Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining excused himself, strode back to his desk in Room 4E929 in the Pentagon. He smoothed his jacket, laid aside his inevitable cigar, nodded to an aide. At the signal a door swung open and a Russian officer resplendent in a white uniform walked in and introduced himself: Colonel Philip Bachinsky, the Soviet air attache in Washington. Bachinsky politely conveyed to Nate Twining the compliments of Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky, chief of staff of the Red army, and presented an invitation: Sokolovsky requested the pleasure...
...Pentagon was also pushing other services along the path to unification, and even Army pointed to "the promise in this revolution by ballistic missile of greater unification and less triplification and quadruplication." Said Army: "This certainly the nation would welcome...
Personality & Prospects: Razor-sharp, affable, cool, sensible, he has been popular in the Pentagon, at the White House, with both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, and with the press corps, which has found him straightforward and helpful. Long in the ranks of progressive Republicans, he has been considered somewhat too "liberal" by some of the Taft-wing leaders of the G.O.P. in Nebraska and in Washington. But most knowing observers who have watched him operate agree with the evaluation of G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall that he is "a damn smart politician," and perhaps the most politically promising member...
While the Pentagon took to the headlines last week to air the latest and most basic power struggle among the armed forces, two leading U.S. airmen made headlines in their own right. One was General Curtis Emerson LeMay, the Air Force's Strategic Air Commander. The other was General Earle Partridge, the Air Force's Continental Air Defense Commander...
What caused the cuts and the 18-11 committee vote ordering them? Dick Richards eagerly ticked off deep-down, long-smoldering reasons. For one, Congressmen consider Pentagon bookkeeping atrocious, listened with narrow-eyed interest last week when Comptroller General Joe Campbell journeyed to the Hill to tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the $400 million surplus from the 1954 foreign-aid appropriation that the Defense Department refused to turn back to the Treasury. (Retorted the Defense Department: "a technicality.") Even after his committee's cuts, said Richards, "there's enough money in here with the carryover...