Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a sense of urgency and an eye on Geneva and Berlin, the Pentagon moved rapidly last week to repair other links in its administrative chain...
...crowded schedule of a dignitary and the limitless curiosity of a high school student on a senior-class trip to the capital. He laid wreaths at Mount Vernon and the Tomb of the Unknowns, was briefed on outer space by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, lunched in the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, discovered a portrait of his grandfather Albert I at the Smithsonian Institution, impressed National Gallery of Art Director John Walker by correctly judging the relative age of two Byzantine Madonnas. At a White House state dinner, the King met many old friends of the Belgians...
...arms race with Russia, any serious gap in decision making can result one to five years later in a serious U.S. defense gap. This "decision lead-time" problem came sharply into focus last week when the Pentagon faced a serious, unexpected gap in top decision makers. The sudden death of Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles (TIME, May 18) robbed the Pentagon of its key keeper of important policy detail just at a time when...
...problems, the most pressing was finding a successor to McElroy as Defense Secretary-or persuading him to stay on. Last week McElroy had two talks with the President and a constant stream of Pentagon interviews about prospective recruits for Defense. Administration leaders grimly watched him hunt hardest for a successor rather than a new deputy. A deputy could be picked from among the seasoned hands, e.g., Assistant Defense Secretary (Comptroller) Wilfred McNeil, or the Air Force's able Secretary James Douglas, but the President might well want to reach outside the Pentagon to fill the top job. Top prospects...
WASHINGTON, May 17--Rep. Melvin Price (D-Ill.) said today he plans to try again to hold public hearings this year on whether the Pentagon is guilty of footdragging and indecision in developing a nuclear-powered plane...