Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilson's strong remarks before the House Armed Service sub-committee were incited by Pentagon opposition to the six-month active service requirement, brought out earlier this month. This directive, according to Mr. Wilson, was based on two considerations: 1) failure of the six-month active duty Reserve plan that Pentagon master-minds developed last year, and failure of the Guard to "cooperate" in soliciting enlistments...
...Also excellent is Glenn Ford who plays the ineffectual (ex-humanities instructor) American captain assigned to bring the blessing of democracy to a village more interested is sitting in the pine grove to watch that evening sun go down and building a teahouse than in erecting the Government-prescribed pentagon-shaped schoolhouse. The teahouse wins out of course, art being the resultant of cultural conflict...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--National Guard leaders reported today a "most satisfactory" reaction from President Eisenhower to their worries that a new Pentagon training order might harm or destroy the Guard...
...rated its fastest comer. Despite 20 years as a labor-relations expert with the WPA, the War Department and New York department stores, he had neither a name on the national labor scene nor a reputation for political astuteness when Ike brought him over from the Pentagon (Assistant Secretary of Army for Manpower and Reserve Forces' Affairs). Since then, he has built a healthy respect for the long-moribund Labor Department by 1) keeping hands off in labor disputes so collective bargaining can work (but operating quietly behind the scenes to help it work), and 2) championing such...
...desire to rest. As a military man, Ike understands Wilson's problem of holding a lid on the highly competitive services, and can see that he is doing it with better than average success. Wilson has buttressed civilian supervision of the armed forces, headed off Pentagon feuds, supervised a military arsenal that has changed more drastically in four years than at any other time in U.S. history. He has kept a rein on unnecessary crash programs of weapon development, insisted that if proven new weapons were phased into the defense program, old weapons should be phased...