Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crashes, less than 100 miles apart in Texas and New Mexico, last week put the spotlight on a military plane that the Pentagon tries not to talk about. The plane: the Lockheed U2. Its mission: high-altitude reconnaissance. The U-2s, flying out of Laughlin A.F.B. near Del Rio, Texas on separate missions, crashed within a 24-hour period, killing their pilots. Air police rushed in, set up roadblocks to screen both crash sites from view. The Air Force ruled out sabotage, tersely ordered the grounding of some 25 sister ships, and clammed...
...From the Pentagon came new figures showing that the major impact of stepped-up Defense spending still lies ahead for U.S. business. In fiscal 1958. just ended, new orders-the key to future activity-rose from $2.1 billion in the opening quarter to $3.9 billion in the second, $4.7 billion in the third and an estimated $5.3 billion in the final quarter. New construction orders rose even more swiftly than the overall rate: from a $40 million-a-month level last fall to $300 million in June...
Because of production lead time, the actual cash payments from the Pentagon went up more slowly, reaching $38.7 billion for the year, v. the $39.1 billion expected. The shortfall throws that much more actual spending over into fiscal 1959. Last week the Defense Department scratched the most recent estimate for 1959 spending of $40.5 billion and wrote in $40.7 billion, probably only the first of several upward revisions...
Visit satirizes in very funny fashion a good many things, such as man's penchant for war, the Pentagon bureaucracy, the self-inflated news commentator, free love, the power of mind over matter, and the flying saucer furore. The story centers around Kreton, a visitor from outer space who lives in the "suburbs of time," can read all the thoughts of men and animals, and considers our earth a mere toy to be played with...
...crisis in science education, the report observes, "is not an invention of the newspapers, or scientists, or the Pentagon. It is a real crisis." Its cause is not Russia, but a vast acceleration of technology "beside which the industrial revolution may appear a modest alteration of human affairs." The needs: a great many scientists, well and broadly educated, and a general public familiar with the methods and objectives of science...