Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Security labels-"secret," "confidential," etc.-which were intended primarily for military and state secrets, seal off information not only at the Pentagon but at the Post Office and also such agencies and departments as the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Treasury and the Department of the Interior...
...national security, the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission have withheld from the U.S. public information already available to the Russians. For example, more than a year after the Northrop Snark and Bell Rascal guided missiles had been parked at public airports for all to see, the Pentagon was still trying to keep their photographs out of print...
Wilson has not lost his weakness for production line humor. (Recent sample, commenting on a candidate for a Pentagon job: "His horsepower is too big for his flywheel.") But top career officers at the Pentagon who have seen four other Defense Secretaries come and go respect Wilson as a better administrator, production and financial man than any of his predecessors. They respect, too, the motives that brought him, at 62, to take the arduous Pentagon job. Since he sold his General Motors stock to qualify as Defense Secretary, Wilson's 39,470 shares, now in other hands, have gone...
...recently announced long-range air navigation system. The sailors estimated their speed, leeway and the effect of ocean currents to give them their rough position. The Ryan Automatic Navigator does much the same thing by making a fix on some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing delicately each force that tends to divert the airplane from its proper course. A crosswind, for instance, is felt as a push from one side...
...Donnell put his heavy arm on square-jawed Brigadier General Richard H. Carmichael. a wartime flying pal in the Pacific theater (two Distinguished Service Crosses, two Silver Stars, four Legions of Merit, and the Air Medal with three oakleaf clusters). Around the Pentagon, Carmichael was unofficially dubbed "Vice President of the Air Force in charge of Re-enlistment...