Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with this severe manpower problem, the Pentagon in January, 1957, authorized all men 17-26 to join the program. This brought in large numbers of men in their twenties who preferred the RFA program to two years from Selective Service (and two years in the Ready Reserve). In addition, the Army reduced the Ready Reserve time to encourage more teen-age enlistments. At present, the Ready Reserve obligations for men 17-18 1/2 is three years, and for men 18 1/2-26, five-and-a-half. Pay is now $78 a month while on active duty...
...hour and a half," said a high Pentagon scientist last week, "the man in the satellite isn't going to know whether the re-entry system really works. That's why we need a test-pilot type-daredevil but stoic." The first stoic satellite daredevil has not yet been picked, but last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration signed a contract (see BUSINESS) for the hollow, upholstered meteorite in which he will ride...
...missilemen at the Pentagon and Cape Canaveral studied the figures, agreed that the Russians were ahead in terms of weight of payload, propulsion power, general rocket reliability. The U.S.S.R.'s rocket was also the first far-out Russian rocket detected by U.S. tracking systems. Whatever their secret launching-pad failures, the Russians apparently scored with the first rocket they got off the ground...
With better luck than anyone had a right to expect, President Eisenhower last week found just the man to take on the job-vacant since the "wanted" sign was hung out last August-of running the Pentagon's increasingly diverse research, and engineering problems. The man: Dr. Herbert York, 37, one of the nation's top scientists, who has been holding down the job of chief scientist of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ten-month-old overall Pentagon planning group...
Another rapidly growing problem: the in-fighting between the Pentagon's ARPA and the civilian-controlled National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ARPA's Johnson recently stomped on NASA's big toe by publicly proclaiming the broad details of NASA's upcoming man-in-space Project Mercury. If anyone can survive the built-in hazards of the job, walk a straight line through the service detours and still know a scientific toe when he sees one, it is Herb York...