Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lights were on all night in the office of Robert Strange McNamara. Unshaven but wearing a fresh blue shirt and dark blue suit, the Secretary of Defense strode into the Pentagon's first-floor conference room to brief newsmen at 9:30 a.m. Flanked by maps , and aerial photos and flourishing a brown wooden pointer, he rattled off with electronic efficiency the detailed results of the raids and the reasons for them...
...wanted to stay in school would be granted deferments until they graduated or dropped out of college or certain graduate studies, most notably medical school. At that time, they would join 19-and 20-year-olds in the "priority category." As for an all-volunteer force, the Pentagon estimated that the cost would be prohibitive: $4 billion to $17 billion in extra salaries and other blandishments each year to maintain 2,700,000 servicemen, the pre-Viet Nam level...
Gingerly Respect. The Pentagon report treated the prickly problem of precisely how men should be selected-whether by local draft boards or lottery or what-with gingerly respect. "These are matters beyond our responsibility," said Assistant Defense Secretary Thomas Morris, who testified on the report before the committee. With elections coming up in November and major sections of the present selective-service law due to expire a year hence, the House Armed Services Committee probably wishes it could say the same...
Lately the line has been advancing in several other directions. Last month a CAB examiner recommended that Continental and two other lines be granted the Pacific Northwest-to-Southwest routes, the last major runs in the U.S. still without through air service. Last week the Pentagon announced that Continental's minimum-guarantee contract to airlift troops to Viet Nam would be increased fourfold, to $30 million in 1967. And Los Angeles-based Continental announced a $64 million order for ten more jets. In all, Continental is investing $196 million to add 30 planes by 1968, doubling the size...
...considerable enterprise in South Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand, where it is second in activity only to Air America (TIME, June 3). Its motley of 42 planes airlifts rice to Meo tribesmen beleaguered by Red rebels and might just be flying arms and men for the CIA and the Pentagon. Says Salinger dryly: "In Viet Nam we fly personnel and supplies around the country. Some of the landing strips aren't very far from the Viet Cong operations, but so far-knock wood-we haven't had any planes involved in military operations...