Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Telephone and Telegraph (AT & T) building, chairman of the board John deButts has a commanding view of the World Trade Centers. The rest of the building, as far as I can tell from the lobby and the hallways, seems to be a cross between a medieval castle and the Pentagon. The lobby is crowded with simple Roman columns, which part to reveal a statue set into the marble wall. It is the figure of a man with one arm outstretched, one cocked at the elbow; the head thrown to the side completes the modified Christ-image. Under each arm blazes...
...Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Tom Moody is doing more than that to counter the Pentagon's plans to ship about 1,400 men out of nearby Rickenbacker Air Force Base. Moody and colleagues have set up a committee to find uses for a deserted base. So far four companies have said they might be interested...
Before any of the closings can go into effect, a 30-day period of public comment must elapse. During that time, congressmen will surely take the offensive against the Pentagon's economy drive. New Jersey's 17-member delegation will challenge the Pentagon's estimate of the $16 million in savings that could be made by shifting Dix's basic training function to Fort Jackson, S.C. "We've certainly not thrown in the towel," says Democratic Senator Harrison Williams. "In the past when attempts were made to transfer Dix's training function somewhere else...
...story probably did not "provide a 'do-it-yourself' guide for the hydrogen bomb," Warren found that it contained vital concepts restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. (Significantly, the Government could invoke no such statutory authority when it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971.) "The article could possibly provide sufficient information to allow a medium-sized nation to move faster in developing a hydrogen weapon," he concluded...
...privacy and conscience will be casualties of the military buildup. Although registration would undoubtedly be conducted in as low-key a fashion as possible, widespread resistance is likely to occur and our government will likely prosecute those who don't cooperate. Perhaps most dangerously, a registration will provide the Pentagon with a faceless pool of prospective inductees to be used in a largescale intervention overseas. A beefed-up standby draft system will expand our mobilization capability and make it easier to wage "quick-start" wars around the globe...