Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House subcommittee on defense appropriations began emergency hearings last week on the status of U.S. missile programs, "that the Administration has not yet made the fundamental decisions that must be made. The Administration has not reacted as boldly as it should." One day later, after a parade of Pentagon experts led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy had spelled out missile progress to the subcommittee in crisp, uncensored terms, George Mahon emerged from the hearing room with a different story. Said he:"It is obvious the three services have not fallen on their faces in ballistic-missiles progress...
Importuned by newsmen as he left a Capitol Hill hearing, McElroy hustled to the Pentagon, checked his records, jogged his memory, heated his temper and summoned the Joint Chiefs. Had they received any such proposal? The official, collective answer: negative. But Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor explained that he had given Reston "background information," might well have oversimplified in trying to get his point across. McElroy glared, suggested that Taylor had been less than candid with Newsman Reston, announced that the incident was closed...
...economic and military aid - $1 billion more than Congress approved last summer, ¶ A definite effort will be made to cut and defer nonessentials in the federal budget, e.g., rivers and harbors projects, and the President will put the responsibility for cutting pet congressional projects squarely on Congress. ¶ Pentagon Missile Adviser William M. Holaday will now have full power "to direct all activities in the Department of Defense relating to research, development, engineering, production and procurement of guided missiles," i.e., to crack down on interservice rivalries. ¶ Defense Secretary Neil McElroy said that within a month he would appoint...
...tour, his carousing comrades came upon him at night, studying by candlelight a book called Micronesian Languages, When he was an Air Force assistant attache in Moscow, he wrote some of the best air-intelligence reports about the Soviet Union that the U.S. had ever received. As a longtime Pentagon staff officer, he managed to steer clear of cliques and cabals, and win a reputation for sheer performance, for all-out mastery of Air Force doctrine and operations. "White," says a former commander, "has the ability to step back for a long look. He is not a home-run hitter...
...Force-in-Being. Tommy White's day starts at 7:10 o'clock with pushups in the living room of his duplex quarters in Fort Myer, Va., takes him early (8:25) to work in Suite 4E924 of the Pentagon, where he is soon stirring up memorandums and directives-green for LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining...