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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charges of inefficiency and worse are becoming a serious political problem for the Pentagon, and last week Defense Secretary Melvin Laird attempted to demonstrate that there is some movement toward reform. He named an in dependent committee to review the big department's management, research, procurement and decision-making operations. He also anticipated complaints of conflicts of interest. The year-long study will be headed by Gilbert W. Fitzhugh, 59, chief executive of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who is, significantly, a man free of any military-industrial connections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Pentagon Purgatory | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...trip to Las Vegas is enough to restore your faith in the old values. LADIES MUST WEAR BATHING HATS AND SWIMSUIT TOPS, reads the sign by the Flamingo Hotel pool. Where else in the U.S. can you still find big bands, a 49? breakfast, and a bellhop who says: "Why don't you just relax, sir, while I unpack your bags?" How many other cities the size of Las Vegas (pop. 290,000) can boast 143 churches and 159 Boy Scout troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LAS VEGAS: THE GAME IS ILLUSION | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...leaders about his invitation to Nixon during last month's Communist summit meeting in Moscow. The Soviets offered no objections to the visit. In fact, Soviet diplomats in Washington and Moscow were soon passing the word that the presidential excursion into their own backyard would not endanger the Big Four talks on the Mideast. Nor, they said, would it delay the start of the U.S. -Soviet arms talks, expected to begin in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania: Getting Ready for Nixon | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Spivey's Corner (pop. 100), North Carolina, had its big day in history last week. It was there that once and for all they drew the line between hollering and hollerin', in the goldarnedest contest that the village had seen since Dewey Jackson won half a ton of fertilizer for hog calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country: Whooos and Foghorns | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Handicappers for the Summer News picked three big winners in Thursday's races at Suffolk Downs; MR. SURVEY in the first, SWORD LINE SURREY in the first, SWORD LINE in the second, and BOUNDING IMAGE in the third. If you had bet $2.00 on every horse that we picked to win you would have cashed $21.30 worth of winning tickets for a $3.30 profit. Summer News handicappers have yet to have a losing day. So here we go again! Following are today's winners at Rockingham listed in their order of finish...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Snooze Picks Winners At Rockingham Park | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

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