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...acres, the Pentagon is often a managerial morass. The Defense Department signs more than 50 million contracts a year and spends some $800 million a day. Complicating matters is the rivalry among the armed services for money, material and men. Last week a group of military experts at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report calling for a restructuring of the Pentagon...
...preoccupied with its own navel. William Safire says the phrase connotes something "of interest to tea-leaf readers of Washington goings-on but (is) strictly a yawner to the World Out There." Author Ben Wattenberg defines "inside the Beltway" as the "exponential expansion of what used to be the Georgetown cocktail party--elitism that has lost touch...
...biggest names in Washington basketball are John Thompson. Sr.--the coach of defending national champion Georgetown--and Bob Ferry, Sr.--the general manager of the Washington Bullets...
...reunite Jack and Kitty, once the Astaire and Rogers of their set. In keeping with the deflected dreams of the rest of the crowd, Kitty has been married three times and has become a prematurely old, discreetly tipsy Florida matriarch. Jack, who wed the girl he made pregnant in Georgetown days, is the boyishly charming and faintly untrustworthy Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. After much mischance, Jack and Kitty do return to Buffalo, the Snow Ball and each other's arms. The climax is, predictably, anticlimax, a sad proof that the old Wasp world is beyond recapture...
Unlike Walt Rostow, who worked for Lyndon Johnson and was not welcomed back at M.I.T., and Henry Kissinger, who chose, because of faculty opposition, not to return to Harvard, Jeane Kirkpatrick will be returning to academe. Her re- entry at Georgetown University as a teacher and thinker will no doubt create a few ripples. Perhaps her greatest legacy will be the rebirth of the idea that after an election America needs help from every quarter...