Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from a phantom. It is one of the world's biggest businesses-in-being. And it is, as Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles characterized it last week, "the most powerful striking force ever assembled on earth." From its polar icecap outposts to its underground operations center in the Pentagon (where a general officer is always on duty), from the Strategic Air Command, run from Omaha by General Curtis LeMay, to the Tactical Air Command, headed by General Otto...
...fighters. Air Defense Command officers at Colorado Springs, Colo, attended a class in public speaking (explains ADC Commanding General Earle Partridge: "One of our generals went to Washington last week on a project involving $80 million. He had 15 minutes to make his pitch to the Pentagon. I want to be sure that he knows how to make a sale"). In Texas airmen struggled through an obstacle course on which the final assignment, an exercise in crash rescue, was to lift a heavy stone from a burning cockpit. In Labrador airmen fed the dog teams used for rescue work...
Last week, speaking to the annual White House Conference of Mayors, Charlie Wilson jokingly told his audience: "Talking about your possible trip through the Pentagon, I would like to warn you about one thing-if any of you get lost you're liable to find that you've got a job." The point Wilson was trying to make was that he, like the rest of the Cabinet, has had great difficulty in keeping able assistants from ditching Government service for private business. But Engine Charlie's little joke drew reporters' attention to another point...
...Welsh-born Trevor Gardner, 40, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development, stepped on many toes. Last year, when he told Congress that Air Force research and development funds for fiscal 1956 should be boosted about $200 million over the $551 million budgeted by the Pentagon, he was flatly overruled by Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles. Nor did Gardner have any luck with his protests against the $610 million research and development budget for fiscal...
...able to finish the regular ROTC program under a plan of study devised by Col. Waldo B. Jones, professor of Air Science. Officials at Maxwell Air Force Base who are in charge of instruction at ROTC units have already approved the program. Only an official approval from the Pentagon is needed before Jones can proceed with the plan...