Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most buildups, this one was fast, furious and frequently confused. Officers and units were grabbed wherever the Pentagon could find them. Captain Allen C. Lambard, a radio air control officer stationed in Guam, was yanked out of bed and ordered to pack his gear at 2 a.m. Air Force Brigadier General Avelin P. Tacon was flagged down by state police on a California highway. To General Tacon's intense surprise, the cops showed no interest in the fact that he was doing 70 in a 55-mile-an-hour zone. Their mission was to tell him that...
Visit satirizes in very funny fashion a good many things, such as man's penchant for war, the Pentagon bureaucracy, the self-inflated news analyst, free love, the power of mind over matter, and the flying saucer furore...
...that make up to 15,000 calculations per second for a plane in flight. Litton also lured other top brains away from big companies by granting stock options. Dr. Henry Singleton left North American Aviation for Litton, where in three years he produced the answer to one of the Pentagon's toughest problems: an inertial guidance system that is light enough (50 lbs. v. 500 to 1,000 Ibs. for earlier systems) to steer the most sophisticated missiles...
...veteran Washington hand, Milton is a member of the President's keystone Advisory Committee on Government Reorganization. Even before Russia's Sputnik spun into the sky last October, Milton and Ike were deep in talks leading toward the Pentagon reorganization that passed into law this summer...
...Unfortunate Speech." Jimmy Thach finished out the war as air operations officer of the loo-ship Fast Carrier Task Force, first under Admiral Marc Mitscher, then under Admiral John S. McCain. Five years later, he commanded the escort carrier Sicily off Korea, and in 1955 he went to the Pentagon as senior naval member of the Defense Department's Weapons Systems Evaluation Group. "Forget the Navy," Arleigh Burke told him then, "and think Defense...