Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astonished Mrs. Wheaton later, "he asked me if I had a chair handy." Hagerty had a piece of news: the President had decided (thanks to Hagerty's good word) to appoint her associate press secretary, the job recently left open by Murray Snyder, who went to the Pentagon as Assistant Defense Secretary for Public Affairs (TIME. March 4). To the delight of Mrs. Wheaton and her fellow Republican women, the President made the announcement to the conference an hour and a half later-and hardly ever since the signing of the 19th Amendment had there been so much feminine...
Quarles's promotion was one in a sweeping series of Pentagon shifts. Items...
...Announcement of the U.S. decision drew a prompt response from the Kremlin. U.S. membership on the military committee, shrilled an Arabic-language broadcast from the Soviet Union, is dangerous to the existence of peace-loving Arab states. It "provides the Pentagon with new opportunities of encouraging Baghdad Pact members to organize various provocations and plots and to interfere with the affairs of Arab countries...
...postwar armed forces began to explore new ways of war, the Air Force installed Schriever in the Pentagon to help plan a vague new development program. Month after month thereafter, he moved unobtrusively about the fringes of the chaos of the U.S.'s first moves into missilery. As early as 1950 he was one of the very few-and very unpopular-airmen who did not like the Air Force's cherished B-52. Schriever argued obstinately for a lighter, faster bomber that could fire air-to-ground missiles...
...airman thinks that the Air Force will let a big segment of the vital U.S. aircraft-engine industry wither away. But the immediate future looks thin. Said one Pentagon policymaker last week: "I would like to see a more even distribution. But for all these jet-engine people, it is just too bad that Pratt & Whitney is so uniformly good...