Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the nation, M-day observances are aimed at suspending business-as-usual in order to allow protest, debate and thought about the war. The Moratorium demonstrates a diversity and spread unknown in the earlier landmark protests against the war: the march on the Pentagon in October 1967, which inspired Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, and the bloody riots the following summer in Mayor Daley's Chicago. Each of those involved directly only a minority of the young and the radical intelligentsia, not anything resembling a cross-section of U.S. society...
...lore is replete with tales of slick operators who fast-talk their way past obtuse superiors, navigate bureaucratic absurdities and come out winners. Sergeant Bilko of TV and Milo Minderbinder of Catch-22 are winked at as engaging barracks rogues, and most Americans only chuckle when told, as one Pentagon official said last week, that "everyone has his own racket in the Army...
Also in Boston armed Army troops were ordered to Fort Devens in the event that trouble occurred during the demonstrations. Troops were also on call in Rock Island, Ill., but were not used as the Pentagon reported that the national situation was "generally quiet...
Galbraith. in a humorous but caustic speech. emphasized the very small number of Americans now supporting the war. including "the Pentagon and its servants and sycophants in Congressional committee chairmanships...
...students gathered their information from interviews, professional journals, and congressional hearings of the past ten years. "The Pentagon was quite receptive to interviews," Miss Lipton said...