consequences of a breakdown in the negotiations. The Six reconvened at noon to hear the West German proposal that was intended to save face for everyone by postponing a decision for two months. A stormy discussion followed, and Couve de Murville icily professed astonishment that a plan could even be proposed in such bad parliamentary form...