Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women on its production lines for the first time since World War II, and the Jewel Tea Co. has hired women as butchers to supplement its draft-depleted supply of manpower. Pittsburgh copper fabricators have had so much of their output pre-empted by the Pentagon that they cannot meet civilian demand for plumbing equipment. Appliance manufacturers, hoping that buyers will not notice the difference, have begun to trim a few inches off their electrical cords. Shoemakers have cut back production of cowboy boots to devote full time to combat boots. These are just a few of the many stresses...
...reporters were accustomed to more stimulating press-conference re freshment. But if the Coca-Cola served at the Pentagon last week seemed bland, the ice that cooled it was something else again. That ice, announced Army scientists, was formed from snow that fell around the time that Christ was born. It had been taken from...
Despite their understandable desire to see U.S. troops leave once they have done their job, Asians may need some time to get accustomed to an American presence and protection based on mobility from afar-and hence largely invisible. Some Pentagon planners foresee a transition period in Asia that will be marked by a sort of Yo-Yo strategy. In times of tension, there could be U.S. maneuvers and training exercises that would dispatch men and planes to friendly Southeast Asian fields, pull the patrolling Seventh Fleet into allied ports. Then, as the tension subsided, the G.I.s would be pulled back...
...With the Pentagon's top priority, generous appropriations from Congress and Schriever's skilled midwifery, the project successfully gave birth to a whole family of missiles, the most recent of which is the Minuteman, current mainstay of the Strategic Air Command. Schriever rode his missiles to four-star rank and leadership of the Air Force Systems Command, where, at the early age of 50, he became his service's No. 1 technocrat. But last week, under a broiling sun and a flyover of 19 jet planes, Schriever, tall and still youthful-looking at 55, took the parade...
...notions of what constitutes evidence, Edwards' book compounds one mystery by creating others. Nor does it help his case for an imminent apocalypse to explain flaws in the brief by making the U.S. Air Force the villain of a conspiracy to suppress the truth; he believes that the Pentagon's reassuring statements about UFOs are designed to hoodwink the public into supposing that they are psychological, meteoric, or astral in origin. Nor is sinister Air Force activity confined to the U.S. "What," he asks, "was the mysterious substance that dribbled from a crippled disk over Brazil...