Word: pentagonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower,* 35, who is the only child of the 34th President of the U.S. His new assignment: duty on the secrecy-shrouded Joint War Plans Division, in the office of the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations. Says one knowing old Pentagonian: "It's a training ground for people tabbed for bigger things...
...plans. Some of the admirals replied with vague generalizations. Thomas issued a stern order for precise detail. On the second round, all complied except Admiral Wallin, who, in effect, told Anderson and Thomas to content themselves with broad policy and leave the details to the admirals. Since, as every Pentagonian knows, broad policy is frequently determined by details, Anderson considered that he was getting a well-known form of Pentagon runaround. Wallin was relieved of his command and transferred to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Wash...
...paper, wrote: "You look to me as though you could spit in the devil's eye." Big (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.), craggy Roger Kyes* makes a similar impression on people who encounter him face to face. After meeting him for the first time, a Pentagonian remarked: "He looks like the kind of guy who'd say, 'Lay off 40,000 men.' " Kyes has not yet said, "Lay off 40,000 men," but he did order a cut in Defense Department replacement hiring, with the result that normal outflow has reduced employment by just about...
This fascination will center about the illusration of the two loose ends of the red tape shown encircling the Pentagonian figure...
...corridor Pentagonian makes no basic decisions. He prepares the information for decision by a superior. What is more important than being right is to have thought of all the ways of being wrong. For him, no question can have only two sides. Each, like the building he works in, has at least five sides, none of which is exactly opposite the other. It is a place of the heavily guarded...