Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nowhere in Defense Secretary Brown's plans to save money did I find anything about some of the things I feel the Pentagon needs most-a healthy dose of competition, a halt to cost overruns and an end to the revolving-door movement of executives between the Pentagon and defense contractors...
...instance, in 1976 only 8% of the Pentagon's procurement dollars were awarded through competitive bidding. However, a 1973 Senate study reviewed 21 sophisticated weapons systems and found that competition reduced costs by an average of more than...
...anticipated the questions. "Am I paranoiac about hating people and trying to do them in?" he asked. "The answer is: At times, yes. I get angry at people ... but an individual must never let hatred rule him." His bitterness showed when he described Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the secret Pentagon papers, as "the punk." It also showed toward the Kennedys as he related how Jack and Jackie had never once invited him and Pat to the White House for a meal, even though he had previously been Vice President. He compared the bugging of Martin Luther King's hotel...
...librarians madly scrambled for these orphaned ink'guns, someone spotted an unusually fat student running towards the exit. An official shouted 'stop him!' the student was tackled, and the mystery was solved: as the corpulent criminal went flying, his coat flew open, and enough pens to staff the Pentagon came flying out, blissfully freed. Psychiatrists were summoned to the scene when it was proved that the fanatical pen-depositer was actually a crazed grad student, seeking revenge upon the institution on which he had fed in the only way he knew: sabotage...
There's a general who likes to say, "The transistors are the bullets of World War III." And the computers will be the tanks. We were told that the Pentagon gets enough intelligence data on tape and film every day to equal 40 complete Encyclopaedia Britannicas plus a couple of Gone With the Winds. A lot of the information is picked up by those spy-in-the-sky satellites. They take clear pictures in color, black and white, infra-red or ultraviolet. They also eavesdrop on radio and microwave communications. This is called "ferreting," and we have...