vaguely GR-related

[Doug Millison]

Best Chapter Title of 2000:

Kennedy And Ho

(chapter one of
Our Vietnam The War, 1954-1975
By A. J. LANGGUTH
first chapter at the NY Times Web site, 
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lagguth-vietnam.html)

excerpt re life imitates art:
"When Kennedy was recovering from serious back surgery in Palm Beach 
in 1958, Dulles often dropped by his bedside to pass the time with 
tales of international espionage. In return, the senator's wife, 
Jacqueline, introduced Dulles to the fictional hero of To Russia with 
Love, British agent James Bond. From then on, America's spymaster was 
always one of the first to buy Ian Fleming's latest thriller."

GR echoes: "Robert Strange McNamara, a forty-seven-year-old systems 
analyst who had assumed the presidency of the Ford Motor Company the 
day after Kennedy's election [...] Studying for a master's degree, 
McNamara first encountered the theory of statistical control, which 
had been developed thirty years earlier at the E. I. duPont de 
Nemours Powder Company [...] Above all, the new approach put an end 
to guesswork, be it inspired or impractical. Statistical control was 
eminently rational, as was Bob McNamara. His professors recognized 
that he had a remarkable gift for using statistics to solve practical 
problems."
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