Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists to throttle this traffic by blandly claiming that any or all of the routes are under repair and impassable. This prospect has led to loose talk in Western capitals about spearheading a supply column through the roadblocks with U.S. tanks. No such plan gets serious consideration in the Pentagon. Reason: an armored column or train would be not only a diplomatic fiasco -in that the U.S. would seem to make the first warlike move-but a military absurdity as well. The four-lane Autobahn snakes along over no fewer than 29 vulnerable bridges, among them the quartermile span over...
...patrol planes and radar picket ships have been keenly aware of Russia's fleet of radar-equipped fishing trawlers cruising constantly in the richly stocked Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Last week, in a fast-moving action made notable by first-rate teamwork between White House, State Department and Pentagon, the U.S. Navy performed a historic peacetime action by intercepting and boarding one of the trawlers...
...office No. 2E800 on the Pentagon's select second-floor "E" ring, behind a VIP desk, sits a tall, somber man handsomely dressed in a conservative suit of dark blue. No general, no admiral, but a civilian, he has the imposing job of seeing that the story of national defense gets told fully and well-a duty of exquisite sensitivity. Against the strictures of national security he must nicely weigh the nation's right to know. He must assure that the enemy is steadily impressed with the facts of U.S. deterrent might. The man in this crucial...
...major obstacle in the way of sensible and constructive reporting of the U.S. defense posture. More than a year ago V. M. Newton Jr., managing editor of the Tampa Tribune and chairman of the Advancement of Freedom of Information Committee of Sigma Delta Chi, laid a bitter protest against "Pentagon secrecy" at Snyder's door. When Newton repeated Snyder's answer ("All legitimate news of the Pentagon is available to the press") to a group of Pentagon reporters, it generated "a long, loud and unanimous hoot of derision." Said Newton: "Not a single voice among working Washington correspondents...
...Defense post, Snyder works long hours, most of them behind his closed office door. He rarely goes out, and newsmen rarely go in; many a Pentagon reporter has not talked to Murray Snyder in months. On the infrequent occasions when he talks to newsmen, there is usually a Snyder aide sitting by, auditing the interview. Newsmen, military officers and defense contracting industrialists go over, under and around him in their efforts to tell the U.S. defense story. All of this dismayed Congressman John E. Moss's Subcommittee on Government Information. A repeated witness before this and the House Armed...