THE ADMINISTRATION: Farewell with Fanfare

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Also bowing out last week, with less ceremony but as much regret, was another Texan, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert B. Anderson, a scholarly attorney who plans to return to private business (TIME, July 4). Picked to succeed him as first assistant to Defense Secretary Charles Wilson was Reuben Buck Robertson Jr., 47, of Cincinnati, president of the Champion Paper & Fibre Co. (1954 sales: $135 million). A 6-ft. 215-pounder, he captained Yale's soccer team in 1930, served in World War II as an army lieutenant colonel, has four sons and two daughters. A shirt-sleeved, tough-spoken executive, Robertson first caught Wilson's eye when he dealt with both G.M. and the C.I.O. as a Wage Stabilization Board member during the Korean war, further impressed Wilson recently with the way he studied the Defense Department as vice chairman of a Hoover Commission task force.