Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical interests on the line in a dozen swiftly moving areas: in the Middle East, Tunisia, Indonesia (see FOREIGN NEWS), in the drift toward an international summit conference, in the critical Stateside problems of defense and Pentagon reorganization, and especially in the deepening recession. To cope with these problems there were plenty of plans and policies. Conspicuously absent was a badly needed feeling of presence-specifically, the presence of the President of the U.S. at his desk, giving attention to the daily details that make long-range plans and policies work...
...biggest excitement in the missile-preoccupied Pentagon is the rapid progress of solid-propellant rockets. Not only the solid fuels have been improved. So have the engines that were once full of faults. The details of these improvements are still secret, but they can be described in general terms...
...best scientific brains. Conceivably the Defense Department -through its Advanced Research Projects Agency-could evolve into the overall space agency more rapidly than any new agency. Most scientists agree that defense needs should have first call on space research but vigorously oppose putting any overall program into Pentagon hands. Principal reason: the potentialities of the development of space range far beyond military considerations, should not be confined by military control. Tentatively the President's thinking is that the military is best able to judge its own space needs, but would weaken this very capability by undertaking the nonmilitary aspects...
...fiery success came the first federal space agency, the Senate's first space committee, the first Democratic and Republican attempts to stake political claims on space-and a full-throttle U.S. Army drive to exploit its satellite success after months of telling itself that it was the Pentagon's stepchild. Army brass marched with a color guard into a Capitol Hill hearing room to present a new service flag to the House Military Appropriations Subcommittee. Patrols of Army public-relations officers prowled Pentagon corridors, passing out word that, given the chance, the Army could develop a rocket motor...
...Sept. 20, 1956, the first Jupiter-C was ready for firing at Cape Canaveral. It was a four-stage missile, with even a dummy fourth-stage satellite configuration-just like the bird that last fortnight put Explorer into orbit. By this time, Pentagon brass had a notion that Von Braun might be trying to beat the Navy into space with an unauthorized-and presumably undignified-major satellite. The Army, which had had the foresight to bring Von Braun and his team to the U.S. in the first place, and which had supported him all along in the face of awesome...