Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended the development of the U.S. hydrogen bomb. He convinced AECommissioner Gordon Dean, while heavy support piled in from Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the Pentagon. After four agonizing months, on Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman announced that he had ordered work on the H-bomb begun. Lewis Strauss's key contributions as Dwight Eisenhower's AEC chairman: 1) pressing the role of private enterprise in atomic power, 2) fashioning the President's plan...
...provision giving Congress what amounts to a veto over any Pentagon decision to transfer or abolish a "major combatant function" is an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism...
...last week, 16 years after the Solomons, Don Felt got another big moment in the Pacific. In the years between, he had won the Legion of Merit commanding the light carrier Chenango off Okinawa (1945), worked up through the postwar Pentagon and carrier commands to boss the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet (1956), pinned on his fourth star as Admiral Arleigh Burke's Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1956-58). Last week he was named Commander in Chief, Pacific, with 500,000 men, 400 ships, 2,500 planes, to do the job of deploying U.S. power and backstopping U.S. diplomacy from...
Concerning the Pentagon reorganization plan: One would think from the testimony of General Pate [May 12] that the personnel of the Marine Corps are more in favor of defending the corps than the Constitution. But are we going to sacrifice the effectiveness of the defense of our country to preserve the fraternity of the corps? The corps was created by men to do a job, not ordained by God and to be preserved as such...
...Come." Dissension has seeped down through NORAD's ranks. Result: interservice rivalry in the best bitter Pentagon tradition. Said a NORAD Air Force officer last week: "Years ago in the Air Force I learned to hate the Army. I've had an Army officer run his fingers along the cable of my plane and say sharply, 'Dirt.' And when I said 'Sir, that is preservative,' he snarled, 'Clean it before the next inspection.' " At the same time, an Army officer on NORAD's staff complained that Air Force influence over NORAD...