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Died. Desmond FitzGerald, 57, CIA Deputy Director for Plans (meaning the agency's operational branch, with its overseas agents and paramilitary organizations), an urbane onetime Wall Street corporation lawyer who became the CIA's Latin American chief in the shakeup following the Bay of Pigs debacle, took over the plans department last year; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in The Plains...
...corporate offices. Chief victim was Harrison A. ("Stormy") Storms Jr., 51, who was replaced as head of the company's Apollo-building space division by Vice President William B. Bergen, 52, former president of the Martin Co. and a North American newcomer. After the front-office shakeup, North American President J. Leland Atwood, testifying before the Senate space committee, expressed confidence that "we can effectively accomplish the lunar mission in this decade...
Perhaps not, but next day NASA abruptly announced a top-level, "accident-related" shakeup. Brilliant, energetic Joe Shea, 40, the Apollo spacecraft program manager, was shifted from Houston to Washington, where he will become the deputy associate administrator for manned space flight. His job went to the deputy director of the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center, George Low. NASA insisted that Shea was not being demoted. But even Shea's friends were unsure what his appointment as aide to Manned Space Flight Chief Dr. George Mueller meant. As one of them put it, "If Joe stays in Washington...
...meeting, White House aides pointedly emphasized the word routine. Yet the President had a lot more than rou tine matters on his mind-as he proved before he left for Guam. In a speech to the Tennessee state legislature at Nashville, Johnson revealed a top-to-bottom shakeup of the Saigon embassy staff that reached from Lodge-who had long been anxious to end his second stint in Viet Nam-to Information Chief Barry ("Zorro") Zorthian, whose psywar techniques have doubled the number of Viet Cong defectors coming across the lines. As replacements, Johnson named an entire new team...
...eventually implanted herself as the prima donna of the Chicago Grand Opera Co. Her reign was absolute, and in 1921, when she was appointed director of the company, the local newspapers happily crowned her "Mary the First." But, single-minded hellion that she often was, her shakeup of the existing order resulted in several squabbles with other singers, two lawsuits, a loss of $1,000,000 and an assassination threat. After one season, she decided that "my place is with the artists, not over them...