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...that come packaged with map board, pointer and colonel attached, he demands tightly written papers that he can scan with his built-in, wide-screen-camera mind. Answers to hard questions are demanded with computer speed. The Pentagon's "action officers" now act; "project officers" project. Says a staffer: "I've never been so flattened out since law school. Among other things, he's piling on the work to find out who can produce; if you can't, you're out." And McNamara keeps a special task force at work scouting good...
...Congo had come unstuck, and the U.N. had shown its helplessness there. Nikita Khrushchev was not coming this time (he sent Gromyko instead), but the Soviet Union's vituperative attacks on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, and its near refusal to recognize his existence, demoralized everyone. Said one staffer: "Everybody here from Executive Assistant Andrew Cordier on down wants to resign. The Congo has done...
...weighing on the President were still as heavy as they looked on Inauguration Day, there at least seemed to be far more time to solve them-and the gift of time was like a second burst of energy. "It's unbelievable,'' said a top White House staffer, recalling his days as Kennedy's assistant on Capitol Hill. "We didn't realize how much time we were wasting up there.'' Some veteran Kennedy aides had been apprehensive about the President's work load before they moved into the White House. Now, seeing their...
...clannish, inner-directed way of life. Nowadays guests no longer need passes to get inside the housing area; even so, few of Los Alamos' longtime residents can claim many friends in the New Mexico communities near by. Los Alamos' young married couples (average age of the AEC staffer is 39) entertain each other at casual patio dinners where the talk is more dazzling than the food, throng to a suburbia-sized horde (146) of civic organizations ranging from the Flying Saucer Square Dance Club to the Military Order of Lady Bugs. Dress is studiously informal: a woman...
...been criticizing for years. As the newly appointed White House staffer charged with drawing up proposals to reform the agencies, Landis plans to draft a whole regiment of legislation to push through his changes. The new Administration has a great opportunity to free business to move faster, make more of its own decisions...