Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protest to a proposed unified armed forces of the U.S. I notice to my dismay that a number of persons are still egotistical and self-centered about their particular service. Wars of tomorrow will require a close coordination of all the services. I hope someone tells this to Pentagon officials...
...official evaluation was given only to the President, the Pentagon's top brass, and members of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, which heard him in secret session later in the week...
...Fort Sam Houston in order to give Army medics practice in treating battlefield casualties, Conservationist Neuberger demanded that Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson investigate the tale and end any such inhumane target practice. At week's end, Wilson had made no reply to Neuberger, nor had the Pentagon made any move to deny that the goats are under fire, not only in Texas, but also at the Army Chemical Center in Maryland...
Finding some loose insulation around a ventilator outside a hearing room where a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee meets, two Pentagon sleuths, joined by a Capitol cop, set out on a spy hunt. Soon they clomped into the next-door office of New York's civil-righteous Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, brushed past his secretary, poked around in the Senator's closet refrigerator in search of a listening device. Next day the Senate (notably excepting Indiana's dissenting Republican Homer Capehart) thundered its indignation for two hours...
...matter quickly. If the U.S. showed a favorable attitude, said he, invitations to visit Russia would be forth coming to all Chiefs of Staff, not merely the Air Force's General Nathan Farragut Twining. Two hours later Russia's Colonel Sergei A. Edemsky called at the Pentagon, learned the U.S.'s attitude: such J.C.S. visits are impractical just now; future chances will hinge on Twining's treatment in Russia next week. In any event, the Chiefs would not visit as a group (presumably because the U.S. would never put its four top-ranking military...