Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida correspondent, Shelton was well-primed to provide background and play-by-play action that ended last week with the glow of a new star in the skies. While Shelton covered the Cape launching of Explorer, Washington Correspondents Ed Rees and Sherwin Badger sweated out the rocket shoot with Pentagon brass, and Atlanta Correspondent Lee Griggs went to the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., to report Huntsville's big stake in the firing. For a narrative account of the history-making night, see the first four pages of NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Points for the Pentagon...
...interim report was notably shy on hard specifics (e.g., what kind of Pentagon reorganization?), but Johnson expects to remedy this shortcoming in a final recommendation to Congress a month hence. The report was nonetheless an effective reminder that the committee had done the nation a distinct service by providing a well-run forum for debating and exposing defense weaknesses at a critical time...
Without fanfare, the President walked out of his office one day last week, got into his car and went over the river to Virginia on his first business visit to the Pentagon in five years. There, around a T-shaped table, he conferred for 2½ hours with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and 15 top civilian and military defense officials: Topic: Pentagon reorganization...
...predecessors as J.C.S. chairmen; William C. Foster, Washington industrial ist (Olin Mathieson Corp.) and former Deputy Defense Secretary (1951-53); Charles Allerton Coolidge, Boston lawyer and former Assistant Defense Secretary (1951-52). (Absent member: Nelson A. Rockefeller, part-sponsor of the Rockefeller Report, which recommended an overhauling of Pentagon organization -TIME...