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During his six-year reign as Defense Secretary, Robert Strange McNamara has done more than enshrine the computer in government. More significantly, he has also cemented civilian control over the Pentagon, an achievement that notably eluded his seven predecessors. Though he is still the unchallenged master of his mighty domain, McNamara of late has found himself increasingly and unmistakably at odds with Earle Gilmore ("Bus") Wheeler, the urbanely outspoken Army general who, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 1964, has brought that post to maturity...
Under an 1865 ruling, graduates must wait five years before they can vote in the overseers election. The board's chief function is to approve appointments made by the President and Fellows of the University. It consists of 30 alumni -- five elected after each commencement for a six-year term...
...surprise at the report's severity, NASA Administrator James Webb did not dispute its findings. Instead, he accentuated the positive. "The board has found error, but it has also found the capability to overcome error," he said. Displaying a flash of the evangelical fervor that has characterized his six-year reign as NASA's boss-a job that the North Carolina born lawyer owed to his solid friendships with Lyndon Johnson and Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr- Webb declared: "If any man in this room asks for whom the Apollo bell tolls, it tolls...
...Nicholai has only begun to process the data from his massive six-year, unsponsored study. He has finished computer runs on five or six of 93 variables. More than one striking discovery has already come out of the project, which promises to increase in significance for Harvard undergraduates as he runs more variables...
While Krupp is by no means bankrupt, insiders feel that the managerial showdown should have come much sooner. Alfried Krupp, remote and embittered ever since his six-year Allied imprisonment for using wartime slave labor, has grown increasingly pained over the fact that his only son, Arndt, 29, has shown more inclination to fly with the European jet set than take over the company. Meanwhile, critics charge, Krupp's expansive general manager, Berthold Beitz, has overextended the company when he should have been cutting down its unprofitable operations in coal and steel. With public management instead of a private...