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First time around, in fact, Curtis Tarr turned the job down flat. "I told them," he informed reporters, "that if it was satisfactory to them I had rather stay" in the Pentagon. After several more prospects had rejected the position and one contender had been unofficially vetoed by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Tarr's number was drawn again. Tarr, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs and at 6 ft. 6 in. perhaps the tallest member of the Nixon team, was called into the Oval Office and given the word by the President...
Enlisted Man. So well does Tarr, 45, fit the Administration's specifications that the only wonder is why it took so long and required so much fumbling before the word was given. The former president (1963-69) of Wisconsin's Lawrence University, a school respected for its academic standing, Tarr can claim rapport with the young and considerable sympathy for their problems. While his own children will probably never have to worry about the draft -he has two daughters, twelve and eleven-Tarr as president of a small university knew firsthand the anguish the draft can cause...
...time, his Republican credentials are impeccable, including an unsuccessful run as the party's candidate for Congressman from California in 1958, when he was vice president of his family's farm-equipment company in Chico. A World War II draftee-he ended up as technician fourth grade -Tarr knows the draft system from the bottom up, without having been a professional soldier like his predecessor Lieut. General Lewis Hershey. After the war, Tarr received an A.B. from Stanford University and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He returned to Stanford...
...Heaven Help Us, Tarr...
...Heaven Help Us, Tarr...