Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone home to Cincinnati after watching football in Columbus (Ohio State 47, Northwestern 6). Then the news of Sputnik II rattled over the wires and official Washington, as though by previously stenciled orders, reacted as though it had been socked by nothing more than a soggy sponge; e.g., Pentagon sources were careful to say that McElroy had not even called his personal aides to ask about the air-conditioned moon. "It surely is not surprising to anyone in the government," McElroy told reporters in Cincinnati. "We are already in a pressure program. Our program is in very good shape right...
...plugged hard for an Army project called Nike Zeus-"which already partially exists in the form of research-and-development components"-as the basis for an anti-missile missile program, thus by inference downgrading the rival Air Force Wizard anti-missile project (as well as an Air Force Pentagon-corridor campaign to put the Army out of the defensive antiaircraft missile business altogether...
...Those Bastards." Meanwhile, back at the Pentagon, the Air Force contingent was under direct orders to keep cool and dignified, to blow off only in private. "Those bastards," said one high Air Force officer in private, "can't win in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where they ought to take their case, so they went to the public. They're not going to get away with it. It isn't going to do them any good. It's going to be a real big brawl...
...step in the right direction but, unless subsequent definition gives the new appointees more independence and support, they will fall into the tangle of interservice rivalry and irrational economizing which has already put us behind. Killian will need full Presidential backing without which his plans would succumb to inevitable Pentagon opposition...
...ordered Secretary of Defense McElroy to make certain that the Pentagon's guided missile director "is clothed with all the authority that the secretary himself possesses in this field, so that no administrative or inter-service block can occur...