Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ounce of Prevention. In Washington, committee rooms resounded with controversy over the efficacy of the bombing. But the Pentagon stuck to its guns. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, testifying before Senator John Stennis' Preparedness Subcommittee, reminded the Senators that despite the obvious payoff from air attack, bombing alone has never been expected to end the war (see box). Air Force Chief of Staff John McConnell offered statistics to show that the raids have prevented the Communists from doubling the size of their forces in the South...
...North Vietnamese troops do not readily translate into visible progress in the guerrilla war. The bombing of North Viet Nam may slow the southward flow of arms and aid, but as yet has not notably diminished the vast acreage of land now in Viet Cong hands. That differential in payoff is the chief reason for the war's frustration. For it is accepted as axiomatic by everyone concerned that the war will be won or lost in the countryside, that final victory requires the defeat and dispersal of those faceless little men in black pajamas, the Viet Cong...
...Handsome Payoff. Since the present curator, William N. Eisendrath, 64, moved the collection into its zippy new $650,000 Steinberg Hall gallery in 1960, he has added still more modern paintings, including Sam Francis' flamboyant Arcueil and Roberto Matta's perkily prismatic Abstraction (see color opposite). There are also other, more familiar works, such as a Jackson Pollock that was bought in 1953 for $3,000 and is now insured...
...than 400 a year; the air traffic problem would soon be compounded by the arrival of jumbo jets and the SST. Alarmed, the Air Transport Association in January started an urgent program joining six avionics manufacturers* in the search for a solution. Last week the ATA triumphantly anounced the payoff; the blueprint for a CAS that could make the skies as safe as a sailing pond...
...success has been its departmental audits. "This strikes me as being the real payoff. There is nothing like it anywhere," Dean Monro, one of the HPC's staunchest allies, has said. When this program was originally set up during the HPC's first year, chairman Michael E. Abram '66 and audit committee chairman Evan Davis '66 planned to investigate seven departments a year, so that each department would be reviewed every four years...