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SECRETARY McNamara has lulled most of the press to sleep with chants of "cost effectiveness" and "buying at the lowest sound price," but behind this jargon lurks a behemoth of waste. Senator William Proxmire, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, placed the figure at "maybe billions and billions" of dollars...
According to Senator Proxmire, however, the Defense Department acts "as if the law is something that they can take or leave, and decided to leave it." He's probably right. A GAO survey of 242 firms conducted from April 1965 to June 1966 found only 20 in full compliance. The...
The Joint Economic Committee, headed by Senator Proxmire, also learned that the price estimates the DOD had been accepting with no proof were made without reuquiring the contractors to establish formal cost estimating systems. The DOD's own auditors have pleaded for 10 years to put an end to such...
THE future for men over 20 looks bleak. Under law, the Defense Department can institute either of the two plans without Presidential action. A very high Pentagon official said last week that he will make no changes because the plans are "administratively unfeasible." Senator Edward M.Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) will...
Presidential candidate Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) will be at his Cambridge campaign head-quarters at 10:15 a.m. today. His motorcade will leave the Ritz Carlton at 9:45 and proceed to the 1175 Cambridge Street office for a rally.