Along with the proud or privileged aspects of his new job, incoming Air Force Secretary Harold Brown last week inherited a problem that has caused the Air Force considerable embarrassment. One of Brown's first tasks was to meet with outgoing Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert and 13 distinguished businessmen and educators—trustees all of the embattled Aerospace Corp. Subject: how to mend the firm's badly shredded reputation. Five years ago, convinced that no private corporation could capably handle the overall systems engineering and technical direction of its missile-development program, the Air Force set...
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