Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official at the Pentagon said yesterday that angry higher-ups are investigating the decision by the local command of the Army Reserves to use two armored personnel carries to wheel John Wayne through Harvard Square one week...
Moving fast to compile this record, Simon has stumbled once or twice. Last month his office announced that 1.5 million bbl. of jet fuel would be taken away from the Pentagon and reallocated to civilian jetliners. Nobody seems to have consulted Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, who protested angrily. The result was a "compromise," under which the Pentagon will keep 600,000 bbl. of its fuel at least for a while. Also, the FEO prompted scare headlines by announcing, in one set of hastily prepared allocation regulations, that gasoline production would be cut 25% below 1972 output, and took...
...scandals in neighboring Somerville. The Globe, which had not backed a presidential candidate since 1900, changed policy by declaring for Humphrey in '68 and McGovern in '72. It was the third U.S. daily (after the New York Times and the Washington Post) to publish excerpts from the Pentagon papers...
There is no other U.S. daily quite like the Times. Its total news staff is by far the largest (about 650), its scope and coverage the most exhaustive, its influence on national and world leaders daunting-as its publication of the Pentagon papers demonstrated...
Close brushes with financial catastrophe have become an unwitting specialty of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. In 1971 the aerospace giant faced bankruptcy because of cost overruns on the C-5A transports it was building for the Air Force; the Pentagon eventually let it escape with a $200 million loss. Almost immediately, Lockheed's effort to build the L-1011 TriStar nearly crashed before the jumbo jet ever got off the ground when Rolls-Royce, builder of the plane's engines, went bust, eventually saddling Lockheed with $190 million in unplanned expenses. That time it took an act of Congress...