Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles's office in the Pentagon last week a group of high-level Navy and Air Force officers got together to ponder a serious decision: whether the U.S. ought, in the age of the missile, to speed up a nuclear-powered airplane project, and, if so, what kind of plane, to perform what kind of mission, at what cost, and when. The Navy argued hard for a subsonic nuclear turboprop seaplane for antisubmarine warfare and long-range radar-warning patrol. The Air Force argued not quite so hard for a more advanced supersonic nuclear...
...fifth morning after Sputnik I changed military policy and practice for all time, a brand new U.S. Secretary of Defense, fresh from a world where Cheer is a product instead of an attitude, took over the cavernous office on Ring E, River Side, Third Floor, of the Pentagon...
...Sherman table were the three telephones whose rings, over the coming months, could only have deep meaning for Neil McElroy; the shrilling command phone over which word might come of war (its number is classified), the White House phone (NAtional 8-1414, ext. 72) and the regular Pentagon phone (Lberty...
...Pentagon itself, where in the last analysis he would either make or break himself, Neil McElroy began making decisions where for months there had been indecision, started reversing the policies that had caused the U.S. to fall behind in the struggle for technological superiority. "More decisions have been made in the Pentagon in the last six weeks than in the last six years," cried Texas' Lyndon Johnson. Said Pundit Stewart Alsop in an otherwise gloom-ridden column last week: "It begins to seem possible that the soap industry has miraculously given this lucky country a first-rate Secretary...
McElroy's own personal drive leaves no room for failure: years ago, as a very junior employee, he decided that he would one day become president of Procter & Gamble, imposed a strict discipline on himself, rammed straight to the top. His Pentagon job requires a sense of urgency, and Neil McElroy has always been a man in a hurry: he dresses fast ("He has broken more shoestrings than any other man in America," says a Cincinnati friend), walks fast ("You can't call a walk with Mac a stroll. It's more like a run"), drives fast...