Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilians who ever came to work in the five-ring circus of the Pentagon, none was more roundly disliked as a matter of principle than handsome, brainy Wilfred James McNeil. The reason was understandable enough: McNeil, hand-picked in 1947 by Defense Secretary James Forrestal to be the new National Military Establishment's first comptroller, had the job of supervising the drawing up and spending of the defense budget. He was the man who had to slice the budgetary pie among the three services-each of which naturally wanted the biggest piece -and then explain and defend the budget...
...mark of his achievements, in the careful handling of no less than $375 billion, that Washington and the Pentagon hated to see him go. Said New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "Wilfred McNeil literally has saved the taxpayers of America billions of dollars. And yet comparatively few people in this country have ever heard of him." Wrote President Eisenhower last week to "Dear Mac": "All Americ?, joins me in saying to you, well done...
...served overseas with the Air Transport Command, left in 1946 as a colonel. After two years of Washington law practice, he joined the Manhattan law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean in 1948, was vice president and corporate counsel to American Airlines when he was summoned to the Pentagon...
Slim (6 ft. 2 in., 165 Ibs.) "Pat" Partridge graduated from West Point in 1924, rose through World War II bomber service in Europe with Generals Jimmy Doolittle and Curtis LeMay and postwar duty in the Pentagon to command the Fifth Air Force under Weyland in Korea. There Partridge won the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action in an unusual spot for an air commander. In a light observation hedgehopper, he conducted personal reconnaissance over U.N. forces advancing against Pyongyang and Chinnampo, completed his mission even though his plane was hit repeatedly by enemy ground machine-gun fire...
CLOSED-CIRCUIT TV will be used to sell U.S. surplus property to buyers in six big cities in October. Pentagon will sell $1.5 million in clothing, construction equipment and machine tools during eight-hour, $81,000, large-screen demonstration aimed at attracting more bidders than written descriptions...