Word: pentagonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major General Alexander Day Surles, 61, leathery, bowlegged ex-cavalryman who ran the Army's Bureau of Public Relations from 1941 to 1945; of a pulmonary ailment; in Washington. Tethered to the Pentagon after 34 years of service, mostly with tactical outfits, Old Horseman Day Surles champed at the bit all through World War II, did his creditable best with the vast, tape-tangled B.P.R., silently took the rap for many a public relations bungle by underlings and superiors...
Another witness had been to the map room in New Delhi where the riots had been spotted in the neatest Pentagon tradition, and where now, still more incongruously, the tidy pins show columns of humanity passing in opposite directions to escape their tormentors. Each column has its thousands of unspeakable histories, yet on the map each exodus is a mere number...
...world he becomes a heartless butcher, a quick target for civilian public opinion, a perfect scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...
This week the Defense Secretary moved his duffel from the Navy Building to an eight-room office suite (reception room, dining room, kitchen, etc.) in the Pentagon. His top lieutenants got busy completing their staffs. The White House was ready to announce the appointment of a new Assistant Secretary...
Just before 8:30 one morning last week, an olive drab Cadillac rolled down the ramp to the underground parking lot of the Pentagon Building. Its passenger, cap set ever so slightly at a rake, stepped out, pulled down his trim, suntan Eisenhower jacket and strode toward the elevator. Pentagon workers did not need to glance at the five-star circlets on his shoulder straps to know who he was. They gave him "good morning." General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower grinned his acknowledgments, got into the elevator, was soon in his third-floor office and busy...