Exits

The word from the Pentagon's outer ring:

P: Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Bernerd Anderson, 45, has decided to quit "in the next few months." One of the Texas "Democrats for Eisenhower" in top Administration posts (another: Health and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby), Bob Anderson proved a real find as Navy Secretary, quickly won a boost and was for a time rated a likely heir to Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson. Anderson, on leave from his $60,000-a-year job running the 510,000-acre Waggoner ranch and oil properties, has recently been pressed to run for governor of Texas. He has strong support from both Governor Allan Shivers and the anti-Shivers faction of the divided Texas Democratic Party.

P: Secretary of the Army Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 55, resigned as of this month, probably to return to his family textile business, J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc. (In 28 months the stock that he had to sell on taking office would have earned him more than half a million dollars in dividends and capital gains.) Bob Stevens bore the brunt of last year's televised Army-McCarthy hearings, became a familiar national figure as the bumbling, decent, defiant victim of McCarthy's tactics ("Come on, Robert, tell us the truth now"). With his resignation all the principals have given up the positions they then held except Joe McCarthy himself, still in the Senate but now stripped of power and prestige. Stevens' successor as Army Secretary: Wilber Brucker, the Defense Department's general counsel, who early this year laughed in McCarthy's face (see box).

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