European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                X o Robert Channing shamans jr., Secretary of the air Force designate has the rare ability to translate the most Complex scientific data into simple terms one reason he s attracted follow ers from the Fields of education science and government. Lanky athletic and prematurely Gray the 50-year-old Seamans has been involved in aeronautical engineering for most of the past 30 years. He began his government career with Nasa in 1060.he planned to remain in full time government service no More than two years. Those two years however stretched to seven with the space Agency alone. Seamans served As general manager of Nasa during the Mercury and gemini manned spaceflight programs Reti Ringas the space Agency s Deputy administrator in january 1968. He left Nasa for a variety of person Al reasons and took a Post As visiting aeronautical Engineer Seamans. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of technology Mit where he received his masters and doctoral degrees and had taught from 1941 to 1955. The husky professor who looks More like a football tackle than a space Engineer is remembered by former col leagues at Nasa for his ready smile and easy manner. He is also remembered for his Clear and precise and simple exposition. This ability to translate what often appeared to be scientific double talk into easy to understand language was most appreciated by his students at Mit. He cuts through the confusion and spells tout easily one former student noted. Prior to joining Nasa Seamans was with the radio corp. Of America where he was chief Engineer of the missile electronics and controls department. Much of his work at Ria was connected with air Force development of navigation and flight control equipment. Former colleagues at Nasa remember him As a Well organized Man who car ried Home a bulging briefcase every night and brought it Back with All the work completed the next morning. Observers at the space Center in hous ton View Seamans new position As a Good Omen for both the air Force space program which includes plans for a manned space station in the Early 1970s,and for Nasa. It is Felt Seamans will help forge increased cooperation be tween the two agencies. A native of Salem mass., Seaman Sis a skilled Ocean Sailor and Tennis player. During his years with the space Agency he often got up Early for a pre work game of Tennis with his . His family includes three sons and two daughters one of them married and one grandchild. Up few people around the Pentagon expected mild mannered Stanley r. Resor would make such a big impression that the Nixon administration would want him to stay on As Secretary of the army. It in t that the 52-year-old, Sandy haired new York native has t been effective in the army s top civilian  men think he has. But Resor has kept so quietly occupied in the labyrinth of the Pentagon that he simply failed to create much of an army Secretary Resor in tank visiting troops in Germany. S4s image for himself outside the , reliable methodical a care Ful planner Are some of the terms used by associates to describe the athletic looking 6-footer,flamboyant, no. Secretary of defense designate Melvin. Laird said the Nixon administration wants the army administrator to stay on to provide an element of continuity in the switch of  was the senior member among the three service secretaries having taken Over the army Job in july 1965. Laird said Resor has done an out standing Job and military men joined in crediting the army chief with a major role in the massive Vietnam troop build up of 1965. Former Secretary of defense Rob Ert s. Mcnamara once paid Resor in direct tribute by noting that the unite states sent 100,000 men to a land 10,000 Miles overseas in 120 Days in 1965some-thing no nation had Ever done before. For an unspectacular Man which i what he is Resor has done a very effective Job for the  one colonel commented. Resor. A one time new York lawyer puts in Jong hours and demands detailed reports from his staff. He watches the Fine print closely. In his quiet Way Resor was Able to sell a Tough managerial expert like Mcnamara on the merits of Pentagon spending for army pet projects. For one thing he is credited with persuading Mcnamara to let the army rather than the air Force build a new gunship which is part helicopter Partai plane the ah56 Cheyenne. It can hover like a chopper Fly straight ahead up to 225 Miles an hour like a fighter and Blaze away with guns and missiles. Resor a Yale graduate entered serv ice As a second lieutenant in the Field artillery in february 1942 and won the Silver Star for gallantry in combat in Germany during world War ii. He advanced to the rank of major during the War participating in campaigns in the ardennes Rhineland an Central Europe. Resor and his wife the former Jan Lawler Pillsbury of Wayzata minn., have seven sons. A John h. Chafee named As the Nixon administration s Secretary of the Navy is a witty articulate attorney who in 1862 led republicans into the statehouse in traditionally democratic Rhode Island. Then last november a controversial tax Issue ruined the 45-year-old Exma Rine s bid for a fourth consecutive terms governor. His defeat by Democrat Frank b. Jucht was the first election loss of his political  the election Chafee said he hoped to continue in Public life leaving open both the possibility of an appoint ment by the incoming National administration and another bid for state of fice Chafee s Ascendancy to the governor ship climaxed a legislative career Dat ing Back to 1958 when the Warwick Chafee witty articulate. Lawyer a graduate of Yale and the Harvard Law school first was elected to the state House of representatives. From 1958 to 1962, he served As minority Leader before making his first successful bid for the governor s  won re election easily in 1964 and 1966. During recent years Chafer s reputation has grown within the National party. He served As chairman of the National Republican governors Confer ence and was Deputy chairman of Hegop National convention platform committee at the convention he worked for the nomination of new York gov. Nelson Rockefeller in a movement which failed to Stem the tide of forces supporting president elect Richard m. Nixon. After the election Chafee announced that he had conferred with leaders of the new Nixon administration about the Jess ability of taking a position in Washington. He later talked with Nixon at a meeting of the Republican governors conference. Chafee said one of his foremast considerations aside from the importance of any Job he might be offered would be the feelings of his family. At a recent news conference he said he had polled his children about moving to the nation s capital and Washington was a unanimous loser. Chafee is married to the former Vir Ginia Coates of Bayville ny., on Long Island. They have five children a 14 year old daughter to Hie died shortly before the election from injuries suffered when she was kicked by a horse during a horse show a Tuet Doy january 14, 1969 the stars Anc stripes Page 11