Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoyt Vandenberg later on personally released the New York Times story in Washington, I am content to stand on General Stratemeyer's recent statement that this is blaming a mistake on a dead man not in a position to reply. Nobody that I know denies somebody in the Pentagon released it, probably due to a snafu' reminiscent of "Who Promoted Peress?" ANSEL EDWARD TALBERT Military and Aviation Editor New York Herald Tribune New York City...
...Philadelphia, newsmen and Pentagon brass watched the YC-123E "Panto-base" plane, a new amphibious version of the Air Force's land-based Chase C-123 transport, go through its paces on the Delaware River. Pilot Bernie Hughes made a normal take-off from nearby Mustin Naval Air Station, then pulled up the wheels, lowered a pair of 13-ft. skis from the plane's belly and made several demonstration landings and take-offs on the water. Unlike regular amphibians, the two-engined YC-123E loses a minimum of speed and range with its new landing gear...
...Senate Armed Services Committee about Mulligan & Co. Under an agreement with Partner Paul Mulligan, he explained, "no work was to be done while I am in Washington that had to do with defense work essentially." But recently the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee heard that, from his Pentagon office, Secretary Talbott was still drumming up business for Mulligan & Co. When questioned...
...members of the subcommittee, including McCarthy, signed the report. But Ohio Republican George Bender, who holds the Senate seat previously occupied by Robert Taft, refused. The subcommittee, Bender pointed out, had found nothing to substantiate Joe McCarthy's screams that "a secret master" of the Pentagon had controlled the Peress case. The report, said Bender, should have spelled out the obvious fact that "not one iota of evidence was revealed to indicate any subversion, collusion, or Communist conspiracy concerned with the handling by the military of the Peress matter...
...story, and after five years it still rankled. In the middle of the argument, Glenn Stackhouse, U.P.'s San Francisco bureau chief, wired the Times that Talbert's charges were "ridiculous. Said Stackhouse: He "grudgingly admired" the Times for prying the story out of the Pentagon while the opposition was sitting on its hands. Since the Communists already knew about the Sabre jets from dogfighting with them, he said, "whole security thing so much hogwash...